Saturday, February 14, 2009

Finaly Finally YouTube will allow visitors to download videos

A month ago, some users of the service was seen YouTube link to download the video from Barack Obama speech. After that, the assumption was made about the possibility of an early introduction of features download the video to all users of the service. Yesterday, Google Inc. finally confirmed its intention to add the download of content will be added with an additional opportunity to pay you liked the video download.

The official YouTube blog reported: "service partners may decide to make it possible to free download videos , or charge a small fee via Google Checkout. Partners can set their own prices and decide what type of license to make their movie. " The introduction of transparent system of video-sharing YouTube representatives have already reported on the testing of exchange rollers paid.

The format of downloaded movies is only one: mp4. It may be that some time in the list of fee-paying races to be added converting downloaded video in the desired format, for example, in a format supported by mobile devices and media players. This feature will allow the service to become a worthy competitor to iTunes.

Of course, there is still much work: in particular, Google will have to negotiate with producers of films, TV networks, record labels, to combat existing means to illegally download videos from YouTube. However, much work has been done, and YouTube users can expect an early appearance of announced features.