There are several reasons why people download videos from the internet. It is most common that those from Youtube be downloaded, though. It is the people's video library for personal and commercial purposes. Youtube has been the reason lately for some personalities to be popular by showing what talents they have.

Reasons for downloading, though, include storing certain instructions like craft, selling, and different kinds of how-tos, watching movies offline (cuts off the buffering), and getting a personal copy of a performance of a favorite granddaughter perhaps.

How to download videos from youtube is easy depending on your OS. With Linux, though, you just fish out the file from the browser cache after you have watched it online.