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Video behemoth, YouTube is now offering direct downloads to some of the videos it has on the site, most importantly including President Barack Obama’s weekly addresses.

While many us must have had used file downloader’s and other methods to rip the videos off the site, this is by far the first time YouTube is giving such functionality officially. But there  is a catch, the new option gives users the ability to download only a full-quality H.264 file.

Stanford Law School professor Lawrence Lessig seems to be the first to have noticed the new option. Do you think that YouTube should allow all files to be downloaded or not?

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