Why do people steal mainstream shows and put on youtube?
 

Why do people steal mainstream shows and put them on youtube? They put the show or movie in a box to hide its signature. I don't see ads or links. Why do they do this? Are they gonna add the ads later or embed the show into another website? I don't get it.

mainstream shows are in fact... propaganda !
So it's the government !

:wehateporn:

Because it makes them feel powerful.

:1orglaugh

A lot do it because it's not about money and they just want to share things. And some do it just for the hits because they like seeing big numbers under the videos they post.

^ That :thumbsup

^ That :thumbsup

Have to chuckle @ stealing = "just want to share" :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

More like: I want to steal from others who steal and make it seem like I did it. I will then rename, re-watermark, re-encode, re-post, re-tag, re-name again, etc. until I make $1 from 5 days work :thumbsup

Because they can?

I think you may have a point there.

If it's part of their channel, they get add revenue.

A bit of YouTube history ;)

But to stay on topic, many reasons including

"friendly piracy"
- simply wanting to share and/or street cred

profit-oriented
- ad revenue
- driving traffic to their properties