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Robbie Comeau

Robbie Comeau

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How do websites that offer free movies, (even before there released) make it ? Why don't they get banned? Like Alluc.org or instance. Why aren't all these illegal sites like this one shut down? Im not saying to shut it down, im just wodnering HOW they get away with it
 
Usually because they are peer to peer sites, which means that they are not actually hosting anything illegal on their server. When you download something from one of those sites you're downloading if from other users computers...the site only acts as a way for those people to connect. So it's not quite so easy to prosecute them because there is a debate as to how much they can be held rsponsible for what their users use the service for. As a very bad analogy, its like trying to shut down the phone company because someone planned a crime on the phone....or forcing ZipLoc out of business because people use their bags to transport drugs...

okay, really clunky analogies, but you get the point.
 
i don't know anything about the site you mentioned, but some host their websites overseas.
 
Ya cause MY FRIEND was on the site ;), and he went to a link for a video, and it said "you are now leaving this site, continue?" so i guess that explains the whole thing where the site doesn't actualyl host it. Then the link you get to, sometimes it says the video is offline (probably got removed)

My friend did all this, i didnt'.....
 
http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-survival-the-way-of-the-hydra/

There are many ways websites get around the legal issues of putting content online (Foreign hosting, P2P, Decentralized hosting, Linking, or just not knowing, like movies found on youtube) What many of you might not realize is that the way copywrite owners going about getting there material pulled is also not fully legal, Its a harsh topic - But i think that the "Hydra" Is not going to die anytime soon.
 
MiniMan13 said:
What many of you might not realize is that the way copywrite owners going about getting there material pulled is also not fully legal, Its a harsh topic - But i think that the "Hydra" Is not going to die anytime soon.
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Indeed. Take a look at a few of the cases that the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been involved in to see some examples of some bogus Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedowns. Trying to go after people for doing the Electric Slide?? Come on...

As for Bittorrent, there are many legitimate uses for it as well. GNU/Linux distributions can be downloaded at several times the speed of FTP, and their maintainers don't have to pay as much for bandwidth. Actually, I read an article somewhere that suggested that one of the main reasons ISP's don't block the default Bittorrent ports altogether is because of users using it to download Linux distros...
 
TwistedLincoln said:
Indeed. Take a look at a few of the cases that the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been involved in to see some examples of some bogus Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedowns. Trying to go after people for doing the Electric Slide?? Come on...

As for Bittorrent, there are many legitimate uses for it as well. GNU/Linux distributions can be downloaded at several times the speed of FTP, and their maintainers don't have to pay as much for bandwidth. Actually, I read an article somewhere that suggested that one of the main reasons ISP's don't block the default Bittorrent ports altogether is because of users using it to download Linux distros...
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Well that is true, but New Creative Commons music services like www.jamendo.com
use bittorrent to download the music
 
Tv-links.co.uk was one of the big ones. I'm surprised it was around for as long as it was. It was the go-to site for streaming tv shows and feature films. The site had virtually every season of every tv show in existence, sometimes offered in multiple choices of video players.

Couple weeks ago British authorities raided the guys apartment and arrested the owner of the site, a 26 year old guy. Slightly controversial just because he wasn't hosting the material, just providing easily accessible links in a massively compiled list on his site. (Still wrong, IMO, but interesting in terms of Internet dist./copyright, etc.)

Another big one is the Russian mp3 site, allofmp3.com. They've been operating forever. Huge catalog of music, probably easily rivaled iTunes selection, and they'd charge about 10 cents per song, or even less.

They also just got shut down. Well, not literally, but all major American credit card companies were recently forced to disallow transactions through the site, effectively shutting it down as far as the US is concerned.

The international file-sharing sites have been tough to incriminate for some reason, but now, one by one, they're going down nonetheless.
 
I think one interesting side effect from piracy is that television networks are starting to stream their shows on their websites. You can watch a lot of NBC shows on their site, of course they make you watch the commercials, but I think it's one way the networks are dealing with their shows ending up on bittorrent.
 
Isaac_Brody said:
I think one interesting side effect from piracy is that television networks are starting to stream their shows on their websites. You can watch a lot of NBC shows on their site, of course they make you watch the commercials, but I think it's one way the networks are dealing with their shows ending up on bittorrent.
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Yep, and I think it's a great move. Make it easier for people to see your stuff for free, yet still make ad revenue in the process. It's a win-win situation.
 
Isaac_Brody said:
I think one interesting side effect from piracy is that television networks are starting to stream their shows on their websites. You can watch a lot of NBC shows on their site, of course they make you watch the commercials, but I think it's one way the networks are dealing with their shows ending up on bittorrent.
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Absolutely. Fox is doing the same.
If you can't beat em....


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