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I have a youtube page and I had NO IDEA before finding this article by you guys braying about Youtube’s letter that my videos could be downloaded by file. I THOUGHT the videos could only be viewed and that if I remove them after rethinking one of them, I’ve done all I need to do but now it appears that thanks to you and anyone else who has a tool like yours, I can’t just assume the site itself is secure but it can be hacked by anybody. So this means that if I have a video up and I change my mind and remove it someone else may have downloaded the file. I am really upset about this and may remove several videos because of your tool. I did not learn of this letter you hate so much because of youtube but because of you guys being so proud of it and trumpeting it around the land like a wounded soldier with a purple heart.
Please understand that some of us who use Youtube who don’t know about all these third party tricks people have joined there assuming that the rules of the road as to use of the site were what youtube itself is set up to do, not what you outside parties try to turn it into doing. And now you’re trying to call them people throwing stones at glass houses because someone asked you to stop it. How would you like people hacking around into your source code and making your site do things it wasn’t designed to do? Why don’t you create your own video site and allow it to have videos downloaded by file if that is what you want instead of reverse engineering someone else’s site to do what you want?
-always-always-always- assume that anything you post on the net can and will be seen/copied/shared across the net, at any given time and to any given place. if you are intelligent enough to figure out how to upload your videos to YouTube’s site, then you hopefully are not naive enough to think that there aren’t folks intelligent enough to download that same material. if you didnt know before, then you do now. don’t blame those that do, blame yourself for not realizing it was possible in the first place.
O my, how could someone think that a video playing on your computer could not be captured and stored! The very first time I hit the youtube site, I spent a couple of hours exploring it and thought “This is great, but how do I save the stuff?” Couldn’t believe it wasn’t built into youtube. Spent 5 minutes or less finding a tool to capture and save the flash videos.
Whoever this Mary is… I myself explored and got the files from the cache the first week I used Youtube… How come you dont know that? That just means that you are stupid. This is no hacking. This is just using the data that is streamed on your machine by Youtube and stored in your cache.
November 15, 2006 at 7:22 pm
I have a youtube page and I had NO IDEA before finding this article by you guys braying about Youtube’s letter that my videos could be downloaded by file. I THOUGHT the videos could only be viewed and that if I remove them after rethinking one of them, I’ve done all I need to do but now it appears that thanks to you and anyone else who has a tool like yours, I can’t just assume the site itself is secure but it can be hacked by anybody. So this means that if I have a video up and I change my mind and remove it someone else may have downloaded the file. I am really upset about this and may remove several videos because of your tool. I did not learn of this letter you hate so much because of youtube but because of you guys being so proud of it and trumpeting it around the land like a wounded soldier with a purple heart.
Please understand that some of us who use Youtube who don’t know about all these third party tricks people have joined there assuming that the rules of the road as to use of the site were what youtube itself is set up to do, not what you outside parties try to turn it into doing. And now you’re trying to call them people throwing stones at glass houses because someone asked you to stop it. How would you like people hacking around into your source code and making your site do things it wasn’t designed to do? Why don’t you create your own video site and allow it to have videos downloaded by file if that is what you want instead of reverse engineering someone else’s site to do what you want?
November 15, 2006 at 11:20 pm
in response to ‘mary’ :
-always-always-always- assume that anything you post on the net can and will be seen/copied/shared across the net, at any given time and to any given place. if you are intelligent enough to figure out how to upload your videos to YouTube’s site, then you hopefully are not naive enough to think that there aren’t folks intelligent enough to download that same material. if you didnt know before, then you do now. don’t blame those that do, blame yourself for not realizing it was possible in the first place.
I mean really.
November 16, 2006 at 6:20 am
O my, how could someone think that a video playing on your computer could not be captured and stored! The very first time I hit the youtube site, I spent a couple of hours exploring it and thought “This is great, but how do I save the stuff?” Couldn’t believe it wasn’t built into youtube. Spent 5 minutes or less finding a tool to capture and save the flash videos.
December 19, 2006 at 5:36 am
Whoever this Mary is… I myself explored and got the files from the cache the first week I used Youtube… How come you dont know that? That just means that you are stupid. This is no hacking. This is just using the data that is streamed on your machine by Youtube and stored in your cache.