Skip to main content
Your video is a product. This stops it being taken at scale. When protection is on, the playlist is served through a checkpoint that inspects every viewer before handing over the video. Requests that look like scrapers get a decoy. Segment URLs are signed and expire.

​
Where to set it

Two places, one set of rules:
  • Workspace default: Settings → Content Protection. Applies to every video.
  • Per video: Video → Customize → Content Protection. Overrides the workspace default for that video.
A video inherits the workspace defaults until you switch it to Custom for this video. That switch is all-or-nothing: the video takes a full copy of the rules and stops inheriting. Later changes to the workspace default will not reach it.

​
The rules

Blocks AWS, Google Cloud, Azure and hosting-provider IP ranges, plus crawlers that identify themselves.This is the one that does most of the work. Scraping at scale runs on rented servers.
This needs the IP-security add-on on your lookup provider. Without it, the rule does nothing at all. It is not a silent partial win. It is a no-op.
There is no toggle here. Your domain allowlist is enforced on every manifest request, whether or not content protection is on.Adding a domain in Settings → Domains is the opt-in. While the list is empty, every site is allowed. Add one domain and only the domains you list can play the video.
This used to be a switch. It is not one any more, because the enforcement moved to the manifest and now runs unconditionally. If you are looking for a “require domain allowlist” checkbox, that is why you cannot find it.
Allow or block a list of countries, by the viewer’s IP.When the country lookup fails, the viewer is let through rather than blocked. A paying customer behind an unrecognised IP is a worse outcome than a scraper getting one video.

​
What it does not do

Content protection stops automated scraping and hotlinking at scale. It does not stop a real person with a screen recorder or a browser extension, and nothing that plays a video in a browser can.Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling you something.