Yes, it’s perfectly possible to watch Hulu from outside the United States if you know how to hide your location, but there are millions of people who don’t who would love to get access to the streaming service. For them, there’s now TVGorge, a recently launched Flash streaming site that’s still in ‘infant stages’ but has a lot to offer already.
Million dollar question is: is it legal?
According to its website, TVGorge using searching and indexing techniques to detect and gather content from third-party TV streaming websites around the world. The company says that its proprietary script is capable of detecting the best source for TV shows and automatically compile the information for its database. Each video is said to be manually screened to make sure it is of high quality and functioning properly.
TVGorge adds that it does not effectively store video files on its own servers and only links to or embeds existing videos from a ‘variety of sources’. Listed at the bottom of the homepage are partners such as CBS’ TV.com, Hulu, TVGuide.com and TVDuck.
The amount – and quality – of the content on TVGorge is nothing short of impressive: all episodes from all eight seasons of 24 are on there, for instance, in addition to dozens of episodes of shows like Californication, 30 Rock, Heroes, Lost, CSI, Mad Men, Grey’s Anatomy, The Simpsons, and so on. I counted 128 TV shows on the site.
In its Terms and Conditions, TVGorge claims to fully respect the intellectual property rights of third parties, but somehow I doubt the company effectively has agreements with Hulu, CBS and others regarding the international distribution of its copyrighted video content in place.
Something tells me this one won’t be around for long.
(Via Twitter and Download Squad)
There exist a million websites like this one. It is curious that you decided to promote this one out of so many.
Any datas to back this? I don’t know that many, actually I don’t know anyone!
try:
surfthechannel.com
tvlinks.eu
ninjavideo.net
and thats to name a few
Wow, those sites are nothing like TVGorge.
well surfthechannel is pretty descent, it has everything
I think the tvlinks site is tv-links.eu, tvlinks.eu is a parked page from what I gather.
tv-links.eu looks quite decent
hey robyn, they were cool. now they’re a bunch of cunts
Honestly, I don’t know many and this one just caught my eye. Who are the million others?
Sidereel.com is one I would point to as extremely similar.
There is a video search site http://tvdeck.com which is completely legal, but it aggregates online content only- aka completely legal stuff.
sidereel.com, and yidio.com, are much harder to use, you have to click so many times, and link leads you to megavideo, and few more clicks there, and not to mention that every third link on average don’t work.
tvgeorge.com is much better on those departmants…
You are right, but that’s why I don’t think it will last long.
Sidereel used to involve far fewer clicks, but every few months it seems like they add a new one between you and the content. I am pretty sure this is actually for legal reasons: every change seems to have been designed to change the “nature” of the site from an index of links to a supposed “search engine”.
It’s plain to see that Sidereel is not exactly a search engine, but when they added the first additional click it was in the form of a “Search for Results” button that makes it seem like it is. Later they added a “you are leaving Sidereel.com” page. I can see no reason that they would have done these things except to give themselves more legal defenses.
recently tv gorge has recently become a phishing scam you now have 2 put in your details 2 serveys to get 2 watch stuff, unreal people always spoil stuff
they store all the videos on their own servers. open page source and you will see that files are located on a server with 84.22.*.* IP number. now ping their domain name and it will show an ip adress with same starting.
the trick they have done is converted video files to be very light (thats why they are in bad quality) so that video can load fast. pretty simple.
I doubt there hosting the files on their own servers, there probably using their IP as a proxy for organizing the original sources – that makes a lot more sense to me.
Is it legal?
No it’s not but damn it works great. The problem is with sites like this becoming more and more prevalent on the internet the laws on linking or embedding copyright infringing content are going to have to be changed.
For the mean time I’ll enjoy watching for free.
Such laws would break the internet. It’s the copyright laws which should evolve. They’re much older.
Robotics is right – there are a million websites like this – though TVGorge seems to do a very good job aggregating the available sources.
Kind of like sidereel/yidio/casttv – anyhow TVGorge looks awesome, already bookmarked..thanks for the post.
You guys saying there are millions sites like these all live in the US, right?
Actually, Tvgorge is the first (and only) site like this that I know of that clearly works in full outside the US.
But if there are others, please enlighten us (and no, sidereel/yidio/casttv/surfthechannel/ninjavideo are nothing like it)
Yea I agree with Robotics, theres hundreds of these things. Why mention this one when i know way better ones
The pages that you guys mention does not stream of their own servers, but uses Megavideo, DivX etc, to stream video. I have never seen a service like TVGorge before, and the video quality around 360p is about as good as it gets for now.. Should TVGorge turn out to be legal, it would be a huge step for online streaming. Especially in Europe, where sites like Hulu and TV.com, are vary rare.
I find megavideo brilliant for streams, good quality and streams fast for my slow internet
both tvgorge and tv-dome.net r gud but gorge just takes it, i agree that a few people have missed the ads point of theres no geo-restrictions 4 those outside the US and the feeds r excelent quality to most i hav cum across all of which have partypoker pop-ups that r suspect or insecure sites, gud 2 c a site with no pop-ups,catches and good quality feeds and easy to watch more ofthe same please.
I think many of the comments (all?) are from US based people who have completely missed the main point of the article – this site does not impose geographic restrictions.
Most of the other sites link back to sites such as Hulu, opening a new window directly onto the originator’s site, that impose geolocation restrictions.
@robinwauters Did you get a free Mac air for this review? Why Tv george when SurfTheChannel is a far better alternative, and is one of the many linking sites around …. hmmmm maybe it was an ipad you got
Eh, surfthechannel is far less user-friendly.
This is not legal, thepiratebay case is a perfect example, thepiratebay did not (and never has) hosted illegal content but they facilitated the downloading of the content. This does exactly the same.
The quality is horrible.
Finally, it is so nice to actually find these services popping up. It is always disappointing logging into a site find something exciting to watch and then blocked due to your location.
Users want it so give it to them. It’s a good thing that hundreds of these sites exist. Don’t bring in your lawyers to close these sites down – embrace the possibilities (embed your ads in the streams for example!).
hmm..Hope everything is alright
Well, now that it’s gotten a mention here I doubt the page will be able to handle the traffic, legal issues aside.
So basically, you just killed the page.
So sad to see so many video quality challenged people.
The videos on this site are not watchable at all, that is if you have any standards quality wise. Otherwise go enjoy cam rips.
I fall in love with this website after first 5 minutes of trying to brows among my favorite shows and their episodes and watching them. This website can go legal by switching to premium model.
They should survey their users if they would pay 19 cents, or 49 cents per episode to watch it immediately after going on air in high quality.
We techies know where and how to find and download latest episodes in high quality for free (by illegal ways) but most avarage internet users do not and are willing to pay to watch the shows they are addicted to.
@elvirs Salmanov.. as a newbie techie i don’t know where and how to find and download latest episodes in high quality for free. Care to help me out here?
I wonder how lond until its shutdown, even though they don’t host the files in question I can’t see this playing out different then PirateBay.
Also I don’t see the revenue model, as I don’t see any ads or affilate links?
Thank for the new site. I am checking it out right now. I am not a big fan of Hulu.
This is such a great idea for a website. As far as I can tell this automatically search’s across a lot of video sites to find videos that are working.
It centralizes the user’s experience and reduces the waste of searching around the internet through multiple video websites for a link thats working.
Basically its a good piece of software in that it gets out of the way of the user to find exactly what the user wants, quickly.
As far as the legality? I have no idea.
im accessing the site from south east asia…the streaming quality is pretty good on slow internet connection.
will try to finish all the episodes during the weekend….probably there’s no next week for tvgorge
its really fast
Linking != International Distribution
Bringing attention to it like this certainly won’t help it’s chances for short term survival.
Since Hulu doesn’t want to play nice with Boxee, I refuse to use their services. Since that’s the case, this might be a good replacement site for watching some shows. However long that may be.
How come Techcrunch promoting something like this !! anyone with basic programming skills will know that tvgorge are hosting these videos. (not linking, embeds,etc..)
if its genuine company, why there is no contact details for the people behind the site!!!
DMCA safe-harbor.
That’s all.
They’re hosted in The Netherlands…
Nuff said
I am accessing it from Nicaragua and while my current slow connection isn’t helping, it’s great that I can watch the season premiere of Lost now. I also highly doubt that this is completely legit and it will eventually get shut down.
If the Video is streaming from the original source and just through them then it is probably not Illegal.
but the sites that host the video will most likely start blocking the ipaddress’s of this service.
There is a few of these sites already around online, there nothing new. Its quite a nice brand though this one, if they can get more series on there they should do well.
promoting piracy, what a shame!
Do you guys really think guys at tvgorge care about legal or not. this site will get lots of site soon and will make lots of money.