Adobe releases DRM tool for Flash video

Adobe has released a tool which allows content creators to place digital rights management (DRM) protection on Flash media files..

The Adobe Flash Media Rights Management Server lets users abode locks on the software which anticipate added users from pirating video on Flash files.

With a amount tag of US$40,000 per CPU, the apparatus is aimed at broadcasters and armpit operators that use Flash to serve alive video.

The DRM apparatus uses Adobe’s Air appliance development system, which allows users to actualize internet-based applications that can run after an internet connection.

The use of Air allows the DRM restrictions to abide in abode back the user is not affiliated to the internet.

Jim Guerard, carnality admiral of activating media at Adobe, said: “The new capabilities in Flash Media Rights Management Server acquiesce publishers to ascendancy and assure different media assets and accompany alike added abundant agreeable online and to the desktop.”

The appliance is currently aircraft for Windows Server 2003 and Red Hat Linux.

Adobe has promised that the DRM protections will run on Mac OS and Windows versions of Adobe Media Player, as able-bodied as a planned Linux adaptation of the player.