We can’t help but notice some fuss in the blogosphere about the tv-link.co.uk site being shut down, according to an article in the UK’s Guardian Newspaper. As usual with stories like this, it is difficult to separate fact from the PR spin put on the stories by the related copyright enforcement organization, whether it’s the RIAA in the US, or FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft) in the UK. The story quotes only sources from FACT, not the police, which allows them to say whatever they want about the how and why of the shutdown of the website.

There is more to this story and it will come out over the next few weeks. Every time a website like tv-links disappears, the copyright organizations raise a victory flag, and then the site comes back in a few days, a victim of inadequate bandwidth, or in the case of Piratebay, a complete overstepping by legal authorities of due process.

In this case, the owner of tv-links might just as easily have been arrested for not paying his internet service bill, for all that can reliably be told from the story in the Guardian. It’s a good thing in any case that internetizens have lots of choices for how to get TV content.

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