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How to rip videos from YouTube

Posted by Andy at 8:36 AM
Ripping from YouTube has become increasingly easier, I've set up the following tutorial in such a way that even the most novice user can easily grab something off YouTube and upload it here.

Things you need

  • browser of your choice, that is it

Step 1:
Go to YouTube and find a full episode you'd like to bring here (preferably one that isn't here in HD already). I'll be ripping PSY - GANGNAM STYLE which you can find here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0





Step 2:
Once you've found the YouTube video you'd like to rip copy the entire YouTube URL, for mine it will be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0
then head over to KeepVid.com

Step 3:
When keepvid loads paste your YouTube link into the field and hit download


Step 4:
You might have to download their java applet, its perfectly fine. Once you hit download another menu will drop down and ask you what format you'd like to save it in. select MP4! DO NOT select anything else I'll explain later. 


Step 5:
You video will be downloading automatically once it has finished & there you have it! no programs just 2 websites and that is all you need. 

Why only mp4?

mp4 is an a/v container sort of like mkv , so you aren't re-encoding a youtube file which isn't good. It is already compressed as its streaming. I'm not going to get into the technical details of why you shouldn't re-encode a video that is already encoded or streamed for that matter. Just take my advice you don't want to do it.







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YouTube: The biggest source for illegal Video uploads

Posted by Andy at 5:04 AM
YouTube: The biggest source for illegal Video uploads
YouTube the world's most popular video sharing website has been generating hundreds of millions of views over the past one year on videos which were illegally uploaded. These videos include Hundreds of full-length  films from Sony & Walt Disney. The story does not end here these videos also include hundreds of WWE & WWF videos uploaded daily as each shows RAW & SMACK DOWN are released. 
So how is this clear illegal work is to be stopped, well the answer lies within YouTube which is Content ID. It is used by content providers to identify copyrighted content. This tool is available to content owners but still some illegal videos such as full length movies have been there on Youtube for more than a year.

After a long sleep on Thursday Disney successfully used Content ID to bring down some animated movies from YouTube like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia & Peter Pan. But still there is a plethora of illegal content on YouTube which is being viewed by millions daily.
This content piracy issue seems to be a headache to Google. Google has been searching ways to monetize YouTube, some of the ideas include introducing paid channels. If this piracy problem is not dealt with then there might be no audience paying for these paid channels as most of the paid content might be available on YouTube already.  
TorrentFreakNews itself conducted a survey on YouTube and found much illegal content. There are keywords like "RAW" which when searched for leads to some results such as the ones you can see in the following image
YouTube illegal videos

These results are absolutely illegal & have been there on YouTube for 9 months. This problem has grown in time for YouTube & if Google wants to make money with YouTube then this needs to be addressed.







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Google & China | What is the fuss all about?

Posted by Andy at 8:30 AM

Google ChinaMost of you must have seen Google & China together in the news many times. Sometimes for censorship & other times for China’s government blocking Google’s services. But what is all the fuss about? Let us find out the complete story behind this:
Google.cn or Google’s Chinese version was first launched in 2006 but it was different from global version of Google (not only in terms of language “Chinese”) in terms of censorship

applied by Chinese government. Everything was going fine until China blocked Google’s Youtube in 2009 due to a video on Youtube showing Chinese security forces beating Tibetans. 
In 2010 many companies like Google, Adobe Systems, Symantec & Yahoo were attacked by Chinese hackers. Although Google didn’t blamed Chinese Government explicitly for the hacks, but Google announced that it will no longer censor the search results in China & will pull out of China if necessary. But Google cannot pull out from world’s largest country (in terms of population at-least!) or the world’s largest market I would say. So the search results filtering were re-enabled in a few weeks without any explanation.
Due to this, Google’s market share dropped to 30% in 2010 & the major search engine became Baidu with 60% market share.  
In the meantime Google discontinued some of its services in China & tried several steps to avoid censorship like redirecting all search queries from Google.cn (Google China) to Google.com.hk (Google Hong Kong), as Hong Kong had much higher freedom of speech. This allowed Google to provide uncensored (well I would say almost uncensored as it is still China) Chinese search results. In March 2010 Google.cn (Google China) was banned in China. So Google instead replaced it with Google.com.hk for Chinese users to use.
In 2012 China got measures to block Google & its services like Gmail completely. Google gave up its guard in December 2012 & Google’s anti-censorship warning mark on search results was removed. Google quietly showed white flag to Chinese government & now all the search results in China are censored. 
In 2012 Google’s share in search is only around 5% but that too is a very big number “25 million” users & looks like Google does not want to give that up. This defeat of Google in this war means that the search results would now be filtered according to Chinese government & they will be delayed in some cases up to a minute. A normal user would not wait for 60 seconds for his results to come up, probably it would be better to use Baidu.

What do you think who is right Chinese Government or Google tell us in comment section.
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