If I store MP3 files & videos outside the html folder, should I be able to access them from joomla web site just to play ( but not download)? How can I prevent other to save/download these files?

Thanks

Veronika

Well the owner wants to have some of their music playing (showcasing) while also traying to sell CDs and DVDs. I am trying to prevent the download while visitors just listen to the music or viewing a video clip.

Hope this make sense

Veronika

All you can do is to put excerpts of the music or video in a public area. If you make the full  item available to play, someone will figure out a way to save a copy of it. It may be as simple as going into the browser cache and copying the file to a permanent home. For streamed material, it would be a bit more complicated, but I'm sure if you look around, you'll find software that saves a copy of streamed audio or video.

Full audio and video files would be kept either outside of the public_html/ tree (inaccessible to a browser), or in a password-protected directory, and moved as sold to a place where the buyer can download it. Presumably, any canned shopping cart software that handles digital downloads would have this worked out.