[sailormoon]

I am pretty sure if you had just left clicked it like a normal person you would have been fine. And wow, 1 second after you click a video link, Windows Awesome Firewall™ says something wants to connect to the internet? I wonder what that could be? Maybe the movie I clicked on 1 second ago? Why I think I'll deny it! Hey, this stupid thing doesn't work! Apple sucks!

[altano]

Watching an hour long video in a browser sucks. If you accidentally navigate away from the page, you lose your place and buffer. Downloading it is sane. Also, downloading a movie shouldn't require a security prompt. So yeah, was what he did really ridiculous, or does basic technology still suck?

[jasonkester]

Why would you expect something that you just downloaded from the internet to immediately need to download more stuff from the internet? The whole point of downloading things is so that they're, you know, downloaded.

So no, I associate a piece of software connecting to the internet as it trying to download updates for itself or track your activity. Neither of which are things I want it to do, so it gets told no.

[wtallis]

I'm pretty sure that most video downloads these days involve first downloading a file to tell your downloader how to get the rest of the data.