On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 8:02 PM, tedd <tedd.sperling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > At 11:47 PM +0100 6/13/08, Stut wrote: > >> On 13 Jun 2008, at 23:20, R B wrote: >> >>> I search in both caches, and the video appears in the memory cache. >>> >> >> Sorry, but that doesn't answer the question of why you/he doesn't want it >> to be cached. If he's trying to protect the videos from being copied then >> you're going to need to make it clear to him that you can't stop that from >> happening without DRM which is a whole other kettle of fish and usually not >> worth it. >> >> Aside from that I'm not aware of anything else you can do to stop clients >> caching your content. At the end of the day you have no reliable control >> over what happens after the data leaves the server. >> >> -Stut >> > > Caching is one thing, but viewing the video is another -- unless I am > mistaken. > > While it's true that you have no control over the video file once it leaves > the server, however, what the file does in a foreign environment is > something else. > > Typically, DRM schemes are needed when someone wants to protect digital > media from being copied to play in standard players. But, if you want to > restrict playing a video to just your site, then that's another matter. > > One can place actionscript in the video that will stop it from playing if > certain conditions are not met. For example, you can have a file that exits > in your site, but no where else. If the video is downloaded and an attempt > is made to play it, then the video simply looks for the companion file and > if it's not there, then it won't play. > > Is this not true? are you asking a rhetorical question here tedd? i thought you implemented something like that w/ help of the list some months back. -nathan
