How to Copy Protect Movies and Videos
Movies and videos can be copy protected while played from an embedded
viewer on a web page and when viewed using a custom media
player, and it can be most secure.
Can movies and videos be protected from copy and
redistribution?
Yes they can and it can be most secure, however the definition
does need qualification, because the first thing that pops into
one's mind when thinking about "protected movies" is the videos
that one rents at the local video hire store, and while millions
of dollars have been spent developing methods to prevent video
copy and redistribution (piracy), that is not what we are
discussing here.
How to copy protect movies and videos played on a web page
Movies and videos can be played from web pages using what is known as an
embedded viewer. Embedded movies utilize Windows Media Player (WMP)
plugins that are activated by using object tags in your html
code. Internet Explorer naturally supports WMP and there are
plugins available for all Mozilla browsers like Firefox. Your
embedded viewer can control how the Movie is presented, such as run
on load, page position, height and width etc.
Protecting Video & Movies with CopySafe Web
Once you have your movie playing from the web page, you can
now copy protect it from screen recording by adding
CopySafe Web to the page.
By using CopySafe Web the page and its media can be protected
from Prinstcreen, screen capture and screen recording.
And it's about now that the wanna-be smarties jump up and claim
that they can still get the movie from lots of other means, and
that is where they are all wrong because this discussion has not
yet finished!
 Your embedded movie code can play movies from various sources.
The commonly known resource is having a copy of the movie in a
folder somewhere on the web site, which unfortunately can be
easily located from the html code and downloaded or played
directly. Such playing also leaves a copy in the web browser
cache for easy retrieval. But the secure method of providing the
source is by using a media server, which when properly
configured can ensure that the movie can only be seen using the
embedded code on your web page, and can also ensure that the
video stream cannot be intercepted and trapped. Other security
options such as security tokens for users and pay per view can
be activated in Windows Media Server or added by using
additional plugins server side.
Windows Media Server is available with all Windows Server
installations and can provide movies on demand (static archive)
or as a live stream (live broadcast). In all cases, to secure
your movies from copy and capture all you need to do now is add
a single small CopySafe Web image to the player page.Protecting
Video & Movies with ASPS Web Reader
While CopySafe Web is suitable for applying copy protection for
use in generic web browsers, it is not as secure as when using
the ASPS Web Reader.
The ArtistScope Site
Protection System (ASPS) uses a custom web browser that is
specially designed to protect web page content and media rather
offer it up for grabs like all other browsers do. The ASPS Web
Reader will provide the most secure and impenetrable copy
protection not only for Flash, but also for all and nay media
that can be displayed on a web page. And unlike CopySafe Web
your media will still be most secure even when not using a
stream server.
If your movies are Flash then the same applies by using a Flash
Media Server... more info.
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