Video Stealing

[Lucario]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

Incorrect. If I take code from a non commercial product and put it in an open source project it's the same situation. I'm taking someone else's work and claiming it as my own.

True; I should have been more verbose in my previous statement. The other critical part to this issue is that it is arguably used for educational purposes while also being non-damaging to the original copyright holder.

Nonprofits have goals that can be hindered with the theft of intellectual property, but downloading non-commercial code to teach a class (assuming this teaching does not damage the copyright holder) is fair game under fair use.