A little surprising news arrived from the United Kingdom: antipiracy organization shut down a fairly popular UK website linking to new episodes of 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. 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 disturbing aspect of this raid and site closure is that the guy behind the whole thing didn’t really offered any illegal content, but only linked to “proper” sites which offered the content.
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