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.
What about the VideoDownloader plugin for Firefox? You can save YouTube videos with it and they are still up.
One option: Use a darknet.
http://www.socialmedia.biz/2007/05/downloading_you.html
Ah, you tempt us…
I say release it and worry about legality or not later 😛
Looks a slick app and your richFLV is awesome.
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.
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.
legal or not dont care ,we need to download our fav videos tats all
YouTube should know that everything that is “displayed”, can be recorded.