7 People Are Speaking Their Mind

1. Mik Says:

   October 20th, 2007 at 5:32 pm

   I usually stay out of these sort of fringe arguments,but the site PROFITED from posting the information…information that when used by the site’s visitor,caused he or she to break the law.

2. J Says:

   October 21st, 2007 at 8:13 pm

   where does it stop. How long before someone arrests the owners of google, for example, claiming that google search is a tool that allows people to find “copyrighted content”. (whether the copyrite applies on the internet is debatable, though the media establishment acts like its a given that copyrites do apply on the internet, despite an obvious bias $$$ they have.)

   The will of the People will prevail, after all Human Will is the 5th great force that runs this planetary system.

   J

3. Alternatives to TVLinks Says:

   October 22nd, 2007 at 7:25 am

   […] What do copyright trolls do when they can’t harass big video-sharing sites? They go after any poor schmuck who even mentions those sites. That’s what they did to TVLinks, a site that just lists TV shows online. […]

4. Video Copyright Laws Recap » Web TV Wire Says:

   October 23rd, 2007 at 7:18 am

   […] In light of the recent TVLinks shut-down in the UK, I thought we should take a look at the many other cases of lawsuits and shut-downs pertaining to copyright violations on video sites that we have covered here on WebTVWire. […]

5. john Says:

   October 23rd, 2007 at 3:54 pm

   This is so dumb! if linkin is illegal .. what about google? so what about linking to these sites? I found a website that is similar they link the website to tvlinks link’s… called boxsweeper … is that illegal too?

6. Chris Tew Says:

   October 24th, 2007 at 4:10 am

   Google isn’t Illegal because if a copyright owner tells them to take down a link they do it:
   http://www.google.com/dmca.html

   When they don’t they go to court:
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_10_v._Google,_Inc.

   Even when they do abide with takedown requests companies still try to sue Google (sometimes for $1 billion dollars):
   http://www.webtvwire.com/google-taking-no-shit-from-viacom-over-youtube/

   And TVLinks was no small site - it was bigger than Fox.com and NBC.com put together, had millions of monthly users, and the guy who owned will have been making about $30,000 a month.

   Did he give any of that to the content owners or the EFF.org to encourage fairer distribution of TV content - no who just kept his stolen money. The only thing that guy was thinking about was himself.

7. TVLinks Owner Deserved to be Arrested » Web TV Wire Says:

   October 24th, 2007 at 5:47 am

   […] TVLinks was recently shut down and the owner arrested in the UK. […]

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