Protecting the video - EXAMPLE

[airdick]

Originally Posted by Opti

Ideas everywhere... so who is going to code the "perfect" solution for the rest of us?

If 20 of us that want to use this all throw in 10 bucks each.. $200 should buy a good coder's time to put it together and test it properly.

Give it away but code it to redirect hotlinkers to an a fixed page (or load a video advert) which the webmaster can't alter... unless they register for a "licence key" here at GGandJim.

The people who contribute cash for the coding own a share of the default surfer messages... and the board gets the viral marketing effect for webmaster traffic.

This works for me:
http://www.antihotlinking.com/

Installs on Apache in about 5 minutes, doesn't use cookies, no php, doesn't seem to put a big load on the server, although I'll admit that I only push an average of 1.5Mbps with the occasional bursts to around 6Mbps. Run a script to install the software, make a few edits in your apache config, restart apache and you're done. It's a set-and-forget type of deal.

There might be better solutions if you're not limited to following TGP/Linklist rules, but if you're a submitter that needs to protect movies this product is money well spent.

[plateman]

Originally Posted by airdick

This works for me:
http://www.antihotlinking.com/

Installs on Apache in about 5 minutes, doesn't use cookies, no php, doesn't seem to put a big load on the server, although I'll admit that I only push an average of 1.5Mbps with the occasional bursts to around 6Mbps. Run a script to install the software, make a few edits in your apache config, restart apache and you're done. It's a set-and-forget type of deal.

There might be better solutions if you're not limited to following TGP/Linklist rules, but if you're a submitter that needs to protect movies this product is money well spent.

-thats what I use and love it..

[Opti]

Originally Posted by airdick

This works for me:
http://www.antihotlinking.com/

Installs on Apache in about 5 minutes, doesn't use cookies, no php, doesn't seem to put a big load on the server, although I'll admit that I only push an average of 1.5Mbps with the occasional bursts to around 6Mbps. Run a script to install the software, make a few edits in your apache config, restart apache and you're done. It's a set-and-forget type of deal.

There might be better solutions if you're not limited to following TGP/Linklist rules, but if you're a submitter that needs to protect movies this product is money well spent.

Thanks for the info Airdick... $300 per domain makes it sound like my 200 dollar estimate for a coders time may have been low huh

They do sound like they have pretty much exactly what we would want though!


(they pay a 20% commission for refferals http://www.antihotlinking.com/resellers.php .. you signed up for that Airdick?)

[airdick]

Originally Posted by Opti

Thanks for the info Airdick... $300 per domain makes it sound like my 200 dollar estimate for a coders time may have been low huh

They do sound like they have pretty much exactly what we would want though!

(they pay a 20% commission for refferals http://www.antihotlinking.com/resellers.php .. you signed up for that Airdick?)

The price is per-server rather than per-domain.

I'm not signed up for the affiliate program and it looks either resellers charge a higher price ($249) or the reseller page hasn't been updated.