what is the best way to protect your files in th members area ?
 

I don't want my files to be all over the net. any suggestions ?

Don't allow users to view, stream, or download content.

In fact, if you don't even put your content up on a server in the first place, I'd say your files are best protected.

:)

Sad, but true.

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Im using ProxyPass from Webair.com, but I know there are a lot of people using strongbox and another one I cant remember the name of... So here is a bump for ya

I think an equally large concern is having your files all virused up to fuck over legit members

I would suggest putting a note on each page asking them to not steal your content. If you ask nice enough, they probably won't steal it.

Phantom Frog is the other password protection
system. If password sharing is contributing to spreading
your content all over the system, this is one of the
best options for protection from hackers.

Use Geo-IP Tracking for abuse detection tracking all
visits down to the city level - highest resolution
available. Also offers Automated Member Support to
provide 24/7 uninterrupted access to your legit members
and none to hackers/leechers.

FREE Trial version is available and we have stellar
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Don't forget pennywize, and I believe TMM has Sparta or Carma with those features built in.

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.

Ray, I was clarifying a previous reply by
Rockatansky who couldn't remember the name
Phantom Frog. Secondly, Phantom Frog also has
a feature called Bandwidth Abuse Protection which
would be very relevant to this thread to protect
against content ripping. Making people aware of
ALL their options is my main objective. Very
interesting comment you gave on the URL labelling.

gmr, I didn't realize you had that as well. Good to know. Thanks.