Downloading (leeching) from YouTube may become a history

Youtube doesn’t need an introduction at all. I am sure everyone of us visit youtube at least once a week. But some people like me who download and archive video’s from youtube have some bad news. Youtube has made up a strategy to monetize from the downloads after all. Its gonna allow its partners or users who upload videos to charge a fee for downloading the video to view it offline payable via Google Checkout.

In favour for the partners Youtube is on a hunt to cut down the download via the FireFox plug ins, websites and software’s which used to leech the video for you. Over the few week you may start noticing those free services being shut down or hunting for an alternate way to get the job done.

Well the good news is partners like khan-academy, household-hacker and pogo-bat are using this for generating revenue through distribution where as University partners like Stanford, Duke and UC Berkeley and using it to distribute free downloads of lectures and events.

Cross your fingers so that your favorite channel or uploader is not gonna make a hole in your pockets.