Posted on 10/11/2006 8:34:48 PM PDT by ChesireKat
How to save youtube videos (and upload them elsewhere)
After David Zucker's political ad was flagged on youtube.com, some of you asked how to download youtube videos to watch elsewhere. These are instructions for doing so. If you know an easier or more direct method, please post.
1) Copy the url from the youtube page. (I searched for freerepublic to find a worthy sample)
2) Go to http://keepvid.com and paste the youtube url in the space provided
3) Save file by clicking download (part A), then clicking "download link" (part B). Save it
as an .flv extension
4) Download cinemaforge (It's free software you can find online) or similar software.
5) With cinemaforge, convert .flv file to something playable for video sharing websites (wmv, mpeg, etc)
6) Click encode. Your new video is now the proper format for video sharing sites.
7) Upload to another website. (zippyvideos, tinypic, mediamax)
Thanks a bunch
Thanks!
Well, like I said, I don't want to find myself taking an RIAA stance. But I thought illegal downloading was supposed to be wrong. Why? Because it's copyright infringement.
Things have changed lately, of course, but it strikes me that promoting software that is likely to be used to infringe the copyrights of others without at least mentioning this is irresponsible. That said, I'm not the copyright police, believe me.
And I'm not sure that merely viewing the content could possibly constitute the infringement, but then I don't think this sort of thing has found its way to a court of law. Seems to me it's the uploading that's the actual infringement here. Beyond that, it gets kinda theoretical & since Google acquired this site it would make sense that their due diligence produced a result where infringement will not be a large factor.
Nevertheless, if content is still being pulled, then someone owns it & doesn't want it up there. To me, it doesn't make sense that we would condemn illegal file-sharing, but we're all for this...and for pointing this out someone wants to call me names? Gee, I guess I'll just have to get over it.
Either you choose to obey the law, or you don't. In this case, the law may be murky, since it hasn't yet caught up to technology. I feel that the idea that doing a little research to make sure one is in fact not breaking the law isn't too much to ask to mention in a thread like this.
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Bookmarked and BUMP for great freeping.
Bookmarked, and thanks.
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If you upload videos to Veoh, from YouTube, you can then download videos from Veoh onto your own computer (using the Veoh software), so that you never have to worry about losing them from a site.
CinemaForge has no uninstall.
You are an RIAA Nazi.
Where do the founders say they believed this restrictive copyright system was their intent? Only useful arts and sciences are subject to copyright.
I frankly don't believe Dancing with the Stars qualifies by that standard.
Copyright infringement is wrong. But, posting a 2-minute clip out of a 30-minute show like often goes on at You-Tube is clearly within fair use limits.
Wow, that's impressive. From dumb to Nazi in one post.
You have no idea what you're talking about.
You either obey laws, or you don't; the Founding Fathers are not the issue, copyright infringement is a law whether they would've approved or not. Like many, including speeding.
The organizations the RIAA represents often do not obey the law. That doesn't make it okay to circumvent copy protection and download material that was not legally uploaded in the first place.
Or are you only interested in the laws that you think make sense?
I loathe the RIAA. But I see a lot of Freepers here thinking that this sort of software is so great. I'll never put anything like this on my computer. If I want something, I'll either purchase it, or do without if I can't watch it on YouTube. I used to not be this paranoid until the SonyBMG rootkit, but it seems to me that an organization like the RIAA is going to eventually have a bead on who has this sort of software on their computers, and they're going to come after people who possess content they cannot prove they paid for. And I won't be caught up in that, that's for damned sure. But it's way more about not wanting to run afoul of the law than a mere CYA.
Feeling this way gets me labeled an RIAA Nazi.
Seek help, perhaps in time it will enable you to understand that you don't help matters by endorsing activities that they end up being on the right side of the law on.
Good work.
Any other insults you'd like to share?
Interesting post here, deserves a second reply. You said:
>Only useful arts and sciences are subject to copyright.
Useful as defined by who?
>I frankly don't believe Dancing with the Stars qualifies by that standard.
Your qualifications for making that determination? I guess you're not big on free enterprise. Someone's buying that crap, aren't they now. Employs a lot of people. The market has spoken, people watch reality television.
You don't think it qualifies. Good for you! I'm so glad you're here to render this judgment for the rest of us. The heck with entrepreneurs who are able to work within a free market to produce content that there's demand for.
>Copyright infringement is wrong.
When YOU believe it qualifies? And only then?
You want RIAA Nazis? Here's an example.
http://www.blogs.oregonlive.com/oregonian/newsupdates/default.asp?item=214112
Except it's not the RIAA, it's ASCAP. You want copyright laws changed? Vote for someone who'll do it. I'll join you, even though you've decided I'm not on your side because I feel it necessary to present a devil's advocate argument.
What party did Sonny Bono belong to again?
It's nice to know that there are so many Freepers who have decided that laws are for other people when they choose to define words like 'useful' for themselves, rather than obey the law. That sure wasn't what I thought this place was about.
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Just in case you didn't know this already.
I want to warn everyone that any time you download and install software from the net you are HIGHLY vulnerable to malware attacks.
The only times any of my machines were hijacked were from downloaded software.
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