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Rhodri Marsden
Journalist and musician Rhodri Marsden has been addressing common technology problems by stripping away the jargon and enlisting the help of readers in his Cyberclinic column in The Independent for the past two years.
For as long as YouTube has been around, there seem to have been websites and tools that have let you grab the embedded videos and download them to your computer. A quick web search throws up a few dozen of them instantly – but one of those, on the TechCrunch website, was blocked by YouTube a couple of weeks back. It's not clear why TechCrunch's was singled out, especially as nearly all the others, including KeepVid, are still up and running. But it's thought to be linked to the appearance of this page on your YouTube channel: Purchased Videos. ( Read more... )
