This is illegal right?

lol well ya'll know theres sites where you can download youtube videos right? but it hasta be saved as .flv file.. so i downloaded a free video file converter. and now i can put ANY video that is on youtube onto my ipod. =D

Why illegal?

idk.. it sounds illegal lol

It's not illegal if you don't get caught!

true.. actually no, its not lol.. but still =p

If I were to think it were illegal the last thing I would do would annouce it on the Internet.

lol yeah owell.. not my fault, i didnt make the programs =p

It's not my ipod a friend must have left it in my pocket

Yeah, because the internet is completely devoid of any illegal activity!

It's not illegal if it's used for personal use (I'm assuming).

i think i do somthing like tht, i downloaded the new realplayer, above every youtube vid it says download, i press download, then it goes to my real player library, from ther i swtich to itunes and others.

What? No wonder you're getting C's in English.

im just quick typing, i coud sple rihgt if i wntd to, but u gyus cna undrestnd me leik dis.

Yeah, but it takes me a minute to wade through it all.

LOL

Telecrater has a case my friends actually put stuff in my pockets sometimes in like PE cause I'm the only one that still has pockets wehn I'm wearing short, except sometimes in that case they end up taking the wrong one when they get it back and I have to go to their class and demand it back

xD

Yeah, but he's not in school anymore.

who;'s not in school if your gonna burn me Skold I'm gonna start using my epic lullness burns soon

i think he meant tele

bump?

why?

bump what? or better yet what is a bump?

bump is when you bring up an old topic.

wow the bump was worth it, if it isn't actually illegal I'm certainly going to do this!

same with heather

@BBT

ah, thanks, now I know

and I hve used the same method thing of youtube to ipod. I got eddie van halen's eruption solo(10 minute) onto my ipod. It was worth it.

For all you that still don't understand this:

It is illegal to use someone else's material without giving them credit for it. If you try to pass off the video as your own material, then you are doing something illegal. However, if you credit who the original author is, you should not have any problems as they are only under a creative commons license.

actually the reason it is illegal is because youtube is a commercial website. when a user uploads a video to youtube, they agree to give youtube the right to broadcast that video. youtube then provides a website where they make money in advertisement sales. so when you go to youtube to watch a video you are indirectly paying youtube (via ad sales. you are witnessing ads, the advertisers pay youtube for you looking at their ads).

by downloading a video from youtube and watching it privately, you are denying them the money they would make in ad sales. youtube wants you to use their website, because every time you click a link they make money. if you view a video once and save it to your PC and then view it 100 times they lose out on 100x as much money as if you repeatedly went to their website.

don't sweat it, though. this is chump change in the grand scheme of things. how many millions of youtube users? we're probably talking $0.30-$1.00 per website visited in ad sales.

and yes the internet was made for illegality. the anarchist's cookbook, anyone?

im pretty sure its not illegal to put them on your ipod but if you download it and then put it back on youtube on your file and say it is yours, thats illegal

@gx

hmmmmm...yes, yes...I feel like "cooking" now...haha jk

just use vdownloader. vdownloaders a program that you can use to download videos off alot of different websites and it converts it to the format you want, like avi mpeg mp4 etc

I thought Skold had been banned from this site? And if not, he damn well should be - you're not welcome here anymore Skold, get out of OUR town...

lol.

huh? if you didnt notice his posts were from June 2008.

haha, I thought he came back, too!

I seriously hate it when old topics are brought back.

Legal/Illegal are are not 'right and wrong' but rather based on laws.

The laws of Canada are not the same as those of the USA... or as the UK, etc. There are not universal laws about copyright, etc. There are 'conventions' agreed to by most countries (at least western democracies) to pass laws that have consistency. However, the devil is in the details of each country's laws on copyright. Things like private use, copying for non-commercial gain, etc, are usually determined by individual countries. Or,if covered, can usually be challenged, successfully or not, through things like Canada's Charter of Rights, the USA's Bill of Rights, etc.

Copyright laws and legalities to do with 'Youtube', Ipods, etc. are a murky area in most countries unless directly mentioned in law.