techcrunch.com — The offense we committed was creating a small tool that lets people download YouTube videos to their hard drives. We referenced the tool in a recent post that walked people through the process of moving YouTube Videos to their iPod.
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Closed AccountNov 15, 2006
If YouTube really wants to stop people from downloading videos they can add one line of Actionscript to their Flash movies that checks the path of the file before it plays.
athleticsNov 15, 2006
TechCrunch provide only the tool. People who use the tool would actually violate TOS. You don't blame the gun maker because his product got involved in a murder.
Closed AccountNov 15, 2006
These sad attempts at censorship are foolish. Because of the cease and decist, more people are going to post the tools and guide. In fact more people are going to download Youtube videos then ever before.
mumblesNov 15, 2006
huh. that's weak.for what it's worth, you aren't doing anything different via this - <a class="user" href="http://digg.com/tech_news/Orb_Networks_Cracks_the_Code_Takes_YouTube_Other_Internet_Videos_Mobile">http://digg.com/tech_news/Orb_Networks_Cracks_the_Code_Takes_YouTube_Other_Internet_Videos_Mobile</a> - than you are via your PC browser, except that your PC is transcoding the Flash vid on the fly into whatever streaming format your handset supports (e.g. real on my nokia).
ilgazNov 17, 2006
It would be nice if On2 Technologies and Adobe sent a CD letter to Youtube to stop using their codec/software (VP6) with horrible parameters.If you have used VP codecs with correct parameters/2 pass, you will understand what I mean.