November 15, 2010

Zamzar: Download and Convert Video Files

On: November 15, 2010

UPDATED 6/24/2012 Zamzar received a cease and desist letter this month from Google, the new owners of YouTube. Google pointed out that downloading YouTube videos violates YouTube’s terms of service. Read the letter. Zamzar, a free online file conversion tool, has been around for a while. But just because it’s been around doesn’t mean that you know about it, right? Zamzar lets you convert audio, image, document, video, and ebook files from one format to another format. I can envision many scenarios where you might want to do that, but I’m going to cover how you can download videos from a site such asRead More →

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