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Prevent downloading my videos
Hello,
we are launching our eLearning website in the coming few weeks. Our website uses Learndash LMS. We created our courses using storyline 360. Then we added course videos from a Vimeo where we...
In order for registered, enrolled users (or anyone else), to be able to view your video, they must download it to their computer so their browser can show it. It is pretty difficult to reconstruct the whole video from the way the browser downloads it, but my point is that it must be downloaded to be viewed. so in reality there is no practical way to prevent its download. As Leslie pointed out, there are many apps out there that specialize in downloading videos from the internet.
You can spend a lot of resources, and may still not be able to prevent it being downloaded. Your best option is to make its main value the learning experience that you add with Storyline. That way, the effort and cost of downloading the video in an unauthorized manner isn't worth it.
