Did you watch the inauguration live from CNN's site? Read on...

Watch a live video, share your PC with CNN.

Clicking "yes" to a CNN.com dialog box installed a peer-to-peer (P2P) application that uses your Internet bandwidth rather than CNN's to send live video to other viewers.

CNN's use of Octoshape might make live feeds look somewhat smoother to end users, but the primary benefit is a reduction in cost to the cable news network.

Octoshape is the only outside company that's allowed to download software using the Adobe Flash Player's so-called Express Install feature, according to a Flash Magazine. Express Install is used by Adobe to push updates and other software, such as Acrobat Connect and the Adobe AIR runtime.

IT admins who'd like to turn off the installation of Octoshape within their companies could disable Flash's update mechanism. But doing so would disable all auto-updates from Adobe, not just Octoshape.

more at WindowsSecrets.com

I didn't watch the Presidential Inauguration through CNN's site and don't have that program on my PC. Did any of you?

 

It was CNN that should have tested this, not FLASH, in my opinion.