Video Stealing

[nuggetsyl]

I am a fan of competition it lowers prices and delivers better products to consumers. The blue alliance has done a great job of an open source place to where you can get photos and videos of teams, and IMO saving the history of first. What the blue alliance does is great. They ask for donations of videos and pictures and never posts things that they do not have permission to post.

This leads me to my title. There are is a new site(s) that are taking videos from youtube and uploading them to their own site(s). It is being done without permission from the owners of those videos, and frankly its wrong. While FIRST events are open to the public and anyone can record them this does not mean you can then take the videos they (the owners) recorded and use them as your own. It would be different if you (the video stealers) were using "Fair Use" (Examples of fair use are works used for news reporting, criticism, comment, scientific research, teaching, and parody.), But this is not what happening. The videos are being used completely unedited just to promote their own site(s).

My suggestion to the group(s) doing this is to go invent a better mouse trap if you want to compete with the blue alliance, but stealing videos is not the path I would recommend. I am also sure the teams your stealing the videos from would also appreciate it.