Need advice on how to code a video download in exchange for email

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adell50

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I need a bit of advice regarding a best practice for coding a video download in exchange for an email sign-up.

I am using aweber.com to manage my email lists and distribution.

In calling aweber.com tech support, one fellow suggested a rotating url, however I am not familiar with that at all.

I thought about simply creating a page where one can stream the video and/or download it for use on their own machine, but I am concerned about folks simply sharing that link and bypassing the email signup.

Anyone have any advice in this regard?

Many thanks!
 


Just spit balling here and it certainly isn't fool proof but it would stop most people. On the redirect page from the email sign up drop a cookie on their system, from the download page look for that cookie, if it doesn't exist then they don't get the download link.
 
I'm not sure how aweber works. Can you send out individual mails? If so, user subscribes, you send him an email with a link to the video + unique id. When he clicks the link your site simply checks if it's an existing id that was passed along and displays the video or not. (this part might need some logic as well to hide the video's url, but 99% of your users won't be able to figure that out anyway. or simply move it from time to time.)
 
Follow the same mechanism that most registrations use; sign up with a real email address, then send the link there so you can verify their email address is not fake.

The link would behave just like an activation link; it only plays the video once, then it goes dead.
 
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