How to Prevent someone from Recording and Uploading your Webcam Shows to Other Sites?

The question, ‘how to be a cam girl’, is floating all over the internet. Just Google this keyword and you would find hundreds of articles, business pages, and forums talking about the easiest ways to start a webcam modeling business. I too have written a few detailed pieces on the topics such as what does a camgirl do, How much it takes to start a webcam site, how to be a webcam model agent, etc. There are loads of resources answering these questions in their specific ways.

No doubt, experienced veterans and business gurus are helping newbie entrepreneurs setting up their webcam businesses with these resources, but not all talk about a very crucial factor that might even break webcam businesses — How to tackle with the problem of webcam recording?

What’s the issue with people recording the webcam shows?

Women in the internet modeling world face two major snags when someone records, captures or shares their live webcam shows without permission:

1. The recording might disrupt the privacy and secrecy of the model and reveal her identity.

2. The recordings reach other platforms and drive potential revenue away from the original owner.

This breach in privacy and piracy is the biggest and most maddening thing any camgirl can face in her career.

Is there a way to prevent webcam recording?

Recording happens on a device rather than an internet browser. Be it live or content-on-demand, there is no way to prevent anyone from recording a video or audio stream. One can record or save your feeds if it reaches a computer or any compatible device. There is always a way to capture video and audio feed through screen capturing software, direct audio recording software, and in the worst-case scenario, video cameras are always there to their rescue.

How can you tackle with webcam recording as a camgirl?

Most of the recordings happen in private webcam shows with a motive to share on the free tube sites. Since webcam shows are premium, high demand for cam girl recordings on the tube sites is logical. Considering this, you might not be able to prevent people from recording your live shows, but you can always make it difficult, illegal, or somehow unmanageable to share, at least on the public domains. You can rely on following measures to tackle webcam recording on any internet modeling platform:

1. Make use of copyright infringement laws

Though you cannot stop someone from recording, you can stop him or her from sharing, or make it illegal to share. Copyright infringement laws are your best bet and probably the most effective way to prevent anyone from sharing your webcam recordings publically.

For example, “Digital Millennium Copyright Act” in the USA makes it illegal to share, sell, rent, or lease a digital content without permission of the copyright owner. Your webcam shows also come in the same category, and give you all rights to prosecute a violator. You can claim a damage compensation up to $150,000 in many cases.

On the other hand are DMCA complains. However, except for some big sites, hardly any adult platform entertains DMCA complaints. They are not so effective when it comes to adult content, but you may rely on DMCA up to some extent. If you find your videos being uploaded without your permission, you can claim the ownership by filling a DMCA complain and oblige the platform owner to share the revenue or take the video down.

DMCA claims work on different levels. You can launch a claim against the platform, the web hosting company, CDN provider, or directly against the uploader, depending on how these entities entertain DMCA laws. Nevertheless, if nothing works via DMCA, you can always file a case under the “Digital Millennium Copyright Act” if you live in the US. There are local laws in almost every country if you are not from the US.

2. Watermark your content directly and indirectly

One of the biggest tasks while claiming a copyright claim is ascertaining that you are the original owner of the content. However, it’s not easy as far as the cam girl recordings are concerned. You conduct multiple shows in a day; you cannot just afford to patent every other show. It’s practically infeasible. To tackle this, you should rely on the following measures to watermark your live cam shows from multiple directions:

· Traditional watermarking: Put a traditional watermark in your feed to stress on your copyrights. You can add your name, webcam site’s brand, date, and time stamp, at some corner of the feed. Make sure you do not block the viewing experience of your users by putting them on absurd places such as the middle of the screen. However, before putting a watermark, ensure your webcam site allows doing so. Most sites do not allow models to put personal watermarks.

· Strategic watermarking: Since we put traditional watermarks in the corners to avoid intruding the viewing experience, it’s easier to get rid of them by simply cropping the videos. To tackle this, you must put indirect watermarks on your feed. For example, say your name during the live show, call out a viewer’s username, or play some copyright free music -anything to mark your videos with unique stamps.

3. Keep a track of your private shows digitally

This is possible only if your webcam website uses a good video content management system. If your platform is using an innovative webcam modeling script, it will let you organize and manage all your webcam shows and recorded sessions seamlessly. Keep a record of all the webcam shows. Keeping a recorded version of your live shows would help to prove your ownership, just in case you want to prove someday that you streamed it on your platform.

It’s not tough, I have talked about this in all my guides on ‘how to be a cam girl’. Almost all popular modeling websites allow models to manage their previous shows and keep recorded versions in the back-end for future references or make extra money selling them individually.

4. Use only secure SRTP feed for the live shows

You can rely on certain secure RTP feeds to ensure only allowed people are watching your live streams. Again, your webcam script must support SRTP where developers can program the same to verify the users using secure authentication and login credentials. These might be a little expensive to set up but are highly useful. You can know who is watching your streams and track their IP addresses. It won’t help to prevent the recordings, but you would know who watched a particular stream while it was live. This information would help you while claiming your copyrights.

Summing it up

I understand that there is a risk of someone you know finding out your videos if shared publically, but it’s not very prominent. There are thousands of tube sites and hundreds of webcam sites around the globe. Unless someone does it deliberately, it’s hardly unlikely that your recorded videos would reach your acquaintances organically.

The only big issue with the duplication of your live shows is its effects on your revenue. However, your fans will always prefer to pay for private shows rather than watching a pirated and recorded video. If recorded videos are what they want, they could simply visit the tube sites. You have fans, and it means they are interested in knowing your human side and interacting with you, not just watching you being laid.

Although you cannot prevent the recording of your live shows, these measures will keep you on the safer side. At least, you would have some kind of control and scope to take necessary actions if you find your rights to intellectual property and privacy being violated.