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[BrEEd]

Sucks to be them.

[Noobie1 Canoli]

You aren't getting what I am saying.

When you stream/view it you are using a viewer which advertises for YouTube. When you download, watch later, or embed you are breaking YouTube's policy because you are showing the direct video, NOT the YouTube Advertised one with links back to YouTube.

They make NO money. Watch the news.

Ryan, people still have to go there and will probably view before downloading, then they will continue viewing and following related links as usual. They are not mutually exclusive, quite the opposite. You may go to download and stick around or you may go to view and stick around. Either way, they still have you as a sort of captive audience.

Will you have to go back 10 times to view it again? No.

They are saving bandwidth right there.

[Why Two Kay]

The thing is that if you manage to get a download link for a video, you have a direct link to that video. Direct linking means that people could put the video as a normal non-YouTube video on another website, but it still streams it from youtube. This is why youtube encodes things so well, so where you're not supposed to get access to this link.

You make a point with your download and now go-back-and-view-10-times thing, but generally a direct link is always used for evil. (Take the number of "media" websites that yell at you for right clicking)

[Noobie1 Canoli]

The thing is that if you manage to get a download link for a video, you have a direct link to that video. Direct linking means that people could put the video as a normal non-YouTube video on another website, but it still streams it from youtube. This is why youtube encodes things so well, so where you're not supposed to get access to this link.

You make a point with your download and now go-back-and-view-10-times thing, but generally a direct link is always used for evil. (Take the number of "media" websites that yell at you for right clicking)

So...what you're saying is that guns don't kill people...people do, right?

[Santano]

The reasons these websites exhist and can continue to do so is because they do not allow direct linking. Please do not shut these sites down by taking videos and bandwith from them.

[cowhead_cow]

haven't topics been closed and posts been edited talking about/asking for free versions of photoshop or what not? It's all illegal. Why is advice being given on how to perform an illegal action?

[Administration]

Moongamers considers this borderline and questionable ethical action. Because we don't know whether or not you can download a video from the youtube site directly, and whether or not that is "legal" or ethical, this thread has been edited for content.

If you all choose to pass this information around to person to person, please do it elsewhere.

Thank you.