Protect flash video from download/right protect

Question

Is it possible to protect flv files from download? I\'d like to protect my files from download but I don\'t have the money for a streaming server which I think provides some

Answer 1

Have you thought about hosting your video on Amazon S3? you can set urls for your videos to expire so that the link to the video will only be valid for certain period of time. This doesn't prevent anyone from getting the video from their cache once it has downloaded nor does it prevent other ways such as using Orbit downloader, or RealPlayer video downloader but it would prevent hotlinking.

I agree with comments that this is an arms race and a strategy for video delivery that accepts that people do want to download videos to share or copy to other devices etc and tries to live with it will probably be the most successful and pain free. Watermark, embed links to your site, try to capitalise on the increase in the number of eyeballs watching your video as a result of being downloadable.