Sharing+online+videos+safely

=Why are there problems sharing videos online...?=

Video leaks
There are many sites online which use Leaked videos to earn money. One big problem with sharing videos online is the fact that the can be leaked. Even though the leaked videos can sometimes be entertaining and, occasionally provide you with news, who wants there skype or myspace videos to be shown around the would.

so how do we share videos safely.... the best way to do this is to use trusted sites.
According to [|www.PCworld.com] the best way to share your videos is //not// to use YouTube many hackers are able to pick up videos from there and then show them to the whole world. There are many other better sites in which you can share your videos. such as-

Another way to prevent getting your videos to the wrong site is to use sites which allow only specific people to use/see your video. Shutterfly is one of these sites. It allows only your family and friends to see the videos you share. Many studies prove that the reason we share videos is to have them seen to other people. But who knows what type of people see it and whether they like it or not. Another option would be to use sites which expect you to make an account before you start streaming and uploading videos. This will prevent other hackesrs to see your videos (many of these sites are equped with settings in which you can modify who can see the videos and who can't)

Who is most affected by the consequences of sharing videos online..
Mostly kids. Kids do not look ahead and realize the consequenses of something in one go, they just want to have their way and get what they want done. Another thing that they might not realize is that streaming videos online can get viruses into their computer. But the big question is "can you get viruses just by watching videos online?" ANSWER-

YouTube rely on Flash, so technically it is possible
The videos on YouTube are streamed to your computer using Flash, a technique developed by Macromedia that has been bought by Adobe recently. To be able to play flash-modules you need a so called Flash-Player that is installed as sub-module (a so called Plugin) into your webbrowser. In general flash-programs that are played by the Flash-Player is very much restricted in what they can do, so they can't simply read or write your harddrive or do other nasty things. This can be compared to the also existant Java Applets that run in a so called Sandbox.

But like all software the Flash-Player can contain bugs (mistakes done by the programmers or things not thought about, etc.) A hacker can find these bugs and use them for his own benefit. Dependent on the severity of the bug many things can happen. Starting from simply annoying things like the popup of an advertisment even with a popup-blocker being active to more dangerous things like "breaking out" of the before mentioned sandbox.