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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
Commendable effort.
If this concept makes videos impossible to download with common browser plug-ins then 90% of the content theft will go away.
That would be a major improvement in many ways ...
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Thanks Barry for the kind words - on that streaming page is a culmination of a lot of hard work to make flash-streaming secure (what you see on non-iOS) and iOS HTML5 streaming secure.
I would go so far as to say the iOS streams are actually *more* secure than the flash streams, because they cannot be ripped by screen rippers due to the iOS platform. It really is very secure.
The flash stream identifies screen rippers by injecting user-identifiable information to identify the screen ripper. NB: the iOS test page in this thread uses flash vars to tell the player when/what to inject. This is purely for my testing, and the players I now deploy have that embedded within them to prevent tampering with flashvars.
There are a few more sprinklings of smarties to add on to make it even that bit more impossible to crack that I can add for live deployment, but this is (I think) as good as it gets - exactly what you say: make it the most damn difficult to rip to level the playing field against the pirates.
It's about god damn time this industry stopped playing catchup and take the lead. And you know what, it was a phrase like that a couple of years ago on this board (by whom I don't know), that said something like "at one point the mainstream looked to adult for ideas, now we are just a joke" that made me sit up and figure out how to deal with this piracy issue. fwiw, I am not doing this for financial gain.
HTML5 is going to be the way forward for sure, but as it stands, only Apple has implemented its own standard and locked it into its engine, meaning others (ie what I did here) to lock their standard (no-piracy) into their engine. Kudos to Apple for that. Until other OS' do the same, HTML5 will be an insecure method of streaming.
Finally, there is not a single browser plugin out there that can rip the streams I implement on the sites of my clients... And there is not a single off-the-shelf ripper out there (beside screen rippers) that can do the same. Of that, I'm sure.