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PROTECT MP3'S FROM REAL PLAYER

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Default-profile FlashyGit
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Hi Guys, RealPlayer 11 has got a download and recording popup that appears(on rollover of the Flash MP3 player) on the top of the MP3 Flash Player on my website. I’ve tried to block it by denying it access to the Directories where the music files are located, but when i do that the Falsh Mp3player has no access to the files. I’m concerned about any copyright issues and would like to have the “download this file” blocked. Please help.

Posted about 1 month ago
18193 ourben
197 posts

Are you talking about preventing the Real Player desktop client from sniffing MP3 locations from your Flash file?

I don’t think there is anything you can do to be honest…

You could maybe take a look at the request headers Flash sends when it plays the MP3 , and then make a script that serves the MP3 files as a proxy, thereby changing the MP3 URL to something like, mydomain.com/mp3.php?file=mp3filename.mp3 – and then have that script reject none Flash Player requests…

However, if software (Real Player) has been designed to steal underlying resources, it probably has a header signature engineered to spoof Flash Player anyway.

Good luck though, fingers crossed Real Player isn’t that clever.

Posted about 1 month ago