On Dec 3, 2009, at 1:09 PM, Ray Sanders wrote:
Marshall,
Did you find out via published article, or your own research?
Either way I'd like (if you don't mind) more information on this so
I can investigate what impact there may be on our systems.
Via a DMCA take-down letter for a Cricket match that was sent to
AmericaFree.TV, and subsequent research into what was going on.
Regards
Marshall
Thanks!
Marshall Eubanks wrote:
I recently found out that the Adobe Flash Media Server (FMS) can
operate "out of the box"
as an open proxy, enabling other people to steal server resources
and bandwidth. Furthermore,
I also found that there is an ecosystem of pirates taking advantage
of this "feature" to
illegally stream sports events (and maybe other stuff as well).
Each event uses multiple (stolen)
servers and can amount to thousands of streams and Gbps of consumed
bandwidth.
I believe but am not 100% sure that there are similar problems with
Window Media Servers.
I would like to hear (off-list) from people who have experience
fighting this so that we could
maybe pool techniques. I will try to write this up further later.
Regards
Marshall Eubanks
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-"Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future."
-Niels Bohr
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Ray Sanders
Linux Administrator
Village Voice Media
Office: 602-744-6547
Cell: 602-300-4344
