Do not show the URL in page source

Question

I have some copyrighted audio files that I would like to protect from download, but show them on the website(drupal).

I have a player that works with flash and css on a link, but if you view the page source the href of the link is visible, and it is very easy to get the URL and get the files locally.

I understand that it's not possible to prevent it 100%, but what I would like to do is just to make it more difficult than seeing the url in the page source.

How can I do it? I would like to avoid to write myself a player, because my flash knowledge is quite limited... I'm already hidding with Javascript the link while hoovering with the mouse of the player(which is acctually a link in terms of HTML).

I've tried an HTML obfuscator(http://htmlobfuscator.com), but it does not work properly, for one link it works, for the second and third one it doesn't...

Many thanks

Answer 1

Ultimately, any file which is simply embedded has to be downloaded to the user's computer in order to be played (usually it is downloaded to a temporary location then removed, but a savvy user will be able to capture the download and save it.

If you want any real protection, you'll have to use a streaming server like Helix Streaming Server. With these, the file is not downloaded by default and the user's only real capture option is an audio cable from LineOut to LineIn. Most don't have access to this.