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Dirty web video secret: If you can see it, you can steal it

by csavage on 1/20/11, 5:59 PM with 5 comments

• by jerhinesmith on 1/20/11, 6:09 PM

  Couldn't you make the same argument for images? I know some sites try to be tricky by disabling right-click, etc., but the same "rule" definitely still applies.

  Or is it generally believed that images are of less "value" than video?

• by randall on 1/20/11, 8:48 PM

  I think this is why corporations worried about "stealing" will still opt for Flash encrypted delivery vs HTML5-ey "friendly" delivery.

  Any good player framework will likely account for this, hopefully by allowing all the same DOM-ey calls that one could perform with HTML5-ey video to be performed on flash through some sort of wrapper.

  I don't think that content companies will just let it happen.