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YouTube has dodged much of the wrath of the media conglomerates up to this point, in large part because of the strong measures it has instituted to prevent and remove copyrighted content. Add in a flash video format with no simple way to download the content locally, it's been a media darling.
Despite this fact, the venerable site does have the potential to be a significantly more effective file-sharing tool than anything previous invented, in large part because so much of the content is legitimate. And now it's spreading.
Meet TubeSock, an extremely slick little Mac OS X app that takes YouTube video streams and converts them to your favorite format for playback wherever you like, including your video iPod. It's very nice, and just the sort of thing an actor friend of mine could have used when he was trying to get clips of himself acting off of YouTube and into the hands of a producer he was trying to impress. This one's for you, Newburg.
Via Digg.
