The two dilemas of this day
Well, there are two problems i want to talk about today.
First of all, this article about computer chairs on my blog was mentioned on a site called Wykop.pl . It’s a Digg alike site from Poland. I was amazed to find a great amount of visitors lurking towards my site from there. Of course, as they were expecting for polish content, bounce rate was outrageous, but that’s not the point. The point is how can a Digg alike regional site send 5000+ visitors in one day to a story featured on its home page? This would mean it has more than 20k uniques per day ay?
Successful Digg alike site from Poland
I started searching some details about this site and first of all got on dnScoop. According to them this site is only 5 months old? Are you kidding me? How can a 5 months old site have this amount of traffic ? Other tools show different ages, but none mentions anything above 2 years… Interesting.
But, does it really worth implementing a Digg alike site? You can use Pligg and create a nice custom theme, and there you go? But would it be a success? I guess it depends on the promotion, but even so, on a market saturated with other tiny and uninteresting Digg clones, what would your site need to make a difference? Don’t be shy to post your opinions my friends 
On the other part, i came along these two sites: TV-links and Videohybrid . On each of them you can find movies. The entire movies actually. The latest titles, like Rush Hour 3 or Bourne Ultimatum, they’re here. But’ isn’t this illegal i wonder? How come these sites are not taken down? It’s not that i don’t like the free movies, but i don’t understand what’s the catch? How come the production companies do nothing about this, as I’m sure there are hundreds of others sites like these ones… Anyone care to enlighten me?
Not sure about Videohybrid but tv-links likes to claim that it’s not illegal because it only links you to the content which is actually hosted by sites like youtube, dailymotion, guba, stage6, google…etc etc. So it’s not actually doing anything wrong, I guess it’s a similar debate with sites that link to bittorrents like piratebay, they don’t actually host any illegal content so is it lawful?
Yeah Alex, they pass the blame to those sites. I wonder how come Youtube, Google, etc allow someone to post the entire movie… Or maybe their moderators ban the movie, then the guys from Videohybrid post them again… And again and again… :))
yeah I guess the number of people uploading illegal content is more that the number of people moderatoring the sites! Also it’s quite easy to hide a video by giving it a irrelavant name, for example I was watching the documentary Jesus Camp online the other day and noticed that it was actually a link to Jesbus Caimp on google video which would make it alot harder for the film’s makers etc to find and remove!
Great site. Get your self some banners from cj to make extra $:)