Alluc

Infobox Website
name=AllUC.org


url=http://www.alluc.org
type=Online Video Cataloguing
current status=Online (Live)
language=English, German and Spanish
revenue="Unknown"
registration=Optional
owner= All You See Ltd. & Co. KG
director= Hans-Jochen Fink
author=Sebastian Fink

Alluc.org "(pronounced: "all-you-see")" is a link-sharing-website that catalogues links to TV shows, movies, music videos, sport, anime and cartoons to make them more easily accessible. Alluc does not host any content itself. Alluc.org also does not contain any download links, all are links to streaming video sharing websites. Users provide the links in the right category and they are released to the site after having been checked by the administrators. Video hosting sites that are linked to Alluc include YouTube, Dailymotion, and Veoh, amongst others. [ [http://media.www.dailyorange.com/media/storage/paper522/news/2006/10/31/Feature/Internet.Corner.Allfg.org-2410696.shtml Internet Corner: Allfg.org - Feature ] ] [ [http://www.xeep.net/allfg-provides-links-to-tv-shows-and-movies-to-watch-on-the-web/ Allfg Provides Links to TV Shows and Movies to Watch on the Web | Video on the Web ] ] [ [http://tech.netscape.com/story/2006/11/24/allfg-provides-links-to-tv-shows-and-movies-to-watch-on-the-web Allfg Provides Links to TV Shows and Movies to Watch on the Web » Propeller ] ] [ [http://colorfulmoment.com/en/?p=469 colorfulmoment.com » Blog Archive » Want to watch your favorite TV episode…errr…for Free!? ] ] [http://www.metacafe.com/watch/354729/the_best_collection_of_free_online_tv/ (Video featuring allfg.org/ alluc.org)] [ [http://onlinetv.wikidot.com/ Onlinetv: Online TV and Movies Websites ] ] [ [http://www.tsl.pomona.edu/?page=lifestyle&article=2067&issue=71 No TiVo? No Problem. Welcome to the Age of TV Without TV. - The Student Life ] ] [ [http://tommwilson.com/blog/alluc-orgasmic-tv-shows-movies-and-music-videos.php AllUC org-asmic tv shows, movies, and music videos! - Blog - Tom Wilson ] ]

Founder Sebastian Fink says: "I've experienced that the visitors use the site to test certain TV shows to check whether they want to download them or buy them on DVD. By using Alluc.org the people are getting to know shows that don't even exist in their countries." [The Guardian, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguide/features/story/0,,2018909,00.html "TV quick!"] February 24, 2007]

Moreover, Alluc (and similar sites) has aided in the introduction (or plans towards this) of free streaming online video by major television networks such as HBO, FOX, BBC, Channel 4, ITV and others. [RICHARD SIKLOS, NY-times [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/business/yourmoney/01frenzy.html?_r=3&ref=technology&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin "Push Comes to Shove for Control of Web Video"] April 1, 2007] If Alluc continues to grow more popular, it could be used as a tool for networks wanting to promote their shows. These companies are increasingly making shows available for viewing on their Web sites, or for downloading to portable media-players like iPods, in an attempt to capture advertising revenue linked to younger segments of the market. [Jonathan Ratner, National Post [http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=2b92a9ee-09cd-48cd-a153-88041a358e67&k=0 "Video-sharing site Alluc.org aggregates links to so-called 'free' streaming"] January 19, 2007]

History

Alluc.org started out as a quest to collect all Family Guy episodes hosted on popular video hosting websites and to categorise them in one place, thus Allfg.org (standing for: All Family Guy) was founded. Set up in September 2006 by its three German owners , Allfg.org's popularity grew.Annie Flanzraich, The Nevada Sagebrush [http://nvsagebrush.com/news/show/121 "The evolution of piracy"] ] On this first site the content was not yet automatically submittable. Public awareness of the site was apparently spread by word of mouth. (cfr. related articles)

On October 23, 2006, a forum was set up, where the system of submitting links by the users was improved. In Mid-October, the official Alluc.org website launched. This site was a big improvement because the links were directly submittable and dead links could be reported when logged in.kwantlenchronicle, Patricia Matos, [http://www.kwantlenchronicle.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=135&Itemid=31 "Hardest pirate to bust: Internet"] February 28, 2007] A logo competition was started December 29, 2006 and spawned massive response from the site visitors. The logo was chosen through a democratic voting system by all visitors.

Several automated scripts were developed to aid in the detection of 'false links' and redundant copies of links. These scripts are activated periodically to effectively clean the database.

The popularity of the site has spawned other similar sites, such as TV Links (which was shut down by a legal challenge in August 2007 and is still offline until further notice).

Problems

In January 2007, Fox and Paramount threatened the site owners with legal action and the company that hosted their server as well if they didn't take down links to their specific content. In fear of lawsuits and having their site taken down, the site owners removed the requested series and adhered to proposal not to host the mentioned items.

In March 2008, the MPAA increased the pressure on the staff of Alluc forcing them to take down several popular tv-series and movies from the Alluc main site. The MPAA also insisted these changes were enforced in the Alluc forum as well, leading to names of several popular tv programs and movies (e.g. Lost and 300) to be banned and filtered.

tatistics

Alluc is currently ranked (concerning traffic) 1,093^rd according to [http://www.alexa.com "alexa.com"] and is ranked in the top 1000 of sites in Ireland, United Kingdom, Denmark, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore, Belgium, United States, Austria, Finland, Israel, Netherlands, Australia and Germany.cite web | url = http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?site0=www.alluc.org&site1=www.allfg.org&site2=&site3=&site4=&y=r&z=1&h=300&w=540&range=6 m&size=Medium&url=www.alluc.org | title = Alexa traffic details for Alluc.org and Allfg.org| work = Alexa | accessdate = 2007-05-29]

Legality

The legality of this site can be compared to BitTorrent indexing sites like The Pirate Bay or the original Napster program, in that the site did not actually host the files, but only provided links to the files which are hosted on external sites. When opening a link to a video on the site, the site generates the following message:

quote|"You are now leaving alluc.org!
By clicking on, continue to content, you will be redirected to the Episode of your choice."

References

ee also

*TV Links - a similar service which was shut down by the UK government

External links

* [http://www.alluc.org Alluc.org]