Thread: TV Links Shutdown Permanently :(

No way! I tried getting on there last night and wondered what happened to the site. Wow that really sucks.

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! I was wondering why I couldn't access that place for like a week. This sucks soooooooo much!!! Quick people, give me alternative sites...

Edit: Seriously. Gaaaah.

Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant

Quick people, give me alternative sites

http://www.snoopy.force9.co.uk/a.html

** am I pirating by proxy by posting that? **

but you know, it's not that hard to actually goto youtube itself
search for "heroes" and order by date

but, anyway

About the arrest,
what exactly was illegal about TV Links?
it's links
the TV Links servers had no copyrighted material on them

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 - 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.
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Thank pirating god for alluc.org

I don't get why it's illegal to distribute TV show recordings for free...
Motion pictures - sure but why TV shows that are already free, broadcast on public TV channels?

Originally Posted by Merlock

I don't get why it's illegal to distribute TV show recordings for free...
Motion pictures - sure but why TV shows that are already free, broadcast on public TV channels?

-shrugs- UK law.

Of course it's illegal. You have to pay liscense, in order to watch TV. Well, atleast in Denmark. By using TV-Links, you can through some TV removal and things, watch TV on the internet, without paying for it, which certainly is illegal.

So, if an english person watches american TV, he should pay double liscense, or get some bonus pack stuff from his TV service provider, which gives him american TV, or something like that.


Before somebody starts saying "Well he was only linking...", then I must say, that it's still illegal. It's like a person, who makes people buy drugs at his friend's house. He might not be selling drugs himself, but he gives people a source of drugs.

Originally Posted by Marvo

Of course it's illegal. You have to pay liscense, in order to watch TV. Well, atleast in Denmark. By using TV-Links, you can through some TV removal and things, watch TV on the internet, without paying for it, which certainly is illegal.

So, if an english person watches american TV, he should pay double liscense, or get some bonus pack stuff from his TV service provider, which gives him american TV, or something like that.


Before somebody starts saying "Well he was only linking...", then I must say, that it's still illegal. It's like a person, who makes people buy drugs at his friend's house. He might not be selling drugs himself, but he gives people a source of drugs.

You'd make a great police officer...

And why is that ?

you can score drugs at the corner of York Road and Grover Street in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England SS1 2BL

Did I just commit a crime?

Its a shame that, was the best of its kind. I guess its back to torrents then...

No you just gave some info.

Tis a shame to bad there are hundreds of more sites where that came from.

Good Luck Government busts your asses but it's still not even worth it.

Originally Posted by KuRoSaKi

No you just gave some info.

what about a link

drugs here
http://streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=...=newsearch.srf

You're doing it wrong. You have to put people in contact with the drugsellers, you have to be affilliates of them.

"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty." - Thomas Jefferson

Viva La Resistance!!!

Originally Posted by Ynot

what about a link

drugs here
http://streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=...=newsearch.srf

LMAO, it`s more if you willingly let selling go on on your own property.

Originally Posted by Oneironaut_Jeff777

"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty." - Thomas Jefferson

When the government fears the people, there is horrible inaction and stagnation. I know, it`s been like that for 25 years here...

Edit: Sorry for double posting

This isn't a drug thread people.

Originally Posted by Oneironaut_Jeff777

This isn't a drug thread people.

it's a parallel

Arrr crap, now I have to use blurry youtube for Heroes eps

Originally Posted by NeAvO

Arrr crap, now I have to use blurry youtube for Heroes eps

NO YOU DON'T! Use alluc.org. They link you to veoh.com which requires you to download this player but it's totally worth it.

Thanks ma'am

Originally Posted by NeAvO

Thanks ma'am

At your service comrade! Or should I say arch nemesis.

Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant

At your service comrade! Or should I say arch nemesis.

I thought we were partners in torture not enemies