These days your content is not only a source of promotional value but an increasing source of revenue. The Content Protection Gateway has a comprehensive number of features to ensure your content is protected at all times, and can only be accessed by individuals who have been granted permission.
The CPG provides secure authentication to control who is allowed to access your live and on demand content. You can:
- prevent unauthorized websites from linking to your content
- prevent unauthorized users from downloading your content
- prevent users from passing around links
- force users to make a payment
- force users to register, or enter a username and password
The Content Protection Gateway works by generating a number of unique security keys or "tokens" for each and every instance of a piece of content being linked from an individual webpage. During your CPG account set-up we supply you with all the tools needed to generate these security tokens, and pass them dynamically
Every time content is requested by an end user, the GPG looks for each embedded token in the linking webpage, along with an IP address and referrer URL. If the end user is accessing the content from an approved location, access is granted. However, if the end user has been forwarded the link, or is attempting to access the content from a location other than the token enabled webpage, access is denied, and reaching the content without authorization is impossible.
You can set the time limit of the validity for individual content's tokens, so for example a user accessing some Pay Per View content can be given a number of days to enjoy the content, after which access will disappear.