Applian Technologies released their Replay Media Catcher software, which allows online video and audio recording for streaming Flash and MP3 sites. The software allows users to capture digital reproductions from destinations like ABC.com, NBC.com, MySpace and thousands of others, as well as popular places like YouTube and Google Video. On Applian's website, one can even find how-to guides on recording video and audio from popular sites.

How do content owners feel about this? Recording of this video would easily allow users to then turn around and post these on any popular video site. However, this would go against Applian Technologies' terms of use, which does state, "Applian Technologies recording products are not intended for use in circumventing copy protection mechanisms or for making illegal copies of copyrighted content. Replay Media Catcher can be used for recording for your personal use only."

Replay Media Catcher uses a one-click recording interface where users just click the Start Recording button, and then play the streaming Flash video or MP3 audio to capture. Once Replay Media Catcher detects the media stream, it will continue to save a playable video or audio file on the PC hard drive, and the user can then go in search of other media to record.

Replay Media Catcher is able to record multiple streams simultaneously, limited only by the speed of the customer's Internet connection. Also included is FLV Player, which lets customers watch their recorded videos.

"Replay Media Catcher is the first-ever production software to be able to capture RTMP Streaming Flash streams used by many of the top-tier content sites," said Bill Dettering, CEO of Applian Technologies. "These unprotected, unencrypted files have been previously impossible to record for your personal use, and now Replay Media Catcher makes it possible to archive and enjoy more great online video without having to be connected to the Internet."

Replay Media Catcher can be downloaded at http://www.replay-media-catcher.com and purchased for $39.95. A free demo is also available.

Replay Media Catcher is only available for Windows PCs.