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raymor · 08-07-2007, 01:45 PM

gmr likes to cut and paste his promo into any thread that mentions Strongbox,
but you should know that his product doesn't really address your concern at all.
His product is intended for password trading sites, something it does reasonably well.

There is no really great protection from having your content shared, but there are basically
three things you can do to help the situation.

First, you can put your URL on all of your pics and videos, so they become
advertisements when people share them. This is probably the biggest thing.
The largest, most successful sites I've worked with have tons of their content
on Limewire / Bearshare / Gnutella, and they have over 100,000 members.
I'm convinced that a lot of those members first got interested in the site after
seeing some "stolen" content.

Secondly, you can prevent people from ripping and sharing your whole site by using
either the simple ripping protections built into Strongbox or better yet our new Throttlebox,
an intelligent bandwidth limiter.

Lastly, you could use DRM on your movies so that it's more difficult for people to
copy and share them, but I think that's a really bad idea in this industry. It doesn't
stop people who take 5 minutes to search Google and find out how to remove the DRM,
but it does annoy the hell out of customer who prefer some other player besides Windows
Media Player and especially the 10% or so who use something besides Windows.

08-07-2007, 01:45 PM
raymor Confirmed User Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 3,745	gmr likes to cut and paste his promo into any thread that mentions Strongbox, but you should know that his product doesn't really address your concern at all. His product is intended for password trading sites, something it does reasonably well. There is no really great protection from having your content shared, but there are basically three things you can do to help the situation. First, you can put your URL on all of your pics and videos, so they become advertisements when people share them. This is probably the biggest thing. The largest, most successful sites I've worked with have tons of their content on Limewire / Bearshare / Gnutella, and they have over 100,000 members. I'm convinced that a lot of those members first got interested in the site after seeing some "stolen" content. Secondly, you can prevent people from ripping and sharing your whole site by using either the simple ripping protections built into Strongbox or better yet our new Throttlebox, an intelligent bandwidth limiter. Lastly, you could use DRM on your movies so that it's more difficult for people to copy and share them, but I think that's a really bad idea in this industry. It doesn't stop people who take 5 minutes to search Google and find out how to remove the DRM, but it does annoy the hell out of customer who prefer some other player besides Windows Media Player and especially the 10% or so who use something besides Windows. __________________ For historical display only. This information is not current: support@bettercgi.com ICQ 7208627 Strongbox - The next generation in site security Throttlebox - The next generation in bandwidth control Clonebox - Backup and disaster recovery on steroids