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Serdar Alkan
Serdar Alkan

Reputation: 161

How do I block/prevent video downloader addins or programmes?

I have a video site using a HTML5 video player. Users pay money to join the site. But the download manager (in mozilla) or real player download manager can download our videos from the server.

I want to prevent or block these applications. How can I prevent the programs from running?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1888

Answers (3)

Jharwood
Jharwood

Reputation: 1056

Overlay their unique user ID onto the video, so if they do capture it, then legal action can be taken as you can prove it's them that downloaded it. other than that, nothing you can do really...

Upvotes: 0

Oleg V. Volkov
Oleg V. Volkov

Reputation: 22421

Even with DRM you simply can't - whatever you've sent to client (keys/content/whatever), client can simply save and replay when he needs decoded stream again. The only solution that would reliably delay decoding, is some hardware solution, but as I understand you'll be going over regular HTTP and browser.

Your problem is legal one and should be solved with legal means.

Upvotes: 0

Eric J.
Eric J.

Reputation: 150108

There is no DRM (Digital Rights Management) in the HTML5 spec, so you cannot do it with HTML5 video.

There are attempts to add DRM to HTML 5 (Encrypted Media Extensions)

With tech companies abandoning the proprietary Flash and Silverlight media players for HTML5, it was inevitable somebody would try to inject DRM into the virgin spec.

Microsoft, Google and Netflix are that “somebody”, having submitted a proposed modification to HTML5 to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for “encrypted media extensions”.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/23/microsoft_google_netflix_html5_drm_infection/

However, such extensions are not available today and will not be for some time, if indeed the proposal is even adopted.

If you need DRM, you will need to use a video technology that supports it.

Upvotes: 1

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