Best way to secure videos and other content on membership site

There are a lot of ways.

But it mainly comes down to what will work best with your membership software/CMS.

What are you using?

Using a platform like amember or nanacast is good for secure hosting...

As for preventing downloading and keeping videos...

If you are providing enough value and have the chops then subscribers will be retained I think. I assume this is your concern?

You will benefit more from focusing on marketing and product creation while researching the platform that meets your needs best.

If you're using wordpress there are several really affordable membership content-lock options (around $30).
But we need to know what platform you're using.

whats the template you're using? some templates have them included. i know for profits theme (what im using) they have a section where it secures videos and other media....there's a folder for free stuff that anyone can access and another folder that's protected for things that are paid for.

I strongly recommend that you create an email signature as a matter of urgency. It will help with list building. You can do it easily in your profile area.

You can do all this with S2member and Amazon S3. To positively prevent them from being downloaded, they must be flash videos.

s2Member® | Hiding the Address of Protected Video Files

I think that a Vimeo premium account might allow you to basically lock down video. You should research it some more though before taking my word for it.

As you are using wordpress ,there are bunch of plugins for membership site as amember,WP eMember,wishlist member ..etc but as you want to add another layer of protection for your super secret videos ,if you host your videos on Amazon S3′s ,just choose the option where you can make a video file private,you can host your videos on youtube and make them private...

The problem is embedding videos for streaming,don't protect you.your paid members can download the videos using the “View Source” option on the web browser .

So if you want to ensure the video is never downloadable, be sure to use only the type “flash”, where there is an RTMP stream. RTMP streams are the only way to prevent direct downloads, and hide the actual video URL. Anything else will make your video downloadable, one way or the other.

Thank you. I have made a list of some options and will test them out.

There was a wordpress theme out there I was thinking of using in the long term. It's named Moviepress do a search for that. It sound's like something you would be interested in. It had a basic youtube like look to it, but was also customizable. It allowed you to show teasers and offer memberships, it also could show vids from youtube or you could upload your own. Check it out.

Hi All,

My idea to protect all your content, especially when we talk about WSOs, is if you store your content on a separate server other than where your sales page is located.


Let's say you have a product called "Hot to protect your digital content".

For example you can advertise your product on howtoprotectyourdigitalcontent.com whatever. Upload your files (pdf, video, etc.) on file sharing sites such as Mediafire (you can have your own account there) with a different name and not including WSO in the file names.

And one more clever thing: password your files. If someone has paid for the product, you can give the password for that archive in the PayPal message after the payment for instance.

There is no 100% safety because once someone bought your product, he can share it all over the net but it's a certain level of safety.

As other Warriors have mentioned there are many different method of reducing the level of open access to the videos, however, there is only one way to actually completely control access to the video and its not by using a membership website accessed by a web-browser.

Any time you view a video using your Web Browser, the video must be first downloaded and or streamed into a place on your computer it might be called 20827892y2/temp but its there, anyone that wants to can obtain that video and view it anytime they want.

Most will of course not realize this but a few will, and those are probably the very ones you hope to keep from doing that very thing.

There is no perfect method, because when you see the video it exists somewhere on your computer, there are methods of "flushing" the video once it has been seen, or perhaps you could even set a date where it would be flushed, but over all unless your video is of some exceptional value, beyond that of Gold I would not worry about it at all.

If you do absolutely want as much security as you can get and money is not an issue, then you need a secure container, (APP) to distribute your video, now the video would still be in memory, but that can also be flushed, so perhaps one out of 10,000 people could access the video after the date you set.

Then there is always screen recording software, (opps) yes, they can do that too so over all I think you could make it more difficult but not impossible, most probably 74 percent of your customers will not care one way or the other.

just a few thoughts.