The most POPULAR stream recording software (free download):

• WM RECORDER
  the easiest audio/video stream ripper
• REPLAY CAPTURE SUITE
  the best audio/video stream recording/capturing bundle
• REPLAY MUSIC
  the best streaming music recorder

Other RECOMMENDED software and services:

• REPLAY MEDIA GUIDE
  free service to find and record online radio, Internet TV, podcasts
• AVS VIDEO TOOLS
  convert, split, join, remove commercials, edit, rotate, apply effects, capture, transfer, copy, rip and burn DVD and video files
• EMUSIC
  the best legal music download service
• AUDIBLE
  download audio books, audio magazines, newspapers, radio programs
• SOUNDTAXI
  remove DRM protection from Windows Media, iTunes music and video files

In principle, there is no way to prevent a user from capturing streaming video and audio that has been delivered to their computer. Thus, the efforts of broadcasters to prevent this consist of making the process of capturing inconvenient, or illegal, or both.

Broadcasters can make it inconvenient to capture a stream, for example, by using unpublished data formats or by using Digital Rights Management (DRM) protection.

You can use special software to capture Windows Media Streams, Real Video/Audio Streams, like Replay Video Suite.

Multiformat recorders can capture several types of video and audio streams (like Windows Media, RealVideo, RealAudio, QuickTime Video, Shoutcast audio).

See also:

• All streaming video recording software
• How to capture non-recordable streams and DRM protected streams