{"id":17,"date":"2007-10-20T01:25:43","date_gmt":"2007-10-20T07:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aspiringeconomist.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/20\/tv-linkscouk-shut-down\/"},"modified":"2007-10-20T01:28:45","modified_gmt":"2007-10-20T07:28:45","slug":"tv-linkscouk-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aspiringeconomist.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/20\/tv-linkscouk-shut-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Tv-links.co.uk shut down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A popular British website that linked to streaming videos of television shows and movies <a href=\"http:\/\/business.guardian.co.uk\/story\/0,,2195407,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">was shut down on Friday<\/a>.  I was introduced to the site as an undergraduate while working as a night auditor at a hotel in my college town.   My coworkers would use the site to catch the latest episode of &#8220;House&#8221; when there was a lull at work.  I wasn&#8217;t particularly impressed with site as links were often dead (having been shut down for violating copyright) and the quality of videos was poor.  I much preferred to watch a TV show through the video feed of its respective network&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>While piracy on a large scale likely reduces industry profits and the incentive for innovation, it also fills demand that would otherwise go unmet.  Many of the links on the tv-links.co.uk were for shows that are no longer, or very rarely, on the air.  For example, past shows that aren&#8217;t out on DVD such as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Wonder_Years\">&#8220;The Wonder Years&#8221;<\/a> are virtually impossible to watch legally.  When their is no legal venue to view a show, piracy may be illegal and\/or immoral, but it&#8217;s probably not inefficient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A popular British website that linked to streaming videos of television shows and movies was shut down on Friday. I was introduced to the site as an undergraduate while working as a night auditor at a hotel in my college town. My coworkers would use the site to catch the latest episode of &#8220;House&#8221; when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-piracy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aspiringeconomist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aspiringeconomist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aspiringeconomist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aspiringeconomist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aspiringeconomist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/aspiringeconomist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aspiringeconomist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aspiringeconomist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aspiringeconomist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}