'''Streaming''' means delivering audiovisual content over the [[Internet]] or any lesser (especially private) [[computer]] network at actual playback speed, to let the recipient view or listen to it in real time. The method and the aggregate body of content often carries the name "the stream." Like a conventional water [[stream]], the recipient does not normally capture or store the content permanently. Instead one prepares to view or listen to the content, as if one were playing back a track on an optical disk or even on a magnetic tape or vinyl disk. Designers of streaming server and client software deliberately, by mutual agreement, make capture of streamed content impractical and impracticable. This they do to provide security against [[copyright]] violation. Indeed, most dedicated streaming devices have no memory available for storing content. | '''Streaming''' means delivering audiovisual content over the [[Internet]] or any lesser (especially private) [[computer]] network at actual playback speed, to let the recipient view or listen to it in real time. The method and the aggregate body of content often carries the name "the stream." Like a conventional water [[stream]], the recipient does not normally capture or store the content permanently. Instead one prepares to view or listen to the content, as if one were playing back a track on an optical disk or even on a magnetic tape or vinyl disk. Designers of streaming server and client software deliberately, by mutual agreement, make capture of streamed content impractical and impracticable. This they do to provide security against [[copyright]] violation. Indeed, most dedicated streaming devices have no memory available for storing content. |