Saving Youtube and other video's "off youtube"

[MrTudo]

Is it possible to save the video's off youtube and have them "play" ( right word? ) on a personal server or hosting services? We've saved several hundred youtubes on Dr Paul and some of them occassionally go offline because the youtuber lost his acct or other reason. Can I buy a url and then save these video/audio's for use on my own personal not for profit and not really for publication website?

How?

Thank you

P.S. I would be interested in paying someone to put the website together. It would have similar appearance to youtube with similar functionality and simplicity so that I could also easily add them myself. I've got at least a couple hundred videos that I would want the developer to migrate. I would just forward the email links. Maybe 2-3 pages of graphics/content which I would provide the content.

[SonofThunder]

I think Ron Paul Flix does this but I'm not sure.

Best thing to do is use www.namecheap.com for domain and hosting. They have a software installer that allows you to install complex content management systems that would allow you to do this pretty easily. I think Joomla has a video player in it already. They may even have video specific CMS installs.

[SonofThunder]

PS - they stood up against SOPA as well

[MrTudo]

What happens if a company like that goes out of business? How do you recover your domain name? Can you recover the domain name without a lengthy legal process?

[SonofThunder]

They register it with ICANN or whoever so if they go out of business you just transfer it to another registrar. That's how I Think it works anyway.

You should also do regular backups of your hosting account via FTP, and databases, which is what I do.

[MrTudo]

Of course but where would you go to change the dns ?

[SonofThunder]

Your new registrar.