FOX tactic of getting copyright infringement off youtube, C&D those who link it!

Is linking illegal? asks a November 30 post at Quicksilverscreen, and my guess the answer is "depends on who you ask". Years ago a Danish mailinglist lost a courtbattle regarding the deeplinks they had each day in their mail, deepinks that took readers straight to the interesting story on any given news(paper)site. Their response was to move the mailinglist to a foreign server and keep it up.

Now it seems, FOX has come to the conclusion that if you can't get copyright infringing material off youtube (it's near impossible, I've tried, but some succeed.), well then you just have to smack down on those who link to the offending youtube material. Clever! From the email that Quicksilverscreen received:

The below links are specific examples of quicksilverscreen.com web pages linking to video files that infringe upon Fox’s intellectual property rights. Fox hereby demands that quicksilverscreen.com promptly remove and disable the links to all unauthorized copies of Fox Properties on the quicksilverscreen.com website of which it is aware, including the infringing links identified below:

Quicksilverscreen's ISP caved and threatened to pull the plug on said website, so Quicksilverscreen simply moved everything to Malaysia. Classic cyber-getaway, really. He says: "I'm not going to remove the links until I hear from a lawyer one way or another." Maybe FOX will have better luck asking youtube to quit infringing? They are after all, hosting the material.