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protecting windows media video files on a webserver

Asked by jcoman777 in Miscellaneous Web Development

Tags: protecting, files, video, media

I am doing work for an adult internet site & I'm having issues regarding Windows Media video files..

A company I am currenlty doing work for has adult "content" that they lease to other adult sites.  This company hosts all the videos and pictures in the form of website "products" on their own servers.  Their customers take links to these servers and put them in the members' section pages of their own adult "paysites".

My client protects their content (webpages with images and videos -- Windows Media .avi's and .wmv's as well as Quicktime .mov's) by using a http-referer protection scheme.  Only people linking to these content-product-sites from URLs that belong to their paying customers get access to their content.

My client claims that becuase the Windows Media Player plugin used in IE (and all web browsers) does not pass an HTTP_REFERER value, that there is no way to protect Windows Media video files on their webservers.  So, they allow completely free access to them.

The problem is that links to their videos get put on to these "adult free porn lists" that list the full URLs to their movies, and lots of people go to these websites and download all of their videos for free.

Can anyone think of an alternative way to protect these video files?  Username & password authentication is NOT an option, as the end users who get usernames & passwords from the adult site that they "joined" are not the direct "customers" of my client.  My client never knows what the surfers' usernames are...

The client uses Zeus webservers, but could probably be talked into going to Apache as well...

Thanks all!
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