Quote Originally Posted by Philthy
Time to stick my head over the parapet.
I think this is a bad idea. To me, it's just hotlinking/bandwidth theft.
Upload your own copy, and host it yourself.

Don't forget, a simple .htaccess file could kill this in seconds.
Why would Youtube actively promote embedding videos into your site and then disallow you to? They want the publicity, and couldn't give a toss about bandwidth charges.

It's fine saying host it yourself, but I'm not charging anyone anything to view the videos, and if I upload 5000 odd videos myself, my bandwidth charges would kill the projects before they started.

It would help us small fry immensely having this feature in place.