TV links.co.uk news - The hugely popular TV show search website was shut down today with British authorities claiming that www.tv-links.co.uk was a pirate website.
In fact, tv-links.co.uk hosts no content whatsoever and only links to the pirated TV shows, all of which are on Chinese video-sharing websites beyond the reach of Western anti-piracy efforts.
This anti-piracy move has got to be the stupidest tactic yet by media companies intent on keeping their content out of free access sites. By shutting down a search engine site like TV Links, all they are doing is sending that search traffic somewhere else.
Two Chinese sites have everything TV-Links.co.uk linked to:
Those two sites host most of the pirated US television show and movie content that the TV links website was pointing towards. Just update your PC with Chinese character set support from microsoft.com and you’re good to go.
If you can’t find the TV or movie content you want on the Top two Chinese video sharing websites, then use this list of the Top 25 Chinese video piracy sites (it’s in English).
And that’s the latest news on tv links.co.uk
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October 19th, 2007 at 8:19 pm
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October 19th, 2007 at 10:30 pm
[...] hitsusa wrote an interesting post today on tv links.co.ukHere’s a quick excerptThose two sites host most of the pirated US television show and movie content that the TV links website was pointing towards. Just update your PC with Chinese character set support from microsoft.com and you’re good to go. … [...]
October 20th, 2007 at 12:22 am
It is such bull shit to arrest a person for URL links. User links at that. The person who was arrested never put up links and upon request always took down copyrighted stuff. Dumb ass authorities that is all they are. The person will get off. Go to the Chinese sites to get yer free pirated fix. They make more than enough money anyway so fuck em. F.A.C.T can kiss my American ass also.
October 20th, 2007 at 8:42 am
Is no. 2 meant to be
“http://www.tudou.com/index.html” ?
October 20th, 2007 at 5:12 pm
why did they shut down the website thats not fer i dmaon with the fredom of speatch tv-links.co.uk/ sholud be allowd
October 20th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
todou is horrible to look at, dammit, i loved links before it was big… stupid american authorities! makes me tempted to become a lawyer an pwn there arses in court!!!
October 20th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
found a replacement for tvlinks called http://www.boxsweeper.com
October 20th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
nooooooooooooooooooooooo
October 20th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
there’s already a petition for the release of Sin. if you used his website
http://www.thenewfreedom.net/wp/2007/10/19/tv-linkscouk-raided-owner-arrested/
October 20th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
Interesting how writing down links will get an individual screwed by the police, but actually hosting (and providing links to) the illegal content is ok as long as you are loaded. *cough* Google *cough*
Well, looks like it’s true, “cunts are still running the world.”
October 20th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
any other websites found that will replace it and work??
October 21st, 2007 at 1:20 am
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October 21st, 2007 at 2:41 am
Another link site…www.alluc.org is okay. Oh, and for now…no Veoh player (nothing for *nix).
Sorry to hear that TV-links got pinched. Doubly sorry to hear that it happened in the UK. I don’t consider this piracy, since I’m usually watching the X-files or cartoons….which if I recall was broadcast FOR FREE in the first place.
I like the idea of hosted video. Most of the time there’s no wait and I don’t have to DL anything.
Well, it will be fun watching the IP lawyers try to stuff the genie back in the lamp. Good luck!
October 21st, 2007 at 2:51 am
Yeah i know this is really really uncool, They cant to do this Tv-links, as someone said, Google leads you to all these “pirate” sites aswell, Why not arrest google too?
October 21st, 2007 at 4:13 am
This is wrong sign the petition guys and hope we can get him out.
http://www.thenewfreedom.net/wp/2007/10/19/tv-linkscouk-raided-owner-arrested/
October 21st, 2007 at 5:54 am
http://www.boxsweeper.com
October 21st, 2007 at 10:34 am
it’s so wrong that tv-links was shut down because thats one of the best website ever!!! also it has almost all the forgaten animes and movie.sooo i hope tv-links will be back
October 21st, 2007 at 3:13 pm
check out sidereel.com
more links than tv-links. huge community adding them.
enjoy.
October 21st, 2007 at 3:37 pm
Ok its wrong so so wrong …. tv-links was a clean quick loading site …that listed the crimes of others ….. this was done to send a message to the others thinking of doing similar projects ……it will just drive it underground now. so here comes a downloadable invite only xml php flash player software…………dont say we didnt warn you
October 21st, 2007 at 3:48 pm
guy check out this www11.alluc.org you will find the same things as tv-links and its still free , NO DOWNLOADS!!!
Keep on streaming
October 21st, 2007 at 10:48 pm
Arrested for posting links one day.
Dealth Penalty for your opinion the next?
If they want it removed that badly, there are better ways of going around it. Good going MPAA, you yet again manage to surpress the rights of the people on the internet.
And out of control, it’s not just chinese websites that host. Youtube, Google (Oh but they have report features, no one uses). Who’s working for MPAA intelligence, because they’re absolutely sh**e. Sack please.
October 22nd, 2007 at 6:07 am
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:
http://humanopinion.org/support_for_tvlinks
November 4th, 2007 at 2:18 am
There are so many of these types of sites that are just linked to the content, but tv-links is the most up to date on and has the most links.
Other sites just dont compare! sites like boxsweeper & peekvid still have old links.
I was wondering why I couldn’t get onto tv-links, how sad!
November 5th, 2007 at 2:13 am
Wow I cannot belive that tv-links is gone. I was trying to watch movies that I missed in theaters and watch Dragonball Z episodes. GOD DAMMIT. Well here is a great site that is probably the best compared to tv-links. Unfotunately it doesn’t have a great search engine so you pretty much have to look through the threads that are made on each movie. If no other site is working for you try MOVIEFORUMZ.COM
November 9th, 2007 at 11:55 am
Try NSR http://nosubscriptionrequired.blogspot.com/
over 250 free movie sites.
November 9th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
THIS IS SO NOT RIGHT. tv links is like the best website you could ever find to watch what you want plus its free. thos people should go to **** for shutting this website down. geezzz. i was looking foreward to watching cartoons and anime on there.
November 9th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
well if you think about it we dont really even own our cds we “buy” legally because if we copy “our” Own” cds we “bought” its illegal too. Linking to copyrighted material is not illegal,providing the copyrighted material is.You know if we want the internet back we need to stand up for our rights and send letters to congress,parliament,or whatever and tell them we are tired of this stupid shit and we want our civil liberties back.Tell them that the internet doesnt belong to the big companies,it belongs to all of us and we want it back.what happened to free speech?you want to know?CONGRESS HAPPENED TO FREE SPEECH!If they wanna keep this up they should just piss all over the constitution,then eat it,shit it out,and go all over again.it would be the equivalent of what they r doin.im pissed 4 a number of reasons.too many to list on this post so peace out and remember fight 4 your rights dont let congress and the courts take them!
November 12th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
wat the hell is wrong with people giveing joy to others u asshole
November 13th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
OK ITS NOT OKAY TO HOST MOVIES (TV LINKS DIDNT HOST ANYTHING I KNOW !) BUT TV SHOWS ARE ON TV FOR FREE, SO WHATS THE DIFFERNCE BETWEEN RECORDING THE PROGRAM AND WATCHING IT ON THE NET ?
TV LINKS WAS MY FAV SITE
AND TODAY I FOUND OUT THEY FINALLY SHUT DOWN
AFTER MANY ATTEMPTS TO GET TO THE SITE
ALL OTHER SITES SUCK
THIS BLOWS
November 26th, 2007 at 3:01 am
HEY WHAT HAPPEN?!?!?! WHAT HAPPEN TO THIS WEBSITE?!?!? ITS NOT KOOL DOG!!!
December 23rd, 2007 at 2:30 pm
i can’t believe that
December 24th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
i just found this site flinzo.com it has almost every single movie. Just wanted to share it since i seen some of you asking for sites like tv-links.
January 2nd, 2008 at 9:37 pm
check out this great search engine for free streaming online
http://www.fnuz.com
find free streaming movies, animes, cartoons, series, tv shows..
January 4th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
TVLINKS IS BACK NOW CALL HTTP://WWW.TV-LINKS.CC WOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
January 13th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
“TVLINKS IS BACK NOW CALL HTTP://WWW.TV-LINKS.CC WOOO HO” is bogus!
It is NOT BACK this is just a poor copy of the original site.
Further more nearly all the links are dead..
January 30th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
“It is NOT BACK this is just a poor copy of the original site.
Further more nearly all the links are dead..”
Really? The site seems pretty dang similar… ‘Sides, looking between alluc.org (another great TV/Movie link site just as comprehensive as TV-Links) the episode links seem pretty much the same (and they work). The links all come from the same reputable video archive sites (tudou.com, ouou.com, veoh.com…) as tv-links and alluc.org. If the video was removed, it’s because it was removed from the host site, not because tv-links.cc put up dead links or anything.
February 4th, 2008 at 10:56 am
I think that he just got tv links data base and is trying to convince everyone that it is back …
March 2nd, 2008 at 7:27 am
THAT IS FUCKIN BULLLL SHITTT, I USE 2 GO THERE ALL DA TIME
FUCKIN BULL SHIT
GAY ASS MUTHA FUCKIN FAGS
March 24th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Ok…First,What are they charging Sin for? Typing up website links? Second,If he’s guilty as something as obscene as this,Then Google should be completely fucking screwed by now. Third,I doubt they’re actually going to charge him or anything as 1. There’s a petition to get him out,They can hardly ignore that many people saying that we should let him out. and 2. He didn’t actually HOST the content,He linked to it,How does that make HIM guilty? He didn’t go in and record it,Then upload it to a site or create a site that lets people do that.
If Sin does come back and start up Tv-l again,Hopefully this time he’ll be smart enough to do what alluc.org do,When you click a link,It brings you to the sites disclaimer denying all responsibility for the content at the end of the link giving a nice big “FUCK YOU! NE NE NA NE NE! YOU CAN’T CATCH ME!” to the fucktards at F.A.C.T.
FREE SIN!!!
April 11th, 2008 at 8:34 am
Noooooo!!! this sucks