Youtube Adds Download Button. Is This The End Of Streaming?
Over the past year I’ve uploaded several video clips to Youtube. Today, logging into Youtube’s “My videos’ section, I noticed a new, shocking button - ‘Download mp4‘. When I clicked the button, the movie downloaded to my desktop in an mp4 format.
It doesn’t make any sense - why would I want to download movies I uploaded myself? Although the downloaded movies are mp4 - and you can upload a verity of formats, I doubt it if Youtube wants to become a movie format conversion service.
I could see the download button only under movies I uploaded myself. I believe the day Youtube will allow us to download any movie (with ads embedded, of course), as it might lower streaming costs. Youtube traffic bills are in the billions, and Google is yet to find a reasonable way to monetize Youtube’s huge audience.
Here’s the screenshot with the new button:
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