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Watching a stream that is hotlinked

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I am trying to watch a stream that is hotlinked and I keep getting a 403.

It's a private site and webmaster enabled hotlinking and when there is a stream the ".asx" file is protected from hotlinking and when you try to view the stream of the video I get 403 forbidden and when hotlinking is disabled it works.

I have tried: Safari, Camino, FF and Shiira, with Flip4Mac installed, uninstalled, WMP 9... everything. I can't seem to get around this.

Any ideas please?

normally for windows users it connects to the streaming file on a site and that streaming file connects to another link but i guess the hotlinking prevents mac users to connect to that streaming file which can't forward it to that
 
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BTW I want to add that this is legal. I have the admins permission to be on the page and to access the stream, neither of us can figure out how to get it to work on a mac.

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apparently the issue is the DRM issue, guess there is no way around that
 

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