Copyrights protection?
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Hello I don't know if someone would consider this a programming question so, easy with the flames guys.:-D I'm lost in this problem. I'm about to distribute some video content over the internet, as it's much faster and wider than any other mean of distribution. Anyway I want to protect my video material from being copied to other users than the ones who purchased it!! In the same time and I don't want these videos to become a user torturing module!! I already am thinking of some ways but they are more like SciFi than a real enterprise solution!:doh: Best solution I got till now is writing them in a special format and make them freely downloadable, but won't run except with a password using my own custom player! I've heard of Digital Rights Management -even seen one wmv file calling for rights to play once-. I did my google and Wikipedia search on the subject but got mostly crap. Anyone knows of this technology? Anyone done this before?!! Any guidance or ideas would be highly appreciated -Including a better place to post this question if this is the wrong forum-.
Regards:rose:
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Hello I don't know if someone would consider this a programming question so, easy with the flames guys.:-D I'm lost in this problem. I'm about to distribute some video content over the internet, as it's much faster and wider than any other mean of distribution. Anyway I want to protect my video material from being copied to other users than the ones who purchased it!! In the same time and I don't want these videos to become a user torturing module!! I already am thinking of some ways but they are more like SciFi than a real enterprise solution!:doh: Best solution I got till now is writing them in a special format and make them freely downloadable, but won't run except with a password using my own custom player! I've heard of Digital Rights Management -even seen one wmv file calling for rights to play once-. I did my google and Wikipedia search on the subject but got mostly crap. Anyone knows of this technology? Anyone done this before?!! Any guidance or ideas would be highly appreciated -Including a better place to post this question if this is the wrong forum-.
Regards:rose:
Forget it. There isn't a DRM that hasn't been broken.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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Forget it. There isn't a DRM that hasn't been broken.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
A funny thing was that when I was googling about DRM, I saw more sites protesting against the thing than sites explaining what the He** is it!! I even say ads -Yes! Ads on google- on how to break it!! Very promising.:laugh: Thanks for replying though.
Regards:rose:
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A funny thing was that when I was googling about DRM, I saw more sites protesting against the thing than sites explaining what the He** is it!! I even say ads -Yes! Ads on google- on how to break it!! Very promising.:laugh: Thanks for replying though.
Regards:rose:
try using entriq from entriq.com ! good for DRM. People who wants see the video files they need to supply password. However, it is not a freeware. bye Sreenath
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try using entriq from entriq.com ! good for DRM. People who wants see the video files they need to supply password. However, it is not a freeware. bye Sreenath
Thanks Sreenath. I'm visiting their site now.
Regards:rose:
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Hello I don't know if someone would consider this a programming question so, easy with the flames guys.:-D I'm lost in this problem. I'm about to distribute some video content over the internet, as it's much faster and wider than any other mean of distribution. Anyway I want to protect my video material from being copied to other users than the ones who purchased it!! In the same time and I don't want these videos to become a user torturing module!! I already am thinking of some ways but they are more like SciFi than a real enterprise solution!:doh: Best solution I got till now is writing them in a special format and make them freely downloadable, but won't run except with a password using my own custom player! I've heard of Digital Rights Management -even seen one wmv file calling for rights to play once-. I did my google and Wikipedia search on the subject but got mostly crap. Anyone knows of this technology? Anyone done this before?!! Any guidance or ideas would be highly appreciated -Including a better place to post this question if this is the wrong forum-.
Regards:rose:
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No matter what you do, if the video will eventually get displayed on a user screen, your user can capture every frame of your video and create a video out of the frames. The only matter is whether or not your video actually worth all the works.
Sure! Whatever protection is out there to protect anything -even encryption for God's sake!- is not to prevent hacking/cracking the thing rather it's to make it much more difficult to break, thus narrowing the margin of financial loss. So I was just looking for suggestion of a convenient user friendly way to protect a video material -which can't have a serial number to check for validity:)-, making it a bit difficult for 99% of users to copy or abuse. The other 1% is inevitable
EscapeKey wrote:
if the video will eventually get displayed on a user screen, your user can capture every frame of your video and create a video out of the frames.
This is still possible, but is much difficult with appropriate streaming and hardware acceleration. For example try to pause a video in Windows Media Player, then press PrintScreen button. In the image in the clipborad you will see the video area blank. I know there are ways to get around this, but it's a bit harder than just copy/paste my video files. My videos are educational tutorials in many topics -including programming of course-. The best practice I can think of is that it should be downloadable freely on a website, and viewed only on the appropriate user's machine. This would allow us to provide users with very low priced high quality lecture in many fields, depending on the wide distribution for reward. For example a video course in anatomy that would cost you at least 300$ to attend in a private center, would be available on the site for about 5$!! Even better you can watch that video on your machine overe and over again! but of course you shouldn't be able to copy it to another machine, you bought license only to view it on this one! Anyway, thank you for replying. I think I have to go for the solution I was thinking of in my original post. I just hope it would work!
Regards:rose: