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Ask HN: Protecting HTML5 video and audio

2 points by stuartjmoore 17y ago

I know HTML5 doesn't allow DRM in video and audio files (which would be a pain anyway), but is there anyway to stop a user downloading the file? Can you forbid downloading, but not playing? Can you hide the URL from "view source," "inspect element," and the activity window?

grayrest 17y ago
No more than you can protect an image in a page from being downloaded. e.g. you could escape the URL or check referrers, but that's not really going to stop anybody.