Good Bye TV-Links

[Octavious]

I don't know if it's been discussed or not, but I stumbled across this article today.

http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2195407,00.html

Major pirate website shut down


Katie Allen
Friday October 19, 2007
Guardian Unlimited

One of the world's most-used pirate film websites has been closed after providing links to illegal versions of major Hollywood hits and TV shows.

The first closure of a major UK-based pirate site was also accompanied by raids and an arrest, the anti-piracy group Federation Against Copyright Theft (Fact) said today.


A 26-year-old man from Cheltenham was arrested on Thursday in connection with offences relating to the facilitation of copyright infringement on the internet, Fact said.

The arrest and the closure of the site - http://www.tv-links.co.uk - came during an operation by officers from Gloucestershire County Council trading standards in conjunction with investigators from Fact and Gloucestershire Police.


Fact claims that tv-links.co.uk was providing links to illegal film content that had been camcorder recorded from cinemas and then uploaded to the internet. The site also provided links to TV shows that were being illegally distributed.


Visitors to the site could get access to major feature films, sometimes within days of their initial cinema release. Recent links took users to illegal versions of the Disney/Pixar animation sensation Ratatouille as well as to most of this summer's blockbusters.


"Sites such as TV Links contribute to and profit from copyright infringement by identifying, posting, organising, and indexing links to infringing content found on the internet that users can then view on demand by visiting these illegal sites," said a spokesman for Fact.


The group's director general Kieron Sharp said TV Links was the first major target in a campaign to crackdown on web piracy.


"The theft and distribution of films harms the livelihoods of those working in the UK film industry and in ancillary industries, as well as damaging the economy," he said.


Roger Marles, from Trading Standards said sites such as TV Links allowed people to break UK copyright law.


"The 'users' are potentially evading licence fees, subscription fees to digital services or the cost of purchase or admittance to cinemas to view the films," he added.


The British Video Association estimates that at least £459m was lost to the video, film and TV industries due to piracy in 2006.

Again, I apologize if this has been discussed already and shot to the back few pages of the forum, I skimmed through the last 3 and didn't see anything so i figured i would post.

I miss it already ; ;

[Ashira]

Nope, no separate topic, was just brought up in the topic of Oink getting shutdown overnight too tho.

[Ins]

I use this nowadays to find most shows / videos.

http://googlonymous.nabolister.com/

Quite nifty 8)

[Fou-Lu]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...7123561281.jpg
how will i watching my Heroes and Dexter now...

[Amarok]

I don't understand how pointing someone in the direction of someone else's illegal activity can be a crime. By taking TV-Links down, they didn't actually remove ANY of the pirated videos from the internet. It's like arresting someone for telling someone else how to get to the local crack house.

[sephir]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...7123561281.jpg
how will i watching my Heroes and Dexter now...

I found this trying to find Dexter: http://wiismo.blogspot.com it seems pretty good. just lack of viewing for past episodes.

[Saga]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...7123561281.jpg
how will i watching my Heroes and Dexter now...

http://heroes-video-blog.blogspot.com/

you're welcome

[Bartylby]

the links thread has 4-5 other places (some better than tv-links) you can check out too

[ceolceol]

Why would they take down a site they could use to find the people uploading the shit?

The case won't even hold up in court, either. The main reason torrent sites aren't being shafted so much is because they don't house the files, so the same thing goes with TVlinks. I did love the House eps, though ._. guess I'll have to ditch Criminology early to catch them now.

[Rotsu]

Damn, i really liked the documentaries in that website. Screw the TV shows and movies.........

[Charla]

Wait a minute, does that mean we're all going to get V& too for typing the link to the site that has the links to the sites that have the links to the hosted camcorder pirated movie files?

[Royal]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, I've been wondering why they haven't been up the last few days. Fuck this .

[Octavious]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, I've been wondering why they haven't been up the last few days. Fuck this .

I don't think truer words have ever been spoken. I'm sure there is other sites out there but I really liked the large organized collection they had on tv-links, made finding what you wanted to watch easy >.> lol.

[Fou-Lu]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...7123561281.jpg
how will i watching my Heroes and Dexter now...

http://heroes-video-blog.blogspot.com/

you're welcome

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...5964528803.jpg

[blister1]

quicksilverscreens.com tends to get videos and junk faster, tv-links was awesome because it was the most organized.

American Gangster screener copy was posted on the forums today.

[aznmajiktaru]

Jesus it took me a while to find this thread but it's worth the epic necro. Demostheness11 just sent me link and guess what?! it's a new tv links :D.

http://www.tv-links.cc/

enjoy (*'-')

[Jedimasta]

Well, while its bumped

Sidereel > All

[Myst]

[quote=Fou-Lu][quote=Saga]

http://heroes-video-blog.blogspot.com/[/url]

you're welcome

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...5964528803.jpg[/quote:2ekbfj4q]
wallpapered for work.

[Akiyama]

Well, while its bumped

Sidereel > All

Wow. That's actually a pretty damn good site. Has more episodes of One Piece than a couple other sources of mine, along with some other anime.

[Arcana]

holy fucking necrobump.

tv-links is back though... XD