I was just catching up on some email with Chappelle Show on in the background and caught a Wyclef Jean performance I had actually seen previously and really liked. He sings an acoustic version of President, which is a heavily political song as the name implies.
If I was president / I’d be elected Friday / Assassinated on Saturday / Buried on Sunday / Get the truth back on Monday
Wanting to snag a copy, my first instinct was to hit iTunes. There’s an EP there, but not with the version I wanted. (I actually just went back and picked up the Reggae version for .99) Next stop Google… even with an advanced search, I could not find the track in a form I wanted. I did find a low-res live acoustic version (MP3) from a John Kerry rally, but the quality was actually pretty bad. Then I thought about You Tube! Search on Wyclef and voilá! The exact clip I had just seen was there… though only in flash. A quick stop to Keepvid.com with a paste from Youtube and I was able to download an FLV of the show. FLV is not really the most ideal format, but one more stop to iSquint and a few minutes of conversion and my song in video format was waiting in iTunes ready to sync.
While this seems complicated, it’s actually not bad and really did not take very long once I realized where to look for the file.
get firefox and the greasmonkey script. also get a youtube script for greasemonkey and you will be able to download all youtube videos directly. (that is the simplest way for most people i guess)
check out this link
http://www.joshkinberg.com/blog/archives/2005/11/greased_google.php
there are also programs that convert .flv into quicktime. (is that the ipod format?)
Cheers.
That’s not clever, plain stupid actually. You are just as liable for prosecution as the others on the chain. You can’t steal content, particularly video.
Make hay while the sun shines, everything is yours for the taking, right?
I think stealing is a bit hard, but that would be how the content owners see it. I personally have no intention to sell or make money from it — it’s more of a usage model issue and the desire to make it more portable.
Jonathan you are right – it seems you are allowed to steal tv to ipod in US if it is for personal use – different here in Australia.