hide original video file locations

Hi everyone.

Soon I am thinking to develop one of my domains. the domain is sexy.am
What I have in mind is to put online a bunch of sexy video clips, but here comes a problem. I don't want other people to know the source of the files or to download them to their computer, as I am going to spend a lot of time on gathering these videos.

What do you think what is the best way to do this?

I am thining of creating lets say adfgsdf3g8454asdf5.avi in some TEMP folder and write the filename in a table, later when every time users try to view a clip I delete any file that is older than 2 days, so I keep the original files untouched and noone will ever guess their original location, bt this way I will still have the problem when users/webmasters try to copy the content

 

I dont see any difference between your original file and adfgsdf3g8454asdf5.avi in temp folder ? It will be 2 identical files, with different filenames, that's all.

Best way to go is integrate it in Flash player.

 

Do you know how its done in Flash, I have a friend who is a really good flash developer and he can help me out in that

 

I dont really know much about Flash....I had an idea to do it too, but then forgot about that project. Ask your friend, you need ActionScript knowledge in this.

 

OK thanks a lot for your help

 

Which language are you using to program your site.

If you're using .NET, you can use a single page to accept a query string with the ID of your video.

The page would then find the video file, read it & write it out as binary straight to the browser.

This also works for images.
Plus you can detect if it's linked from other sites & prevent it.

 

unfortunately I use Classic ASP

 

It should work for Classic ASP too.

You should be able to read the binary of a file & do a Response.BinaryWrite of it.

Before you BinaryWrite..you have to set the Response.ContentType of the ASP page to avi, mpg or whatever format the file is in.

 

Sorry for such a late reply. I was too busy with work. Now I'll find some time to work on the project and hopefully will succeed

Thanks for the idea

 

Exactly as dizzy stated - First have all the videos as BLOBS in a DB. this will make all your vids enumeratable and dynamic (and can restrict "non-allowed" users). Second, create a wrapper flash element that's going "_root.loadMovie("http://www.smashingdir.com/?id=345"). 345 is associated in the dB. when 345 is executed, it will dynamically write out the flash content to the browser as a .flv (which the flash file accepts as a vid), no physical file will ever exist on the server - just blobs pushing when requested directly to the buffer.

IF you want to take that a step further, you can build your own encryption schema and base it on a "shared secret" and a dyanmic value that no one will ever know - maybe the current data reversed or something?

Something that generates in flash id=1039802XJKJD#10983J:KAJ';'ajdfjd@!J@FJ - which only your Flash and Server-Side language know how to interpret as the value 345.

Another thing to remember - ALL flash files are decompilable (and I mean All!) So another slick thing to do for protection is have your flash file use this encryption schema to load the "actual" flash file: so...

your main first flash file would load and include this flash file "content.swf?id=jajSJDFKJF@(IFJ(@#!1390320932$L@" - which is enterpreted to BoyDoIRule8/2/2007 as the key - it uses this key to decrypt where the actual flash location. Why is this protected? because no one knows that it will only work with a key on the same day or +-1 hour so if you decrypted the key to BoyDoIRule8/2/2007 - that key wouldn't work the next day...

- Well... that's enough for my rant, I'm out

 

Thanks ccoonen, I just wanted to green you but I am not allowed, lately I have already greened you

Since I am too busy with my company works I cannot manage doing it myself, a PHP spec will do it and he said he will do it with URL rewriting or some other method and promised to make the source hidden. I will pass him your post also

Thanks again for your help

 

Good luck with that ludwig Hope it gets protected good and tight - if you want someone to "test" the security of the video locations - drop me a msg and I'll see how tight she is