Is this really a problem? If you are scared about smb. stealing your content, you probably shouldn't put it on the Internet ;)
Is this really a problem? If you are scared about smb. stealing your content, you probably shouldn't put it on the Internet ;)
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Tell that to the big broadcasting sites like NBC or The Daily Show.
Even though its technically possible to save their videos right now, they would be extremely reluctant to switch to a mechanism that would make it downright trivial.
Finally, it could end up being the iOS and Android mobile devices that push content providers towards HTML 5, figuring the benefits of streaming to mobiles offsets the perceived downside of making video easy to save to disk.
Last I checked, Netflix (Silverlight based streaming) serves up its videos in a series of tiny chunks (you can look at this with e.g. Safari's Activity window). I don't know if this is done with security in mind or just for practical/bandwidth reasons, but it seems like it would at least add a little hassle to the task of saving the video.