As some people here have stated, there are times when this service can be used for educational purposes and that this is their only method of obtaining these videos for classroom use. Youtube/Google may feel like they have justified reasons for blocking out downloading, but perhaps they are too readily overlooking some of the consequences of their actions. That’s not how to cope or counter with this. I don’t mean to be forward, but why are we all just whining about what Youtube has done? Very little happens when people complain in isolated niches. Zamzar has been around for over 5 years, we know many of you love using the service, and we have received the odd comment that we’ve saved lives (ok not literally!) We hope you will continue to use Zamzar for all your file conversion needs. We realise that the ability to download and view YouTube videos locally will be missed by many of you (especially teachers), and we’re sorry we can’t do more to support this – Unfortunately this decision was taken out of our control: We are also planning to expand the number of conversions on offer and will be developing a range of exciting new features over the coming weeks and months. We will continue to offer support for the conversion of hundreds of different file formats that are relied upon by thousands of people everyday.

Zamzar will continue to function as normal for all other conversions. Unfortunately this means we have been left with no choice but to cease to offer video downloads from YouTube via Zamzar with immediate effect. We have received a notice from Google requesting that Zamzar stops offering users the ability to download video files from YouTube, as this is in apparent violation of YouTube’s terms of service.

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