How to Stop Users to download the videos on your site

A friend asked me how to prevent users from downloading videos off his site. I gave him the honest answer first.

15 Oct 2023

A friend asked me how to prevent users from downloading videos off his site. I gave him the honest answer first.

You can't. Not fully. Not technically.

Someone can always full-screen your video and screen-record it. That's not a download from your servers, and there's nothing you can do about it.

But most users won't go that far. So the real question is: how do you make it hard enough that casual users don't bother?

Here's what actually works.

Disable Right Click

Strip the context menu from your video element. It removes the easy "Save video as..." option.

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noContext = document.getElementById('noContextMenu'

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