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Originally Posted by borked
yeah, username/IP - that's a great deterrent but huge server overhead (and delay before download) to do that as it needs re-encoding for each download. Possible, but practical?
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Interesting thread.
First let me applaud you for your extensive protection solution. You basically described an industry Best Practice guide in one single post.
There is no need to re-encode the video. In the Flash player (or via Javascript API) you can write the username and IP address to the screen on random frames and on random x,y coordinates. You just write on top of the video in a transparent layer.
Since it is only displayed on few frames it is too fast for the human eye to notice, but will get recorded by the screen grabber. Obviously the members need to be told that the videos are watermarked and traceable to scare them from trying.
EDIT: I see video overlays where already mentioned..