how to protect your videos from being downloaded?

[Professor7]

Hi guys,

Anyone know how to stop your videos from being downloaded. If anyone has experience with this thing, please share.

Thanks & kind regards.

 

[Luca Marketing Agency]

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[sageshark]

Are you talking about Youtube channel videos?

I was also worried about this issue when other people downloaded my videos and uploaded in their own channel and gained thousands of views for free. This was really frustrating and annoying experience. I drove me literally mad few years ago.

But then I realised that we can not stop it!. Yes you heard it right. Moreover there is no need to stop it too. I will explain how -

1) First of all if anybody downloads your videos and uploaded in another youtube channel then youtube will itself identify it and will inform you in the copyrights section of your dashboard. You can then give them a copyright strike for free and put it down. Youtube can put the videos down as well as suspend their account if they are repeat offenders (if they have copied more than 9 videos)

2) Secondly, people can download your videos and upload in other platforms like Facebook and Instagram. While you can not give them copyright strike there, so it is ideal that you publish your videos on other platforms simultaneously on all the platforms. This way you will be the first uploader of that content and will automatically be eligible to give them copyright strike on that platform too.

To summarise, you can not prevent your content from being stolen. You just need to learn how to manage it to control plagiarism across all the platforms.

Hope my answer helped. Thanks.

 

[Professor7]

Are you talking about Youtube channel videos?

I was also worried about this issue when other people downloaded my videos and uploaded in their own channel and gained thousands of views for free. This was really frustrating and annoying experience. I drove me literally mad few years ago.

But then I realised that we can not stop it!. Yes you heard it right. Moreover there is no need to stop it too. I will explain how -

1) First of all if anybody downloads your videos and uploaded in another youtube channel then youtube will itself identify it and will inform you in the copyrights section of your dashboard. You can then give them a copyright strike for free and put it down. Youtube can put the videos down as well as suspend their account if they are repeat offenders (if they have copied more than 9 videos)

2) Secondly, people can download your videos and upload in other platforms like Facebook and Instagram. While you can not give them copyright strike there, so it is ideal that you publish your videos on other platforms simultaneously on all the platforms. This way you will be the first uploader of that content and will automatically be eligible to give them copyright strike on that platform too.

To summarise, you can not prevent your content from being stolen. You just need to learn how to manage it to control plagiarism across all the platforms.

Hope my answer helped. Thanks.

Thank you for sharing this but I was talking about wordpress videos sorry I didn't give full details.

I have seen many platforms like vimeo, vista, vdocipher but I don't know how effective they will be. I want to ask an experienced person whether anyone has done this on wordpress website and got success?

 

[sageshark]

I was talking about wordpress videos

Ohh ok. So I believe you are having hosting with Wordpress dot com because they include hosting for videos in the hosting plan. Or are you using self hosted wordpress website?

Please provide the details so that we can help. Thanks.

 

[Professor7]

Ohh ok. So I believe you are having hosting with Wordpress dot com because they include hosting for videos in the hosting plan. Or are you using self hosted wordpress website?

Please provide the details so that we can help. Thanks.

I have my own domain name and hosting. I have installed WordPress on my website + Elementor pro.
Thank you for replying.

 

[sageshark]

I have my own domain name and hosting. I have installed WordPress on my website + Elementor pro.
Thank you for replying.

It means you are having a self hosted website.

So how are you putting videos in your site that you want to protect? Are you embedding it from youtube / vimeo or you are uploading them directly to your server?

 

[Professor7]

It means you are having a self hosted website.

So how are you putting videos in your site that you want to protect? Are you embedding it from youtube / vimeo or you are uploading them directly to your server?

I am using streamable premium. I embed videos but streamable is not that much secured. Looking for alternative with full security.

 

[Roger Marquez]

It means you are having a self hosted website.

So how are you putting videos in your site that you want to protect? Are you embedding it from youtube / vimeo or you are uploading them directly to your server?

Either way, those videos can still be downloaded either if they are self-hosted or using an external platform like YouTube or Vimeo.

I am not a hacker but there is enough documentation on the internet that explains in detail how to download embedded videos.

In fact, there are dozens of sites that download private courses from other sites and all those sites are using different streamable services and they are still exposed.

I am also following this.

 

[Professor7]

Either way, those videos can still be downloaded either if they are self-hosted or using an external platform like YouTube or Vimeo.

I am not a hacker but there is enough documentation on the internet that explains in detail how to download embedded videos.

In fact, there are dozens of sites that download private courses from other sites and all those sites are using different streamable services and they are still exposed.

I am also following this.

Then we don’t have any choice except to close our eyes.
Thanks for replying.

 

[QuizMachine]

Best thing I have found is to watermark my videos.

 

[Gogol]

It is impossible to stop people from downloading the content they are able to see in the browser. You can make it tougher, yes… but you can’t make it impossible.

Big companies take drastic measures to make it harder. For example, youtube breaks the video into pieces and serves one segment at a time. Yet, you have youtube downloaders.

I suggest just watermarking the videos instead of wasting time with blocking mechanisms.

 

[Setox]

You do realize that peoples can just record the screen and rip your vids !

 

[Majbahul Islam]

Sorry to say, Practically its not possible there are thousands of way how people can download videos.

 

[moonshine7000]

You can tell the paid version of vimeo to only stream your videos from your self hosted website only if they download any other way it will fail.

 

[flprocess]

It does not work that way. For a visitor of your site to view a video he must download it to his PC, one way or another. leave the fact they can just record their screen, the visitors can find it in the Temporary Internet Files folder, or can just view the source and download it straight forward. There is no way of hiding it, I even found a video link in Vimeo's source code (Wasn't easy but possible).

 

[moonshine7000]

It does not work that way. For a visitor of your site to view a video he must download it to his PC, one way or another. leave the fact they can just record their screen, the visitors can find it in the Temporary Internet Files folder, or can just view the source and download it straight forward. There is no way of hiding it, I even found a video link in Vimeo's source code (Wasn't easy but possible).

vidalytics easy to crack they hide the .mp4 in obfuscated JavaScript file

 

[randomstrings]

Even Netflix cant stop people from downloading and uploading their million dollar productions.

Best you can do add a watermark to your video with your channel or acc name.

 

[montequila]

You can't

 

[monsieurlazar]

Hi
There is this plugin that can help your needs:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/protected-video/