waverly911 - 7:23 am on Jan 15, 2008 (gmt 0)

What methods can you use to keep viewers of your video from stealing it/downloading it from your site? I recently added videos to my site and have seen my traffic spike to almost double than last month and my adsense CTR more than double from under .69 to over 1.5%, but my adsense revenue per click has had a precipitous drop.

I know people like to know how to keep people from stealing photos. I want to know what are some of the ways to keep people from stealing videos. I have wmv files on my site. I don't like flv files because I don't want my videos to look like youtube's with the bloody awful compression. I like the higher quality of wmv although it uses more space and bandwith.

I want people to have a reason to come back (like return to see the videos over and over) and if all they are doing is visiting my site to steal the videos then my work isn't very productive -- at least not for me. I like the fact that people are spending more time on the site (yesterday one person spent over an 100 minutes on my site and another over 80 minutes).

Is hiding the location of the file even an option (you get that information when you right click the video)?

Any suggestions are appreciated.