RSSYouTube goes downloadable
By Tim Conneally | Published February 12, 2009, 9:27 PM
So begins a new day for the venerable YouTube, the popular video streaming site is testing downloadable videos which include both a free and a for-pay model.
Thai Tran, Product Manager at YouTube announced today in the site's official blog that YouTube is "going offline." That is to say, it is giving video owners the option to make their videos downloadable under the Creative Commons License. Also, the option to make the videos available through a Google Checkout purchase is being tested.
Videos available for purchase currently have a small link under the left corner, across from where the "Watch in High Quality" tab is currently placed. Clicking there will expose the Google Checkout gadget that carries the user through the transaction. Videos are in the MP4 file format with H.264 video and AAC audio, suitable for play on most portable media devices including the iPod and iPhone.
I've been ripping YouTube streams for free for a long time using Keepvid.com.
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|Its too bad most people who use YouTube have no clue that this site exists. Ive been using it for a couple years now.
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|Good grief, somebody is actually going to have to sit and watch all that garbage to screen out copyrighted material.
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|Does the fee go to Google, or the video poster?
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|I guess some percentage goes to YouTube. but there is also the probability that YouTube gets nothing out of the transaction. I guess you pay nothing to YouTube to offer your videos to be downloaded for free.
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|YouTube is owned by Google.
Google checkout takes money from you like Paypal does (unless I'm very much mistaken).
Either way, Google/YouTube is getting money here.
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|I thought "Noncommercial" means "You can't sell this".
I hope that's just a mockup, then?
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|That grab was taken from a video that's live for purchase on YouTube.
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|It does. It means you can't buy that video and sell copies of it on your website.
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