In early , it was averaging about , visitors a day, but this doubled after Megaupload, a similar site, was shut down.
This was due to alleged copyright infringement, although the shutdown was entirely voluntary. However, the growth in users, which had peaked in , with putlocker being ranked as one of the most-viewed sites on the internet, and top in the USA , also led to putlocker receiving similar unwanted attention. Various attempts have been made to get putlocker shut down or blocked over the years, which has seen the sites URL changing several times.
They first moved to putlocker. The site then moved onto an Icelandic domain as putlocker. However, since October , this URL has just displayed an error message. This led to putlocker. The latest URLs which are reported to work at the time of writing are believed to be putlocker.
The way in which people digest media has changed beyond all recognition even in the last five years. The days of pouring over the TV listings to find out when the shows you want to watch are on and dashing down to Blockbuster on a Friday night to rent your favourite movie are now firmly in the past.
Today, we get pretty much all of our media online. A quick glance at the music charts shows that almost every entry on the list is dominated by streams. More and more TV shows are being released whole series at a time online.
Indeed, online streaming services are even commissioning their own shows these days. It seems like the new streaming sites offer the perfect solution for everyone. There is just one problem and that is the price. Almost all of these streaming sites charge a subscription fee for access to their content.
And for many people that is too much. For other users, who perhaps only want to watch things occasionally, or are just obsessive about one or two shows, it seems like rather a rip off to have to shell out the full subscription fee when you only want to access one or two shows. Then there are the geographic restrictions that are put on these services, which means if you are a subscriber in one country, you cannot access any content as soon as you cross the border into another country.
The world is getting smaller and smaller and more people are travelling for work, or traveling abroad on holiday than ever before. And these people want to be able to access their media content while they are there rather than rely on the limited hotel TV offerings. It is this demand which has seen the rise of free, globally available sites which also stream all the popular media you can access on these subscription sites.
And one of the most well-known of these is called Putlocker. At first glance, this looks to be a simple yes or no question. And if you have read any of the above, you will probably hazard a guess that the answer is no. But actually, it is a far more complicated question to answer than that. It is not unusual for ISPs to send out copyright infringement notices to users who have watched movies and TV shows on Putlocker.
However, I have never heard of any stronger legal action being taken. This is probably because of the way in which users watch media on Putlocker.
If you are taking in a movie via Putlocker, you are streaming content which is hosted elsewhere rather than downloading content onto your device.
And in the eyes of the law in the USA, Europe, and many other countries, this is a crucial difference. This is because the US Copyright Office has been clear in their guidance that if a reproduction cannot be copied, perceived or communicated, then no legal violation has occurred. The laws in the EU have a similar definition, although current cases involving the Kodi media player and its add-ons have muddied the water there a little.
But most legal experts would say that under the current law in the USA and the EU, streaming content cannot leave the person watching it in breach of the law. The person who uploaded the file is the one responsible for it and therefore in breach of copyright law. The question of whether the site itself is in breach of the law is also debatable, but many courts have ruled against Putlocker on this point. Having said that, it is important to inject a word of caution at this juncture.
Because streaming content is not as simple as just watching it on a website. These temporary files are contentious and another area where the law in the USA and the EU are yet to reach a consensus. Some courts have ruled that these files constitute a download and therefore leaves a user in breach of copyright laws. Others have disagreed.
All of which means there is no definitive answer to this question. Whether Putlocker is legal or illegal depends very much on where you are in the world and what you are doing on the site.
If you are streaming content and can be sure that files are not being stored on your device, you are most likely not breaking the law. But if you are downloading, uploading, or sharing content from the site, most courts of law will probably conclude that you are.
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