You are a writer.

You make a living from creating intellectual properties. If people don’t pay for your creations, you don’t pay the rent, and your baby goes shoeless.

You post your work where the agent tells you to and he shares that link with another agency who is subcontracting your work to get better market saturation; happens all the time. Only, someone in agency #2 casually sends that link to some friends on Face Book because your stuff is really funny and they just wanted to share. A few days later, a friend of yours who knows your materiel calls to say how they just saw your stuff on a competitor’s web site!

Not only is this plaguerism, it is also theft, and has cut you out of using your materiel in a portion of the market, effectively robbing you of thousands of dollars of income.

This little scenario is not just a supposition for an entertainment industry 101 ethics class. Something like it really happened to one of our customers before he discovered EZWebPlayer’s default secured settings. Mark Irish is an entertainer and expends much effort creating promotional videos of his work and getting them out to the right people; securing future engagements for his performances. A friend contacted him recently to let him know that some clips from Mark’s videos were showing up in others’ videos, incorrectly portraying these others’ as the authors of Mark’s work. People had really gone through the trouble of editing Mark out of the video. His appearence on stage had been completely removed from some of the footage. The theives had gotten this footage from right clicking on RealPlayer and stealing the video from it’s original server; un ethical at the least, and possibly illegal.

Mark does his own marketing in the web video arena and had been paying $100/month for a service that helped disperse his videos to selected locations; in affect acting as agent. After this theft, Mark began looking for alternative ways to safely share his videos and came accross EZWebPlayer’s $14.99/month service.

After hearing of Mark’s horrer story, our Support Department tested the latest release of RealPlayer against our uploaded videos and discovered exactly what we expected; EZWebPlayer locked out the download command from RealPlayer.

Entertainers are not the only industry professionals who need to be securing their videos online. Realtors who go through the effort and expense to video properties for online display need to protect those videos. Instructors who make a living by allowing their videos to be viewed by paying subscribers need to secure their work. Universities, colleges, broadcast stations, marketers from just about every industry who suffer the expense of producing visual aids for sales and promoition online, need to secure those properties.

Secure videos with a simple check mark.

The EZWebPlayer dashboard has a simple setup window, and the sharing/security function is no more than a checkbox away.

This story can be confirmed by contacting our Support Department and Mark Irish, who is now a happy subscriber with EZWebPlayer.com.

Links:
Protecting the Videos Added to Your Website
Mark Irish Web Site

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