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Uhm, What? Youtube Now Charging for Video Downloads
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riskVSreward
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So are you actually defending this or do you just refuse to back down from your original statement?Aselith said:
goddam
Aselith said:
Please, please explain to me how it's that big a difference me watching a video online or offline. Is it that they don't get as many views? Does that make it on the same level as piracy, really? (Actually, it's unique views anyway isn't it? So it wouldn't make any difference anyway)
I mean, all power if YouTube wants to give people the option to pay, but the only people I see doing it are people who don't know they can get it for free easily.
jonnybryce
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RedShift said:
What's the difference between getting a free mp3? Does the radio get less listeners? Is that a big deal, really?
You can apply logic anywhere to justify anything. The point is that YouTube didn't let you download videos before. Youtube downloads are free like music is free, there's a workaround, but the proper way is by buying it. That's how it is.
riskVSreward
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CAH-CAAAAAAW!birdman said:
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RedShift said:
I don't have access to youtube's financial structure so I don't know how they make their money. Clearly, they are trying to convert the convenience of having a video sitting on your harddrive "forever" into a revenue stream.
You can argue whether that's good or bad, I don't know and don't care. But, going around them to download something they are charging for without paying for it is stealing from them. Obviously, if you can find it somewhere else for download and still get it for free that would be fine. But you're talking about ripping the videos directly from their site.
It's perhaps a legal grey area so maybe you won't be arrested and I don't think youtube is going to pursue it even if they could. It is what it is though.
jonnybryce said:
More succinct than the way I put it.
riskVSreward
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When did this wave of big business apologists swarm GAF? Whats the matter, did somebody pirate your game?
Kill Your Masters
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But what do I do if youtube rips them for me already in my cache folder :/Aselith said:
So if someone brings his DVD, game, music cd to my house, leaves it there, it's like I stole it? Fuck...
riskVSreward
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For that matter, johnnybryce's analogy is wrong too. You show me a place where I can listen to any song I want, as many times as I want, but only in my web browser. Only after I decide to download it am I charged.
As long as it doesn't go in the way of iTunes or Amazon, as in youtube only giving people 30 second previews of videos, it'll be fine.riskVSreward said:
No one needs to buy "high" quality crap anyways.
PS, I've always hated youtube.
Ah, and I showed my brother how to use DownloadHelper, and he gets those low quality 22kHz songs from myspace ... eh
riskVSreward
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Yeah, so I was wrong, I honestly didn't think there was a site that offered that. That said, it wasn't even a good argument in retrospect, so I didn't really fail, unless producing a bad argument was the fail.omg rite said:
Why don't you get off my dick?
LizardKing
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this won't hurt them much, but youtube is one step away from becoming irrelevant if they chose to charge for subscription fees, uploading, or streaming videos. I just hope this isn't the first step to the end of youtube.
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