Is it illegal to steal videos?

1, stealing video is illegal. Audio-visual materials supported by other evidence and obtained through legal means, or copies verified with audio-visual materials, and evidence obtained through eavesdropping equipment prohibited by law are illegal and illegal.

2. Legal basis: Article 68 of Several Provisions on Evidence in Civil Proceedings.

The people's court shall require witnesses to testify in court and accept inquiries from judges and parties. If a witness testifies in the preparatory stage before the court session or in the presence of both parties such as the people's court investigation and inquiry, it shall be regarded as testifying in court. If the parties agree that the witness will testify in other ways and get permission from the people's court, the witness may not testify in court. The written testimony provided by a witness who fails to appear in court without justifiable reasons shall not be used as the basis for ascertaining the facts of the case.

Second, sneak shots of indecent videos of others are sentenced to several years.

How many years for stealing indecent videos of others depends on the actual situation. They are:

1. Failure to spread it does not constitute the crime of spreading obscene information;

2. If it is spread, it is an act of "spreading obscene information". Whoever disseminates obscene books, periodicals, movies, audio-visual, pictures or other obscene articles, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than two years, criminal detention or public surveillance. Whoever organizes the broadcast of obscene movies, videos and other audio-visual products shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance and shall also be fined. If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined. Whoever makes or copies obscene movies, videos and other audio-visual products for broadcasting shall be given a heavier punishment in accordance with regulations. Whoever disseminates obscene articles to minors under the age of 18 shall be given a heavier punishment.