error 500 Internal server error

[tictacvid15]

was working on my site and suddenly the server returned me this error message i can't access my admin section

 

[tictacvid15]

any one can help

 

[Livewire]

Didn't get a 500 error, but there's a whopping 1 page linked on your directory listing site, and of course it had to be one that provides links to full version copyright infringing movie downloads/viewing.

Evidence that site you linked to doesn't have the rights to those movies? Why would a movie need dozens of links with the option to "Mark as Dead" and why would many of those links be well known illegal file sharing site downloads?


This is a zero tolerance suspension; directory listing sites are borderline anyways purely because of the risk of linking to a page that ain't legal, just like yours did. The problem comes when they -do- link to an illegal page - the account gets permanently suspended and we can't remove the suspension.

 

[tictacvid15]

this a test, i'm still constructing my website and i testing. and my web site is a directry can link any type of website i dont linked any warez file.

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this a test, i'm still constructing my website and i testing. and my web site is a directry can link any type of website i dont have links to any warez file and i dont give any how to use warez files and the search engine i have is google based. i think i don´t infringing any clause of terms of service
the internal server error is only on backend side and i do't install any new script when I got the error

 

[Livewire]

I viewed the site. Right at the bottom was a link to a site whose tagline is, and I quote, "Watch movies online free."

I clicked that site to review its contents to make sure you were in line with the TOS. Very quickly I noticed that virtually all of the movie links on that site are coming from rapidshare, megavideo, and other known copyright infringing file hosting services.

You're saying it's a site directory, and that's very true. The problem comes when you start linking to websites that don't have an ounce of legal material in them, which is what that very first link that I checked was - a site with more illegal links than I can count, and which actively encourages the viewing of illegally obtained movies.


That's why this is a permanent suspension, and why we cannot remove the suspension or provide further access to the account for any reason.




Edit: Addon: According to what I can find about the legality of this on the internet as well, it's coming back as this: Knowingly linking to a third party who has copyright infringing copies of [insert chosen copyright infringement type here, in this case movies] results in liability for Contributory Copyright Infringement. As the TOS makes it clear we can't be violating US Federal, State, and/or Local laws, this causes a problem as it'd also fall under Copyright Infringement -while- being illegal, so it gets suspended.

 

[tictacvid15]

that mean, google, yahoo, bing, Dmoz and any search engine or directory listing any site providing illegal material are all infringing US federal laws??

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In United States jurisprudence, there is a distinction between the mere act of linking to someone else's website, and linking to content that is illegal or infringing.[6] Several courts have found that merely linking to someone else's website is not copyright or trademark infringement, regardless of how much someone else might object

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink#Legal_issues

 

[Livewire]

"Contributory copyright infringement may be found when "one who, with knowledge of the infringing activity, induces, causes or materially contributes to the infringing conduct of another."[1] Put differently, liability exists if the defendant engages in personal conduct that encourages or assists the infringement.[2]"

Separate search when you look up Contributory Copyright Infringement. Search engines get past it because they don't often "know" about the infringement as it's all crawled by spiders, and they also remove the links if they are notified.

Yours had 1 site, and that 1 site was so blatantly obviously not a legal website it shouldn'tve even been linked.


The matter is closed, so I'm locking the ticket. We've -never- tolerated linking to pages that are clearly breaking copyright, especially as Contributory Copyright Infringement takes it from just hyperlinking to an actual illegal act.