video serfdom in a walled garden...?

On 11/15/06, Steve Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>   More craziness:
>
>
> http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/15/huh-youtube-sends-techcrunch-a-cease-desist/
>
> http://tinyurl.com/ssoh7
>
> "The offense we committed was creating a small tool that lets people
> download YouTube videos to their hard drives. We referenced the tool
> in a recent post that walked people through the process of moving
> YouTube Videos to their iPod.
>
> We created the tool only after a careful review of YouTube's Terms of
> Use, which state "If you download or print a copy of the Content for
> personal use, you must retain all copyright and other proprietary
> notices contained therein." The letter, however, states "The YouTube's
> Terms of Use also allows users to access videos only through the
> functionality of the YouTube website via streaming on the Web, and it
> disallows the functionality of downloading videos." Not only am I
> unable to find that language in YouTube's Terms of Use, it directly
> conflicts with the language I did find and quoted above."
>
> Steve Elbows
>
>  
>



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