Is it is illegal or immoral to download videos from video.google.com?!


Question: When I'm at work, I search for videos on video.google.com. Whenever I find a video that's hosted on the Google servers, Google provides an option to download it in an iPod compatible format.

It seems to me that this practice would either be illegal or at least immoral being that I would be downloading somebody else's intellectual property for free. But if it is illegal or at least immoral, then why would Google allow it?

I'm proud to say that I've purchased everything in my iTunes library, I've purchased all the (expensive) software on my computer and I'm very much against piracy, but I don't get this Google download option. Is this illegal, is there a technicality or a loophole I don't know about or is this actually considered fully legal and moral?


Answers: When I'm at work, I search for videos on video.google.com. Whenever I find a video that's hosted on the Google servers, Google provides an option to download it in an iPod compatible format.

It seems to me that this practice would either be illegal or at least immoral being that I would be downloading somebody else's intellectual property for free. But if it is illegal or at least immoral, then why would Google allow it?

I'm proud to say that I've purchased everything in my iTunes library, I've purchased all the (expensive) software on my computer and I'm very much against piracy, but I don't get this Google download option. Is this illegal, is there a technicality or a loophole I don't know about or is this actually considered fully legal and moral?

yer its completely illeagal, but the polica or trading standards arent doing anything because they know that against googles solicitors they will loose. itll cost them way too much money to win. as a result of this they are shutting down websites like tv-links which was not illegal, it just hosted sites and like wikipedia anybody could put content on there. the host did not.

It is illegal to do that

No, it is not immoral...I don't think you could download those if it was illegal...if I buy a book and you borrow it from me is that immoral or illegal? No....the book was purchased, you just borrowed it from me....

It depends on how Google obtained the rights to show it. If Google is paying for a license to provide it and is then providing it for free there is nothing illegal about it. If it was merely some user who uploaded the file without owning the intellectual rights to it, downloading it would be a violation of the actual owner's property rights.

no



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