[Playlist] Re: How to avoid music download?

[Chris Anderson]

On 10/2/07, Gideon Marken <gideon at markenmedia.com> wrote:
>
>  P.T. do you think we all have unlimited bandwidth and free hosting?
>

Our latest solution to this problem is to redirect to Amazon S3 with
authenticated expiring urls. Their API makes it quite easy to provide
users with time limited access to files without having to host or
store them yourself.

http://grabb.it/tracks/1970ad43c511-take-what-you-get-dadada-amy-subach.mp3

This url redirects to to s3.

In our case we're trying to get the music out as widely as possible so
we only use our ability to limit access to keep accurate records of
requests - if we see abuse of the system we can cut off a requester or
ask the referring site to link to our landing pages instead:

http://grabb.it/tracks/1970ad43c511-take-what-you-get-dadada-amy-subach

I just don't want to be paying the whole internet's bandwidth bills,
but of course you could use the same functionality to restrict access
to those who had paid for the ability to download or to trusted users
(or any other method you choose). Amazon's S3 if flexible, fast, and
cheap.  </end ad>

Of course, other CDNs will let you do this too, but they aren't
usually as approachable from cost / ease of use standpoint.

-- 
Chris Anderson
http://jchris.mfdz.com