Video Producers: How do you protect your video products?

Robert M Gouge

Robert M Gouge

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I'm thinking of creating a product that is a video series.

Being new to video, I'm unsure how to go about keeping it protected. I'd hate to launch, and then, a week later, do a youtube search and see my entire series under 100s of accounts. Fighting it at that point would be pointless.

Any advice?
 


Paper_Chase said:
Charge a ridiculously high price so the people that do pay to get access won't be inclined to share it for free. It's human nature.
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When you charge a ridiculously high price, people over the forums organize a group buy in which many people chip in money to buy that product and share it. And when your product is in hands of lets say 10 people who only paid tenth of a cost to get it, at least few of them will be inclined to share it and reap in some karma from the community.

The best way to deal with it is to build some user loyalty. And give them something more than just videos like forum membership, some goodies, support 24*7, and many others, whatever fits your niche.

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Thanks for the replies.

I'm not naive enough to think that all piracy can be stopped. I'm just looking for fundamentals to reducing it as much as possible.

Zsaleem said:
The best way to deal with it is to build some user loyalty. And give them something more than just videos like forum membership, some goodies, support 24*7, and many others, whatever fits your niche.

:smoke:
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I've been thinking about this as well. I'd really like to just issue the series like a downloadable product, but I have been thinking about putting it behind a membership area on my forum or my wordpress site.
 
Make flash videos with RTMP/RTMPE streams. It's not perfect but that's the best you can do to protect them.
 
Why don't you ask the film industry? When you have it figured out, let em know because they've been trying fruitlessly for years to keep piracy on lock. The simple fact is that even with high value products, you're still going to get leaks. So long as you have some basic defense up, don't worry too much. Be concerned more with maximizing your epcs and traffic acquisition.
 
pewep said:
Why don't you ask the film industry? When you have it figured out, let em know because they've been trying fruitlessly for years to keep piracy on lock. The simple fact is that even with high value products, you're still going to get leaks. So long as you have some basic defense up, don't worry too much. Be concerned more with maximizing your epcs.
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I agree and this is pretty much what I'm going for. I'm just looking to gather some knowledge from the badasses here at WF to try and set myself up as best as possible (since I really have zero experience with video).
 
The people that steal content aren't the same as people willing to pay for content. The ones stealing probably never would have bought it in the first place.
 
Gambit said:
The people that steal content aren't the same as people willing to pay for content. The ones stealing probably never would have bought it in the first place.
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While I agree, I don't want customers who are on the fence to type in "product name review" in youtube and turn up the entire series in 100s of accounts.

I understand that it'll be impossible to keep it off torrent sites and such, but, I'd really like to keep it out of youtube because I can see the scenario above happening a LOT. Potential customers aren't going to go to all the trouble to find valid torrent copies, so I don't care about those.

So, aside from spending a ton of time issuing DMCA notices to YouTube, I'm not really sure how to discourage the product from popping up all over the place on there after people have paid for it and download the video series.
 
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