Is Project Free TV illegal

Answer 1

Originally, No. Now, Yes

Whether a movie has been released on DVD yet or on the internet is irrelevant. If it is being distributed in a way notauthorized by the copyright holder, then it's illegal.

Project Free TV's original activities were not illegal. Originally, they simply linked to other sites that hosted intellectual property that may have been illegally uploaded. Their activities became illegal for two reasons:

1. They encoded their pages to include the material so that the materials were playing from their pages. By encoding the illegal content, even if it was hosted elsewhere, into their pages, their site became a secondary participant in copyright infringement.
2. They used banner ads and collected money from advertisers. They were therefore profiting from the unlawful posting of intellectual property. Technically, that makes them co-conspirators in the copyright infringement itself. They probably still could have gotten away with this by not actually encoding the banner ads into the pages from which the videos directly played, but they got greedy and screwed themselves.

It is also NOT SAFE:

I installed players from this website on a fresh windows machine and immediately checked with a virus scanner. I found out:

Adware.HotBar.H, comes from VLCSetup.exe and eMuleSetup.exe

SrcInject.B.Gen