Lawsuit
Hi all,
I think the guilt is hard to assign to one party or another. However.....
The way I see it (after reading the RTMP license) everybody is granted the right to sell implementations of RTMP as long as they comply with the specification itself. Which is completely useless if you want to implement a server because you will NOT be able to stream h264 content.
What Adobe done instead, is to remove ***critical*** information about the handshake in the hope nobody will crack it. Let's face it guys: security through obscurity is not nice, especially when Adobe is bragging about it as being very secure. IMHO, wowza should sue them back after buying one FMS instance and demonstrate that they have HUGE moral damages after a personal porn-like little movie was copied all over internet while streamed through their "secure" servers. Another thing, I (and probably other guys) cracked RTMFP. Although, cracking is a little bit too big word for saying I just looked into the binary and discovered the constant AES keys. (which are something like "Adobe Systems 002", I don't remember exactly). Yes, I did that, because is my right to know everything about my computer(s) and any software program(s) running on them (I am allowed to read my disk content, right?). Besides, if Adobe thinks you can bully people into silence just because they found out how the shit hits the fan, that's not nice at all! Is like telling someone "Ride this car but if you get in a car accident and you suffer, you are not allowed to tell anyone how we, providers of the car, didn't installed the breaks properly. You MUST shut up otherwise we will sue your ass because we are big, have more money than you, and we don't give a f**k about your life. Just about your money! Buy from us you b***h"
About wowza...
Point 27 from suing document:
"Wowza has also mislead customers into believing that its unauthorized version of RTMPe provides security comparable or equivalent to the security provided by Adobe's RTMP"
If that statement holds water, and indeed wowza did that, than, wowza, you deserve your faith! Really, you deserve that!
Other than that, wowza should not be treated like that. It is creating fair and healthy competition for the highly priced Adobe products.
One more thing... Who the f**k invented patents in the first place!? I want to patent hot water, round wheel, and ... oh yeah, the process of patenting. Yes, patent the patents!
I think the guilt is hard to assign to one party or another. However.....
The way I see it (after reading the RTMP license) everybody is granted the right to sell implementations of RTMP as long as they comply with the specification itself. Which is completely useless if you want to implement a server because you will NOT be able to stream h264 content.
What Adobe done instead, is to remove ***critical*** information about the handshake in the hope nobody will crack it. Let's face it guys: security through obscurity is not nice, especially when Adobe is bragging about it as being very secure. IMHO, wowza should sue them back after buying one FMS instance and demonstrate that they have HUGE moral damages after a personal porn-like little movie was copied all over internet while streamed through their "secure" servers. Another thing, I (and probably other guys) cracked RTMFP. Although, cracking is a little bit too big word for saying I just looked into the binary and discovered the constant AES keys. (which are something like "Adobe Systems 002", I don't remember exactly). Yes, I did that, because is my right to know everything about my computer(s) and any software program(s) running on them (I am allowed to read my disk content, right?). Besides, if Adobe thinks you can bully people into silence just because they found out how the shit hits the fan, that's not nice at all! Is like telling someone "Ride this car but if you get in a car accident and you suffer, you are not allowed to tell anyone how we, providers of the car, didn't installed the breaks properly. You MUST shut up otherwise we will sue your ass because we are big, have more money than you, and we don't give a f**k about your life. Just about your money! Buy from us you b***h"
About wowza...
Point 27 from suing document:
"Wowza has also mislead customers into believing that its unauthorized version of RTMPe provides security comparable or equivalent to the security provided by Adobe's RTMP"
If that statement holds water, and indeed wowza did that, than, wowza, you deserve your faith! Really, you deserve that!
Other than that, wowza should not be treated like that. It is creating fair and healthy competition for the highly priced Adobe products.
One more thing... Who the f**k invented patents in the first place!? I want to patent hot water, round wheel, and ... oh yeah, the process of patenting. Yes, patent the patents!
