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Just know that no matter how hard you try to prevent it, if someone wants to "steal" your videos bad enough, well, they will. In fact, attempting to make it as
by jlgaddis 9y ago
Just know that no matter how hard you try to prevent it, if someone wants to "steal" your videos bad enough, well, they will.
In fact, attempting to make it as difficult as possible (which might lead to usability issues for the "honest" folks) might be seen as a "challenge". In other words, you may inadvertantly cause some people to try to acquire and/or distribute your videos just to see if they can.
Finally, after a certain point, you are likely just wasting time and effort (and possibly money). If your videos are of any value at all, they will be "stolen".
- anonytrary 9y agoThe attack vector that you're speaking of requires a malicious actor to be competent enough to rip the video content, remove visual and audial watermarks, and then re-host it elsewhere for redistribution. You're right; this can and will happen, and isn't worth mitigating. However, I think there are attack vectors which are worth mitigating. The biggest one would be preventing signed URLs from being shared from an authenticated, paying client to a non-paying or unauthenticated client. Do you know of any illegitimate sources for paid Coursera videos? Do you think the majority of Coursera users are being funneled through this illegitimate channel? I think not; the majority of users would rather pay a small amount for information from the source than some third-hand, sketchy website or server. Edit: Unfortunately, it is pretty trivial to download content from a signed CloudFront URL (see, for example this[0] demonstration). I am wondering if there is some way to at least mitigate this... [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAGc8cxdiVM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAGc8cxdiVM