Not to sound harsh but this area has billions (of dollars) invested and no one has cracked this nut.
Your rapidshare idea is not too bad.
Bob
instead of buying a DVD or CD, a person would have an option to download the video or audio, my dad owns a record shop and just got permission from some small indeendent lables to offer downloads of their CDs, how can we provide this service without it getting abused, and only allowing persons who have paid to access it, i've seen other sites do this, one site gave the buyer 30 days and two download attempts to get the file.
the cheap way would be to upload to rapidshare and give the buyer a password but my dad doesn't want that.

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