how can i hide the music URL on my parcel so people can't steal it?

[Gregg Torgeson]

WE have spent a lo tof time puttiing together a  stream of music (all paid for) just toplay for people on our  parcel- how can i prevent people from copying the url form the  Sound" tab and using it  on their  parcels and hogging my small stream?

[Tini Jewell]

If it's your stream, is there no way to block others from accessing it from outside of SL?  Not allowing other connections or password protecting the connection somehow?  I'm not all that familiar with how to stream music, not at all actually, but I would think that you have control of it from outside of the viewers.  Just a thought.  I hope you find an answer for it.

Tini

[PeterCanessa Oh]

I'd second Tini's view.  It's better to control access on the streaming server than to rely on SL.  The reason is simply that once anyone finds your stream's URL by whatever means they can connect to it outside of SL anyway.

[Edit to remove a load of rubbish that the OP had already explained]

Edit again:  This one is really bugging me,  The problem is that your streaming server only knows people's IP address (from the request for the stream) and in SL you only know the name and UUID of avatars.  Trying to match avatar to IP address is against the TOS since redzone though so I can't think of any way you're allowed to limit the stream to certain avatars :-(

[Innula Zenovka]

You can't hide it. 

It's never been possible to properly to conceal it, and the "Hide URL" checkbox was removed this time last year to reflect that fact and avoid lulling stream-owners into a false sense of security.  See https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/STORM-1037

 

[Gregg Torgeson]

Thanks!! although it seems bass-ackward to the RIAA worries!!

 

[Gregg Torgeson]

thank you! I'll hjave to look into blocking it at the source i guess - seems a bit bass-ackward to the RIAA worries doens't it?

[Gregg Torgeson]

guess I'll have to find another way thanks!

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I think the problem was that a lot of people didn't realise that turning on Admin Options (which many people do anyway because that renders no-fly restrictions inoperative) exposed the URL. And, ultimately, if you're streaming music to my PC, you have to send my PC the URL for it to work, so I'm going to know what it is if I'm bothered to look.

 

The fact some people were abusing parcel media to sniff people's IP addresses in an attempt to detect alts certainly didn't help matters, either.