There are ways to use Flash to make it less easy to download. Most people won't go to the trouble of screen recording.... but if you're a video editor looking for footage to remix and decide you want a certain clip, its certainly not difficult to screen capture. Its sort of like the "analog hole" except not, well, analog.
< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole > -Josh On 1/23/06, Joshua Kinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Flash Video can be converted with various tools to other formats that > can be edited. > Its a little more diffcult and the quality of the end result looks > bad, but its do-able. > > -josh > > > On 1/23/06, Bill Streeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tis true. Any time you release something into the world in any > > format, Internet or analog you risk someone copying your work. The > > best defence is to not do anything or if you do never let anyone see > > it. But that's not really an option is it? So thats why we have a > > legal system. I suspect that your subjects are being slightly more > > paranoid than they should be. What was your agreement with them? And > > why are they so paranoid about their images being used in other > > context? > > > > Bill Streeter > > LO-FI SAINT LOUIS > > www.lofistl.com > > > > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Verdi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > If you put something on the internet, someone will find a way to > > use it if > > > they want to. Even if you streamed it or used flash, someone could > > use a > > > screen recording program to make a copy of it. The way you protect > > the work > > > is to license it according to your wishes. Then if someone > > misuses it they > > > are in voilation of the license. You can't physically stop people > > from using > > > it though - just read any conversation on DRM anywhere on the > > internet. > > > -Verdi > > > > > > > > > On 1/23/06, Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > I am starting a vlog using video that I have taken in the course > > of making > > > > some documentary films. People gave consent for me to use the > > material on > > > > the basis of their trust in me and how I would use it in a > > film. Now I am > > > > contacting my subjects for permission to release the video on > > the internet > > > > in a vlog. (I should point out that the subject matter centers > > on horseback > > > > riding and I am dealing with professional trainers and riders > > who have > > > > granted me unusual access to their work. Nothing naughty or > > embarrassing.) > > > > > > > > My QuickTime files can be downloaded and not only re-edited but > > can be > > > > re-released in unauthorized compilations. Some of my subjects > > would not be > > > > happy about that. I would like to reassure them that the videos > > can be > > > > viewed but not altered. And, if possible, that they cannot be > > > > re-distributed. > > > > > > > > My questions: > > > > > > > > Should I switch to Flash? > > > > > > > > If I do go to Flash, is there an encoding app that does not > > cost several > > > > hundreds of dollars? I am new to vlogging and would like to > > ease into it as > > > > I see how it progresses. > > > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > Stan Hirson > > > > http://hestakaup.com/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS > > > > > > > > > > > > - Visit your > > group "videoblogging<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging>" > > > > on the web. > > > > > > > > - To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]<videoblogging- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > - Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of > > > > Service <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/>. > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > -- > > > Me: http://michaelverdi.com > > > R&D: http://evilvlog.com > > > Learn to videoblog: http://freevlog.org > > > Learn to videoblog in person: http://node101.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
