Download Page Protection - Is It This Simple

[kidino]

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[roley]

Originally Posted by Robert T Jillie

What I mean is that you can protect your download pages from illegitimate downloads with DLGuard or something similar because it gives you Secure single product sales.

If you want to protect your products from being shared by your customers after they have made a legitimate purchase then you need an IP tracking product protection like Digital Lock Down or something similar.

digital lock down looks good but im not payin $9 a month

I would prefer to just pay a one time for the ability

[d101]

Originally Posted by Rich Mann

... you can wrap your download location in as much protection as you are willing to pay for but once the product is out there in the hands of the customer just let it go.

You can drive yourself nuts with trying to control the distribution or you can focus on your next product. If your products are so great that people want to steal them. Then you're doing something right and the word will spread and you will make sales.

Rich

Rich,

excellent, you are right on the money here.

Our focus should be on providing great value.

It is pointless to think about controlling the uncontrollable. Nobody tries to control the stormy weather neither ... ;-)

I tend to like people passing around links and surprise the new visitor with a purchase offer, when they hit the page (or request the media file without authorization) ...

This way, they pirates and robin hoods become voting mavens!

i guess most of the people sharing "paid" links don´t have the consciousness about the criminal act in sharing copyrighted material. And some might even think, they paid for the right to do so ...

However, it happens. it's a culture! Wether we like it or not, it happens anyway.

[samstephens]

It is pointless to think about controlling the uncontrollable. Nobody tries to control the stormy weather neither ... ;-)

That's very true - pointless trying to control stormy weather. But we do put roofs on our houses, and make sure they don't have holes.

I agree with you guys: a successfull security implementaion is one that locks your site/sales/downloads as much as possible, but without creating a huge inconvenience to your real customers.

And we can't hold off selling simply because we're worried what may happen after people buy.

But by the same token, it's certainly worth putting a "roof" on your website, and making sure the rain doesn't come dribbling in.

Wow, that's a lot of metaphor for so early in the morning....

I think I need a rest, now.

cheers
Sam

[Kirstyn Sierra]

Any suggestions for keeping the search engines from indexing individual pdf files, mp3 files or videos? That's my biggest problem - the search engines are indexing these (not my download pages), and I have them nested 4 folders deep...

Kirstyn

[samstephens]

Hi Kirstyn,

If you link to your files, then the search engines can see them. If you don't link to your files, they can't.

This is why systems like DLGuard are popular: DLGuard never actually links directly to your file, and so the search engines can never see them.

This means your files won't be indexed.

Are all your files designed to be downloaded, or are the MP3's and vids playable online?

cheers
Sam