Upon hearing that YouTube has decided to shut down its video downloads service for the time being, your first reaction might very well be "Wait, YouTube had a video download service?"
Indeed, it launched in February, and allowed content creators to post both free and paid downloads to YouTube. Apparently, YouTube hasn't quite figured out how to make this scheme profitable. Users who had uploaded to the service received an email saying that current downloads would still be available, but no new downloads can be posted.
Although the beta test of this feature seems to have ended in failure, the language of YouTube's email doesn't rule out some new incarnation of the download service in the future: "We have decided not to fully productize this, for now" (emphasis added). Meanwhile, YouTube is planning to charge for premium streaming content, which was apparently a more lucrative avenue than paid downloads.
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