The sites that host all the content found on sites like tvlinks.co.uk, surfthechannel.com - those have been shut down but they were link directories of movies a

The sites that host all the content found on sites like tvlinks.co.uk, surfthechannel.com - those have been shut down but they were link directories of movies and tv shows making bank on ad impressions and referral fees funneling traffic to the videos hosted on other sites. One of the arguments against Mega was they affiliated with these sites and knowingly paid these indexing sites lots of money for referring new customers who paid to watch or download pirated content on MegaVideo and MegaUpload. They all pay lip service to the DMCA but their entire business model is to hold content just long enough to entice people to pay to access it or the next upload of it. Really though I think the link sites are going to be the real losers in this action rather than the actual video sites, if you go to google and search for 'watch <any tv show or movie>' you'll see a lot of intermediary link sites competing for that traffic.