> > Something you might find helpful is this NetTuts article: > > http://net.tutsplus.com/misc/how-to-use-amazon-s3-php-to-dynamically-store-and-manage-files-with-ease/ > > thanks, but it doesn't address securing something served on a website. uploading and downloading are, in my head at least, fundamentally different from embedding a video in a page, where the address of the original video is just going to be part of the source code anyone could view. joel