Avoid video being downloaded

  • Hi,

    i would like to sell trainings online, however i’m wondering how to avoid any user to right click on the video and download it. Or how to avoid any plugin/addon from browser to download videos.

    Is there any solution for that ?

    thx

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  • No, not really. If somebody wants your content badly enough, they will figure out a way to get it.

    There are a lot of solutions out there if you Google for it, but almost all of them can be easily overcome by someone determined enough. It’s just like if you run a small shop, there’s no way to prevent all shoplifting. It’s going to happen, no matter how many security cameras you have in place. People are clever.

    The best solution is to make sure you (or your logo, or both) are in the video. Kind of hard for someone to claim they didn’t steal your video when you’re in it.

    I’ve worked with a few people in the past who have had this concern. Their websites went away after a while, because they spend so much time locking stuff down that it was almost impossible for their customers to get to stuff, and they spent more time worrying about security than about content and marketing.

    Just make great stuff, and promote it well. If there is a demand for your product, you’ll more than make up for whatever gets taken.

    In short, no. If someone can view an image or video in their browser then they have, by definition, downloaded it. That’s how the web works – it is client server based. Whatever you can view in your browser (client) has been transfered to your computer from the remote website (server).

    If you stream the video instead of hosting the file, you can make it a bit more difficult for users to leech them or, you could do something horrible like embed images in a flash object

    to prevent Right Click use this javascript 

    <script language="javascript">
    document.onmousedown=disableclick;
    status="Right Click Disabled";
    function disableclick(event)
    {
      if(event.button==2)
       {
         alert(status);
         return false;
       }
    }
    </script>

    and in your body `
    <body oncontextmenu=”return false”>
    …
    </body>

    `

    Or, you simply have a short excerpt from the full length video available for viewing on the website. That way, even if it is downloaded, it will be incomplete.

    Keep in mind that a lot of people use right-click to navigate the web and disabling it annoys a lot of people. If they really want to right click to steal your stuff, they can just disable JavaScript in their browser.

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