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Comments: 1 +- Adobe flaw allows full movie downloads for free-> on Friday September 26 2008, @05:39PM webax
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on Friday September 26 2008, @05:39PM
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webax writes "'It's a fundamental flaw in the Adobe design. This was designed stupidly,' said Bruce Schneier... Amazon starts to stream the entire movie during the free preview — even though it pauses the video on the Web browser after the first two minutes — so that users can start watching the rest of the video right away once they pay. 'It's the traditional trade-off, convenience on the one hand and security on the other,' said Ray Valdes, analyst at research group Gartner. However, even if a user doesn't pay, the stream still sends the movie to the video catching software, but not the browser.
Sadly, a lack of DRM is cited as the reason for the problem."
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Sadly, a lack of DRM is cited as the reason for the problem."
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Thanks for the information (Score:1)
I say thanks for the information. I didn't know it. But now that I do, I'll certainly look for it the next time I'm downloading.
But, since I've never seen a movie in PDF format it really doesn't matter....