Tips for Downloading and Saving YouTube Videos
When you sign up for the YouTube (YT) service you’re required to agree to follow their rules and regulations. Most downloaded programs on the Internet require the same promise — that you’ll play by their rules or not play at all. If you don’t check the little box saying you agree with their terms of service, they won’t let you in. In order to download YouTube videos you must first agree NOT to download them (terms of service forbid it), and then go against your word and do it anyhow.
It’s a pretty good guess that most people don’t take the time to read these long terms of service. They just click the agreement box and get on with the download. It just looks like legal mumbo-jumbo anyway and not that easy to decipher. Maybe you didn’t even know that downloading from YT is illegal, so now you do. It’s like going 2 or 3 miles faster than the posted speed limit — it’s illegal but just about everybody does it.
How many times have your heard, “rules were made to be broken, ” or, “what they don’t know won’t hurt them?” Maybe those adages apply here. But still, that being said, if you copy music or video from YT you’re breaking the rules and subject to the penalties. They include no longer being able to use the service.
There is, however, an exception to the rule. YouTube allows the original poster of a video to download it in the form of an MP4. They’ll only let you do this two or three times before the option disappears, but it comes back eventually and then you can do it again. But if you’re the one who did the upload, you probably already have a copy, so it’s kind of redundant. And it doesn’t make it possible to download someone else’s content.
If you Google the keywords found in this article’s title you’ll find numerous sites which make it possible to download from YT. Some are free but a few have a fee you must pay to use their service. Some are easy to use, requiring that you only put in the URL for the content you wish to download and then pressing the download button. All that’s left to do is to save it and play it.
Other programs are somewhat more involved, with the requirement that you change the name of the file you’ve downloaded and add an extension to the file name. Some of these sites are full of banner ads and pop-ups, which can be distracting to the task at hand. Others are free of ads and seem much easier to navigate.
After testing several of these download sites, the one that was easiest and most hassle free (no pop-ups, etc.)seemed to work best. Just type in (or copy and paste) the URL, click download, save and play your new vid. No problems were encountered and the copy was just a good as the original.
If you want to download YouTube videos you should find it easy and quick. Remember to keep it simple (silly), and you’ll be rewarded with a raft of new content for your PC or MP4 in no time at all. YouTube is a great sharing platform. Enjoy.
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