MiniNova introduces ‘filter’ system
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- “Hi all,” says a post in the MiniNova blog, going on »»»
Today, we decided to extend our platform and run a trial with content recognition. This basically means that likely infringing video files referred to by torrents are checked by a third party content recognition system. If the system finds that the file corresponds to unauthorized content, we remove and block the torrent that refers to this file on Mininova.
We hope that this system will make it easier for copyright owners to remove torrents that refer to infringing content from Mininova, while still offering the best platform to our users.
BREIN is Holland’s version of the RIAA and MPAA combined.
“As two of the people behind MiniNova, the Dutch BitTorrent index and search site, Erik Dubbelboer (left) and Niek van der Maas are both automatically labelled as scurvy pirates, determined to drive the poor, hard-pressed corporate movie and music industries into the ground,” said p2pnet recently.
“That’s what the entertainment cartel PR machines would have you believe, at any rate, and with that contention in the background, the studios and labels want to see MiniNova in court,” we said, continuing:
” ‘BREIN … hopes the court will force Mininova to filter its search results, so that all .torrent files which may point to unauthorized content are removed,’ a Mininova spokesman told p2pnet last year. ‘We can’t elaborate on the content of the negotiations, but BREIN said they will press summons ASAP’.”
However, “the negotiations fell through and now MiniNova will square off with the entertainment industry in about two months,” we added.
That brings us to May and with it, the filter system.
“Mininova co-founder Niek told TorrentFreak that with current trial the system will be tested for 12 weeks,” Says Ernesto in TorrentFreak.
“Mininova works together with an association representing several TV/movie content owners, and although Niek couldn`t tell us which one, it is likely to be the MPA(A),” he says, adding »»»
The content removal system is an extension of the current copyright policy according to Niek, who also said that the current trial will be used to find out whether the content recognition system is a workable and effective solution.
The system was selected by the content owners themselves, who want an easier way to get torrent files removed than the current notice and takedown policy. However, this collaboration does not mean that the upcoming court case against BREIN is off the table.
Later this month BREIN hopes to convince the court that Mininova has to filter its search results, so that all .torrent files which may point to unauthorized content are removed. Up until now, Mininova refused to interfere with the search results, claiming that the DMCA take-down procedure they have is good enough.
This has clearly changed now. We hope that this system will make it easier for copyright owners to remove torrents that refer to infringing content from Mininova, while still offering the best platform to our users, the Mininova team said.
The response from Mininova`s users is mostly negative, with one commenter saying Shame to see such a nice site decide to go hang itself, and another adding Wow, guess you guys are caving under the pressure. Too bad its all over now.
The effectiveness of this filter, and how it will affect mininova`s popularity is yet to be seen, but it sure is a radical development.
Stay tuned.
MiniNova – Torrent removal trial, May 6, 2009
p2pnet – MiniNova interview: staying alive, March 17, 2009
TorrentFreak – Mininova Filters Copyright Infringing Torrents, May 6, 2009
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May 6th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
Bye Bye Mininova… What a shame since its a great site.
May 7th, 2009 at 1:22 am
and another one bites the dust…………………….
May 7th, 2009 at 1:53 am
They should have sold the site to the MPAA while it still had some value instead of handing it over to them. Sure is nice living in a world that’s controlled by corporations and lobby groups. RIP MiniNova.
May 7th, 2009 at 5:16 am
Well, there is always Google!
May 7th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
this is the the best site of torrent much beter than oter and now tpb is down !!!! what the ++++ I hope DEMONOID stay BY_A_SUPORTER_OF_P2P!!!!
May 9th, 2009 at 11:20 am
HOW TO BYPASS MININOVA FILTERS:
Why do we need to Bypass content filtering ?
As you might know mininova starts filtering copyrighted material, i dont upload protected content But i fear that such filters may also delete
files wich are not violating copyrights as example Creative Commons music wich has a 4 second part wich is similar to an protected title. Also many Companies demand licenses and copyright on files wich are definitely in the Public Domain and not Copyrighted anymore.
As Example i uploaded charlie Chaplin videos from 1917 on youtube but this videos got deledet because a Movie comapany claimed false
copyrights on these videos. Just have a look to the offical US Copyright law wich says that any work prior 1922 is not Copyrighted anymore.
So im writing this Text not to help you violating copyright but avoiding that legal content might be blocked by failure or Grief of some
Movie and Music companies. I just want to protect your legal content from being censored.
On the other side i can understand mininova since they do not want that users missuse their Content distribution service to share copyrighted stuff. Because this would be quite dangerous for mininova if illegal copyrighted content is hosted directly on their servers. So help mininova by not uploading any copyrighted stuff to their CD service !
Howto:
It is very very easy to bypass such filters.
Just put your files in a encrypted .rar or .zip archive and choose an password, so The filtersoftware cannot acces the archive to look if the original file is is on the Banlist or not.
Then use Gimp or Photoshop to create an imagefile wich includes the password and save it in the same folder as the archive, use some filters and effects to make in unreadeable for machines.
Then create the Torrent from this folder. So Downloaders get the password and can
Open the file but the automated filters of film/music industry cannot open it and cannot see if the file is on their banlist or not.
Works like a Captcha i think you understand what i mean
I also think this way is also the Best for mininova because since mininova is doing everything
to remove copyrighted material even if they have no succes Curts will see no reason to forbid mininova
because it is not the fault of mininova that the content filter does not work for encrypted files.
As Example Rapidshare is allready using copyright filters but they cannot stop users from uploading these files
since all Rapidshare users use encryption. It think this method will also work quite well with torrents.
So dont worry and continue sharing your legal content, the net was build for freedom and it is impossible to take this freedom away.
I hope you and also the mininova staff understand my viewpoint, i dont want to help people sharing illegal content but prevent legal files from being censored like youtubes content recognition does.
Thanks for reading