Comments on: Service lets people rip videos from YouTube, other sites

Keepvid enables Web surfers to copy illegally posted clips from YouTube, while its sister service makes such content easy to find.

[lewissalem]

Why do...

...all of the MBAs think that streaming video is going to "protect" us from "stealing" it?

[ebrandel]

For the same reason that

all of the BSs (Bachelor of Science) think that it makes sense to rip horrible quality video off of youtube and google video.

(this coming from someone who has a BS in Computer Science)

[Zymurgist]

Legitimate copyright holders?

I think the author of the article missed an
important point in that groups like NBC
Universal and EMI are the minority stake holders
with respect to the copyright of videos on
YouTube.

All of the regular user-contributed video is
copyright by the creator (who is frequently the
submitter). NBC Universal and EMI frequently
broadcast things they don't have copyright to,
or for which rights are still in question -- but
a video that you or I make at home is without a
question copyrighted by us. It's exactly that
type of content which predominates on YouTube.

So, why should the majority care about low-grade
rips of commercial content when the majority of
infringement is of non-commercial copyrighted
works that tend to be more closely
representative of their original quality?
Clearly the latter case is more prolific and
more serious...

Oh yeah, I forgot, the suits are hysterical and
the general public is more sensible. Silly me.

Also, kudos to the person that pointed out how
stupid it is to believe streaming video is any
more difficult to download than the
non-streaming kind (save for the fact it can be
slower than a straight download).

[lbjazz]

Just get the firefox extension

subject says it, lets you download right off the page

[nealsaferstein]

Napster Effect

Technology will always overcome, whatever demand society has on the internet. I suggest the media companies at least follow suite on what ABC did with there streaming online beta.

Neal Saferstein

[bwanac-20838752356067768479670]

Quicktime...

does this as well. for free.

[willpenington]

Almost free

It only bugs you constantly to pay for the full version, changes all your file type associations, makes you change it back to the quicktime program if you change a file type association by showing a dialog box everytime the program loads at a time when almost all users just hit enter, refers to itself as I in dialog boxes (because it is an apple product and thus the product is smarter and more important than the user) and acts like realplayer. apart from that, yes it is free.

[KageShinigami]

You guys are Narcs, Tattletales, Etc.

You guys remind me of little children telling on the other kids to their parents. This is a case of, "Ooh! Look what you're doing! I'm telling on you!" and it's really annoying. I really don't think that posting up videos submitted in by normal people is quite harmful to any one else. Fact is, people just complain too much. Selfish of you guys to write a report like this. Now YouTube has deleted most of it's media...all thanks to you guys writing a damn article about fan submitted material, such as the anime I watch. These are fan submitted material on YouTube and YouTube allows people to view this material, send this material, and most of all SHARE this material with others. So one person shares it to another, and that person shares it to another, and so on and so forth. Isn't that practically the same thing as posting it up on a different site, direct linking to YouTube and giving the credit to YouTube? I say all you guys are pathetic whiners and complainers and just need to cool it. Because the way I see it, you are all just bunch of geeks working together to make sure those they can't hurt are annoyed. Stop complaining and grow up!

[turnherematt]

YouTube is purging Peekview clips

Just as they said they would....

http://www.turnherefilmmakers.com/2006/06/youtube-purges-copyrighted-clips-after.html

[ultimante]

Any lawsuit would be frivolous

Any case brought forward by copyright holders against Keepvid or its kind would be frivolous and malicious for one simple reason.

Any FLV files from any site, be it YouTube or not, are all downloaded and saved in the browser cache. All Keepvid and other sites do is skip the middle man step of copying the FLV file out of your cache.

This is how the technology works. They cannot say that applications like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari (or any browser that supports the Flash plug-in) are allowed to download FLV files to the user's hard drive but Keepvid can't. The only difference is that Keepvid lets you choose the location on your hard drive to store the FLV, while browsers choose for you. The FLV is still there, sitting on your hard drive, easily found and moved somewhere else.

Case closed.