We've tried a million different ways to protect membership content, and we've spent a crap load of money on doing so. Nothing worked. There's someone right behind you figuring ways to steal it and they will sit there for hours trying to steal your content.
Finally, we just gave up and put them back into wmv files where you can right click on and download.
However, for the last year every video we've produced we have sent it to the Copyright office for a motion picture registration. If someone steals it, puts it on a blog, if they have assets and don't comply with a DMCA Takedown notice, we'll see them in federal court.
One programmer told me in the past: No Technology is safe technology. This meaning, there's hackers out there. There are people out there that love the drive of stealing and hacking into things to figure out a way to screw it up or in this case own it. Why waste your money.
What we're also doing is watermarking the videos. That way if someone does steal them, they're tracked. We know right where they came from. We don't watermark anything other than trailers. If the user does then steal them, they're not really accomplishing a gain but yet marketing us for free and it would be easier for us to locate them and prove those are our videos when a DMCA Notice is emailed out.




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