Hello, I have been searching on the web, for an answer for my question, but didn´t find. I might have searched on the wrong terms but i thought i should ask here. I am at the point to set up a website-forum with some friends, now to make a little cash out of it i want to provide a section on the forum where you can watch your series I will try to make this cash by putting a advertisement between the the forum and the streaming site. so you click on the link on the forum, then you get redirected to a site where you have to wait 5 sec, and then you get your stream link. but my question is, is it legal to provide links to streaming sites? and make money of it? regards olalaaa
9/10 times, linking is fine. Embedding videos could be risky, however, if it's just a plain link, you should be fine.
As I stated in a recent post, Contributory infringers provide the materials 2nd parties need to infringe upon a 3rd party and they are just as guilty as the infringing party. I had a case a few years ago where the motion picture industry sued my clients for setting up a site that provided links to movie downloads located on random sites. My clients were in the wrong -- and they were found to be contributory infringers. So, in answer to your question - No it is not legal to provide links to streaming sites.