Now, you are always responsible for making sure you are not violating law when you are doing this, but this is an easy way to capture embedded flash videos so they can be stored, preserved, and utilized. It requires only a Windows PC, and free browser software.

1) Download and install the web browser Opera, available here.

2) Open My Computer (that is, an Explorer window), and navigate to your primary system hard drive (usually C:), then to  Documents and Settings, then to your personality area (look for your login account name). We'll shortcut that as "C:\Documents and Settings\<login>\". Then navigate deeper, to Local Settings\Application Data\Opera\Opera\profile\cache4. This is the place where temporary files are placed during browsing with Opera.

3) In that Explorer window, click View -> Details.

4) Click/select the "Size" column header so that the largest files are at the top (usually this requires two single clicks).

5) In Opera, navigate the web to the video you wish to capture, and play it to start loading it into the cache.

6) In Explorer, repeatedly click View -> Refresh, watching a new and  cryptically-named caching item get created and then get bigger and bigger, until it stops changing in size.

7) Click and Drag that cache file to your Desktop, or anyplace else convenient.

8) Change the name of the Desktop copy to something that pleases you, but ending in ".flv" (for "Flash Video").

9) Upload that file to YouTube, and try it.

You can also play that video in a flash player on your won machine. I recommend FLV Player 2.0, available here.