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Originally Posted by adentio99
1) if you're allowing your members to download the video to their computer - how do you protect those videos from getting copied to multiple computers ?
what's the latest DRM methodology that is used ?
2) for pay site owners - how do you restrict the access to the one who purchased it ? Do you use any specific narrowed down approach to provide access to the ONLY one who purchased your membership ?? how to stop him from providing his login credentials to couple of people?
What methods do the popular websites use?
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Don't use DRM, your members will hate you for it, especially for mobile, which is likely going to account for about 85% of your traffic or more. There are watermarking solutions that can embed member info in the files on the fly, but like everything else tailored to adult, it's ridiculously expensive and way out of most peoples' budget.
We have a site that doesn't allow downloads, and we handle streaming through vzaar (which is now dacast), but we still have a major piracy problem because they can screen record. No level of content protection is any more effective than the 1 person out there who can circumvent it.
Your best bet when it comes to the video files is to accept the fact you will be pirated, and do what you can to mitigate it (see below). Pirates WILL steal your content, and you won't be able to stop them. You also have to keep in mind the actual cost of dealing with piracy measures, in which we've spent 100's of thousands over the years, and weigh whether or not focusing on piracy is cost-effective. Hint: It's not. People who are visiting these piracy sites aren't going to pay for your site.
For access management, we use a 2fa service called Login3
https://login3.modthree.io/ that works far better than other solutions, such as Password Sentry (which we used for years prior to Login3).
Outside of restricting access as much as possible, you need to target search engines for DMCA. If they can't rank, they can't maximize on their file locker pennies, and eventually, they'll move on to softer targets. Well, most of them will.