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Video format for a pay site
What would you recommend for a video format for a pay-site? WMV? FLA? MP4?
The desire is to prevent (for a lack of a better term) users downloading clips. |
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Stinkeyfingerz (Ryan) has worked on this and is the guy you need to talk to about it. |
Unfortunately unless you are willing to use some sort of DRM, pretty much all video these days can be downloaded. Even flash video is easy to download now.
By embedding the files into the page and not allowing download links, you could prevent a few casual surfers from getting it, but that's about it. Most people that used DRM have ditched it, so I think its kinda the norm now. |
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doesn'y reallymatter these days. is the material quality or quantity ?
ashampoo btw |
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As I understand it you are now in a position to offer this as a service. So if any of you out there are serious about being in control of your content, talk to Ryan. Don't make any replies about how it can be downloaded. Just let him show you. And let you try to download something of his using any software including replay and you will see for yourself how effective his techniques are. :) |
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The whole situation really sucks, cause on one hand we want to protect our content so its not floating around the web, and on the other hand, downloadable content that you can keep and use on other devices, is a big selling point for a lot of customers. I've done polls before where people basically say that they like the convenience of in-browser viewing, but that without the ability to keep the ones they like, they wouldn't sign up. :-( Oh well. |
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why even bother when the likes of ciaociao can do anything!!!
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It's kinda the best of both worlds for me. I keep my new high quality scenes off the tubes and torrents. Yet I still give my members something to download if they so choose. And if someone does upload one of the small .wmv's, then it is watermarked top and bottom to help against all the tube sites out there who pull that shitty trick of setting their encoder to clip off the bottom of the vids so your watermark is lost. And then of course as soon as removeyourcontent dmca's them, then that gets pulled down from the offending site. :) It keeps our membership a valuable commodity for our members, instead of it being a situation where their membership is worthless because of the members area being ripped on every tube and torrent. Just having back a little control over your stuff does wonders for sales and retention. |
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Thanks for the info, Always interesting to hear what methods people use to protect their assets. :) |
There is such a thing as OVER protecting your content. If the masses don't know about it, they aren't looking for it, they aren't downloading it, they aren't buying it, and you probably aren't making any money off it. It was not too long ago when people were spamming their content all over P2P networks and newsgroups just to get some exposure that wasn't from a TGP/MGP. Now the new trend is tube sites, it's still the same concept.
:2 cents: I would love to see that sample stickyfingerz. You can't say "my videos can't be downloaded" and not even offer a public challenge. ;) If someone proves that your videos can be downloaded it gives you something to improve on. If no one can do it, that gives you more business. What do you have to lose? |
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I want to do something like this but I'm always worried about the user on the shitty connection fighting ::buffering::buffering::buffering::
I'm about to put up a new website that's all video and trying to find a simple way to offer it up. I'm not too worried about protection, I'm a strong believer in letting your users download full videos, etc. |
Some people have no clue.
DRM is not the answer people. |
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Everyone will have their own opinion so there is no use arguing about it but I'm of the mindset watermark all your videos and let your users download them if they so choose.
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