Mininova limits its activities to Content Distribution service
Hi all,
Today is an important day in the history of Mininova. From now on, we are limiting Mininova.org to our Content Distribution service. By doing so, we comply with the ruling of the Court of Utrecht of last August.
Unfortunately the court ruling leaves us no other option than to take our platform offline, except for the Content Distribution service. According to the verdict (Dutch link) we have to prevent uploads of torrents to Mininova that refer to certain titles or to similar-looking titles. We?ve been testing some filtering systems the last couple of months, but we found that it?s neither technically nor operationally possible to implement a 100% working filter system. Therefore, we decided that the only option is to limit Mininova to Content Distribution torrents from now on. We are still considering an appeal at this moment.
We launched our Content Distribution service in 2007. This service allows producers and artists to easily publish and distribute their content for free through Mininova. The launch of Content Distribution has proven to be a success. Countless content owners have used Content Distribution to distribute their content (e.g. albums and documentaries) for free to millions of users. For example, the Dutch band Silence is Sexy released their complete album on Mininova and received the Interactive Award 2009 for doing so. The Dutch television broadcaster VPRO decided to start using Content Distribution in 2009 in order to distribute documentaries.
We would like to thank you for your support. Especially everyone that contributed to Mininova receives a big ?thank you!? for the effort! We hope to keep welcoming you on Mininova and our other projects (e.g. Snotr, Dispostable).
Thanks! The Mininova staff
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Torrents suck anyway.
Don't use your computer as a 'host', 'peer', 'seed', whatever.
Most the meaningful lawsuits so far come from this trap.
Let some foreigner do the hosting (MU, RS, MF, MS, etc.)
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dude i use pb every day....
theres a lot of fake torrents tho.
its getting harder to get anything decent anymore.
anyone that uses torrents pm me for an invite to a good private site.
PirateBay logs every IP that connects to it and everything that IP access and then they pass that info on to the MPAA/RIAA and government entities keeping track of possible pirates.
I know of three people who were busted directly because of PirateBay's data.
Sad day for mininova. I don't get movies or music off sites though so the only thing I'll miss is tv shows and books.
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Last edited by strommsarnac : 11-26-2009 at 02:57 PM.
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I doubt this very much, tpb crew has a long history of being very anti-mpaa/riaa. If the people you know were busted, it was because of the hired guns like MediaSentry, who collect ip addresses of copyright infringers for the mpaa/riaa.
Last edited by just_groovin : 11-26-2009 at 04:15 PM.