About All-streaming-media.com and Stream-Recorder.com

All-streaming-media.com and Stream-Recorder.com web-sites has grown up from my hobby. I was trying to watch free video lectures of the University of California, Berkeley. I had very tight limits for the Internet traffic at the institute and my home dial-up connection was too slow to watch such streams. The only solution was to record a stream at a slow speed to watch it later on.

So I started digging how to do it and suddenly found a software called StreamBox VCR. It appeared that if I recorded the lecture, watched it and then deleted it, I didn't violate any laws. Many people outside the U.S. don't really care about laws related to the sibject so distribution of stream recordings by pirates is a great problem.

I was a web developer so after learning some new knowledge it was rather obvious to make a small web-page. It was a free web hosting back then. And it appeared that many people were interested in the topic. This was new to me as well as for many other people so there were few other pages about stream recording. I can't imagine how much more efforts it would cost me to build a project like this from the scratch these days. I don't really think it would be possible.

After seeing some interest to a single page I started adding more and more pages about stream recording. In a while I bought a domain name all-streaming-media.com and started adding even more web pages.

There was no any forums back then. I was answering onto questions and requests by e-mail. Sometimes there were so many user requests that it was very hard to combine this work with 9 to 5.

Then the forum All-streaming-media.com/forum/ was added (It was transfered to the stream-recorder.com/forum/ later on after having problems with a web hoster). But people continued to ask questions by e-mail 'coz the forum had a few posts only and nobody likes empty forums. I was desperate in promoting the forum. I wanted to shut it down. I couldn't believe that it would become the most popular stream recording community and that I would be looking for people to hire to work on these projects.

The recorded video lectures helped me to learn the language. I'm not a native English speaker so it was not very easy to build a web-site for the English speaking community. And this web-site is in English only, there are no any translations.

Today we welcome our new moderator - compn. He is a very expirienced stream recording expert. Thanx to him our community has been learning new skills and becoming better.

Many people ask me if they can help somehow.

ATM we do not accept any donations.

If you wanna help us, you can simply link to our web-sites. The links can be put onto your web-sites, blogs, social bookmarking services,...

Another contribution that you can make is by telling us your experience about using stream recording software, DRM removal software, audio/video conversion software,.... as well as about services like music download and subcription services. Even if you are a newbie your opinions are very important for us, 'coz they will help other users to select better software.

We also have affiliate links at all-streaming-media.com, so when you buy software and services from this web-site we're compensated sometimes. But please do not buy any software just to thank us. All software at all-streaming-media.com is free or free to try. You don't have to blindly trust in our reviews and opinions, you can always download a free demo version of software to make sure it works for you. Momentary profit is not important for us, we would rather prefer you to use a free software if it is the best program.

As for any other help from you, we always welcome it!

A new moderator joined our team. sectroyer is a developer of freeme2 DRM removal software.

The Removing copy-protection (like DRM, AACS) forum welcomes sectroyer!