Post-NAB, Microsoft made the move to go ahead and release this list to the public.

PlayReady is a baseline DRM technology that is in process of being deployed across a variety of platforms that Microsoft develops. The first PlayReady experience was included with Nokia handsets to power their music offering.

The next experience that is hitting the market is the Silverlight DRM experience which will provide support for encrypted content for the Silverlight browser plug-in. This is the technology behind Netflix’s offering.

PlayReady is also the technology behind BSkyB’s offerings.

Well it didn’t take long for the shine to wear off of the heavily polished online advertising industry. For years now I have said in public on panels and in blogs and in forums and to potential clients that advertising is an interesting model that only has relevance in a select few niches of online media. Time and time again we have seen advertising-only supported plays make a big PR splash only to make a bigger splash when they fell back to their watery graves.

PaidContent.org has a nice piece on the recent online-advertising “return to earth” today if it’s any indicator of the negative effect ads have had on deploying digital media business models, it’s time the industry at large focused on _selling_ content instead of finding “sponsors” for it. Forget fighting Piracy and forget trying to find ways to give content away with ads. Neither effort will generate enough sustainable revenue to stabilize and grow your business.

Sell your content. Do it today. That’s some free advice from an expert.

According to LinuxCentre.net “you are now able to search, index, download and watch Channel4’s 4oD without Adobe flash on most platforms using the latest release of the open source get_iplayer. And, best of all - it is DRM free…

This is possible thanks to today’s release of rtmpdump v1.5 by Andrej Stepanchuk which now supports adobe’s obfuscated RTMPE protocol.”

Of course there never was any DRM on the Channel4 content as they are not using Adobe’s FMRMS platform and were relying on the RTMPe protocol to protect their offering. I would assume that when Adobe’s true file-level DRM platform comes out later this year, they will switch to it. Adobe has put in a lot of hard work on FMS and FMRMS and I expect that this work will continue to payoff.

Editor’s Note: It bothered me to read that the gentleman who wrote this application WORKS IN THE IT INDUSTRY “as a Senior Linux Systems Administrator for a rather enormous IT company.”

1. Hosting links to this application and furthering the compromise of RTMPe is a no go.

2. I hope you lose your job….tomorrow…. and I hope you realize this “hobby” of yours is harming the welfare of people like yourself around the world.

3. Shame on you.

I also imagine that given the illegality of this application, it won’t be online at this URL long.