[videoblogging] Youtube sends ceasedesist letter to techcrunch over video download utility!

2006-11-15 Thread Steve Watkins
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

Re: [videoblogging] Youtube sends ceasedesist letter to techcrunch over video download utility!

2006-11-15 Thread Ted Tagami
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

Re: [videoblogging] Youtube sends ceasedesist letter to techcrunch over video download utility!

2006-11-15 Thread Charles Iliya Krempeaux
Hello, I believe that the Creative Commons people are going to have a big problem with this. (Not sure in if this is only in CC 3.0. Or in the current CC too, but) Prior to this YouTube was NOT violating the CC's anti-TPM -- the anti-anti-circumvention clause -- because although it was