Safeguard Media can now be used with Moodle
25th August, 2025 — A new plugin for Moodle enables site owners to use Safeguard Media to copy protect all media including PDF and video.
The Safeguard Media service enables website owners to embed copy protected media into their web pages that uses the ArtistScope Site Protection System (ASPS) to create a secure tunnel between a website and the user's desktop.
ASPS provides the most secure all round protection for all web page media including text, images, PDF and video. While viewed in ArtisBrowser, nothing can be copied or exploited in any way, including the use of screen capture,scraping or packet sniffer software.
The Safeguard Media solution was originally desgned to enable WordPress websites to use ASPS which provides very much more effective copy protection than normal WordPress plugins that can only disable right-click mouse actions.
For copy protection, ASPS is beyond comparison because it is a two part solution that begins by encrypting web pages at server level to deliver them for display in ArtisBrowser, a secure web browser designed especially for copy protecting web content. While a web page is in Protect Mode, nothing can be saved or copied in any way. No other copy protection solution for web content can compare because they don't use page encryption and are depend on normal web browsers that are incapable of actioning at system level where copy needs to be controlled.
However ASPS is a server side solution that runs at root level. Hence normal websites, those using shared hosting services, are unable to use ASPS without an interface like the one provided by the Safeguard Media plugin.
Safeguard Media for Moodle
While Moodle and WordPress are both content management systems (CMS), WordPress is designed for general use while Moodle is especially deigned as a learning management system (LMS) that is more complex requiring more skills and experience to operate. Consequently plugin functions are much more complicated and creating a new plugin for Moodle, especially one interfacing such a sophisticated service as Safeguard Media, has taken some time to complete.
The Safeguard Media plugin for Moodle is now available for download and evaluation.
Media Types
The Safeguard Media plugin embeds an iFrame to display images, PDF and video on existing web pages and posts. While that iFrame is displayed, copy protection applies to the whole page and not just the iframe. From a display perspective the iFrame is not noticeable, and to a site visitor, it just looks like a normal web page with media displayed... except that the ArtisBrowser is required.
ArtisBrowser is a secure web browser specially designed for copy protected web pages. Without it, web pages cannot be copied protected. If the user is not using ArtisBrowser, they are redirected to its download page with instructions.
Ease of Use
Safeguard Media content (images, PDF and video) can be added to web pages from the Moodle editor, by clicking the [SMedia] icon in the editor's toolbar.
Secure Reader and Viewer
When PDF is displayed, a special PDF viewer is used that provides all sorts of tools, but no options for copy, save, print download. Likewise, when video is displayed, a special video player is used that provides all viewing tools except those that can be used to copy, save, or otherwise exploit the protection of your video.
Copy Protection
Moodle's LMS and user login system can be sufficient DRM (access rights) for users. Additional to access-rights control, the copy protection provided by the Safeguard Media plugin is secong to none:
- Prevent all copy, save, download, screenshots and screen recording.
- Media links cannot be obtained by scraping or view of page source.
- Data cannot be extracted from browser cache or memory.
- All data is protected from extraction by data miners and packet sniffers.
- Military grade encryption with no increase in file/download size.
- Negligible impact on server resources even under heavy load.
- Supports all OS including Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad and Android mobile phones.
For more information about the back end (ASPS) behind Safeguard Media and how ASPS can be used on your own dedicated server VPS, please see ArtistScope Site Protection System (ASPS).
