Originally Posted by AaronM

Other than building a paysite and installing some sort of password protection script, what else did you all do to protect your content?

Obviously I'm not condoning stealing of content or anything else but here's how I see it...

A brief history:

"Hey look, here's a new thing called DRM. It protects your content from being stolen.

Hey that's cool, we should all do that.

Oh wait, some of our members cried about DRM and the review sites dock us for DRM and streaming videos so we are going to go back to allowing full downloads.

Hey wait, our entire content library is available for free all over the interwebs now. Oh no! How did that happen?"


Members complained about DRM.
Webmasters complained about it too.
This was all due to greed.

So the majority of this industry made the awesome decision to abandon protecting their content rather than face a decline in sales. Guess what? That decline happened anyway but now in FAR greater numbers.

We as an industry ALLOWED the MEMBERS to dictate the delivery methods of OUR content. Had we banned together and adopted a simple solution this would not have happened. Now the non-members have the content anyway and rather than take another SERIOUS look at protecting content, the majority are crying about what they allowed to happen in the first place.

Yes, I know there are ways around DRM and the such but it still would have made a significant impact on content theft.

So I ask you again....WTF did YOU do to protect your content? Most of you don't even register the copyrights.