Video download protection on educational platforms?

Question

Parsing

Good afternoon!

I would like to purchase a certain course. But I'm worried that the site (educational platform) of the course organizer will not be able to download the course.

1. What are the video content protections that can prevent me from downloading video material through html pages?
2. What obstacles can I face when trying to download course video content?
2. Will the administrator of the educational platform be aware of the fact that I have downloaded the video material? After all there is an education to the server?

Sincerely,
Alice!

Answer 1

Ok Alice, hi!
1. There are a variety of protections. The most inconvenient are self-made players, for which there has not yet been a critical mass of those who want to download content in order to make a plugin for youtube-dl .
2. No download link; the availability of the video for viewing only under authorization, which may interfere with the use of youtube-dl.
2. Most likely he won't know.
There is always the possibility of capturing video from the screen. Quality will suffer, you will have to spend time equal to the duration of the course on capture, but such a capture is very difficult to prevent. As a last resort, as in ancient times, remove the screen from the monitor to the phone =).

Answer 2

There is an add-on for downloading... Download Video Helper...
It downloads the video stream, that is, what you see in the player. So download, don't worry