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CoderThomasB (talk | contribs) →Criticisms: Added citation needed. The paragraph also sounds a bit speculative/non encyclopedic. |
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<ref>{{cite journal|title=Adaptive streaming: a comparison|url=http://www.quavlive.com/en/adaptive-streaming/|access-date=17 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140419012434/http://www.quavlive.com/en/adaptive-streaming/|archive-date=19 April 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | author1=Chris Knowlton | title=Adaptive Streaming Comparison | url=http://www.iis.net/learn/media/smooth-streaming/adaptive-streaming-comparison | date=28 January 2010}}</ref>
However, these criticisms have been outweighed in practice by the economics and scalability of HTTP delivery: whereas non-HTTP streaming solutions require massive deployment of specialized streaming server infrastructure, HTTP-based adaptive bit-rate streaming can leverage the same HTTP web servers used to deliver all other content over the Internet.{{cn}}
With no single clearly defined or open standard for the [[digital rights management]] used in the above methods, there is no 100% compatible way of delivering restricted or time-sensitive content to any device or player. This also proves to be a problem with digital rights management being employed by any streaming protocol.
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