RealPlayer to add ability to download and burn YouTube videos

[Kristijntje]

The latest version of RealPlayer will make it easy to download streaming video and audio and burn it to a CD or DVD...It's definitely a good attempt at delivering exactly what the customer wants -- which is just the type of thing that will cause the entertainment industry to freak out and send in the lawyers...

full article: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070601/003819.shtml

The player will enable you download streaming videos from the web and save them on your hard drive. Any streaming video in RealMedia, QuickTime, Windows Media or Flash format can be downloaded using the software. Files with DRM can't be downloaded, but YouTube and sites like it are fair game. Also, any pre- or post-roll ads will be downloaded with the video. Once the files are on your hard drive, you can watch them as many times as you want or burn them to a CD or DVD for safe keeping. The RealPlayer's CD burning function is free to use, but the DVD function will cost money.

full article: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/0..._rebo.html