Can I use Free Product URLs to Prevent People From Sharing My Download URL?
No.
Because free download products do not go through a processor and instead automatically authorize a valid download it would
be possible for someone to copy the "buy" URL and share the link
freely without your control.
As an example, PayPal products work like this:
1. Customer visits your page and clicks on a buy button
2. Buy button adds authentication information and passes the customer to PayPal to pay
3. Once Payment is complete, customer is sent back to DPD with their
purchase information and DPD authorizes a download url that has time
and download attempt limits to prevent sharing
Free products simply omit step #2, so when someone clicks on a free buy
button they are automatically redirected to the special download URL in
step 3 and the download is authorized.
Because of this, anyone could share the free "buy" url in step one and
share the videos without your control. There is really no way to
prevent this as any limits on free buy urls would require that you
change the links to your videos on your site daily as the buy urls
expire.
We do not currently know of any system that prevents "free" download link sharing.