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If you search on the internet you can find unimaginable amount of video materials. From the ancient video camera using video tape to the digital revolution it was only a step forward. The internet and some sites are also providing hosting and the possibility to upload and download videos. There are very well known web sites like youtube.com, metacafe.com etc where you can find personal videos from individual users, company videos, commercial videos news and others. Practically you can find any kind of video on the internet. Of course there are differences caused by the fact that from some sites you can download and in other sites you can only view. There are also issues related with the copyrights and this is an international problem caused by the video piracy.
Copyright violation is the unauthorized or prohibited use of works covered by copyright law, in a way that violates one of the copyright owner's exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce or perform the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works. For electronic and audio-visual media, unauthorized reproduction and distribution is also commonly referred to as piracy. The legal basis for this usage dates from the same era, and has been consistently applied until the present time. Critics of the use of the term "piracy" to describe such practices contend that it is pejorative and unfairly equates copyright infringement with more sinister activity. Promotional screener DVDs distributed by movie studios (often for consideration for awards) are a common source of unauthorized copying when movies are still in theatrical release, and the MPAA has attempted to restrict their use. Movies are also still copied by someone sneaking a camcorder into a movie theater and secretly taping the projection (also known as "camming"), although such copies are often of lesser quality than DVD. Some copyright owners have responded to infringement by displaying warning notices on commercially sold DVDs; these warnings do not always give a fair picture of the purchaser's legal rights, which in the US generally include the rights to sell, exchange, rent or lend a purchased DVD. Anyway, it is interesting to see how personal videos uploaded on video sites can have millions of views and are making famous random normal people. There are videos posted on youtube.com, for example, with 2 or 4 or 10 million views and are not posted by important companies but simply by usual person.
A bigger danger is when minors have access to free videos containing nudity, sex and violence. The amount of video materials with this kind of content is huge and it is very easy to have access to this type of images and videos. Due to the international nature of the Internet, Internet pornography carries with it special issues with regard to the law. There is no one set of laws that apply to the distribution, purchase, or possession of Internet pornography. Only the laws of one's home nation apply with regard to distributing or possessing Internet pornography. This means that, for example, even if a pornographer is legally distributing pornography, the person receiving it may not be legally doing so due to local laws.