Youtube to Begin Offering Paid Downloads
Youtube to Begin Offering Paid Downloads
Posted 02/14/2009 at 4:21pm
| by Pulkit Chandna
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Downloading Youtube videos has been a piece of cake for quite sometime now, though Youtube never expressly gave its assent to downloading until last month, when it made it possible for users to download videos from Barack Obama’s Youtube channel. As it turns out now, the company was just testing waters by allowing Obama’s videos to be downloaded.
Now, the video sharing website has formally approved downloading. Not all videos will be free to download, however, as users will have to pay a fee to download some of the videos. Youtube is testing an option that will let video publishers make their content available offline for free or for a price they deem fit. All payments will be processed by Youtube’s cognate Google Checkout.
It is strange that Youtube expects users will actually be interested in paying for videos when they can be download for free through the large number of online tools available for that purpose.
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johnny3144
February 15, 2009 at 10:45pm
i think people will pay, heck, 4 people acutally bought that "i am rich" iphone app.
i don't see why this won't work out. people pay for stuff that's much stupid..er..
winmaster
February 15, 2009 at 5:51pm
"It is strange that Youtube expects users will actually be interested in paying for videos when they can be download for free through the large number of online tools available for that purpose." While this is true, my mother doesn't know how to do that, so why should everyone else who isn't a computer nerd.
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xs0u1x
February 15, 2009 at 12:35am
well youtube, i enjoyed you while it lasted. pretty soon they will have a paid membership for the site for people to view the videos......and if you dont get the membership people who just surf around and dont take youtube seriously will be forced to deal with crap ads.
nekollx
February 15, 2009 at 1:43pm
I've sid it before. When you form a servece based on the fre sharing of videos from users then decides years later once your popular to regulat, advertise, and now charge for that same content your goign to watch your comoany circle the drain
AndyYankee17
February 14, 2009 at 5:52pm
the downloads would probably have a higher bitrate, and probably in a format other than flash
trstno1
February 14, 2009 at 7:25pm
Every new video and a large percent of older ones have already been converted to mp4 formated video. Flash is only the player. Both the regular/high quality and HD versions are easily downloadable. I've got two seperate bookmarks that allow me to download either one.
Devo85x
February 14, 2009 at 5:11pm
Or you could just use the software at
http://www.dvdvideosoft.com
to download the videos
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