: Making HTML5 videos stored on AWS S3 **difficult** to download (because I cant make it impossible) I am building a website that hosts video's stored on AWS's S3 service. The videos are played
I am building a website that hosts video's stored on AWS's S3 service. The videos are played thru a HTML5 player we have built.
Ive just been asked to make sure "nobody can steal our video's".
Now I know that if you really don't want something stolen, don't put it up on the internet. However I just need to secure these videos as good as possible, the videos need to at the very least resist someone going thru the source code and trying to download them manually.
One option available to me is to completely rebuild the video player in flash. This is not ideal, for several reasons, notably because I would also then have to build an App for mobile devices to be able to view this site.
So I am looking for other options.
I have heard about using a token to make the file available only during certain times.
I have heard of using a separate file to serve the videos that sits between the HTML5 page and the video file.
I am also having a look at IAM, the Secure AWS Access Control, in the hopes AWS can solve this problem for me.
Can anyone here recommend any of these options? Or perhaps suggest other options available to me?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I think, in spite of the fact that preventing or trying to prevent download is pointless, because those who are skilled enough will download it from the stream or cache, that you can use modernizr. It isn't aimed at preventing anything per se, but makes the source code highly unintelligible. It may be worth giving it a try.
However, if it is possible to download videos from Youtube, the site that is spending more energies in preventing downloads, then it is possible to download from every site that has videos.
Have you considered adding a watermark with reference to the site (logo+url) to the uploaded video?
Sorry, I have no quick solutions for this. Every developer will tellyou it's not worth pursui
I think using it with Lightbox makes chance of download hard. You can read this article:
How to create a Video Membership Site with Complete Protection to Your Videos and after the content I found this: Limitting Accessing to Video Content
These are for Wordpress but I think you can easily apply for PHP or other web programming language.
Note : I recommend you research how YouTube can store their exact video URL and make hard to find!
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