Luke, feeling better after taking that out of your chest? : ) But I tend to agree with Claus and the rest, using such a language doesn't help much apart from taking your blood pressure a little bit down.
Anyway, you raise an interesting point regarding DMCA here: "2) given that the measures used are so basic that they will be _plenty_ of prior art" What's the difference between reverse engineer RTMPE and "reverse engineer" that website done by Joe Smith which uses JavaScript only to "protect" an HTML page for being accessed? You know, those websites where you right click, see the code, and there's the password. I mean, the JS only "security" actually prevents some people to access the site, thus it works. And so does RTMPE, it works but only for the people without the knowledge. But it seems that for people with the right cryptography skills could be so fundamentally simple as the JS-only website. Now, regarding the moral background of all this, again, I think Adobe is only taking care of their customers, the big corporations that otherwise will NOT use Flash for this task. They will most likely go with whoever promises their system is unbreakable. Even if we know and they know that's just MARKETING, but, still, some people need to believe. The thing is we are ALSO Adobe's customers. We developers play a big part in the success of the technology, many times advising our clients in favour or against (let alone IDE licenses and stuff). I think that's why Adobe plays both roles constantly: - Good: Open Source Flex SDK, Tamarin, opening up specs (well, sort of!), etc. - Bad: DMCA take downs, nonsense trademark problems (FlashObject to SWFObject anyone?), etc. I don't know, they've probably pissed off a lot of devs with this one, so maybe a good one is coming soon? Open sourcing the player, maybe? : ) Juan On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Merrill, Jason <[email protected]> wrote: > Luke - there're not reason to send that kind of language to my inbox and > everyone else's. Certainly you're intelligent enough to know those > expletives are not necessary to get your point across. > > > Jason Merrill > > Bank of America Global Learning > Shared Services Solutions Development > > Monthly meetings on the Adobe Flash platform for rich media experiences > - join the Bank of America Flash Platform Community > > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > -- Juan Delgado - Zárate http://zarate.tv http://blog.zarate.tv _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
