They had to come up with something after muting the freaking videos to keep themselves a share of users, hadn’t they?  I’m not sure I would want to download anything from YouTube, considering how much they compress everything.  Not sure why the Obama team discontinued its iTunes podcast of the weekly address. They’re obviously going with YouTube exclusively but now it can’t be downloaded directly to people’s iPhones/iPods for on-demand viewing offline.  What? hello firefox add ons can get any video  [...] Downloads Finally Coming to YouTube Videos? Interesting news from Mashable.com concerning YouTube potentially adding download capabilities to hosted videos. (tags: youtube mashable) No TweetBacks yet. (Be the first to Tweet this post) (No Ratings Yet) Loading … [...]  @Glenn Batuyong - Not everyone digs Podcasts… I guess if you’re on a Mac you might… but honestly, Itunes on PC is pretty lame. There’s just far better things on a PC to listen to audio with… heck, I’d take WMP over it.  Other’s already pointed it out but Youtube is a little too late, there’s multiple ways to download a video… if you really want to Rickroll yourself that much.  It would be really cool if they offer download videos from all categories. It can help educators like us share the videos to our students easily.  Not really a big deal. There are several methods to download youtube videos already.  I’m surprised they haven’t released a download feature sooner though.  Google already has this video  um…it’s definitely already offered elsewhere on the site. However, as one user earlier stated, the videos are so compressed that the quality is very poor.  @Kody K - agreed. Vimeo, yes. In fact, there is an initial internet high that is still prevailing - remember your first acid trip… thought this was going to change the world… but what isn’t changing in v/t is quality. Everything duplicates like fractal iterations on steroids… gadgetry and whizz-bang goes forth and multiplies… but quality is grinding to a halt. Prove me wrong. B.  Thanks a lot for the information. That is good if You tube is doing that. As you said there are lots of freewares (recently I saw one in my digit CD also) that dowload You Tube video on the computer. Some you Tube videos are really good and helpful. - Internet Techies  That’s ridic. If you go with the tube, you gotta go with the tunes, there are those of us who have pods that don’t video! Wow this is the information age after all!  rite… while it would be gr8 to have portable youtube videos it’ll have a lot of copyright issues b4 they make it a free download!!  Seems that youtube may be finally responding to conscientious protesters like PwnYouTube. If the protest over fair use doesn’t sway them, which is unlikely, then the business reality that a youtube download is never more than 4 keystrokes away from anyone using any browser or platom eventually will.  (FYI, 3 keystrokes: When you view any youtube video on youtube.com, type ‘PWN’ (3 keys) in front of ‘youtube’ and hit Enter (4th key).  They compress the video quite a lot at youtube, I’m guessing they are going to increase the quality for downloads…  [...] Kaynak Tags: download, flv, format, indir, mp4, video, youtube [...]  I wouldn’t be suprized if this was due to the fact that Google recently announced the end of Google Video, which has a download feature (which rocks).  As though users don’t rip and re-upload enough already. Now it’ll be easier. Awesome, can’t wait to see nothing but the same video 5x on the side as a “related” video.  They may as well do this since it is becoming easier everyday to download YouTube videos via web addon’s. If they are really smart (and they are) they will start to offer paid downloads. It is beyond me why they are not competing with Amazon, iTunes, and Hulu to sell content.  - Curtis http://ShipItOnTheSide.com - Build a software startup as a side job.  Timothy: Yep, that could be it…would make sense..capitalizing on the opportunity.  After viewing YouTube on and off for awhile..why would anyone WANT to download most of this stuff? It’s poor quality, grainy amateur stuff for the most part.  [...] | Mashable Enlace | Entrada de Lawrecen Lessig Enlace | Vídeo de Obama en YouTube Categorías : [...]  [...] | YouTube Video Vía | Mashable Compártelo: Artículos [...]  [...] Circuit City Goes the Way of CompUSA Watch The Obama Inauguration From Your iPhone With Ustream Downloads Finally Coming to YouTube Videos? Nintendo crushes it in 2008 console sales Dell first: 256GB solid-state drive on laptops So close, [...]  [...] | Mashable | genbeta Más información | Entrada de Lawrecen Lessig Enlace | Vídeo de Obama en YouTube [...]  Not surprising – this has actually been a feature of the Better YouTube Firefox extension for a long while, a rather popular one with the Firefox crowd. It’s only natural that YouTube would look to the most popular open-source improvements of their service and, um, “close-source” them and make their own version to use straight on YouTube.  Not that there’s anything wrong with that, of course, since it’s clearly informed by a user need. So good for them, I guess. In fact, it shouldn’t have taken them that long to come up with in the first place.  [...] | mashable Tags: barak obama, converter, download, downloder, informazioni, news, Obama, online, [...]  I don’t think that anybody’s gonna need that, cuz everyone’s grabbin’ YouTube videos using plugins, freemusiczilla and sites like keepvid.com :\  [...] Downloads Finally Coming to YouTube Videos? [...]  [...] Mashable Más información: Entrada de Lawrecen Lessig Enlace: Vídeo de Obama en YouTube Comparte este [...]
Lawrence Lessig has spotted an interesting new feature on President-Elect Obama’s Weekly Address on YouTube: an option to download the video to your computer.