How To Add DRM For WordPress Websites
WordPress member login systems provide password protection, but member accounts and passwords can be shared, enabling many users to share a single account that may have a paid membership with special privileges to view media and online lessons.
The problems with adding DRM that can identify each user uniquely are many:
- Any customization of the WordPress member login pages and database tables are likely to be overwritten when updating WordPress version, thus losing any changes that were made.
- Identifying users by IP address is a useless concept in this instance because IP addresses are mostly assigned randomly by Internet service providers (ISP) and many uses can be using a single IP address behind a home or corporate Internet connection.
- Most web browsers are incapable of detecting anything about the user that can be used as a reliable identification. For example, normal web browsers like Chrome and Firefox cannot read the MAC address of the user’s network card or the serial number of their hard drive.
ArtistScope DRM For WordPress
ArtistScope solutions such as CopySafe PDF and CopySafe Video include DRM options for media distributed for desktop viewing, but not for online viewing because it can cause conflicts with existing membership login. However it is possible to add DRM to any web page or post by using the SafeGuard DRM plugin.
SafeGuard DRM Plugin For WordPress
The SafeGuard DRM plugin for WordPress has been especially designed to add DRM protection to any page or post. User access rights are controlled by tokens that can be assigned per user to pages or collections of pages. SafeGuard DRM is deal for paid subscriptions for online courses and tuition. Pages can be viewed on all Windows, Mac, Android and iOS devices.
Secure Web Browser Required
Popular web browsers cannot be used because they neither have the capability of identifying each user uniquely or be suitable candidates for use on copy protected web sites. Popular web browsers are in fact the common enemy of anyone wanting to protect web data because they have been designed to exploit the web content and media in every way possible.
Instead, ArtistScope DRM requires that the member uses the ArtisBrowser web browser to login before exploring DRM protected web pages. ArtisBrowser, unlike all other web browsers, has been especially designed to protect web pages and their media from all methods of copy and exploit including the extraction of data from browser cache and memory.
Copy Protected Web Hosting
If adding DRM and copy protection to your existing website confuses things, then you could separate your protected content from your main website by using the Guest Video web hosting service. Guest Video web pages can be DRM protected, copy protected and watermarked. The copy protection leaves no room for exploit and the DRM can lock a users access to a page or a collection of pages, making it ideal for prepaid online courses and lessons.
DRM tokens can be sold online enabling individual users to access select pages and courses. Passwords and tokens cannot be shared like with other DRM services because each user account gets locked to their own unique computer ID.
Media displayed on Guest Video pages gets uploaded to Amazon file servers to enhance the user’s viewing experience and download performance.
Guest Video pages can be independent of your website, or they can be embedded into pages on your existing website by use of the Guest Video Protection plugin. Pages can be viewed on all Windows, Mac, Android and iOS devices.