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ESPN debuts new ESPN360 Flash player Monday evening

Tags: ESPN, ESPN360, espn360.com, Flash-based, security

In a move that seems to have occurred rather coincidentally to my recent post about a security flaw on espn360.com, which was also reported on Armenian Eagle’s blog, ESPN just debuted a new Flash-based player. Took about 12 hours, but the new player seems to lock out us ‘bad eggs’ a little better than the last one. Here’s some interesting text from ESPN’s site:

I have the ESPN360 application already installed. Can I still use it towatch videos?
You are one of the lucky users of ESPN. Although your ESPN360 application has been disabled, you can continue to enjoy ESPN360 content and more using the newvideo player. To improve performance and usability the installed version of 360will no longer be used. Once your subscriber clicks on the prompt the downloadableapplication will automatically be removed from their desktop and replaced witha shortcut taking them to the new web-based player.

Heh. Heh. Lucky users…

There’s also news about a 30-day free period for everyone starting on June 26th. That’s after the US plays Ghana in the World Cup June 26th, but what the hell. I can’t believe they also disabled the app–there’s nothing wrong with its security checking anyways. Well, it was a fun afternoon of grainy soccer. Unless I’m wrong, and I’m just seeing this because I’m now at home on my cable modem. Hmmmmm…

UPDATE: And…..their security still sucks. Just try the same link, http://static.espn.go.com/broadband/ebb2/360SiteRedesignStaging/index9.html?affiliate=affiliate, but make sure to block popups and refresh a couple of times if you don’t get in at first.