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

Fred Benenson fred.benenson at gmail.com
Fri Aug 24 08:25:17 EDT 2007


OTOH, YouTube does say that you "can't download videos to watch later."

http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=56100&topic=10517
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On 8/24/07, Fred Benenson <fred.benenson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
> >
> > --
> > Terry Hancock (hancock at AnansiSpaceworks.com)
> > Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com
> >
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