Youtube Boxoffice

[krishnandu.sarkar]

Well, another nice initiative by Google.

YouTube - ‪BoxOffice的频é￾“‬‏

They are featuring Band Baaja Barrat for now. May be will add more movies soon.

 

[TheMost]

^ Hindi ah ?

 

[rhitwick]

thanx dude...

They have some good collection there
Padosan, Abhimaan, Chupke Chupke, Hera Pheri, Pardes ..........wow

 

[Tejas.Gupta]

My internet connection is to slow to watch movies online :-/

 

[nisargshah95]

TFS buddy. Great initiative. First the IPL, now the movies. Soon the TV channels will be going at losses.

 

[hdknitro]

That's what I wanted. complete PAISA VASOOL for my internet connection

 

[Achuth]

yeahhh ..but they havnt added more movies

 

[thetechfreak]

Nice initiative.

Great to watch movies the legal way.

 

[deathwish]

I wonder if you can watch Simi Garewal there. :\

 

[soumo27]

This is a great initiative.. And my 256k connection is enough to watch those movies in 240p.

 

[evewin89]

SO ON 29TH JUNE WILL THEY (UTUBE) RELEASE TRANSFORMER 3 ON Utube....? HEHE....

 

[deathwish]

Won't this promote piracy, as there are plenty of YouTube Downloaders available through which you can download these movies and share/sell them??

 

[Sarath]

If its already free then I dont know how they are even bothered. Also its much easier to pirate movies from other sources.

Its is a good initiative. I checked it a few days back. Hope they add more movies.

Shemaroo had a similar initiative running for a long time now. I have their Dhamaal in my to be watched list.

 

[arescool]

Won't this promote piracy, as there are plenty of YouTube Downloaders available through which you can download these movies and share/sell them??

If someone wants to promote piracy , there are many other ways ...
So i find this to be a grt initiative

 

[deathwish]

If someone wants to promote piracy , there are many other ways ...
So i find this to be a grt initiative

I know there are many other ways, but I am still quite confused about how YouTube will handle this. Legitimate media players like RealPlayer have their own plugin through which one can download YouTube videos, hence proving that downloading the videos aren't illegal. And since YouTube does not have permission to redistribute these movies, won't they fall into legal trouble??

I know this is an unexpected question, but bear with me. I appreciate YouTube's initiative to move audiences away from the theatre and into the comfort of their own homes. I'm just a bit confused about the legal side of the matter.