Back in october of last year we reported that one of the fastest growing websites on the internet tv-links.co.uk was closed down by officers from Gloucestershire County Council trading standards in conjunction with investigators from Fact and Gloucestershire Police, a 26-year-old man from Cheltenham, UK, was arrested along with others involved with the site. Since then there have been a few pretenders to the tv-links crown but none really fitted the gap however a new site titled tv-links.cc is gathering pace.

If you do not know exactly what service tv-links provided they basically linked to videos of popular tv-shows and movies that were hosted on third party video sites like YouTube, Goolge Video and the now defunct Stage6Divx.

Before tv-links.co.uk was taken offline it had exploded into the alexa top 500 most traffic websites in the world, the most impressive stat though is that it tv-links achieved this ranking in under seven months. You can read an article we wrote titled “TV-Links.co.uk Blasts into the Alexa top 500 websites” back in July last year covering the sites sudden success and more detailed explanation why the stats were impressive.

Since the demise of tv-links a few sites tried to fill the void that was generated with one of the most successful being sidereel.com, sidereel is a pretty good site with better features but for some reason users still pined for a tv-links replacement.

This is where www.tv-links.cc have seen a niche and seem to be doing pretty well out of it. The site looks very similar to the old tv-links.co.uk in design and it has plenty of content available for the media hungry to consume. An interesting message indicating that the site will also be hosting torrents in the coming weeks is posted on the homepage and quoted below….

No more DivX after Feb 28th 2008
But don’t worry, we added a lot more videos in every category. We have more working videos than before. Torrent is coming soon early next week and another great feature coming after that. Tell your friends, support free movies!…. 03-08-08

Personally i am not a user of these type of sites mainly due to the low video quality, i like my HD i do see the appeal of the quick tv fix though and understand why these sites are so popular. One thing to note is that a lot of the videos available more than always seem to have chinese subs at the bottom of the video, cool if your chinese annoying if your a westerner.

The current legal position surrounding hyperlinking to copyrighted content at the moment can at best be described as vague. The original tv-links grew into one of the most trafficked websites on the Internet in 2007, only time will tell if tv-links.cc will be able to fend off the inevitable legal challenges they will face in the future.

Website: www.tv-links.cc

For a list of other alternatives you can read this post tv-links.co.uk is offline so what good alternatives are there for tv shows

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