Icecast Streaming Media Server

[square_eyes]

I checked my Centova Panel today and had 10 listening clients from various IPs (US, Germany, Brazil) all connected for a similar period of time.

User Agent: Fmod Sound System 3.75
Agent Type: Ripper

I don't mind if my stream is ripped, but if they are reselling it's taking the piss a bit.

I couldn't find anything on here so I thought I'd open a discussion on how one might go about dealing with these people. I see it as a problem because...

1. I have a cap on listeners.
2. I program this station, and our DJs work hard on content. It's rough if the ripper ends up profiting off our work, leeching our bandwidth and potentially re-streaming our station as their own.

What experiences have you had? What tools does Icecast have to address this?

[square_eyes]

When I try to kick the listener through the Icecast Admin Panel I get the below and the listener remains...

Response
Message : Client 0 not found
Return Code: 0

Also...

There's some good info here. But not all relevant to Icecast.

http://forums.streamsolutions.co.uk/archive/index.php/t-2758.html

[square_eyes]

I'm still unable to kick listener clients. Is this a common problem?

[karlH]

the client id is unique, so you should get different numbers for each listener.

karl.

[karlH]

If the issue is that the id value is missing then on the kick url on centova or similar set ups then it is probably down to a mismatch on the xsl pages between 2.3.2 and KH. I've committed a fix to allow that to work.

karl.