I know that everyone uses the "I'm not hosting the videos so it's fine" defense but how truly valid is that? Is the owner of all these sites constantly at risk of getting in trouble by the owners of the shows? Also, videos hosted on megavideo.com are constantly being pulled off. Is it just cat & mouse, one gets pulled, another uploads it? Thanks
First I've seen of this thread. I'm sure the topic has been beat to death though. "Linking to warez" is a fairly gray topic with case law on both sides here in the US. Kind of mirrors the bittorrent scene. In my non legal opinion as I'm not a lawyer, it's a problem of you're using the copyrighted material in an attempt to make money and that is illegal.