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Hi, I'm trying to make a request since you are a "tech whiz" (computer-wise speaking ahahah), it would be nice to collect the videos and thus form a small library, maybe in mp4 format or something else, I don't know, you're the expert.
is it feasible?
Anyway, thanks for the videos, always very interesting..........
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To be feasible (everything or almost everything is feasible). In my spare time, I am developing an iPhone and iPad application for pianoconcerto where it will be possible to download entire courses to the device or watch them via streaming. For the moment, however, we prefer not to make these videos freely downloadable for privacy reasons. On YouTube, we can choose who to grant access to these videos. By making them freely downloadable, other people could take possession of them for their own purposes (By this I mean there is nothing wrong with downloading our videos for personal use, but not for profiting from them). This second option would annoy me quite a bit since we do this work out of passion, without any kind of income, and in fact, we invest a lot of money. To think that someone else could appropriate the work we have done for free for all lovers of the field, perhaps using it as a source of profit, would be an event that we would not let slide and we would proceed through legal channels. To avoid all this, the videos are streaming on YouTube, which guarantees us privacy. These videos can also be downloaded directly from YouTube, but in that case, they must necessarily be used for private purposes, as they can be prosecuted thanks to YouTube's privacy if made public on other portals that have not requested our consent or even in case of profit. It is not excluded that when the forum has reached a number of subscribers that satisfies us, we may make these videos public, requiring a trademark, so to speak, that protects them from what has just been explained.
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You are right, it is probably difficult to manage and protect your work, which is also laudable because it is offered as a free and purely educational service, but being on YouTube it is easily downloadable; there are now several programs that allow you to convert videos into mp4 format, however I hope not to be misunderstood since I made this request to you, I am just a piano student .........anyway I was just saying it, somewhat selfishly, considering
my type of contract (dongle) which is too expensive and only allows me to download a few megabytes per day, it's a "bloodletting"
ciao
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No stop, I wouldn't want to have been misunderstood. Mine was not a personal matter, it was a general statement. Certainly, you can download videos from YouTube for your own personal use. If they can be viewed via streaming, you can also watch them at home without streaming, as long as the viewing remains personal and free, not intended for profit. However, we leave them on YouTube because in case someone appropriates them for profit, we always have YouTube's protection which demonstrates that those videos are free and cannot be used for gainful purposes. A sort of copyright. Putting them on the site freely downloadable could instead induce people to appropriate them and use them at their own pleasure, and this must not happen. We should consult a lawyer to see if it is possible to protect these videos in some way, perhaps with a disclaimer specifying that the videos cannot be used for profit. However, this is an operation we will undertake once we have reached a sufficiently large user base.
Regards,
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No problem, I understood perfectly that it wasn't directed at me......
Hi and thanks
