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is there a way to rip youtubes (still?)

by David
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When I first saw posts about ripping a youtube (ie downloading the flash and converting said swi file to .avi or .mpeg) I failed to save the post as I had no need to do it.

now I do.

that said, I remember seeing a post to the effect of 'Youtube put a stop to people ripping their videos'. I'm guessing that had to do with adsense ads on youtubes.

so... I have two questions for this section of WF:

A) can we still do this? did or did not youtube alter the code to prevent this?

B) can someone recommend a program to help me get this done please?
I guess it may come in 2 different programs?

one to get the flash file out of the vid player and anther program to turn that .swi file (or what ever the file extension is ) into a .mpeg or .avi
I went to download.com and searched... wasn't very impressed, d/l'ed a couple progs and they didn't tell you that the trial version doesn't work until you pay for it (guess I did that for the practice, which I might actually need LOL)

any help gang?
thanks
#rip #youtubes

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