And How Exactly Is STEALING a Video Any Different Than Stealing an Article? Please Enlighten Me!

This is a little bit of a rant, but I think its something that really ought to be addressed especially for the sake of any newbies here.

I now know of not one; but two Warriors, I won't name names, that in a nut shell tell you that you can use video marketing without having to make any videos of your own, buying PLR videos, or outsourcing video production. It's honestly enough to make me sick to my stomach.

NO IT IS NOT OKAY to download someone's video and resubmit it with your link in the description and pass it off as your own.

NO IT IS NOT OKAY to download someone's video make a few changes to it put your link in the description or within the video and pass it off as your own.

This would be the same as going to ezinearticles.com taking someone's article, adding your bio info and links and then re-submitting it to ezine articles and trying to pass it off as your own. (Obviously, ezinearticles watches for this very thing for this very reason)

Or, in the second example above going to ezinearticles.com changing a few words around on an article, we're talking like maybe one paragraph, putting your bio and links in it and submitting it as your own.

What the heck gives you to the right to take someone else's video and try to pass it off as your own? I am just disgusted. I think the worst part of it is this information is coming from people who you think would know better. As I said, this isn't a good example to set for new people. Stealing content is okay. Because its not.

I have no problems with people who embed someone else's video in their site for content. You're being responsible. That's the same as taking an article from an article site and making sure all the links are there and active like they're supposed to be.

Just taking them and then submitting them as your own is just outright theft if you ask me.

What do you think? Am I overreacting, am I dead on?