aaronjacob, at this point DRM will protect your content from average users, but it will also hurt your retention - it did on all the sites i work with. something else you might want to consider. a lot of our members cancel and rejoin every few months. the ones i talk to say they remember to rejoin when they watch one of our videos that they saved to their harddrive. assuming your site has the same situation, you'll lose those rejoins.

the truth is that most members download the videos before they watch them, so offering streaming-only isn't going to do good things for your retention, either.

one other not-so-fun thing about DRM is that when the company serving the license is down, your members can't watch your videos. and that does happen periodically no matter who you use.

there's a reason that large, well-known sites like fratmen and corbinfisher have stopped using DRM.