Protecting Videos With DRM Text

Hi Danielle,

Currently there are no options to change the look of DRM text.

The issue with DRM text is that we don’t want to inconvenience existing users with it but keep it visible at the same time.

If you have any suggestions what we could do to improve our DRM text feature, let us know and we will discuss it with our development team.

Thanks for being part of the Foliovision,
Juraj

Hi Danielle,

You are missing the point of DRM. The point of DRM is to discourage professional pirates and not normal users. Professional pirates will certainly be inconvenienced more by DRM which appears periodically and briefly on varied parts of the screen at irregular intervals. That makes it almost impossible to block the information about who stole the video. A steady DRM mark is extremely easy to blur out even after screen recording.

If you would like to do your own custom coding for the DRM, we’d be more than happy to send you the info on how to modify the code yourself. Or just put DRM on top of your original videos if it’s that important to you (i.e. a watermark).

Martin will send you the hooks to create your own overlay over the video tomorrow. What you are looking for is watermarking not DRM. By making the overlay persistent, it’s extremely easy for a pirate to defeat using simple web development tools. Not that the current system is bulletproof but it’s subtle and effective.

Martin and I disagree on how to do this and we have a very busy week. An overlay feature will eventually appear but in the second half of October. It will be separate from the current DRM. I.e. you can use the current DRM and add that overlay later.

Hello Danielle,

we added some instructions for adding custom popups into FV Player here: https://foliovision.com/player/advanced/api-programming#custom-popups

So you can put in a different code which would show the information you need and adjust the CSS to make it visible all the time and perhaps with some adjusted position and transparency.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Federico,

if we add an option for this, it must be done in a way that a slightly experienced web developer won’t be able to adjust the color by using the browser developer tools.

If we let you know where to change it, it must be done in a way that won’t be reverted when the plugin gets updated.

So this is not trivial. I’ll keep thinking about it and once I have something I will check it with Alec.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Federico,

we talked about this and we would like to have 2 presets for the DRM text. One would be the current form where it’s hard to notice any appears in random corner of the video.

The other could be visible at all times and change position less often. I think we can just keep using some similar half-transparent font color to get started and see how it works for you.

Thanks,
Martin