Video Experts Needed

There is a way, i just haven't found how to do it yet.

there is no need to have a username and email water marked...

1.) If a vid can be viewed, then it can be saved and shared.

2.) Watermarks are a good idea as they aren't very easy to remove.

Hi,

I'd go with a watermark, that's what I do with mine. Example here:


Regards Allen

Don't worry about protecting your stuff - if they want it, they will find a way to get it.

You see, even such enormous companies like Microsoft can't protect their products, so I wish you good luck wasing your time with that!

All what you can really do is protect members area with passwords and don't allow to download anytthing, only watch online, but in most cases people want to download audios and listen using their phone or ipods, so it is not good to do that.

And you know, if people want to get it for free, they will never buy it. Just make sure that you monetize your products in some way, so you make money from them (in IM it may be hosting, domain names or trying to sell other products).

But, you should be happy that people will distribute them for free - you will get some high quality subscribers that you would never get!

With watermarks they can just create another similar shaped watermark and cover it when they edit.

Make sure you say your domain and plug your product in your video, at least let them spread your name.

Don't sweat it.
Do what you can to make it as difficult as possible but accept the fact that it's going to happen.
Every video that plays with Realplayer can be downloaded, and Realplayer plays pretty much every format.
Chances are most people who do share your videos will share them with a few friends and/or business partners.
Implant your URL on your videos so at least the people who who share it also share your site info.

Yeah, I have Real Player. I can download just about any video out there.
I don't need to know the url of the video, I can do it right from the site.

I don't use it for illegal purposes though. I use it when I buy something and they only have the videos hosted on the site. Well, I don't want to always be on the site. So, I download them. But, again, this is for personal use only.

I don't think there is a way to protect anything online 100%

If someone wants to steal it they will... however there are things that you can put in the video that may discourage a swiper....

Also you can try to leverage technology to make it not possible to share the video....

There are a few services that I have come across in the past... Iam just unable to remember them right....

Now where did I leave my "memory pills" again...

Mate, you can find video experts through freelancing sites, there are plenty of them.

Want to make more money despite the thieves?

Focus on your marketing. The more you sell the more money you make. Take reasonable security measures but don't go overboard. If you obsess about DRM and forget about time to live... you are wasting time that could be spent collecting cash. One mentor of mine who has built several 8 figure companies said that he used to get all upset about people stealing his stuff. But the best thing he did was to stop worrying about the thieves and focus on the majority who are honest consumers.

The more intricate the DRM the worse the customer experience.

There is a reason that Yahoo and Wal-Mart dropped drm and that Apple is now offering DRM free solutions.

Now that is not to say you should make it easy for people to steal but... it does not have to be difficult.

1. Use a membership site management platform that provides reasonable security measures. In ours we let publishers set how many IP addresses per day OR per lifetime can access the membership area or user feed. That combined with unique individual user logins and subscriber account access controls provides a high level of security for the membership area itself. High enough that if you really wanted to you could set the view access to 1 time per lifetime... but that would make the user experience not so nice.

2. Use an rtmp streaming player solution to embed your content. This won't stop people from screen capturing your content... but if you have ever researched it a good solid streaming video screen capture solution that correctly captures and syncs up the audio is hard to come by. Not only that its time consuming to record each of your videos and rip them off.

3. Brand the heck out of your videos...Marty gave you an excellent example of branding all over the video. That way if some of your content does get ripped off at least you get free advertising... but again if you take the top two precautions you are going to be pretty well secured.

I have been researching, developing, selling and delivering secure content delivery services and embedded media solutiuons for the web since 2004...

And the most effective and profitable strategy is and will always be... marketing more and stressing over drm less. And this is coming from someone who sells a solutions both for rtmp and secure membership content delivery.

Our clients use our systems to sell and deliver premium content every day and the clients that make millions of dollars a year selling premium content including streaming video membership areas... they don't do anything more than the basics and focus on the marketing instead.

Add on top of the drm issues the Apple iPad scenario and depending on how you approach it you could cut your self out of that market completely if you choose the wrong approach.

It is good to ensure privacy while on the net

Don't waste your time trying to protect them too much. Videos are EASY to steal.

The people who will steal them are unlikely to pay anyway so don't kid yourself that putting lots of protection in place will make too much difference in sales.

As soon as one person has it that likes to share - your security is gone. The first person will drop all the drm and share it in a different format.

If multi-million dollar corporations can't protect themselves then you have no chance.

As others have said - put some focus into branding etc. so that at least you may get increased traffic etc. from the people who steal it or get it free and want to see what else you have - they may still become customers. Sometimes having your stuff stolen actually gets you more sales so don't sweat it too much.

Andy

Yes each and every video can water marked. If you are think to sue water mark then use it at the center of the video like many news channels water marked their packages.

I think JW player don't allow to download videos.

Water Marking is a great idea but with screen capture software anything nowadays can be captured so it is very difficult. But remember when working on the web, anything can get swiped. But wish you the best of luck

Watermarking them is the only way and when someone uploads your video to share it illegally contact the site to take it down... tedious but works