I was just at a party where a guy told me he was hired by a SF startup to covertly download many hours of YouTube videos without paying either Google or the ori

I was just at a party where a guy told me he was hired by a SF startup to covertly download many hours of YouTube videos without paying either Google or the original creators. When he mentioned the word "copyright", they fired him, but only after assuring him that they had worked at Google before the startup and it was completely legal.