Did you ever come upon a news story that sounded interesting enough to pursue? It happened today with the Reuter’s story that the Amazon streaming movies service was flawed and allowed users to download the entire movie without paying for it.
Amazon.com is offering a video streaming service for more than 40000 videos on their website. [...]

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Firefox users are flooded with add-ons that provide them with the option to download videos from video portals like Youtube but Internet Explorer users are somewhat left in the rain. The Youtube File Hack Tool tries to change this by offering Microsoft Internet Explorer users a way to download videos from Youtube easily.
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I would have never discovered the excellent Download Helper add-on for Firefox if I would not have tried to download a video from a website with Grab++ without success. A quick research revealed that the Download Helper add-on was able to discover the video links for that site in question which would allow me to download the videos from that website.

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MPAA - Motion Picture Association of America - compiled a list of legal movie websites and published it on their website with the title Legal options to Pirates. I’m not sure if they mean that non-Pirates may not use those services, guess it’s just aimed at Pirates. They have divided the list into Legal Downloads and Buy or Rent Movies.

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All of my friends hate the flv format that Youtube and other social video sites such as dailymotion and break use to show video content on their websites. Most download managers, like the Firefox extension Video Downloader, offer the flv files as downloads which most multimedia players do not support at all. You could add a flv plugin to add flash video support to your media player but there is an easier solution to this.

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