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I have noticed that when I play a music or video , Internet download manager shows a widget with direct download link to the file , how can I disable that for my webpage , so I do not allow user to download my musics ?


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I hope you realize that allowing someone to play your music means they're downloading it to their browser? There's no magical difference between playing and downloading. –  Marc B Nov 17 '12 at 14:50
may be that sound is a user voice , –  user1411084 Nov 17 '12 at 14:52
@MarcB he probably meant prohibiting download managers to detect so that atleast common users are not able to store it permanently –  Abhishek Bhatia Nov 17 '12 at 14:53
if you're hung up on the difference between music and voice, then you've got bigger issues to worry about. there's NO difference between a recording of a voice and a recording of music. they're just digital files and you can NOT prevent a download manager from snagging a direct download link. –  Marc B Nov 17 '12 at 14:54
The browser needs to have access to the video/music/voice/whatever, so it can download it from your server and play it. From there it's already just a small step to saving it on the harddisk too. If some extension makes this even easier, there's hardly anything you can do. –  deceze Nov 17 '12 at 14:55
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closed as not a real question by Marc B, iMat, Makoto, talonmies, Matti Lyra Nov 17 '12 at 16:02


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You cannot prevent any data you are streaming out to be stored, you can only try to make it more difficult to achieve. Basically, everything that one can perceive can be saved to a file.

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Everything just got a lot easier when they switched from analog to digital. –  idbehold Nov 21 '12 at 3:36
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