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YouTube Kills Our Video Download Tool
YouTube Kills Our Video Download Tool
For the last few years we’ve offered a very basic tool for downloading YouTube videos that allowed users to enter the URL of any video to immediately get a link to a downloadable file. The tool does exactly the same thing as dozens of other sites and plugins, which have emerged because ...
Twitter = YouTube.
battellemedia.com — What? Is Battelle crazy? Hear me out. Think back when YouTube was growing like a weed, and... Google snapped it up. Most folks (including me) saw this as Google "getting into the video business," and sure, that in fact was one part of the equation. But ... (more) Twitter = YouTube.
YouTube Hoax Taps Hidden Camera Conspiracy Fears
blog.wired.com — Conspiracy buffs go ga-ga over a hot YouTube video purporting to reveal a hidden camera and microphone... in a digital TV converter box. The creator explains how he put together the hoax in about five minutes using a hot glue gun and parts from an old ... (more) YouTube Hoax Taps Hidden Camera Conspiracy Fears
Windows Mobile 6.5 feature tour sneaks onto YouTube
Windows Mobile 6.5 feature tour sneaks onto YouTube
engadget.com — Well, what have we got here? Someone has upped nine breathtaking minutes of Windows Mobile 6.5 (build... 21159.5.0.0, if you must know) running live on an HTC Touch HD. The action is pretty choppy -- we get the impression this is a fairly rough beta ... (more) Windows Mobile 6.5 feature tour sneaks onto YouTube
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YouTube looks out for content owners, disables video ripping
L.A. Times Tech Blog — ... YouTube's terms of service has long had a clause barring users from employing outside tools to rip videos from the server. It's probably no coincidence that TechCrunch's video download tool was rendered useless just one day after YouTube announced it would begin offering paid and free video downloads. ...

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