Description of Components. SpiralFrog consists of a web site supported by the SpiralFrog back end web and database servers for browsing Artists, Tracks, and Albums as well as related music data. A SpiralFrog Download Manager is installed by the user on their computer which enables the downloading of individual tracks or videos sequentially, i.e. one at a time. Spiralfrog does not supply any other application to end users. The Download Manager provides a consistent timing, 90 seconds per download for the downloading of audio content (longer for video files), a visual verification ("Human Interactive Proof' dialog) that ensures that a person rather than a computer has downloaded the file, and once verified correct, a DRM license is granted to allow the user to play the file. The download manager also provides the interface to the SpiralFrog back end systems to update user play count data. The SpiralFrog server system consists of the following components: - SpiralFrog server software running on Windows Server that handles the serving of web pages and communication with the SpiralFrog Download Manager, including granting of DRM licenses. As our service grows, our scalability plan calls for adding more of these servers. - A relational database that contains the metadata, user registration data and usage data. - File system storage that contains all content files in DRM-protected format. In its early days, SpiralFrog plans to use Limelight, a Content Distribution Network (CDN), to provide scalability for file delivery. Protected audio and video files are stored on the SpiralFrog servers. The first time that audio/video content is requested for download it is pulled (by Limelight) down to servers on the Limelight network. All subsequent downloads of the same content are pulled from the Limelight servers. To pull content from the SpiralFrog servers, Limelight accesses the website ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇. Access to this website is granted only to the IP addresses of specific Limelight servers which were given to us by Limelight. Limelight is the only entity that has access to this web site due to the IP address restriction. No end users are ever directed to this web site. When a user attempts to download content, it is moved to a Limelight server for downloading to the user's machine. Subsequent downloads of the same file are pulled from Limelight servers. All content is stored in protected and unplayable format at all times. Deep linking into the Limelight file storage is prevented using the Limelight MediaVault encryption scheme. A Limelight white paper can be provided to describe how this feature works.
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Sources: Digital Music and Video License Agreement (Spiralfrog, Inc), Digital Music and Video License Agreement (Spiralfrog, Inc)
Description of Components. SpiralFrog consists of a web site supported by the SpiralFrog back end web and database servers for browsing Artists, Tracks, and Albums as well as related music data. A SpiralFrog Download Manager is installed by the user on their computer which enables the downloading of individual tracks or videos sequentially, i.e. one at a time. Spiralfrog does not supply any other application to end users. The Download Manager provides a consistent timing, 90 seconds per download for the downloading of audio content (longer for video files), a visual verification ("Human Interactive Proof' dialog) that ensures that a person rather than a computer has downloaded the file, and once verified correct, a DRM license is granted to allow the user to play the file. The download manager also provides the interface to the SpiralFrog back end systems to update user play count data. The SpiralFrog server system consists of the following components: - SpiralFrog server software running on Windows Server that handles the serving of web pages and communication with the SpiralFrog Download Manager, including granting of DRM licenses. As our service grows, our scalability plan calls for adding more of these servers. - A relational database that contains the metadata, user registration data and usage data. - File system storage that contains all content files in DRM-protected format. In its early days, SpiralFrog plans to use Limelight, a Content Distribution Network (CDN), to provide scalability for file delivery. Protected audio and video files are stored on the SpiralFrog servers. The first time that audio/video content is requested for download it is pulled (by Limelight) down to servers on the Limelight network. All subsequent downloads of the same content are pulled from the Limelight servers. To pull content from the SpiralFrog servers, Limelight accesses the website ▇d▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇. Access to this website is granted only to the IP addresses of specific Limelight servers which were given to us by Limelight. Limelight is the only entity that has access to this web site due to the IP address restriction. No end users are ever directed to this web site. When a user attempts to download content, it is moved to a Limelight server for downloading to the user's machine. Subsequent downloads of the same file are pulled from Limelight servers. All content is stored in protected and unplayable format at all times. Deep linking into the Limelight file storage is prevented using the Limelight MediaVault encryption scheme. A Limelight white paper can be provided to describe how this feature works. -Starting with the US launch in late summer 2007, SpiralFrog plans to serve the media files directly from its own clustered file server. Deep linking will be prevented in the same fashion as with Limelight, the only difference being that at the start of the download, SpiralFrog's own servers will check that the hash is valid for the file. All systems will be regularly updated to ensure the most optimal performance and security of the SpiralFrog service.
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