Software for Downloading Entire LDS Films

Where did you see this?

Armando

I would be careful with this; there may be copyright issues with doing this.

George Fulton
Pleasanton, CA

There can't be copyright issues for automating something you can do manually, legally, and is publicly available. I doubt it works though.

Armando

David Serna
I was surfing through some ones data and there was an ad for some software I think it was called "Fast".

Last year I went to a conference in Saltillo and one of the speakers said his students in Utah were using a program to download entire LDS films and that so far they had no complaints from familysearch. I didn't find out which program they were using.
Victoriano Navarro

I found it. It is called FastFilm.

http://students.cs.byu.edu/~jbejaran/FastFilm/

Armando

I watched the tutorial for this software, and I must say that I am very impressed with what 'Jon' has accomplished.

The only problem for me is that I'm not at all sure I want to download entire microfilms—hundreds of them—onto my computer; I mean, why would I want to reproduce even a part of the online FamilySearch archive? That said, it is a pretty neat trick 'Jon' has pulled off here.

Lawrence Bouett
Orinda, CA

David Serna
The availability to access a film without being online.. waiting for a screen to open. ...

David Serna
It seems the Fastfilm website has been taken down due to conflict with Family Search. unless someone has information showing other wise.

David Serna
I would like to know if anyone has a copy of this software that I could download. I was interested in buying a 2 Terabite external hard drive and dowloading a few films to go through..