Xvideos now STOPPING video downloads
 

I see they are now protecting videos from being directly accessed or downloaded, great move now most other tubes will be forced to embed or search for other sources. :thumbsup

how is this a great move?

I still see the embed video codes on their site.

How is this the source?

makes no sense.

LOL you guys are all tube noobs, THEY DONT ALLOW ANYONE TO DOWNLOAD THEIR MOVIES.

Only embeds are available, you used to be able to download ANY movie on Xvideos.com - which was a MAJOR video source for most secondary tubes.

Since Xvideos.com BLOCKED direct downloading of their .flv files and only allow embeds no other tubes can RIP them from Xvideos.

Get it? Which means LESS TUBES.

^ Nice, reminds me of the phrase pertaining to bolting the stable after the horse has fucked off down the road.

I can still download them, they didn't block anything, they just removed the download link

Oh it could be worse, could be MUCH worse, you guys are lucky theres even money left in this business lol, in a few years Xvideos and them will be the leaders in porn distribution and you guys will be PAYING them to get your content out there. :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Bullshit, its all over surfer forums people bitching about not being able to directly download.

This should be obvious, but if they're doing it, it's probably so they can save ad revenue money. Why let someone download a file and watch it at home when they can simply have the user return to their site over and over again, viewing their ads every time they come back?

Let me sum it up for you all:

Less downloads means lower bandwidth bill means more money in the pockets of the owners. Surfers will still stream, but when doing a cost-benefit analysis of traffic lost to money saved, it probably made sense to do this.

Allowing downloads but merely removing the download links hedges the bet by making downloads still accessible to the avid collectors who will figure out how to do it.

Well played. :2 cents:

Hehe I mean WITHOUT the help of a special piece of software. :thumbsup

xvideos has never had a download link for their videos

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight! You were convinced in multiple posts that it couldn't be done until someone showed you how.

It doesn't even take a special piece of software. It takes a free Firefox plug-in. It is still as easy to download videos from that site as if there were a direct download link.

http://www.usedbooks.co.nz/images/Book/0470121742.jpg

All the tubes have been trying to do that. Only works for a little while until someone figures out a way around it.

I'm downloading shit right now.

yeah I noticed 2 weeks ago that fuq.com had no more vids from xvideos...

Gosh, I guess the rest of the tubes will have to make due with the tens of thousands of videos they've already got...I dunno how they're going to get by!

Download all u want from xvideos - http://www.vidohe.com/site.php?site=353&iamadult=1

fsc and pink visual will save you. call them. :thumbsup

I've noticed one tube using https (SSL) connections for streaming, which would make capturing the stream a lot more difficult.

Everyone needs to go to RMTPE streaming video and do away with downloads.

yep, thats what myfreecams uses.

which tube would that be?

Ohhh, I can download them no problem. Check site in sig.

There's a couple tubes that make getting the FLV videos very difficult / impossible, but for the most part, if you can view the video in your browser, you can scrape it as well.

Ohhh, I can download them no problem. Check site in sig.

There's a couple tubes that make getting the FLV videos very difficult / impossible, but for the most part, if you can view the video in your browser, you can scrape it as well.

not really... :2 cents:

Oh, well I never visit surfer forums, perhaps that's why I have no problem downloading or scraping the videos from that site.