You and I see a single site where you can go and find movies people have uploaded to YouTube. The MPAA sees a single site where they can go and make their DMCA requests to YouTube. I question how long this will be useful.
Also, it's up to individual rightsholders to submit DMCA requests not the MPAA (as far as my experience goes). If you look into how fragmented rights ownership is in the film industry, you'll soon realise how unlikely it is that the site dies because of DMCA requests.
Yes, but the sword cuts both ways. You wouldn't have been able to find these films either, so if the there's a DMCA takedown it ends up being a wash (for the vast majority). Sure you can have underground sharing sites, but that requires a much larger personal time commitment for an inferior selection. Worst case would be that MPAA uses the data and the site stops being useful so people stop submitting, so the damage it could cause to film sharing seems self-limiting. It seems a worthy experiment to me.
This website is considered aiding and abetting copyright infringement which is a serious crime. They will DMCA your hosting to take you down, and then sue you regardless of the fact that you live in canada...should've made this site anonymously with a prepaid credit card at a coffee shop...not very smart bro. I suggest hosting in norway since they don't bother with DMCA. In addition you don't have a DMCA agent which means you are not protected under DMCA. It is very easy to register a DMCA agent but most people that do something illegal knowingly such as yourself have a lawyer register for them. If i were you, i would probably shut down this site since it's not worth the trouble it will cause you and your friends. Relaunch it anonymously with another domain...it's your best protection.
Also remember that when you buy a new domain, make up your contact information and never ever use your real info even for a second because there are many whois data providers that scrape and save whois info changes. You can buy historical whois data for $10 bucks.
Another tip is never respond to DMCA emails from your hosting provider if they forward you one and won't turn your site back up until your reply. They will ask you state your name and declare under perjury that you will remove the infringing content from your website. In most cases, they will share this information with the person that filed the DMCA request and that will blow your cover. When something like that happens, just move your hosting. Never buy hosting for more than 3 months at a time.
Take it from someone who has been in the porn business for a long time.
Sorry you're having problems. That's an odd one, haven't seen it before. Probably resolved with a refresh. The site seems to be struggling a bit right now, so probably related. Looking into it.
This is one movie/tv site I have come across where the time between finding a movie you like and watching said movie is short enough that I don't get frustrated.
Apologies for the problems with the site, working to get it resolved.
@haimez: I definitely wouldn't blame Meteor entirely for the issues with the scalability of the site, not only because it's pre-v1, but also because while I did my best to make the site as snappy as possible, getting a massive influx of users all at once from a front-page HN story, while incredibly awesome, is challenging no matter who you are.
I'd also like to add that the Meteor team is amazingly responsive and helpful to people using their platform and have taken time to help me resolve these issues.
