Wowza vs. Adobe Flash Streaming Server

I need to stream FLV video, and I just need a basic solution. My website already handles all of the authentication, etc, so I simply need a FLV server to stream the video so people can't rip the video. And I need more than 10 simultaneous connections. Both are priced at $995 USD for a single server license. Which is easier to use, Wowza or Adobe Flash Streaming Server? I've already tried Wowza and it's pretty easy to set up. Has anyone tried Adobe's Flash Server? Thanks for any help you can offer.

How about this?

How do you rip streaming Flash?

I've looked into Red5 but there seems to be so little good documentation on it that I don't know where to begin. Wowza on the other hand was easy, I had it running in a few hours. Red5 sounds like it requires a solid amount of development just to get simple Flash streaming.

Yes, this project is for showing original training material, and the authors would like it protected and not showing up on YouTube. Protection is not evil. Why does every modern Internet user think they have the divine right to own a copy of everything they like on the Internet?

when a restaurant looses touch with its customers it dies a slow quite death and another replaces it yet when a content provider looses touch with its customers they to kick and scream and have special laws made to protect them sounds really smart doesn't it?

If I was very concerned about people stealing my vids, I would make my own flash player that decrypts my encrypted flv file. If you use whats commercially out there, then someone will have made a workaround for it most likely. Starting points The main issue is you want your flv file to play with your flash player, and not anywhere else. So you put the simple decryption algorithm in flash, in your own player. Simple is key because swf isn't that fast to begin with. This will prevent most people from using the vids outside of your website... only thing is all they need to do is download the swf player and they can then play the flash file locally. To prevent that you get into authentication and odd ball stuff like WGA. Long story short, if they can play it, in the end, they can use it however they wish. Putting up a couple of hurdles will prevent most people from downloading it; then again this hit c-net's top 10 a couple of months ago. There is no foolproof way to do this.

if it can be watched it can be copied... there is no way out. you can implement whatever you want, but there will always be a method to copy it. if you're scared your training videos could get copied, dont distribute them.