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No it's way better then just .htaccess. Standard Apache Rewrite Module that you use to protect images cannot protect movies, since movie players do not pass referrers and you have to allow visitors without referrer information, thus leaving your movie files open for hotlinkers. Use of cookie based protection fails since there are plenty of visitors that turn off that feature in their browser settings. You also have to include a Java Script on all your pages to use this feature and it creates problems with people who turn off Java Scripts in their browsers as well. I ran into all of these problems until we went with AHL. What different about AHL is it's an intelligent program running on the server configured with Apache. It monitors all file requests and the ones that come directly for movies are blocked. If they follow the right pattern on coming into your site first, looking at a page then they can access the movies. This is the first program I have ever come across that takes care of hotlinking of free movies... it blocks emailed links, book marked links, cut and paste of links into browsers, etc. Very nice program!
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