@elena: there is a plugin for PeerTube that lets you to hook into Stripe APIs to handle payments. Maybe that's what you are looking for?

@elena

I've often thought about this very problem for music in the #Fediverse.

Like ghost is doing for writing, it would be incredible to have a video and audio Fediverse server app.

I'm trying to get a ghost server to get people off from substack but it would be fantastic to get people off from Bandcamp too.

I call it #TakeTheInternetBack

@elena demander à @GuillaumeDesjardins qui fait https://bunseed.org il a déjà monté des plateformes auto hébergées avec financement. C'est basé sur peertube et... Ghost.

@elena Hm. [Several options and musing went here before I deleted them. There are several ways to do this, with varying degrees of whatever passes for security anymore.]

Faircamp will throw up a page, if you let it, to collect $ for a video or album. It could be modified to have the user input a code you send them (I'm saying a programmer could do that, not that it's part of Faircamp).

That would probably be the cleanest way to do what you want from your website. A simple script could fetch a list from a table, compare the input value, and pass/fail the visitor. If they pass, they're moved on to the movie URL. If they fail, an error message.

@elena nextcloud with share link expiration ?

@elena We specialize in music, but we're in talk with one filmmaker to include movie release on https://join.unreleased.art/ in January. If you want to chat with our Xavi (https://www.instagram.com/goodboyshady) about how you imagine it, the technology can follow. I'm quite flexible in building it and it's not powered by US tech bros.

@elena I have not personally tested, but you can set password to Peertube videos. Based on article I found you can set multiple passwords using API:

"Users can set a single password during the upload or update process, while admins and developers can manage multiple passwords via the REST API, offering greater flexibility in access control."

So give each customer unique password and then disable them after 48 hours.

This sound like a lot of work so I hope there are some better ways.

https://linuxiac.com/peertube-6-launches-introducing-password-protection-for-videos/

@elena Is the sole reason you don't want to sell it as a digital file that you need to add the subtitles in many different languages?

Because there are video container formats that allow adding many different subtitles, and most video player software allows the user to select the subtitles they want to see. If you have the subtitles for all those different languages available, they could be added to the video.

Of course, selling digital files makes piracy more easy, so there's that.

@elena A dozen years ago there was a lot of choices - VHX, Distrify, etc for managed, but embed-able on your site. Now there’s not much choice.

Never used them but Gumroad have subtitles https://gumroad.com/help/article/43-streaming-videos#adding-subtitles.

If you prefer to host your own then (not used in a very long time) JWPlayer has paywall plugins https://jwpconnatix.com/blog/video-paywall. For PeerTube there is a WebMonetization plugin but still needs a browser wallet, and not sure if still maintained.. https://github.com/samlich/peertube-plugin-web-monetization

@elena @luca I think the answer depends a lot on how much trouble you want people to go through if they want to view it in a way that is not authorised by you.

In your situation, I would set the level at ”anything that you can do with a normal web browser without any plugins or special technical knowledge”, but I am not you, so this level might not be high enough. But I believe you need to think about what is acceptable to you.

@elena @luca Honestly this is a Hard Problem ™.

Fundamentally, the federated platform as well as any P2P-based or -assisted system essentially lives from duplicating content chunks liberally.

And in such a system, any kind of protection from unauthorized access, of which pirated copies are merely one use case, essentially comes down to content encryption: you grant access by handing out decryption keys.

So for your use cases, you're basically asking for time limited decryption.

1/n

@luca grazie Luca!!! And YES I would also love a federated VOD platform. In an ideal world PeerTube would build in some monetization feature...