What's the price of Helix server

Hi!

I'm considering to buy Helix Server Unlimited with DRM support. I
looked everywhere to find a price for DRM but I had no luck. Please
help me out. Thank you.

 

"Iztok" wrote ...

Free would be too much. Note that a growing number
of people wouldn't touch a Real Networks format or
player with a 10-foot pole.

 

Hi!

Then please share with me which software works great, like RealVideo
does, and it works on every platform, like RealVideo does? I was
considering Quicktime Streaming Server but it does not contain DRM
privileges.

 

Back Orifice?

How do I get it to work on a System/360?

DRM-just say no.

 

Windows Media

 

Then please share with me which software works great, like RealVideo

And the dark horse candidate: Flash Video
Turns out that likely more computers come already
equipped to play Flash than any other encoding.

 

Hi!

I'm aware that previus versions of Realplayer have installed malware
but that's not the case with the new version. I meant by every
platform, Linux, Mac and Windows. If you say no to DRM, how can you
then protect your video/music?

 

Yeah, right.

I wouldn't. Copy protection is a doomed strategy. All it does it piss off
the honest, create opportunities for the unscrupulous, and provide
amusement for hackers.

 

The "new version" doesn't *install* malware.
The "new version" IS malware.

 

FWIW, I will ONLY install codec/decodecs to play content on the player
of MY choice. For Real/Quicktime, that means Real/Quicktime
alternative.

Good choices for those platforms include XviD and MPEG. A lesser, but
sometimes acceptable choice, is "flash video".

Think about being a good neighbor rather than attempting to frustrate
them.

DRM is bad, bad, bad...

<http://www.dashes.com/anil/stuff/doctorow-drm-ms.html>
<http://www.eff.org/IP/DRM/guide/>
<http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/390/1>

 

Hi!

I've checked my computer with several anti-malware programs and it is
clean But I agree with you to some degree. Not so long ago Real
released a Free Realplayer which contained a Weather malware
(ADW_MINIBUG.A). And it was only discovered with Trend Micro PC-cillin
Internet Security 2005 software. But they decided, that it is better to
exclude this malware from their product. Which is a good thing.

 

Think about being a good neighbor rather than attempting to frustrate
them.

Sorry but I can't agree. If I'm going to be, as you say a good
neighbour, then one person will pay for my content and all the others
will get it for free. Because he will share it. But if I use some sort
of a DRM, then everybody will pay for it and that's what I'm looking
for.

 

You mean you don't have Realplayer installed?

You really don't seem to understand the problem. It's not that some third
party product has been included, it is that Real itself invades many areas
that it should not invade just to play music and video.

If you want to find a market for whatever content you are planning on
delivering you would do better to find out what people are actually using
than go with something that is universally detested and that knowledgeable
users avoid like the plague.

 

Yes I have an installed Realplayer and I used it to play RealNetowrks
audio/video files. I have to say it's a very good product, a lot better
then Windows media player. Please provide me with a site which explains
this weird behaviour of RealPlayer? NAd please tell me of a software
which doesn't invade your privacy?!?

Your are right. I have looked and searched what my users use to play
their audio/video files. The biggest obstacle is, that every other
software I tried doesn't handle DRM files. And that's exactly what I
need. At the end there are only two options:
1. RealNetworks
2. Windows Media Player

But Realnetwork kicks ass compared to WMV files!

 

Use Realplayer if you want to. But don't come crying to us when you lose
your shirt. I'm certainly not going to be viewing or listening to it.

 

You seem to have made up your mind. So why don't you just ask
your buddies over at Real Networks the question. They are the
only ones who can actually answer it. After all the shilling you
have done for them here, maybe they will give you a price break.

It doesn't change their horrible reputation out in the real world.
You can count me among the millions of potential customers
who will never see/hear your product if you choose the Real
format trash.

 

Well, I can't argue with you there.

DRM has frustrated billions of potential pirates and made them
completely unable to copy DVD-Video (DeCSS), VHS tapes with
Macrovision (TBC), iTunes (FairPlay/JHymm), eBooks, etc.

I know at least one use who will never pay for a product with DRM crap
like you want.

 

No it doesn't.

I am certainly NO microsoft fan, but WMV is a much more user-friendly
platform than Real. The only Real I will use is that which works with
Real Alternative and Media Player Classic.

 

Amen

Gino

 

Hi!

One more thing. Can WMV files be played on a Mac? I know that Microsoft
released Media player 9 for Mac, but I don't know if it is compatible
with DRM rights?And what about flip4mac? Any mac users here?