Copy Protect a Digital Version Vs. DVD or Bluray

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December 9, 2019
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We produce a lot of DVDs and Blu-rays for our customers. More and more are starting to ask for digital downloads, however, we need to be able to protect them from passing around the digital copy as our sales come from people purchasing the copy. So if we sell an unprotected digital file and it is passed around we will loose sales. Has anyone come up with an option or are aware of an option to sale digital downloads that are protected from being able to be passed around?

Thanks!

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Nancy OShea

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File sharing is a big problem. About the best you can do is restrict file access with some form of user authentication. For example, a unique serial number or log-in ID and password.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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hvproductionsAuthor

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But that could be easily shared with people so it doesn't really solve it, just maybe minimizes it

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Welcome to the digital age. Once video downloads reach the customer's hard drive, you cannot prevent file sharing if that's what they want to do. Maybe you need to look at delivering streaming services instead of straight downloads.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

John T Smith

Community Expert

As far as I know, Adobe has no way to protect a file

And any other way is easily broken by any number of tools

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management

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hvproductionsAuthor

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Is there a software or service that can be used just like your prime, netflix, itunes and such? Something that keeps people from pirating programs we have created. Thanks!

Abambo

Community Expert

We edit in Premiere. Currently create our DVDs and Blurays in Encore

I do not think that you can protect your DVDs and Blue Ray discs from within Encore. So whatever you use to protect your work, it's outside of the Adobe universe. I don't think that there is a real good protection on the market for your data.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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