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Secure your content
Media assets are vulnerable to hotlinking, unauthorized downloads, and piracy. Cloudflare Hotlink Protection blocks other sites from embedding your media, Stream signed URLs provide time-limited access tokens, and Access gates premium content behind identity policies.
Solutions
Hotlink Protection
Block unauthorized embedding of resources from external sites. Learn more about Hotlink Protection.
- Hotlink protection - Block other sites from embedding or hot-linking your images and video without permission
Stream
Live streaming with automatic recording and instant playback. Learn more about Stream Live.
- Token authentication - Issue time-limited access tokens so only authorized viewers can access protected media
Access
Zero Trust access control for applications and infrastructure. Learn more about Access.
- Identity-based access - Gate premium or subscriber-only content behind Cloudflare Access identity policies