Should users be forced to register?

Question

User identification

Good afternoon, I'm running a site here, almost the only successful one of its kind, working on it day and night. I lead it alone. The material is valuable because it is unique (valuable for a certain language group) because I spend all my day on it. I am devoted to my work to everyone and always, even when I sleep, thoughts about it. So, content was dragged from the site, and since there are no rights to it, it is unrealistic to complain. He pressed as hard as he could, as a result, the site began to dictate, which I really don’t like. The site became a death camp with registration, it became one so that I could control the spies. It does not bring profit as such. And given the characteristics of their people, many ads simply drop out of the list. In short, there is no profit from the site, but there is a full return from me. The site is popular, but you understand, dictatorship does not lead to anything good and the rating from this is only lower. I really want to make it free, but the thought that I work day and night over it, without profit for interest and someone will steal it a minute after its appearance - it kills. To make a paid subscription means to lose the audience (or I am mistaken). Suggest something. Online movie site (not Russian and not for Russians.)

Answer 1

To implement copyright, use Yandex.Webmaster (or Google has the same one) - there is a text field for placing text before publishing on the site - to confirm your authorship by primacy. All other sites with stolen content will fall in the rankings from this.
If the site is popular - ask users for support, make a "donate" button - describe the whole situation.
Content has always been dragged, only now this process is automated.
Registration is inconvenient. You can use authorization through social networks - for example, when actively accessing the site from other countries that do not belong to the target audience.

Answer 2

try to hide the video address, for example, on the onclick event, replace the wrong address with the real address:

$('.link').click(function() {
$('.video').attr(…);
});