Icecast - Aug 2004 - "protecting" streams

Hi,

I am trying to protect some streams from being linked directly from 
other sites. One way to partly accomplish this is to change the 
filenames of the .m3u files every night, but this does not prevent 
people from directly linking to the icecast server or even writing their 
own .m3u files and putting them on their own site.

So I thought of writing a script that changes the TCP portnumber 
listeners connect to every night and that automatically generates new 
.m3u files, with some form of protection on it so people can not 
directly link to them. Mind you, I do not want to completely prevent 
people from listening to the streams, I simply want them to visit my 
site first and from there connect to the streams.

Is this the only way of doing this, or am I missing an important icecast 
feature here?

-- Mark

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On Mon, 24 May 2004, Jack Moffitt wrote:
>  Anything you do can be trivially
> worked around by bots, unless you force people to manually type in
> something that you put in AI-resistant image.
And if you do that, you'll make it inaccessible to anyone who uses screen
reading technology (e.g. blind people).

Geoff.

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> Is this the only way of doing this, or am I missing an important icecast 
> feature here?
You can password the stream, and give the password out on your website.
Other than that, I don't know of anyway to force page views before
accessing arbitrary internet services.  Anything you do can be trivially
worked around by bots, unless you force people to manually type in
something that you put in AI-resistant image.

Why don't you put some ads for your site in the stream, or make one play
for everyone on the first connect.  Then you'll get the page views you
want possibly.

jack.
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