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[Blizzlord]

Damn them all to hell.

[Drunken]

Youtube has been giving in more and more to pressure from copyright lobbyists recently. A huge amount of youtube content is now blocked where I live (Germany) because of copyright issues. This is just more of the same.

While it might seem bad, actually it is a good thing. A single company having the lions share of any particular online media is really really bad. Even if it is a relatively good and customer friendly company like google. Their monopoly on video clips has made them a target for the copyright cartels. What the copyright cartels never seem to grasp however is that their behaviour is actually beneficial to consumers. Very soon after google blocked 90% of their music videos in Germany, a new site opened hosting all that content. Having more options about where to go has many benefits. The most obvious benefit is that more sites are harder for the copyright cartels to police and shut down, especially when they are hosted by shady companies in former eastern bloc countries and other net neutrality safe havens where the cartels can't touch them. Secondly google is unlikely to stay so friendly for ever as we are seeing. Even if they want to be, they are often subject to external pressures and forced into behaviour that is not really in anyone's best interests. If google had been able to maintain their monopoly on online video there may have been bad consequences in the future, such as secret censorship and propaganda programmes. It is better this way.

Google (yes they still have other monopolies) 'youtube to mp3 service substitute', and if you don't find anything try again in a month, and then a month after that. The demand is there, it will pop up quietly somewhere, and all the users will quietly move there. To be honest I didn't even know youtube had an mp3 service as there are so many easier ways to get your mp3's anyway. I use bittorrent, and if I want something from youtube I use clipgrab, and if I just want the audio from a video clip I use mediacoder.

[kaijyuu]

So long as you can see the videos, you can rip whatever you want out of the files. The online services might go down but there's always programs you can download to do the ripping locally.

[Blizzlord]

I know it is easy to rip the video. Might just as well save the flash file! What bothers me is just that google is trying, therefore making it harder not as simple as it otherwise might be.

[miauw62]

EDIT:


NVM IM A RETARD THAT CANT READ THREAD TITLES GOOD.

[Heron TSG]

1. That link has a link to a petition to Google that you should all sign.
2. According to that man's lawyers, Google apparently doesn't have a legal right to do that.

I guess I'll wait and see.

[Darvi]

I didn't even know that there even was such a service.

Because, uh, I never ripped anything from YT? Yeah, that's it... <_<

>_>

v_v

[Aklyon]

This is why you get your own programs and do the converting yourself, theres no problems if something goes down (except for youtube, of course).
This userscripts file, Audio Extractor, and Format Factory (for if you want the video saved in a different format) works perfectly fine for me, though you might need something different if you want to get a bunch of videos at once.

[ToonyMan]

It's probably better to just get the actual files elsewhere instead of ripping from generally very iffy uploader quality they have going.  Potatoes

[Aklyon]

Point, but youtube is rather convenient to find stuff in if you can find a couple reasonable quality uploaders.

[Flying Dice]

And it can also hold you over until you can get better sources.

Theoretically, of course. <.< >.>

[Reudh]

Meh, I just convert the FLV into MP4 then rip the video out if it's useless.

[i2amroy]

I just use a combination of a nifty little firefox add-on that lets you rip anything that is embedded from a webpage and VLC to convert or encode it into the desired format. Of course if you really want good audio (as an audiophile like me desires), there isn't much to do other then to pay for it or find better sources then youtube videos.

[Aklyon]

Meh, I just convert the FLV into MP4 then rip the video out if it's useless.

You can download most videos in mp4 format to start with on youtube. At least how I do it.

[Johuotar]

Ohno, I've been using similiar service for ages! This aint good at all.