Flash on my computers

Woohoo, I'm on a roll. That's like my third post in one day. I tweeted about this earlier this week and now I feel like writing a full blog post about because afterall blogging is tweeting's daddy. So, I have Adobe flash installed on my home Debian PC and let me tell, that ish sucks ass. It crashes all the time, it slows down my already slow PC which is a dell precision 360 from like 2004. Basically Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz, 512 KB L2 cache, and 2 GB of DDR RAM (not DDR2). I love using old computers because it makes me feel cool, just like a mechanic drives around old busted cars because he knows better. Ok, back to my story, so I decided to not install flash on my laptop because I don't feel the need for it, but sometimes I want to watch videos from the web on my laptop. I currently use this cool little program called youtubedl which allows me to download youtube videos. This little program inspired to look at some html source for websites with flash players. Upon looking at HTML, I realized that most times, the URL for the raw video is usually given to the flash player itself either as an argument or as part of an xml configuration file that the flash player has to get. Basically if you know how to reach HTML and how to use wget, you can pretty much fetch more video from the web without a problem and that's what I've been doing. The other funny thing is that once you wget these videos, you can actually use a program such as FFmpeg to split video from audio thus making youtube automatically the largest source for pirated music on the web. I think someone is going to get sued real soon. BOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMM.