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KeepVid Site No Longer Allows Users To 'Keep' Videos (torrentfreak.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: For many years, KeepVid has been a prime destination for people who wanted to download videos from YouTube, Dailymotion, Facebook, Vimeo, and dozens of other sites. The web application was free and worked without any hassle. This was still the case earlier this month when the site advertised itself as follows: "KeepVid Video Downloader is a free web application that allows you to download videos from sites like YouTube, Facebook, Twitch.Tv, Vimeo, Dailymotion and many more." However, a few days ago the site radically changed its course. While the motivation is unknown at the time, KeepVid took its popular video download service offline without prior notice. Today, people can no longer use the KeepVid site to download videos. On the contrary, the site warns that using video download and conversion tools might get people in trouble. "Video downloading from the Internet will become more and more difficult, and KeepVid encourages people to download videos via the correct and legal ways," the new KeepVid reads. The site now lists several alternative options to enjoy videos and music, including Netflix, Hulu, Spotify, and Pandora.
I just use softwares like Jdownloader, which let you download videos among other things, quickly and easily, if I need to download anything.
Otherwise I can just as easily Inspect Element on video streams and get the direct URL of it to download.
The site's content is straight out of Google Translate engine and smacks of someone in a foreign country being hit with a lawsuit and putting up this content to satisfy the terms of the settlement. Goodbye, keepvid.com, as you get forgotten in the search rankings.
Well fuck.
Beware of the Leopard.
Just use youtube-dl or a browser extension.
it really sounds like they got hit with a big threat from someone (like youtube) and were given the no-choice-choice of 100% compliance with their demands or facing a bankrupting lawsuit. The typical demand is:
1. take down your service immediately
2. never come back
3. don't tell anyone who we are
"in exchange, we won't sue you into oblivion"
I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
Because downloading the videos keeps facts alive that YouTube et al would rather make disappear and be forgotten.
It can download from most major sites and even a few of the smaller ones. It let's you pick what format the video is (or only the audio from YouTube videos if you prefer to listen to them as podcasts).
While the motivation is unknown at the time, KeepVid took its popular video download service offline without prior notice.
Probable motivation: they got a letter from a some company's attorney
I know all about the various client programs. but sometimes you're on someone else's computer and you don't have those, so what's a good web-based alternative to KeepVid?
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
Google trying to get more $$$ from the flailing YouTube Red
It's really a pity when I know the news. But my friends send an alternative: https://www.vidpaw.com/ It's free and safe, I've used it to download several videos.
It is a bad idea to rely on web sites such as keepvid that are full of ads and incomprehensible scripts that do god-knows-what.
It is a much better idea to instead use a free and open-source video-downloader such as youtube-dl or quvi.
And if the maintainers/developers of youtube-dl or quvi decide to discontinue the project and "encourage people to download videos via the correct and legal ways", then you can always fork the code. That's the beauty of free/libre software.
This situation is a perfect example of why Richard Stallman warned about "Service as a Software Substitute (SASS)". i.e. websites that offer a "service", that should instead be done by a software program running locally on your computer, fully under your control.
Been using both of them for a while now. Highly recommended.
Download audio of talks and audiobooks on Youtube, and put it on the phone to listen in my car during my commute.
I don't know how WW3 will be fought, but video war X will be fought with a vintage analog video recorder aimed at a monitor.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Is post their source on Github... dambit. Its probably just a simple solution... but damb, G has some great developers.
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Using websites is so unnecessary. You can easily use programs like youtube-dl or even VLC to download, not to mention the plethora of firefox addons.
Codes of Conduct will prevent such forks from being hosted.
Codes of Conduct the kryptonite against the mMMAALLLLEEEE free software developers
"Keepvid" becomes "Give up Vid"
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The site is not working since Mar 18th... Well, if you're looking for KeepVid substitute, try amoyshare free video finder. It's a free online service.
You know, the one they wanted you to buy. It still does conversion, but downloading has been downloaded and it won't download from youtube at all anymore.
I don't understand anything at all here. THE KEEPVID SITE IS STILL ONLINE AND WORKING. Just to be sure, I used it to download two different videos from youtube. Both worked perfectly. For some reason the site only offered 720p download, not 1080, though, but other than that it works perfectly fine.
Oh wait. You guys aren't using keepvid.com, right? You are using the actual keepvid site? Right?
I've found this https://hooktube.com/, which not only has a better interface than youtube but also allows bypassing restrictions.
Sad to know about the KeepVid shuts down, but I am lucky to found out that https://www.vidpaw.com/ will work.
you fucking idiots, stop clogging my intertubez with your lame video shit. go watch paint dry.
and its programmers"
and move on user EOF
Dad da da da da daaaaaa da.
RIP Internet.
I liked it better when corporations were afraid of the Internet and didn't want anything to do with it.
I don't believe in karma, I just call it like I see it.
The LAST hope of the streamers is 'protected path'- hardware in the CPU and GPU that decodes the video at the last possible moment in an attempt to prevent data intercept on your computer.
But in truth, especially now AMD gives us cheap powerful mutli-core solutions, even that fails by 'camming', pointing a good camera at the monitor and allowing software to capture, correct, and create video data. Few want to 'cam' at home today, but if push comes to shove, it will be trivial enough for anyone to do.
The Beatles spent millions on always hopeless attempts to protect their music on record and tape. Sane media experts know the answer is to provide the public with services they want to pay for- clean and convenient- and that a war on potential customers is simply self-defeating.
Those that want to 'pirate' see it as a hobby, and will thusly put much effort in. When the industry fights such people, it is utterly futile. Ensuring that most people never invest in the 'pirate' hobby is the right way to go- and that means giving them commercial services that are 'easier'.
Ordinary punters want to PAY ONCE, and then be able to access whatever they want. It is for the industry to ensure single outlets contain the majority of content people want. Punters should not be forced to be aware of 'studio wars'.
PS the US government, back in the day, had to take cinemas out of the hands of the studios to ensure the principle I've explained above. Before, studios played a 'content' game where their cinema wouldn't play the content from another studio. Amazon, Netfix et al should be allowed to carry ALL film, TV and music content- a single point of access, with royalties then distributed to the creators of consumed content.
Here is a good author. :) Interesting reads indeed.
https://github.com/jeckman/
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