[timurlenk]

Has anyone been able to identify what is the name of the organisation behind the website and where is it legally established?

I would like to know if the access fee benefits the artists in any way - the east european movie industry is not exactly swimming in money.

[miroz]

I wondered about this too. In the DMCA policy they state that authors can self-publish on their platform but they don't monitor, screen or review uploaded media, which means they don't have any contact with the authors. Too bad. They could start getting infringement notices.

But in most of the eastern Europe movies are not commercial anyway. They are financed by different sponsorships from state and local companies. They don't make a lot of money once they are made, with rare exceptions. For older movies it's hard to find actual copyright owners. I think some of them could be considered abandonware.