Any video can be recorded using screen video capture software, but such programs allow you to record one video at a time only, plus they recompress the video making quality worse.


Flash Media Server supports methods to encrypt all communication between player and server, restrict delivery of streams to video players created by content owners, enforce access controls like domain, geo filtering, secure tokens, etc. Content delivered from Flash Media Server (encrypted or unencrypted) will also leave no artifact on the disk that malicious software can capture.

Flash developers, content owners and IT managers have the control to enable RTMPe and SWF Verification on video players running on Flash player or AIR. Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) offer support for RTMPe and SWF Verification at their discretion. Content can also be delivered to Flash player, AIR or Flash Lite from a web server (HTTP) or through RTMP without swf verification or session authorization, this could expose the media to malicious capture

Secure RTMPE protocol prevents packets from being intercepted in the middle (for example, with a network packet sniffer). This is the encryption. To prevent someone from connecting to your stream, you need some form of access control. With flash media server, the access control can be provided by SWF verification. By using SWF verification, you can prevent third-party clients from connecting to your stream and ripping your content.

Adobe is encouraging all content owners to:

• Use Adobe Flash Media Server 3 and RTMPe to stream content to Flash player or AIR
• Use SWF Verification
• Disable the RTMP protocol in Flash Media Server 3 when RTMPe/RTMPs is used

RTMPe and SWF verification require Flash player 9.0.0.115 or higher and Flash Media Server 3. The following list of clients and servers provides a matrix of what you need

Clients:
Adobe Flash player 9,0,115 or higher (released December 2007)
Adobe AIR 1.0 or higher
Adobe Media Player

Server:
Adobe Flash Media Streaming Server 3 (released January 2008)
Adobe Flash Media Interactive Server 3 (released January 2008)
Content Delivery Network supporting FMS




Links:

Adobe Developer Connection
Content Protection Whitepaper
Adobe Security Advisory website.
Adobe Media Rights Flash Management Server