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ns_1

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Hi,

I am planning to make a education software consisting on video lectures. Is there any hardware like read only device or something else on which i can put a security key which cant be deleted or copied and through which i can secure my software.
A user must need this hardware to start the software
Software will be copied on windows system and every time if a user want to open he or she must need this device to start this software.
Or is there any other advice or recommendation for the security
 
ns_1 said:
Hi,

I am planning to make a education software consisting on video lectures. Is there any hardware like read only device or something else on which i can put a security key which cant be deleted or copied and through which i can secure my software.
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To some degree, yes. I don't know of any specifically off-hand, but I know there is such software for Windows which encrypts the data, and only the program running to read it can decrypt and view it. There are also DRM systems doing the same, but requiring a certain dongle to be plugged in, which often work because the markets are so small that not many people want to take the effort to break that DRM.

A user must need this hardware to start the software
Software will be copied on windows system and every time if a user want to open he or she must need this device to start this software.
Or is there any other advice or recommendation for the security
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But, don't expect a warm welcome. More than a few potential customers are likely to tell you to piss off, unless you're offering something quite special, compared to whatever else is out there. There's nothing unusual about video lectures in the least, today, quite a few colleges offer lecture archives for free viewing online by anyone, etc..

The best security you can get is to offer something that people won't mind paying for regardless of DRM (today, even DRM-encumbered formats like DVD and BD are sufficiently broken that they may as well be considered DRM-free), and/or to make the system hosted, with fairly secure DRM-based web access, using a common (like Flash) embedded player that decrypts the stream on the local machine.
 
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There are tricks you can do, but there's basically nothing you can do to stop it. Someone could simply pick up a copy of Camtasia to record the screen, or just a camera to record the monitor itself. There are endless ways to hack the system.

A better option would be a streaming website that doesn't have an easily downloadable file format. Like Cerb said, something like streaming Flash that can't be downloaded via video download plugins with a web login would work better for 99% of the population. The people who are going to pirate are going to pirate and you aren't going to make any money off them anyway, so it's not like it's really a lost sale to begin with.
 
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