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How can I make a video playable on a website, but not downloadable?

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I've seen other websites do it before. How can I do this without resorting to proprietary movie formats (like youtube)?
 
Whatever you can stream you can download, generally quite easily. I don't think there's any streaming protocol that hasn't been hacked yet for downloading purposes, but I could be wrong. To deter newbies, embed a player and set a property to disable save as. Use a protocol like RTSP/MMS, not HTTP.
 
You have no choice but to use either a proprietary format (flv in the case of youtube) or some form of DRM.
 
If you are viewing it on your screen, you have already downloaded it, so that's not a good question. Do you want to make it so they can only watch it once? DRM.

 
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