[Request] Import Video From YouTube

Now I'm not as crazy as you all think when you read that title.

I'm talking about how this site works:
http://www.reprevolution.com/index.php?file=addvideo

If you notice the options where you add videos, you will see it says:
*URL from a YouTube video page:

See image:
http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/5...tubewc0.th.png


It would be great if would could do this but have support for other sites such as Live Video, Google Video.

It would be a great little bandwidth saver if people could post videos that are already floating about on the net under one of the popular video sharing sites.

Please let me know what you think because this is an idea I'm pretty keen to see added!!!


Thanks


Mike :wink:

Yeah will be a great revenue builder for copyright....

How do you mean?
Bad for us?

Nahh, A nice disclaimer that notes that we do not control the content provided by YouTube etc.

If you havent noticed youtube is currently being sued,, so much for a disclaimer.

Thats Youtube.

How can they sue me for doing what they encourage at their expence?
I am merely embedding one of their shared videos into my site.
I'm not responsible for uploading it, nor am I the owner of YouTube.
I'm just doing what they allow me to do and that's share videos.

Now if I were hosting the videos that were infringing the copyright myself that would be a different kettle of fish.

I'm using a service a service provider provides.
It's not my responsibilty as an end user to check the copyright status of videos I embed from their site.

What you are suggesting is that the end user is also going to be punished for YT's failings.

I some how doubt they will do this.

Youtube enable sharing, Youtube are the ones responsible for monitoring their content and the service they provide.

This is what the case is based on, the fact that Google-Tube fail to monitor thier sites contents efficiently and pass the book.

I seriously doubt the big guns are interested in the little man.
What will they get from suing the end user?
A computer and some furniture?

Nothing near as what they would taking on a multi billion dollar giant.

By taking on the little man, this does not solve the long term problem and they know this. Problems are only resolved by tackling their source.

Of course people are going to agree to Google-Tubes terms of service and then upload copyright material. What are YouTube going to do to stop it is the issue. What are they going to do to better monitor and remove such content is what it's all about.

All the copyright holder needs to do is send a DMCA to your hosting company if it's identifiable. Some watermarks can't be seen with the naked eye.

I hear now that YouTube and and another company or two are testing out a copyright material identifying system.
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlene ... OUTUBE.xml

Great...gives the crackers something to work on...like getting around the identifier....heh.

I'd like to do this too - most of us will get videos from Youtube initially, and seeing they actively encourage you to embed their videos on your site, why not just build it in simply to vShare?

This would help enormously to us smallfry who don't want to be hit by monstrous hosting costs.

I think I've read every post in here, and it's being worked on - is that correct? Any estimates on when it might be available?