Video Links within PDFs & security

[Ged Brockie]

Hello, I wondered if anyone can give me advice on this one… I use WP Lightbox, Emember and Estore. I have created a product which is a pdf which is a holder for 13 videos I have created and will be selling the pdf through eStore.

The videos will be hosted on my WP site and I’ll use WP Lightbox to play them. My question is, is there any way of protecting the links which is reasonable in time and effort? Basically, I would like to stop people just copying the links from the pdf and sending them to their friends.

I wondered if there was a not too tortuous way of doing this?

Thanks

Ged

[wzp]

What you should be doing, instead of using video links embedded in a PDF file; is use a combination of eStore features that allow you to host your videos on Amazon S3, and use our Lightbox Ultimate plugin, on an APR protected page to allow secure access to the videos.

Lightbox Ultimate:

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-lightbox-ultimate-plugin-display-media-in-a-fancy-lightbox-overlay-3163?ap_id=TheAssurer

Using Lightbox Ultimate & eStore’s APR feature to deliver Amazon S3 videos:

https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forums/topic/playing-video-on-wp-site-using-estore

[Ged Brockie]

Hi and thank you for the speedy reply. If I am understanding you correctly, you are saying that a pay per view model is best? If so, then I don’t think that will work as it’s the pdf itself that will be sold. If this is the case, looks like I’m going to just have to take my chances with selling the pdf and allowing the links to be handed out and hope for the best… I’ll get the pdf stamper as well which will help in some ways re the pdf.

Thanks

Ged

[wzp]

Whether or not the video links are in the PDF, or on an APR protected page, the outcome is still the same; the video gets downloaded each time the buyer wants to watch it, right?

The difference is that in one case, you are selling a stamped PDF containing text and video links, as opposed to selling access to a protected page with both text and embedded video.

From a technical standpoint, the only thing gained from the PDF approach is that an internet connection is only needed to view videos.

[Ged Brockie]

Thanks again for your input. I was wanting to sell the pdf on Magzter which formats a pdf into all devices and has a growing customer base. As far as I know, Magzter do not offer pay per view videos options, just pdfs. Anyway, thanks again for your time.

Ged

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