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Okay. I follow you now. No worries. Where are you located? Do you have decent Internet service? Here's what the digital distributor has to say about iPads: iPad users: Apple does not allow downloads to iPad. You can stream on iPad or download to your computer and transfer to iPad.
Ok, so here's what I might do then:
Buy as many copies of the video as I have students.
Put each purchased copy on an iPod Touch, and loan the iPod Touch to them, if they are watching it out of class. So when the iPod Touch is returned, the file is returned, and email them a link so if they want to buy the video when they get back home, they can.
I am assuming that the 'no-copying' rule does not mean no putting on a playback device. That's how iPads, and iPods work: by copying from the computer to the device, so there is some copying going on. But since the iPads and iPods do not allow files to be easily coped from them, they are reasonably secure.