with the rise of the digital age, watchingmovies and t.v. shows online is becoming more common. video sites, such as netflix and hulu-plus,offer a legal option for subscribers to catch up on their favorite programs digitally. today,there is a rise in illegal video streaming, the act of watching movies and t.v. showsonline without paying. the trend is becoming more and more popular among today's youth,in spite of the fact that according to current
Android TV box jailbroken, copyright law, illegal video streaming isa punishable legal offense. susan drucker, a longtime professor of media law at hofstrauniversity and attorney specializing in media and entertainment, explains the seriousnessof this widely accepted behavior. when you take something online, when you downloadonline, it doesn't often feel like stealing
because, in the old sense, because when youstole something from someone before, they didn't have it any longer. when you take somethingwithout permission, or without paying or without paying for it that's copyrighted online, theoriginal is still there. so that old idea, that old feeling, that you were stealing someoneelse's property has vanished. copyright counts for something and taking something acts asstealing, even if the original is still retained. while streaming movies and t.v. shows onlineis still illegal, that hasn't stopped hofstra students from watching their favorite programsfor free. i watch television shows online pretty frequentlyfrom many different sites. i don't necessarily pay for a whole lot of them.
once or twice a week on like on putlockerand stuff, like i just see it on there and i'm like "might as well watch it." there's one i use called watchseries.eu orproject free tv. to be honest with you, i don't really watchthe shows for free on the internet. i like better quality, like resolution, so i preferto watch it on actual hbo go and netflix and showtime. i use, i use the sites to watch modern familybecause it's not on any streaming service
that i pay for. the streaming of videos and movies is a largepart of today's youth culture, even though
it is still illegal. however, it doesn't appearto be going anywhere, anytime soon. for the long island report, i'm emi feldman.
