Saving Videos from YouTube.com
Tutorial: How to Copy Files Off YouTube and Convert them for your Video iPod, Apple TV, iTunes or iPhone
UPDATE: YouTube has reworked their code several times in response to this article. They absolutely hate us. If you get an error when trying to download a YouTube video, please try some of the plug-ins and scripts listed in step #3.
YouTube.com is a great resource. Not many sites allows users to freely upload, view, and share video clips like YouTube does. YouTube even lets users easily post videos on their blogs and personal web sites. But because anyone can upload a video clip on YouTube, copyright violations are rampant. In an effort to prevent the widespread distribution of illegal copied video files, YouTube encodes its video files in the Macromedia Flash format, which prevents viewers from downloading files and making digital copies.
If someone reports a video file to YouTube because it’s objectionable or in copyright violation, the video in question can quickly and easily be taken down. All it takes is one report to YouTube and the clip goes dead. This means that the great video you found on YouTube may be gone before you even have time to post it on your blog and email it to your friends. That’s what happened with the SNL skit Lazy Sunday. NBC made YouTube take it down. Damn you YouTube! Why wont you let us download files off your site like Google Video does. While we wait for YouTube to let users freely download video off their site, there’s a way to get around this limitation.
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