What is Streaming Media Defender™?

Streaming Media Defender™ is a software system that was designed to protect streaming media from piracy threats such as recording, reflecting, and sharing.  Many different technologies have been invented to solve this problem.  Our system takes a fundamentally different approach.  We operate more like an anti-virus company than an encryption company.

Barely there technology.

The implementation of our technology depends on the platform.  In all cases, our technology is easily disabled or shut down.  The only consequence of not allowing Streaming Media Defender™ to run while watching media protected by Streaming Media Defender™ is that the stream will be terminated before the user can watch or listen to the media. 

In most cases, Streaming Media Defender™ is implemented in a temporary form.  For example, for a machine watching a Windows Media broadcast on the Microsoft Windows operating system, Streaming Media Defender™ is implemented as a Windows Media Player Plug-in.  It is only active when Windows Media Player is active, and only when the plug-in is also turned on by the user.

We do this to protect your privacy, to keep our presence to a bare minimum, and to be a good neighbor to other programs that may also be running on your machine.

We carry the load!

Streaming Media Defender™ performs its analysis outside the consumer's machine via a distributed neural computing grid.  This system is stateless and does not preserve information about its analysis, users, or the machines it is communicating with.  This is done to minimize the impact to the consumer's machine, processing capabilities, and bandwidth consumption. 

An example of this would be comparing Streaming Media Defender™ to an encryption mechanism.  Encryption mechanisms typically add approximately 15% overhead to the media size.  Therefore, encryption systems consume a great deal more bandwidth than does media protected by Streaming Media Defender™.  Streaming Media Defender™ adds an average of 80 bytes per broadcast minute on a PC and 16 bytes per broadcast minute on hardware devices.

Another example would be the impact of an encryption mechanism on the users computer microprocessor.  Encryption mechanisms require decryption to occur on the consumer's machine.  Therefore, the consumer's pc or hardware device must dedicate extra processing to decrypting the media before it can be rendered.  Streaming Media Defender™ requires very little additional microprocessor demands.  Most of the processing is handled on our neural computing grid where a great many processes and calculations are taking place.