Few months ago I remember spending so many hours researching for free youtube proxies. With the help of google I found a lot of proxies. I even tried using China's local search engine, Baidu and it gave me the same results. So I wonder if the government was smart enough to block youtube and allowed Chinese internet users to use a web proxy. Then to prove to the people that they are smarter and more powerful, they started blocking the free proxies. There are always new proxies everyday but the service is not so fast so I decided to go for a paid proxy server and glad that I found a reliable VPN (Virtual Private Network). I Was willing to pay since I really needed youtube for supplementary materials, specially for news clips, speeches, movie clips and songs. I also enjoyed unlimited video downloads using Any Video Converter Professional Edition. I didn't have any problem grabbing any videos that I like from youtube. I download movies too. In short, youtube is the website that I always use everyday for entertainment and work purposes. Today, I tried to download Shakira's music video since we had a listening activity that talks about Shakira's job. I found out that the downloader is not moving at all. I uninstalled the file and downloaded the latest version. After downloading I tried installing it, but it just said error or "corrupted". I quickly searched online for another youtube downloader and tried about few of them with no success. So I was thinking that perhaps youtube blocks video download. I typed "youtube kills video download" on google. My fears were true , youtube kills my any video converter :( Now I don't know if I could find another software to download youtube videos or if youtube would sell their videos if I want to download them. I don't know exactly why they're doing this but for sure they have business in mind.
Youtube was never meant for downloading. However it was possible (though illegal) with special software. All they did was close this security breach. Happy birthday 7-April-2010!
ReplyDeleteate..try orbit downloader..tho u need some converter of the video, bec. youtube video is a FLV file.. inorder to convert it to other type of file like WMV or AVI, you can use format factory.. it can convert any type of things that you like :)
ReplyDeletethanks Louise, I'm not using 2 software to download videos from youtube. 1 is a firefox add on and also I now use Orbit and still my Any Video Converter is useful for converting FLV to WMV files..thanks for the idea :) cheers!
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