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Major pirate website (tv-links) shut down, owner arrested.

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

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.

#1 Achilleus, Oct 21, 2007

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Wow, I wonder if this guy gets jail time. I used to check that site out on and off.

#2 professorjay, Oct 21, 2007
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A little off topic but What about that american lady who was caught having 20 something songs downloaded from the net on her computer. She was fined something like 200k. Talk about a scapegoat

#3 matty101, Oct 21, 2007
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matty101 said:

A little off topic but What about that american lady who was caught having 20 something songs downloaded from the net on her computer. She was fined something like 200k. Talk about a scapegoat
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oh ****

#4 SLrocket, Oct 21, 2007
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matty101 said:

A little off topic but What about that american lady who was caught having 20 something songs downloaded from the net on her computer. She was fined something like 200k. Talk about a scapegoat
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I guess i'd get the death penalty

#5 jcee15, Oct 21, 2007
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that was my best movie sight too

#6 dntrwl, Oct 21, 2007
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i honestly don't think ppl look at music as being something you have to pay for anymore

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#8 Poloshirtbandit, Oct 21, 2007
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I'm surprised that site wasn't shut down earlier. I remember thinking when it first came out, that it was only a matter of time. But it kept growing and growing and didn't seem to bother with staying underneath the radar. I guess it caught up with them in the end.

#9 m_cable, Oct 21, 2007
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Yep, heard about it earlier in the week from digg. Sucks ass. I loved that site.

This one is still up though.

http://www.start2enjoy.com/

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Yep, heard about it earlier in the week from digg. Sucks ass. I loved that site.

This one is still up though.

http://www.start2enjoy.com/
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wait since tvlinks was just posting links of where illegal movies could be found,,, is it illegal to post links to links where illegal links are being posted?

#11 AMS, Oct 21, 2007
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Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...

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m_cable said:

I'm surprised that site wasn't shut down earlier. I remember thinking when it first came out, that it was only a matter of time. But it kept growing and growing and didn't seem to bother with staying underneath the radar. I guess it caught up with them in the end.
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all of these sites seem to be working on the basis that it's just a medium for users to post links, they don't actually post any links themselves.

IDK what happened with tv-links, maybe the owner started posting links himself.

The most likely reason this site got shut down is because it was the biggest one out there.

#13 Storm Surge, Oct 21, 2007

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Dang... Anybody know where I can catch some Prison Break on-line? I missed last weeks episode.

#14 Asian Sensation, Oct 21, 2007
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Tv-links really wasnt very dependable this last year neways links hardly ever worked.

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Asian Sensation said:

Dang... Anybody know where I can catch some Prison Break on-line? I missed last weeks episode.
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umm...

www.fox.com

#16 ClutchCityReturns, Oct 21, 2007
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Asian Sensation said:

Dang... Anybody know where I can catch some Prison Break on-line? I missed last weeks episode.
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There was no new episode last week

#17 playlife, Oct 21, 2007
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Asian Sensation said:

Dang... Anybody know where I can catch some Prison Break on-line? I missed last weeks episode.
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fox.com

#18 Poloshirtbandit, Oct 21, 2007

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There was no episode last week, btw (baseball game).

#19 Poloshirtbandit, Oct 21, 2007
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Just go here instead. Basically the same if not better than tv links.

http://www.alluc.org

#20 geeimsobored, Oct 21, 2007

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