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Streaming == Content Protection? (Part 2)

May 23, 2008

So in part one , I talked about technically how streaming and content protection works and why they're independent and not tied to each other. Today, I'd like to share with you how I view the claims behind this notion and what they're really about. The...

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Streaming == Content Protection? (Part 1)

May 22, 2008

Recently I got a chance to talk to a customer who does a lot of media streaming as well as progressive download. One thing he mentioned was that more and more people start to believe that if they want content protection, they need to switch to streaming...

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Web Playlist and Bit-rate Throttling - Working together

May 06, 2008

Hello, my name is Sam Zhang (or 章葛强 if you can read Chinese) and I'm a lead developer on IIS Media Pack team. I've always wanted to start my own blog to talk about IIS and media but couldn't do it until now. J IIS Media Pack team is a relatively new team...

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Sam Zhang (章葛强 in Chinese) is a Senior Development Lead on IIS Media Pack team. He joined Microsoft in 2001 and has been working on digital media related projects including Windows Media Service, Media Foundation, DRM, IPTV platform, Music Service and most recently IIS Media Packs.

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