(the sound of hundreds (thousands?) of anglophiles crying out because tv-links has been shut down).
boooo! Jack Schofield of the Guardian Unlimited has a nice summary of why this not only sucks but is kind of stupid if you think about it. All the tv-links guy did was link to illegal content, he didn’t host it, and had plenty of disclaimers up about the dubious legality of watching the shows online. Wouldn’t it make more sense to go after the people who actually host the illegal content? Oh but wait, that’d mean they’d have to go after google and youtube among thousands of others. No, it’d be much easier to arrest someone and make an example of them rather than deal with the real problem. Actually the real problem is that now that you can more or less easily watch tv shows and movies on the internet, it’s not going to matter how many people they make examples of, people will just go elsewhere to get the goods. Shutting down Napster didn’t exactly stop the illegal sharing of music did it?
Bah. BAH!!!
And to show how true that is, here is a reincarnation of tv-links. As far as I can tell, it works okay, about half the links are broken. Probably will be taken down as well, so I recommend you watch as many episodes of Black Books (or whatever you prefer, had to put in a good word!) while you still can:
And here’s a list of other sites if you’re desperate.
SurfTheChannel actually seems to be another copy of tv-links, but with improvements!
I wonder, is it illegal to link to a site that links to possibly illegal sites?
craziness
but you can pretty much always count on http://stage6.divx.com/Black-Books for free episodes of black books.