 Re: How Should I Do This?
I have this Android app called XBMC, and it allows you to use scripts to download videos. I haven't quite figured out how to do it, though.
Why are you downloading these to your phone? Why don't you download them normally, convert them to a smaller file size, and then transfer them to your phone?
But my big questions are the following:
Does Viacom or whoever runs the server have any way of knowing that I am downloading all these videos?
Of course they do, it's their server. They can see every connection, every transferred byte.
If so, would there be any way for them to block the videos from the public so that I can't download any more of them?
Very easily in any number of different ways. They could change the directory, change the connect method, ban your IP, throttle their bandwidth, etc etc...
When I do go back to download more, is it a good idea to only get a few at a time, or is it okay to get them all at once? If it matters, what is the best time(s) of day / day(s) of the week to download videos from the server?
You could try grabbing them all at once in whenever is the dead of night for wherever the server's time zone is, but even then it could be an automated script that runs and detects so many gigabytes of requested bandwidth from one IP and takes action. I would do as suggested and space them out through different IP addys.
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