Edited by author 06-20-2002 09:04 AM
"Cory, perhaps I posted in haste at first. I do think we can work issues like this out without the courts. However, I don't think the countermeasures you refer to as "trivial" are so easy. Try running a high traffic Real Media server and then see how you like other people linking into the streams. "

Actually, your friend in the biz is wrong. You can obscure streams in such a way that direct linking won't work without a lot of client side fu. You can set cookie requirements and have intervening pages that use server-side redirects that basically make viewing content a required two page process. And that is a clunky solution, I am sure others could offer up something more elegant.