User:SurfTheChannel

SurfTheChannel (commonly referred to as StC) is an online website which provides users with links to third party video hosting sites such as Tudou, YouTube and 56.com




 *  The History of SurfTheChannel 

SurfTheChannel was launched in early October 2007, based in Sweden, as a project to provide the world with an easily navigated index of TV shows,movies ,music and much more.

As SurfTheChannel began to grow since October 2007, the site has categorized videos by popular categories (see above).

On 15th November 2007, the first SurfTheChannel beta opened, and in site traffic increased by a large amount.

Around February 2008, arson struck the offices of SurfTheChannel. Everybody survived and the only problem caused was an approximate 15 hour server downtime.

This October, SurfTheChannel will be celebrating its one year anniversary.


 *  Legality 

The legality of this site is similar to that of BitTorrent indexing sites similar to The Pirate Bay or the original Napster program, in that the site does not actually host the videos in question, but only gives links to the videos which are uploaded (hosted) on external sites. When choosing a video to view, SurfTheChannel takes you to the external site, with a SurfTheChannel frame around it so you can navigate back to SurfTheChannel. To clarify that SurfTheChannel does not own any videos, they have a Legal Disclaimer stating:

"SurfTheChannel is a simple resource site. All content visible on this site is located at 3rd party websites. SurfTheChannel is not responsible for any content linked to or referred from these pages.

SurfTheChannel does not host any content on it's Servers

All video links point to content hosted on third party webites. Users who upload to these websites agree not to upload illegal content when creating their user accounts. SurfTheChannel does not accept responsibility for content hosted on third party websites."

In the past, Google and StopBadWare marked SurfTheChannel as malware, but the StopBadWare report cannot be found.


 *  Site Traffic 

Using information from Alexa, the quote below show what percentage of users are from which country.

United States 51.3%, United Kingdom 11.1%, Canada 7.9%, Germany 3.2% and South Korea 2.1%


 *  Skins 

Users of SurfTheChannel have the choice of three skins: Dark, Phoenix and Classic. The Classic skin was the original skin of SurfTheChannel.




 *  The Logos of SurfTheChannel 

Over the time that SurfTheChannel has existed, the logos have changed, and become more attractive.

The logo at the top of the page is the current logo, as SurfTheChannel is on its sixth beta.




 *  SurfTheChannel Forum 

SurfTheChannel has it's own Forum where users can create topics to ask for links to videos, talk about food recipes, sport and much more.

The forum began in the early stages of SurfTheChannel. SurfTheChannel was submitted to Digg on the same day that the website Tv-Links shut down, 20th October 2007.

Users can create topics for fun (most likely in the Spam Subforum).

The forum also has it's own chatbox (accessible with user registration of a SurfTheChannel Forum account).

As of 17th August 2008, there are 17,960 registered members on the SurfTheChannel Forum.

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