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Old 11-07-2017, 11:25 AM
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That explains a lot. Until now, I was not aware that Google indeed owns Chrome and Youtube, and as such considers YT videos as their exclusive property, taking a very dim view of anyone downloading them. (One learns something new every day.) However, as I mentioned in my last post, Mozilla's Firefox browser does not forbid such downloading, which is why I downloaded it on on my computer alongside Chrome and use the latter as my default browser. For what it is worth, I deleted Chromium from my system and installed Google Chrome, which seems to have corrected a small problem I was having with the former--namely, my version of Chromium would not automatically load thumbnails of often-visited web sites on the browser's start page. Chrome, however, downloads these thumbnails on the start page just as it should. I was glad of this because my bank's website is one I particularly wanted one-click access to.

BTW, I guess Google takes its intellectual property rights extremely seriously if it has designed Chrome and Chromium to block downloads of videos the former owns. I suppose Microsoft would be just as protective of videos it owns, if any (however, I am not aware at this time of any Microsoft-owned web video content).

Intellectual property protection is a very big deal these days; note that many if not most corporate logos, slogans, etc. shown in print ads and on TV, not to mention brand names on product labels, have an (R) symbol, albeit in very tiny type, after the last word. This means the entire logo, etc. is protected by copyright and, of course, may not be used by anyone else without express written permission of the owner.

There have always been laws against copyright infringement, but it seems, these days, most corporations, etc. are going out of their way, more than they previously did, to make absolutely certain no one steals their branding. Note as well that it is all but impossible in the digital age to copy, on videotape or DVD, television programs. We can thank the FCC and its Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) for that. I suppose, if one were in an area that still had analog cable TV, it would still be possible to videotape television programming; however, since cable TV in most major US cities is 100 percent digital (for example, Spectrum, formerly Time Warner Cable, recently converted its Northeast Ohio cable systems to this format, now requiring a cable box to receive anything at all), VCRs, which are analog devices, can no longer be used to record TV programming. However, they can still be used, of course, to play back previously recorded VHS tapes.

The same applies to DVD recorders, although I am sure the motion-picture and TV production industries would rather see all home recording, by any means, of TV programming banned. The public is now, in effect, being forced to purchase the DVD version(s) of any and all older TV shows/movies and even current ones. Amazon sells box sets of TV series, and they seem to be doing a good amount of business at it. (I have purchased several such box sets of several of my favorite 1970s TV series, and will continue to do so since I can no longer record shows on my VCR.) This is probably about the only way we will be able to get copies of our favorite TV shows these days, thanks, again, to the DMCA. It is a law no one likes, but as I said, the TV and movie industries are doing everything they can to protect their products from illegal copying and exhibition. When TV stations used to sign off at the end of their broadcast day, they would make an announcement to the effect that their programming absolutely cannot be used for any purpose except home viewing; this still holds true today, although the law now covers a lot more than just real-time TV viewing.
The 1980's Betamax case come to mind.Anyway there is plenty of clean free movie/TV show download sites out there .Known video sites like Youtube/Dailymotion/Vimeo has full shows and movies on it .They cant keep up to deleting them.Instead of worrying about their bottom line .Hollyweird should concentrate on cleaning it self up with their pedophile /drug issues and the current crap they are producing there.

Last edited by centralradio; 11-08-2017 at 07:19 PM.
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