Protecting your stuff from P2P...What/Who's The Best?
 

I've been studying for 6 months or so to see how to protect stuff from P2P. I ran into a prob several years ago when some guys were swiping and sharing. So I took a look myself. Quite a big issue and I've heard of one company only that does the best job.

How do you guys protect your stuff and what's the liability of a watchdog company if they go after the wrong guy the wrong way?

Seems like a double edged sword.

have you looked into Digital Rights Management?

Yep! But studying how files are transfered and changed and re-coded makes it look useless. Only one company appears to do the big job but that's still only on the surface and in the U.S. only. With foreign ISPs there's no way they can cover that many people. Unless you know something we don't :)

p2p is free advertising for your site. :2 cents:

Are you having a problem with people doing this to your content?

I had a few years ago. Big problem then I had to literally hunt this stuff down by myself and a few other pals. Had to stay away from the companies that did the hunting because if they screwed up once and accused someone wrong, it would have been my ass.

Problem is the constitutional issue vs. the copyright/trademark issue. Nowadays they're going after grandmas and kids but what happens if they screw up? Who's gonna take the fall? One case and it'd be all over for em'.

It's too shakey. Yet the saving grace is in the developement so that file sharing can't be done. Not acting like ambulance chasers.

P2P is now mainstream, it won't stop. They shut one company down like Napster and what happens? 10 others pop up and take their place.

This is going to be an interesting year coming up as I think there's going to be a way to prevent file sharing on the developer's end. Ironically this new technology is supposed to be coming from a Chinese company. I have an old assistant who hipped me to this a while back. We'll see.

Yep you 'can' use it for that 'but' if you've hired a company to monitor your shit and some ambiguous procedure is compromised and they go after the wrong guy because 'you' purposefully put out protected material that could put you in deep shit.

There are too many arbitraries involved.

Greg, it's possible that you may not be fully aware of how some of the current technologies may be able to assist you. We have a product that does not allow the end user to re-encode your content and tracks that content wherever it is. It also locks that content down and allows you the ability to disable its use if you wish.

If you are interested, look at the other posting on GFY about DRM Networks, contact your CCBill rep or talk to Swapna at DRM Networks ([email protected]). I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at what this technology can do and how little it cost.

-Randall 8^)

If you want to protect MPEG and AVI video content, we have what you need. Technology <i>has</i> advanced indeed.

Paul