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December 9, 2019
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Copy Protect a Digital Version Vs. DVD or Bluray

  • 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
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 9, 2019

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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December 9, 2019

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

Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 11, 2019

The scrap solution to this is encrypted content that only plays on your own player. 


"The scrap solution to this is encrypted content that only plays on your own player."

 

That's exactly what DRM encoding does.

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
John T Smith
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 9, 2019

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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December 9, 2019

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!

John Waller
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 9, 2019

Which Adobe app are you using to create your content?