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I would like to show a video on my website and I know that it would never be 100% guaranteed that the viewer could not download the video from my link.

However, would there be any method so that I can make them difficult to do so without using Flash? Is it possible using HTML5 or some other way?

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Whatever shown to the user through HTML/JS/CSS cannot be made un-copyable!

And the videos you are talking about, understand how it works:

It gets downloaded to user's pc, and then it is run.

so there is no way without getting this downloaded to user's pc.

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  • I know there is no way to prevent it. But can I make it difficult to do so? At least the viewer can not download my video by just simply right click on the mouse, or just copy a link. They may need to do more to find my link. – user883434 Oct 27 '11 at 15:40
  • May be this [link](http://www.webpagemistakes.ca/disable-right-click/) will help you a bit :) – linuxeasy Oct 27 '11 at 16:01
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This is currently impossible via HTML5 Multimedia. You can't prevent someone from downloading your media.

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I heard there's going to be a DRM system for videos. I don't know if that's what you want, but it might be a problem solver for you. Meaning you can secure your videos with a password, or require the viewer to be online while watching.

If I'm not mistaken it isn't implemented yet, but they're busy with it.

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