Free TV Service Is Growing At An Amazing Rate - How Long Before It Is Shut Down?

December 20th, 2006 • Related • Filed Under

I feel really sorry for the TV and Music industry as they are fighting a losing battle in my view to stop their content being shared and downloaded online. There are so many services where you can find TV shows, music and software for free it is unmanageable in my view.

A month or so ago I featured one of the newer online TV Services, TV Links. Since then it’s been the biggest driver of traffic to my blog even though I’m at the bottom of first page of results on Google Canada of all places. In fact this link alone has made Google Canada my 3rd biggest referrer.

I thought I’d have a look at well TVLinks was doing, and I was impressed by the growth the site has seen in under a month:

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The growth is nothing short of astounding and I’m pretty sure that TVlinks will soon be on the radar of the powers that be, for some serious legal action. TVlinks claims that it is legal because they only provide links, and don’t host the content:

Is this site legal? Don’t make me call my lawyer.

We provide links, nothing is wrong about that.

I imagine that this is the same argument that the Torrent search engines use, but I’m sure that any legal loophole that they are exploiting will soon be closed.

Interestingly, Google hasn’t given the site a Page Rank yet. I wonder if this is a deliberate move to suppress ‘dubious’ sites?

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Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK. He also writes for Windows 7 News.

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  1. #1

    Comment by Jessi on 21 October 2007:

    so when is tv-links coming back up or are they? I miss it!!!

  2. #2

    Comment by Gary on 22 October 2007:

    Well your blog post’s prediction has certainly come to pass, with the closure of tv-links.co.uk and the arrest of the owner.

    This is going to be a landmark case. FACT have picked on the smallest fish in the sea and may be using this case to push through a precedent. tv-links.co.uk probably do not have access to legal resources which youtube and Google have, thererfore it may be a easy prosecution for FACT.

    Please consider support these guys, we have started a ChipIn to raise funds to assist in their legal defence. This case is about linking, what can you link to and what can’t you. This issue should recieve proportional debate as it affects us all. tv-links.co.uk did not reach 182 in the Alexa charts on their own, they had users and millions of them.

    Perhaps, we could all support them with more than just our blog posts.

    Please consider supporting tv-links.co.uk’s case with more than just our blog posts:

    http://humanopinion.org/support_for_tvlinks

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