[cc-community] The big problem with the Spoon video and CC

Fred Benenson fred.benenson at gmail.com
Fri Aug 24 08:13:32 EDT 2007


I believe it's still possible to download the flash files from YouTube.
While it's not a preferred format, it's better than nothing:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2390


The question is whether or not this is working around a TPM or just a
"feature" of YouTube.


F


On 8/24/07, Terry Hancock <hancock at anansispaceworks.com> wrote:
>
> Eric Steuer wrote:
> > Also, technically there's no legal clash between YouTube's terms of
> > service and the CC license. But yeah, in practice, it's obviously
> > much preferable for the video to be posted in a way that can be more
> > freely used and more easily accessed.
>
> ISTM that there is, if the recently controversial "no technical
> protection measures" clause has any teeth at all?
>
> Surely, configuring a website to make it impossible to save a local copy
> of a video that you are streaming is a kind of TPM?
>
> Cheers,
> Terry
>
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