Video published on web pages is too easily collected by downloaders. Even video streamed from media servers and services like Vimeo can easily be screen recorded. That is, unless you use video protection that is safe from all exploits including screen recording. For web page display of video, there are two solutions that can be recommended depending on your web hosting situation.
Protecting Video On Dedicated Servers
Ideally the preferred solution because it does not require videos to be encrypted, the ArtistScope Site Protection System (ASPS) can be used on any web site and any server type where you have ownership rights to install ASPS at system level. ASPS creates a secure tunnel between web server and the user’s web browser that cannot be accessed and decrypted by means other than the ArtisBrowser. While pages are on display in the ArtisBrowser web browser, all media including text, images and video are most securely protected from all copy including download, and screen recording.
A huge advantage with using ASPS is that you can use any type of video and any type of embedded video player or CMS plugin, including HTML5 video. Plugins are available for all of the popular CMS like WordPress, Moodle, Drupal, Joomla and DNN so that site owners can easily add copy protection to any web page by simply nominating their URL or a keyword found in the URL like “lesson”. ASPS can be installed on all Windows and Apache servers.
Protecting Video On Shared Hosting
If a dedicated server is out of the question, and your website is hosted on a shared server (like most economy web hosting) then CopySafe Video Protection may be the solution for you. CopySafe Video can be used on absolutely any web page hosted on any type of website or server. But because it encrypts the video, services like Vimeo cannot be used. But you can host the video from your own web site or any other file storage service like Amazon.
Plugins are available for uploading and adding CopySafe Video Protection to web pages using CMS like WordPress, Moodle, Drupal, Joomla and DNN. To ensure that encrypted video can be displayed and copied protected most securely, site visitors are required to use the ArtisBrowser, as no other web browser is capable of supporting real copy protection these days.
Copy Protecting Live Video Streams
Copy protecting live video streams is very different to copy protecting video files because there is no static file stored anywhere when streaming. Instead the video stream is a continuous transmission of data (data stream). Withe static files the video can be encrypted and treated individually with different permissions applied to each file. But with a live stream it gets more difficult but it is most doable when using the ArtistScope Site Protection Software (ASPS).
To use ASPS to protect a live video stream, all you need to do is add your embedded video player to an ASPS protected web page and ensure that the option in the player’s toolbar do not provide for saving, downloading or fullscreen. It is that simple and any live stream can be copy protected, even those delivered via YouTube and Vimeo. For more info see How to copy protect live video stream.
Support for all Devices/OS
CopySafe Video is for Windows users only but while that may be ideal for corporate networks and select clients, to display copy protected video for all types of users you can use an online solution:
Guest Video provides a copy protected web hosting service that includes copy protection. Those protected pages can be viewed directly or embedded into existing pages by using the WordPress plugin.
Or existing WordPress sites can use the SafeGuard Media plugin to add copy protected images, PDF or video to any web page or post.