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Watch TV series streams online for free!
Video-on-demand service for television series
languages German
operator Unknown
user over 211,000 registered users
Registration optional, free of charge
On-line 2015 (currently online)
https://s.to/

s.to (formerly SerienStream.to ) is a German-language video-on-demand - site , the free streams of television series offering. According to the Alexa Internet ranking list, the website is the 140th most visited website in Germany and 104th in Austria .

Offer and concept

The offer includes more than 3000 pages on which streams of anime and television series are offered free of charge . The website offers around 200,000 episodes of television series and over 600,000 links. Users can switch between the three audio language versions German, English and a third language with subtitles for the episodes. The portal offers the video hosters VIVO, YouTube , Vidzi, Rapidvideo, Dailymotion , and Vidoza , among others .

The site offers the option of activating additional functions as part of a free registration . These include e.g. B. a personalized profile, e-mail notifications for new episodes or the saving of seen episodes. There are over 160,000 registered users. Every day, more than 20,000 e-mails are sent based on the e-mail notifications and an average of 3500 users are registered every minute. A monthly newsletter with current series information is sent out.

The start page serves as an overview page and offers a chat , a list of new series and episodes, and several lists of popular TV series. The operators of the portal are focusing on the website on an extensive range and a modern responsive design , which can be easily operated regardless of device. Software developers are offered a secure API via which series information for their own application software can be called up. An Android - app is currently in development.

72.5% of the visitors to the website come from Germany , 13.4% from Austria , 4.2% from Switzerland , 1.9% from Luxembourg and 1.4% from Italy .

history

The website was originally launched on January 19, 2015 under the address SerienStream.to and since the beginning has offered a lot of additional information and news as well as a series calendar in addition to the streams. On July 21, 2017, a community forum was published to enable users to better exchange views. In October 2017, the operators gave a comprehensive interview at Tarnkappe.info , for which users could submit questions beforehand. On March 22, 2018, the domain was changed from SerienStream.to to S.to as part of an update. Since it was founded, the range has been regularly expanded to include new functions.

financing

According to the operators, the infrastructure and the short domain of the site are mainly financed by donations and advertising income. Advertising is therefore shown to unregistered users.

In December 2018, advertising was distributed via the portal through an advertising network, which attempted to install malware as a disguised Windows fake update.

Legal position

According to a ruling by the European Court of Justice in April 2017, the streaming of unauthorized copyrighted offers is an improper act, the consequences of which can be recognized as a copyright infringement . Since the website does not act as a video storage service, but only provides hyperlinks to external services, the website operators reject any allegations of unlawful acts.

The technical effort to trace back consuming viewers turns out to be particularly difficult in practice, which lowers the risk of a potential warning. According to the information provided by the operator, the redundantly designed infrastructure is located outside the European Union, due to which a different jurisdiction applies. They assure that log and IP addresses will not be saved at any time to protect users . It is generally recommended to use legal video-on-demand providers such as B. Netflix , Prime Video etc. Ä. To change, since, according to several experts, both the site is active in the illegal area and the viewing of streams from unauthorized sources, as already explained above. The portal itself is subject to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act .

Due to an injunction from Sky Deutschland, Vodafone and other Internet providers have been blocking access to the website since December 2018 in order to a. "To stop the illegal consumption of the TV series 'Das Boot'". The preliminary injunction failed in the first instance before the Regional Court I in Munich due to a lack of urgency. The operators of the website recommend adjusting the DNS name server in order to regain access.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c statistics. Retrieved April 19, 2020 .
  2. ↑ S.TO Traffic, Demographics and Competitors. Alexa, accessed October 30, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Top Sites in Austria - Alexa. Accessed October 30, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Registration (free of charge). Retrieved October 30, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Android app - support - S.to / SerienStream.to forum. Retrieved October 30, 2018 .
  6. ↑ S.TO Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa. Retrieved October 30, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Wayback Machine. Retrieved October 30, 2018 .
  8. ↑ SerienStream.to Community Forum! Retrieved October 30, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Serienstream.to in an interview . In: Tarnkappe.info . October 6, 2017 ( tarnkappe.info [accessed November 1, 2018]).
  10. ↑ SerienStream.to becomes S.TO! Retrieved October 30, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Donate. Retrieved October 30, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Serienstream.to spreads Trojan horse. December 24, 2018, accessed May 14, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Case C-527/15 Stichting Brein v Jack Frederik Wullems - ECLI: EU: C: 2017: 300
  14. ↑ Rules / Terms of Use. Retrieved October 30, 2018 .
  15. ↑ SerienStream.to: Watch TV series online for free - legal or illegal? In: Kino.de . January 12, 2018 ( kino.de [accessed March 31, 2019]).
  16. ↑ Is Serienstream.to legal? An assessment . In: Chip.de . June 18, 2017 ( chip.de [accessed March 31, 2019]).
  17. ↑ kinox.to and Co .: Court speaks groundbreaking judgment . In: Chip.de . April 30, 2017 ( chip.de [accessed March 31, 2019]).
  18. ↑ Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. Retrieved October 30, 2018 .
  19. ↑ Vodafone blocks access to Burning Series & Serienstream.to. Retrieved December 19, 2018 .
  20. ^ LG Munich I, final judgment v. 02/22/2019 - 37 O 18232/18. Retrieved May 14, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Censorship: Vodafone blocks S.to. Accessed December 30, 2018 .