Secure Online Video (with Muse Description)

[lightHouse]

Hello All,

I've been working on my muse for about three months now. Basically, it's boiled down to online training videos on how to invest using stock options. I'll follow this post up later with my page and everything else.

I'd like to avoid shipping a physical product, but I want to protect my intellectual property. Does anyone know of a way to have a "members-only" Youtube, in which users would have to log in to watch them?

Thanks,

lightHouse

[Carlos]

every pay webcam site has this sort of thing.
Another option would be the same thing that porn sites do: secure download or streaming once you log in.

Don't mean to sound like a perv, but it's the most readily recognizable example. The technology is out there and has been used a LOT. Time to shop elance for someone to do it for ya.

[lightHouse]

Maybe I didn't specify. I know I can host it on my server, but it's shared and I don't want to run out of CPU/Bandwidth. I was looking for a way to upload it to a remote host such as Youtube and embed it, but keep it private.

I know porn shops do it, but I'm pretty sure they host on their own servers and can pay for it. Although I haven't paid for porn since I was 13 and did it *by accident* in a Netherlands hotel. :D

I'll probably just host it until I have scaling problems (a very good thing to have) and then upgrade.

[sweet]

Sounds to me like you're looking for membership site software. Check out www.amember.com and www.memberspeed.com, among many others.

[blackhatontherocks]

Not hosting it yourself is kinda hard then. But bandwith shouldn't be too much of an issue once you're actually selling this stuff. Most hosting providers offer you free traffic and unless you bust a few terrabytes a week, they won't argue about that.

The real problem is that in order to do streaming video, you need a truckload of hardware to handle the loadbalancing and that's really not on the cheap side if you're looking to cater more than a dozen silmutaneous users or so.

What could work is using a proprietary format for video encryption which basically allows everyone to download the video, but only those using a player that connects to your site and check if they are valid customers are able to play it.

[officer_dibble]

You can host videos on YouTube that are only available to a select few - but I'm not certain you can embed these into webpages.

[jonparker83]

Sounds like Amazon S3 (http://aws.amazon.com/s3) might be a good fit for the video hosting. WELL cheap.

How you protect the videos from there would be up to you though and depend on whether you would be happy with just putting them behind a 'members area' or whether you would want the security (and hassle) of DRM

Cheers

Jon :)