[thelist] Amazon S3 for serving video: restricting permissions

Joel Canfield joel at bizba6.com
Tue Sep 1 02:52:57 CDT 2009


>
> You could also use drm if your video files are flash (flv)
>
> freeware:
> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/freeware/2008/08/28/flash-ownerguard/
>
> that doesn't protect from unwarranted bandwidth costs, which is the issue

actually used - unlike in S3 where you would pay every month even if
> you used it or not.
>
> actually, S3, you pay about a penny per GB per month for storage, and only
pay bandwidth as it's used.

I've sorted out S3's auth process from one of the links you sent, so as soon
as I move to PHP5 hosting I should be ready to go.

joel



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