So I USED to be an activist (I no longer am, but that is a whole other story)…
And I KNOW that RIDICULOUS and PIGGISH websites like Youtube ROUTINELY censors information that it (or elites) does not like. And i personally DO NOT BELIEVE in so-called (western or American style) “intellectual property” law… I also realize that certain forms or posts of information, especially some video content, deserves to be backed up (archived) and LOCALLY SAVED to a private personal computer for that own person’s FAIR USE.
THIS is why i love to use the program for Windows, called “4K Downloader”, created by Open Media, LLC. (You can download and try it, here: https://www.4kdownload.com/products/product-videodownloader/?r=free_license )
4K Downloader is a great program or application for Windows PCs that lets you download videos from many popular websites (like Youtube, Vimeo, Facebook, GIPHY, IMGURL, and maybe some other unsavory sites as well). You can choose which container or file format to download the video in (MP4 or MKV are the only 2 choices i have seen thus far, but i think i have also seen cell phone formats such as 3GP as well?). You can also choose at which resolution (high or low, decreed by various resolution standards such as 240p, 640, 720p, 1080p, 4K, and many in between)…. You can also choose where the download folder is located, and how many jobs to involve in the downloading of each file, AND how many files to attempt downloading all at once. If anything ever happens to interrupt the download, it will allow you to re-attempt that same download (called an HTTP RESUME) as far later as you want — EVEN if you close the program and re-open it a week or so later. UNTIL YOU CHOOSE to remove a video in it’s hopper-like download list, it will KEEP a memory of it in it’s own list, waiting for you to decide what you want to do with that given video or audio file, at any moment.
Personally i do not use it for “piracy” (because i do NOT NEED to. I use it only for freely available and already accessible content already on most public and LEGAL websites.) I USE IT because I LOVE certain (maybe popular) videos on the internet and i just want to have local copies of them. I LOVE that i can use this program to do so, and how (if i want) i can also rip MP3 audio/music files from posted OST (original sound track, like from movies) videos on youtube as well. I also love that it lets you download in as many “threads” (multiple download jobs) as you want (though i find the default setting to be the most stable). I was about to pay for this program but then the company (Open Media LLC) that develops the app (4K Downloader) said (as seen here: https://www.4kdownload.com/announcement/flk?source=c2-freelicensekey-r1 ) … that if i write my own review of their program, (as a form of advertising, I guess), that i can then get my own fully activated license for using the program “for free” (just as long as i give them good props and P.R. heh).
Another great feature it has, is you can download entire playlists of videos or audio files (this feature is limited without an activated license but it does let you do so for awhile before it ever complains. I think i have downloaded about 400 videos with this app so far, and not only a few playlists in entirety!!!). One of my favorite things to do with it is to sometimes grab AUDIOBOOKS or SOUNDTRACKS as posted by people, from movies and things like that. Speeches (of any kind) are also a great type of media to obtain with this!
Here’s an image of MY OWN USE of the program (a snapshot actually taken from my own desktop PC):
I love this program because it does basically what i have always wanted in a downloader — though i think the FREE and OPEN SOURCE “youtube-dl” program (found in most GNU open source package distributions works a LOT better and with more websites … and you can find that for Windows too). But while I must admit that the FREE “youtube-dl” app works A LOT BETTER than 4K Downloader does, 4K is still a lot more faster to open and EASIER to use. No stripping or de-mangling of the text or HTTP arguments in URLs are needed or to be adjusted on the command line before using it (sometimes you DO need to do this to obtain certain content from Facebook videos — if you know what you are doing, and I do). It is simple and fast and all you need is a URL copied to the clipboard before clicking on the “Paste URL” button. With youtube-dl, you have to have some knowledge of how to work a command line FIRST. NOT SO with 4K Downloder!! It is SUPER EASY with this program — even if it will NOT download from as many varities of websites as youtube-dl does (because it is far more powerful — albeit with a learning curve that will make newbies shy away).
Here is a CAVEAT however — a short list of some websites (that many activists tend to use) that 4K Downloader will (sadly) NOT YET work with:
(All of those websites are THE TOP ACTIVIST sites that people tend to use nowadays that DO NOT CENSOR ANY MEDIA uploaded to them. The app also does NOT work with most porn sites — but let’s be honest: is that really necessary? lol)
That is the PRIMARY reason why 4K Downloader CANNOT EARN a perfect 5-star review from me… (see below). It does, however, claim to work on “most” other websites… though i have not tested it literally everywhere.
Additionally, I must note that I do not normally like or use “smart mode” (a feature of the program, indicated by the giant lightbulb button or icon at top of the interface on the app) because i prefer to be the one doing the “thinking” when i am trying to carefully curate how the download of my desired media, should go. But some people might find it intuitive and possibly even easier to use the app in that way, than i do. To each their own. I honestly do not know if the algorithms in this part of the program work any good? Because I have been too afraid to try it lol
Well, here’s my review. I HIGHLY recommend people try this GREAT program and i am looking forward to (hopefully) getting my free license now that i advertised a blurb for this good company — you have to admit, that most software developers would have NAGGED ME TO REGISTER like YEARS ago. But this program BARELY EVER NAGS you!!! And i have been using this software for MANY YEARS now, and i was about to pay to register JUST BECAUSE THEY DESERVE IT — but i figure: i am poor and disabled, so … and then i saw their promotion to get a license by writing a blog post, so … this is the next best and easiest way for me! 🙂
Download and TRY IT, TODAY!!! Link below:
https://www.4kdownload.com/products/product-videodownloader/?r=free_license
Cheers! And for any of the rest of you that ARE activists, you WILL NOT be disappointed to use this great tool in backing up videos that YOU KNOW DO NEED to be PRESERVED AND ARCHIVED for POSTERITY for the sake of ALL HUMANITY (and to be PROTECTED against CENSORSHIP by those whose desires towards TYRANNICAL OPPRESSION are sadly, yet unstopped).
And it’s really nice to be able to burn some media to DVD or Blu-Ray too — and this great tool can help you get started! I have put together entire compilations of videos that have finally gone off to my own personally burned DVDs or Blu-Rays, and where I have used this tool to add “filler” videos of fetched media from the internet — like interviews and media soundbites etc. — in order to fill-out the other remaining space of my burned media, just so i won’t be wasting unused space.
Final review:
FOUR STARS out of 5. (Because of how EASY all of it’s features are to use, but minus 1 star from a total of 5 ONLY because it’s #1 and FREE competitor, the open-source “youtube-dl”, is far more powerful in the types of websites and URLs that it can handle). There are still a lot of websites that 4K downloader cannot do and that is my only real sad disappointment with this otherwise SUPERB product!
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