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How to protect mp3s from being ripped from source code?

electrogrimey · 2010-12-01 20:01:53

Trying to figure how to stop mp3s I post on my blog being so easy to rip from the source code. Any new stuff, especially unreleased stuff, I post I obviously don't have downloadable, but anybody can just go into the source code and find the .mp3 link and download it. I've seen a lot of blogs at least have the .mp3 links…

01-12-2010 9:01pm

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electrogrimey

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Trying to figure how to stop mp3s I post on my blog being so easy to rip from the source code. Any new stuff, especially unreleased stuff, I post I obviously don't have downloadable, but anybody can just go into the source code and find the .mp3 link and download it.

I've seen a lot of blogs at least have the .mp3 links encoded, but can't see an option to do this on the Wordpress audio player, and encoding them externally doesn't work.

Other blogs with the exact same audio player don't even have any .mp3 links in the source code, how do you do that? That's the ideal, but I'd be happy enough just encoding them for the time being.

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#2 07-12-2010 12:54am

conorcan2

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There isn't a 100% foolproof way of protecting your mp3 files. Some things that might deter people:

- include the mp3 files in a folder outside of your web root.
- embed the mp3 files within a flash file/player

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