Neighbours episode downloading remains a white elephant within the Neighbours fans collective. The generic response to request for information is a cold reminder of how such downloading is illegal and hurts the show. Both these points are true, however the high level of fans downloading episodes remain.

With the illegal nature of episode sharing and the legal complications with hosting full episodes and Neighbours clips online the nature of episode sharing online is changing.

Youtube is a video filehsaring site recently acquired by Google. It allows for registered users to upload short clips which are then streamed from their servers. Neighbours fans are making use of this service to host partial and complete episodes online and the popularity of these files are increasing as news of their availability spreads.

Ultimately Youtube suffers from the same legal problems as the fan sites which have scaled back their Neighbours clips offerings and have clamped down on discussion of episode sharing. However this method seems to have gone undetected by the companies behind Neighbours. Youtube itself is a partial haven to the sharing of copyrighted files, thanks in part to it's massive size, though the legal challenges have begun to mount up from large media companies such as Warner Brothers and Universal.