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Kyle
Kyle

Reputation: 162

How do I allow people to upload videos and then others watch them without them being able to download?

I'd like to allow users to upload videos and then have other users view when they have done task that allows them to.

EDIT: The purpose of the site is video tutorials. If the person is able to pass the test for the first video then they can watch the second video in the series. Basically limiting what videos they are able to watch. What I really don't want is direct download.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 720

Answers (2)

Jürgen Strobel
Jürgen Strobel

Reputation: 2248

Not possible. You can bet YouTube would do this, but they merely succeeded making it inconvenient.

Upvotes: 0

boatcoder
boatcoder

Reputation: 18127

The short answer is you can't. If they can watch the video, they are downloading it. Even if you use a flash viewer, they are still downloading it.

Netflix and others get around this limitation by putting DRM in their streamed movies that only their (silverlight) players can unlock. You can do all kinds of tricks, but firebug and chrome dev tools will allow me to easily defeat any tricks you might have.

Take for instance the spaceball.gif that flickr uses to keep you for right-click saving an image from their site. All you have to do is pop open the dev tools, and save the image from there.

Upvotes: 3

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