Comments on: Users to YouTube: let us record your videos

By: bob

bob — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 01:49:54 +0000

Aren’t the youtube video files (flv files) stored in the temporary internet files directory by most operating systems? So it should be reasonably possible to thwart most efforts by websites to deny downloadable content. One solution they do in China is to break the online video up into many contiguous pieces to make it harder to reconstruct, but not impossible.

A problem is that most licenses claim that they content is their, but they are also not responsible for anything. Youtube/Google is no exception.

Another thought. Perhaps google should rename youtube to mytube (and make the guys at mytube.com thousandaires in the process) or googletube. It is part of google’s plan to not be evil.

The ultimate solution is to not directly use google, block their ads with adblock plugin, and deleting their pirated browser they rebranded “chrome”, and just use firefox instead. There are apparently other search websites (that use google) like duckduckgo dot com or startpage dot com, that might provide a temporary solution until a true “non-evil” search website is born.

My vision is that this search device will be in the spirit of open source or free documents. It could be use the millions of disgruntled and former google users’ computers, networked together. They could use bots that crawl the web searching and cataloging useful and relevant content. And it can’t be taken down with a court order or a threat by big brother, or the US government.

By: Carl Smith

Carl Smith — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 02:45:36 +0000

youtube is for the site and their copyright material blah blah.. BUT people making scripts on their OWN servers for entertainment for what ever reason all the service is doing is using the youtube url address ( which is not breaking no law) youtube as shown videos of rape – beatings – abuse – etc not porn though.. some of the videos on youtube are horrific isnt some of these works breaking laws from other states? google and youtube need to stop kissing the RIAA and the MPAA’s arses all the time.. content on other peoples servers are NOTHING to do with youtube ! they are NOT de facing other peoples works … YOUTUBE – GOOGLE – EVEN FACEBOOK – are forgetting they are offering a service for internet users.. They are internet giants that are playing manoploly….. other words they want power and money…if anything is placed on the internet then the copyright laws go out of the window.. example… facebook how many pictures funny or status are someone elses work out there on the web ??? videos on youtube… how many have you seen that many people claim to be the owner off… the whole thing is a farce,,,,,,..

By: Ben Jenkings

Ben Jenkings — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 23:41:20 +0000

no point in taking down these ‘recording sites’. a windows user can simply set up a recorder on their PC and set the input to the wave output and record whatever is playing on youtube… or if they’re a bit more tech-savvy they can download the .flv from youtube and convert it to mp3 on their computer.

they keep referencing their terms of services, but you have to register to oficially agree to them. theres no official agreement between the ‘recording sites’ and youtube.

By: Siwei Wang

Siwei Wang — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 22:04:07 +0000

Yea, well maybe there can be a filter that prevents two of the same file posted at one time by different users. Don’t have to use this method to prevent such a petty thing like that. It’s like using an RPG to kill a fly.

By: Silas Jenkins

Silas Jenkins — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:24:34 +0000

as the article says, up until some time ago, no one had any problem using video or casette recorders to make copies for themselves. the thing is that now it all happens at a whole different level, everyone does it and industries lose a lot of money. as far as I can see it, they can’t stop it, not without making a huge mess and taking out people in the street. anywho, you may call me cheap, I don’t really care, I will go on recording my music when my pockets are empty (and in case anyone else is wondering how, here you go: http://audials.com/en/how_to_record_stream_capture_music_videos_movies_from/youtube.html).

By: Damien Filiatrault

Damien Filiatrault — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 05:46:39 +0000

Allowing people to record videos from YouTube would be a mixed bag. Sure, piracy would happen, but people would also be able to recombine and remix videos which could lead to an exciting increase in creativity.

By: cmi

cmi — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 23:34:36 +0000

Typo, last paragraph, last sentence. Should be “both aren’t” instead of “both isn’t”

By: What Come Around...

What Come Around... — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 18:58:30 +0000

Geeze, it sucks when someone steals your content and uses it without your permission. What a revelation.

By: Davin Peterson

Davin Peterson — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 23:17:09 +0000

Other video sites such as Daily Motion allow you to download the video from the website. So, why doesn’t YouTube?

By: Stephen Simpson

Stephen Simpson — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 19:16:34 +0000

If YouTube doesn’t want people downloading videos, the first thing they need to do is SCRAP the awful, anti-user Content-ID system. Why is Google kissing the RIAA/MPAA’s butts by going above and beyond what the DMCA requires? Hollywood hates Google anyway, so why pander?

If it weren’t for Content-ID, I would almost never need to download videos, because I could be reasonably assured that users could upload my favorite videos faster than Hollywood fat cats could take them down with just the DMCA.