Re: Hulu (was Re: Why Is Everything Worth Watching...)

On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:16:30 -0400, "Morris Keesan"
<mkeesan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I don't use Hulu, but typically the way content providers attempt to
prevent downloading is by not providing the content as a direct data
stream. Instead, they provide software (often a Flash application)
which reads and displays the content. The protocols used by these
applications are generally not ones implemented by web browsers.
Saving the content would require having an application which implements
the proper protocol (perhaps with some authentication; I don't know) and
can write the content to disk. The commonly-used browser plug-ins don't
support this.

This technique used to work for providing streaming audio that couldn't
be downloaded, but the protocol (RTSP) used by RealPlayer, for example,
is now implemented by third-party providers. This is how I listen
to BBC radio (reading the RTSP stream to disk, converting to MP3, and
downloading to a portable player for listening while walking, riding the
bus, or in my car). I'm not aware of

This looks unfinished...
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