How to Protect Your Videos from Being Downloaded

There are several ways but unfortunately none of them a very easy one especially if you want to stream it. If you really have videos that has high business value, I recommend you to encrypt videos and then host it.

Videos needs to be protected in two parts :

• Videos at rest – when they are stored on your ftp or web-server to prevent hacking those sites and downloading those videos.
• Streaming – when they are streamed on your site and people can get access to those links and download them.

To avoid it, there are few ways :

Simple way :

1. Encrypt those videos using tools like AES Crypt – Advanced File Encryption
2. People can download it but won’t be able to play it until unless you share the password/keys with them

Needs a developer to get this done :

1. Alternatively, if you wish to stream it through website and to block video downloader plugins, one of the ways would be to convert your Mp4 videos into HLS video segments using AES-128 encryption
2. But in above case, player that plays back the video needs to know get those pass keys via a secure mechanism.

Hope this gives you some insight.