Downloading Youtube FLVs – legal or not?

I`m still considering releasing my RichTube – Youtube Apollo tool to search, watch, download and organize youtube videos.
You can watch a screencast here. The more i think about their Terms Of Use i think that they are just wrong saying donwloading is not allowed because they are a streaming service.
What is the difference beetween progressively downloading videos to the users cache (what they call streaming) and downloading them elsewhere?
Here is an interesting statement from youtube: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/15/huh-youtube-sends-techcrunch-a-cease-desist/

What is your opinion on this?

BTW: cool updates for RichFLV are on the way. Quite busy at the moment may take till end of next week.

Comments

7 responses to “Downloading Youtube FLVs – legal or not?”

  1. Brandon Ellis Avatar

    What about the VideoDownloader plugin for Firefox? You can save YouTube videos with it and they are still up.

  2. Jon B Avatar

    Ah, you tempt us…

    I say release it and worry about legality or not later 😛

    Looks a slick app and your richFLV is awesome.

  3. freizeitflasher Avatar

    i think you should not publish richTube. I know its a great tool (i’ve seen it live) and you spend a lot of time and power in it but i think you risk to much.

  4. Arvind Tiwari Avatar
    Arvind Tiwari

    How can YouTube say that they do not allow downloading of their videos. There are numerous sites, applications, & browser plugins that already allow people to download video files from various sites like YouTube, Google Video, MetaCafe etc.
    I am just curious as to how these people found the logic to get the path of the FLV file on these sites.
    So I would suggest, put it up there & let people enjoy.

  5. siva Avatar

    legal or not dont care ,we need to download our fav videos tats all 🙂

  6. Ravi Avatar
    Ravi

    YouTube should know that everything that is “displayed”, can be recorded.

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