Hi I have this website which provide TV show episodes as embed videos from megavideo hosted clips. it's a favorite Disney show and the tv show name is in the domain. is this site count as illegal ? if even I use who is privacy, will I get troubles ? thank you for your reply
It is illegal if you do not have the rights, and technically it is illegal if no rights are supplied when the videos are on Megavideo themself. Creating your own original content will get more views than a copy of something else, especially a Disney based show, as only young children watch those, and they are hardly going to find your website and scroll through pages of megavideo embeds when they can just put their nice shiny big TV on.
no, it's not a kid's show. it's a teen show. I am getting a good traffic and the season 4 is airing these days. should I get rid of it ?
It's contributory infringement to even link to the videos (if you live and/or host in the US - and certain other countries). It's against the adsense TOS (if you are running it on the site). Using the show name in the domain is trademark infringement no matter where you live. I would never take the legal and monetary risk of operating this type of site.
Business like this is full of risks. Just dont know if its worth doing, as anyone of those "good traffic" people can report your site.
In June of 2005, the U.S. Supreme court ruled 9-0 in MGM v. Grokster that sites that permit P2P filie sharing of copyright works are guilty of contributory infringement. In October of this year, Lime Wire stopped distributing and supporting its file sharing service after losing a court battle with the record industry. It is pretty obvious that operating a site that allows downloading of copyright material is going to cost you more money in legal fees than you ever make from your site no matter how well it is doing.
Does it has exact law about this? I heard before that is it legal to download video from internet like youtube. seems the answer is foggy: for personal uses! any one get caught!? Someone rebut that is it legal to upload video to internet youtube, google? lol i think tv also has the same viewpoint in a sense