why this is a problem? Streaming over Http just works - even on clients from 1999 like Winamp.

Why would you military grade encrypt radio service or static site anyway?

bandrami 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

To keep your ISP from slipping ads into the audio stream? To keep RIAA from finding out what you're streaming and suing you into oblivion?

	▲	miki123211 8 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		And, more importantly, to keep misconfigured network appliances from treating every resource on the web as HTML and trying to shove ads into it, breaking audio players.

rustyhodge 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Because some browsers get annoyed and put up lots of alerts if they can't make a https connection

	▲	jamesbfb 20 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Rusty, of SomaFM fame? What a blessing to see you here! Mega fan, proud SomaFM mug owner from Australia :)

sneak 37 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

A static site? Because any hop can inject arbitrary code which your browser will then execute.

TLS doesn’t just offer confidentiality, it also offers integrity.