Rip MP3s off Youtube

Ok, this is probably very very old news for the people out there but I’ll describe what I discovered today anyway. Here’s the deal: I heard one song the last two days on the radio which I liked very much. It’s “Gabriel Rios – Broad Daylight” if you must know. I wanted to have that song on my mp3 player so what I basically did is pirate it. From YouTube!

I did it likes this: downloaded the video with the ingenious keepvid.com service (they help you to download videos you see on YouTube). The downloaded .FVL file is some sort of flash movie format or something, but what I found in addition is this: FLVExtract, a tool that “extracts video and audio from FLV files without decompressing or recompressing”. Voil�, I ripped my song.

I realize that this is far from new or innovative, there are probably better tools out there to do that (if not, one should probably go and create one – or not!). Not that I say that FLVExtract is a bad tool. I love it and also the fact that the source is available.
And as for the legal standpoint.. I have no idea as to whether or not this is allowed. Probably a gray area.

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