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Originally posted by doornx
K..i'm still lost on one point..
Say the license is set to unlimited. When a former member tries to watch a movie will a request be sent to the server?
If not, how is it possible to prevent sharing.
And will those requests put a heavy load on a server?
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"Say the license is set to unlimited. When a former member tries to watch a movie will a request be sent to the server?"
A request will be sent to our license server each and every time a DRM'ified movie is played, yes.
Several attributes of the video, player, and cookies allow the license server to determine they were a former member. Remeber, the license is delivered in a file on your PC. That licenses corosponds to the rights of that license on our server. If any of those attributes are false, the user is prompted to buy. The best way to show this is to see an example. I will have one put up tomorrow.
I can assure you though. Granting an unlimited play license to members (former or otherwise) does NOT break the trading aspect.
Load can break a license server, so we have built several in a load balanced cluster. Adding capacity is as easy as adding hardware, and god knows we have enough of that around here.