Are streaming movie sites legal?

[irishgrizzly]

I was on a site (that I got to via Stumble) yesterday which a 100's of streaming films. I'll try and find the link on the mac I used later and post up here, but it had PartyPoker.com as its sponsor (whenever you pause an advert is in the media window) and ads for google.

In general can any of these sites be legal?

 

[Cromulent]

In general can any of these sites be legal?

Of course. They could pay the royalties using advertising revenue. Saying that, the chances that they actually are legal are very small.

 

[MacDawg]

Yeah... no... you would be hard pressed to find a legal one

Woof, Woof – Dawg

 

[irishgrizzly]

I thought as much, but how can Google and PartyPoker advertise with them – is it just that they're not aware what the content is?

 

[Texas04]

The only one I know of that is legal is hulu.com... It was big news on some major podcasts when it came out. Has a lot of TV episodes and movies on the site.

 

[nick9191]

Depends on where the website is hosted. If it was illegal then there is a good chance that it would already have been taken down. Many countries have relaxed laws on this sort of thing, or even if they aren't relaxed, they simply don't have the man power to enforce them.