Protecting members area video streams

are they as sensitive as my gooch?

I don't know, let's see a 'drawring'

most of these days, it is hard to stop a user from downloading...unless you have a real file, i have a perfect setup for that...but it is still hard...ya know...

jDoG

You need Digital Rights Management (DRM)

Check out www.drmnetworks.com

you can make life dificult for hotlink and stuff with this:

RewriteEngine on

# agent is requesting media files and is not media player but has ok referer
# add for .wma on stories to ??

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} ^.*\.wmv$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} ^.*\.wma$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^NSPlayer.* [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^Windows-Media-Player.* [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*xxxdatabase.com/.* [NC]
RewriteRule /* http://php.xxxdatabase.com/link/getmediaplayer.html [R]

# agent is requesting media files and is not media player and has bad referer

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} ^.*\.wmv$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} ^.*\.wma$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^NSPlayer.* [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^Windows-Media-Player.* [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://.*xxxdatabase.com/.* [NC]
RewriteRule /* http://php.xxxdatabase.com/link/hotlink.html [R]

# agent has no cookie and is not media player

RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !^user=.* [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^NSPlayer.* [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^Windows-Media-Player.* [NC]
RewriteRule /* http://php.xxxdatabase.com/link/nocookie.phtml?&host=%{HTTP_HOST} [R]

Thanks folks, anybody else?

DRM is really the only way you can stop unauthorized use of your content. If you need more info reply here [email protected]

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/drm.aspx

learn more about DRM.