For those that know me well they know I’m an advocate of doing whatever you do online — find answers to questions, get your news, keep in touch with family, watch tv… Yep! You could easily watch tv, movies, documentaries, cartoons and more on a popular site called tv-links.co.uk, but tv-links is no more!. Jon Sheppard wrote more about TV Links just a few weeks prior, I think that’s what really did it. :)
In about July of this year my co-workers and I guessed how long the site would be up, (I believe Jon Sanderson won, cheers!) and most of our guesses were in the first quarter of next year. Although TV Links didn’t actually host the content, as the name suggests they linked to media on streaming video sites like YouTube and Google Video
, it was still a thorn in the movie industry’s side. As I understand it, as companies like Google are made aware of the infringing media they must take it down, but the user may upload it again. I believe Google’s done a good job of finding a happy medium that is neither too infringing on copyrights or too lenient on uploaders, it would be impossible to police every video that’s uploaded.
So what’s a Internet user to do to get their needed fix of tv shows and movies? There will always be places on the web to get such media — whether it’s torrenting, streaming, ripping or burning.
But aren’t we all watching a bit too much TV anyway??
I feel like this is the end of an era… however, i did hear about a possible predecessor – VideoLemon.com, though only time will tell…
Well the real troubling thing here is that the internet is based on linking. In the past nobody has ever been in trouble for linking to what someone else was hosting, but not they have set a precedent for linking so I fear for the future of linking, and thus the internet itself.
I truly hope that my post was not responsible for TV-Links going down but it did go down soon after I posted… never underestimate the power of a blog!
I was so annoyed when it closed down
But it seems to sortof be up again, look at this::
I think thats pretty much the same site.
It has all the links that TV Links had on it.
Enjoy.
tvlinks was a t.v for me i hope that you can bring it back