how to prevent them from downloading content over the web

[danieluna1989 0]

Hello, I would like to know how to avoid that with programs like JDownloader 2 they can download me from the web 

[Luke 37006]

Hi, does this relate to Emby? I don't know anything about JDownloader.

[mgworek 121]

4 hours ago, Luke said:

Hi, does this relate to Emby? I don't know anything about JDownloader.

JDownloader lets you take video/music urls and download the files from like youtube and such.

There is nothing in the code on the page that I see when playing a video that give the path to the movie and the url when playing a movie is generic.

I don't see a need to worry about it.

[Chyron 221]

35 minutes ago, mgworek said:

JDownloader lets you take video/music urls and download the files from like youtube and such.

There is nothing in the code on the page that I see when playing a video that give the path to the movie and the url when playing a movie is generic.

I don't see a need to worry about it.

Just now, while I played a video in Emby 's Web Client, I opened the Inspector tool and searched for ".mp4". It found a string of code that says

<video>src=[...]stream.mp4[...]</video>

I extracted that whole "src" link and pasted it into a new tab. It streamed the video in the new tab.

So you can bet that JDownloader (et al.) could probably extract and download this.

Edited February 12, 2021 by Chyron

[mrfragger 39]

You can’t prevent this if they look at the source and copy the src links to videos. Even using javascript with “nodownload” it just prevents from right clicking on the web page. Usually distillvideo and pastedownload will get the links regardless. 

[mastrmind11 717]

but you need to authenticate.  so while its possible to use the url after logging in, it's not as if you can just grab the url and send it to someone to download.

[danieluna1989 0]

Sí, pero permite a un usuario, sin permiso de descarga, poder descargar el vídeo

[ebr 14903]

Hi.  Since the urls need to be playable by video players that we don't completely control, I'm afraid there is no way we can prevent these types of "grabbing" techniques.  Kind of like how someone can "record" something from Netflix with certain products.

[Carlo 4330]

If you have friends abusing your server, how good a friend are they?

[Alexmanafan 5]

You won't be able to block downloads, but you can make it almost impossible with my article.

 

[visproduction 122]

More info to block reverse proxy attacks: https://blog.detectify.com/2020/11/10/common-nginx-misconfigurations/