Measuring Measures suggests a cool trick to download the lectures from videolecture.net. Below is the verbatim of the original:
Not to fear, it turns out that you can just use a couple parameters to mplayer at the command line.example:mplayer -dumpstream mms://velblod2.ijs.si/2009/pascal2/ssll09_canberra/reid_leth/ssll09_reid_leth_01.wmv -dumpfile /home/bradford/lectures/reid_learning_theory1.avi