New Real Player helps you steal web videos

By on Jun 1, 2007 at 1:01 PM
News June 1, 2007

It’s shocking, but true. The new Real Player 11 from Real Networks is quite the little deviant. It allows one click ripping from popular video sites including YouTube, Google Video, AOL Video, Brightcove, Yahoo!, NYTimes, and much more. It doesn’t allow users to download DRM content, but everything else is fair game. This isn’t revolutionary technology, but it’s certainly a first for such a popular and historically above the board product. This would seem to open up a world of hurt for content creators attempting to protect their creations, as well as Real, who is presumably opening themselves up to a veritable torrent of lawsuit possibilities. If you’re curious, you might want to nab this up before the suits with C&D orders come a knockin’. Available in June for Windows users.

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  • Tyrone D.

    That’s not a bad idea but the law suits will definitely be coming their way OR maybe not. I think bigger companies are still worried about YouTube much more than anything else.

  • eJay

    I definately agree with Tyrone. Most definately not a bad idea but I wish they would come out with it for a mac. Always the last to get stuff :/

  • James

    I really wish I didn’t loathe Real Player so much. I’ve always hated that software because of the way it tries to take over all the media in your computer.

    Smart move by them, though. . . it actually has me reconsidering my position on never, ever, EVER installing RP on my system.

  • eJay

    Yea they do put alot of bloatware in their software player. I was never crazy about that too. But if I can rip videos on a mac off webpages with it, I guess I’d consider it.

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