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Originally Posted by Catalyst
Guys, come on.. this is really easy stuff.. almost all elevated x site you can do this.. with
I just checked.. and it works on pornstar and like 10 other sites..
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Ric,
I know it wasn't your intention but you inferred that Elevated X is somehow flawed and allows free downloading of content (the title of this thread). As a long time customer you know this is not the case.
For the record - Elevated X
DOES NOT power pornstar.com
You may be surprised to learn that Elevated X DID have obfuscation in the early days. It was later removed because there wasn't as much benefit to overcome some of the problems it created such as on the fly, random naming and cache invalidation that wreaked havoc on high traffic sites.
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Some content protection facts for sites without obfuscation:
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1) Content that resides behind htaccess or another protection method can't be linked to unless you're already logged into the site. In this case, nobody is getting free porn, the person accessing it is already a paying customer.
2) A user needs to know the folder name of the update and the filename of the content itself in order to get to it. This means they already need to be on a page of the site to get the content. They're not going to magically guess where the content is and get it all for free.
3) Nearly all Elevated X customers (and any smart pay site owner) uses site protection scripts along with their CMS and billing/auth process.
4) Unless you've symlinked your content folder or done something to remove authentication/protection from your site there's no way for tour surfer or any non-member to get to your content.
5) The only area this poses any concern whatsoever for an Elevated X customer might be inside a trial area where someone has a membership and could start looking at source code and hitting 1 link at a time. We've yet to see this be a cause of concern.
Keep in mind all of us are professionals and are web savvy. Yes, a very select few will do it but the average guy who buys a membership isn't going to start viewing source code and copying a path fragment and then manually type in a video filename and view or download them 1 by 1. A video collector type of guy might but the typical consumer won't go to the trouble.
6) The real problem is as much about how people name their video files e.g. 1, 2, 3 for every update and not appending any prefix or suffix to them. Makes it too easy for people to just add 1, 2, 3 to the end of a URL and watch video after video.
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NOTE TO ELEVATED X CMS CUSTOMERS:
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In 5 years of running Elevated X, less than 10 customers have ever mentioned this being an issue or said they wanted obfuscation.
This leads me to believe it's not really posing much of a problem to most people. If it is, by all means, submit a support ticket and suggest it and if enough people really need this we'll look to add it to the software and make it happen.
AJ