Today, TV-Links was shut down. TV-Links was a site that provided links to movies and TV shows on popular media sharing sites, such as Youtube. Apparently the police in the UK have arrested the owner on charges of "facilitation" of copyright infringement.
Am I the only one who has a problem with these charges? Congratulations media companies, instead of going after the real copyright infringer's, you go after TV-Links. I think these charges might be a big deciding factor in the future of the present internet in the UK. Can anyone be charged for linking to TV-Links? And, are people in the UK going to have to be vigilant about who they link to? The media companies have gone and started a war between themselves and the rights of people on the internet. To me, the big companies are becoming dictators of what content we can link to.
As long as Tv-Links didn't physically help upload the content, there should be no charges for "facilitation". This is controlling who we can link to on the internet. It is completely destroying one of the fundamental parts of the internet, "The World Wide Web".
Hey, guess what? Google has links to all the content TV-Links provided. Why hasn't it been named in the charges? If these charges go through, the internet could be on its way to "The World Wide Marble Pile". It would be nothing more than chaos with no way to navigate.
So my question is this: Should a large corporation be able to dictate who we link to, and what the future of the internet should be? And second of all, if TV-Links can be charged for the links, shouldn't any major search engine also be responsible for their links, regardless of who (people) or what (robots) found and indexed them?

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Friday, October 19, 2007
TV-Links Raided and Shut Down!
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Kyle Jorgensen
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Labels: freedom, internet, police, world wide web
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Yes, it was shut down and the owner was arrested. He was not allowed to use the old domain, BUT nothing was said about him starting up a brand new site haha!
And guess what? thats what he exactly went and done for you guys!
If you want to go there please go to tvlinks
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