‘How to bypass MiniNova filters’
p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- Scaramouche: “Bye Bye Mininova… What a shame since its a great site.”
NO1UNO: “and another one bites the dust……………………”
Shame: “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.”
The three comment posts above were among those posted when Erik Dubbelboer (left) and Niek van der Maas, the main men for search site and BitTorrent index MiniNova, announced they’d introduced ‘filtering’.
It wasn’t news to p2pnet readers that what amounts to corporate censorship was on the way.
Niek and Erik 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, going on, “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.”
BREIN is the corporate movie and music industry hit squad over in The Netherlands and it, “hopes [a] 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.
Now, “Why do we need to Bypass content filtering ?” ask a Readers Write claiming, tongue-in-cheek, to be from MiniNova.
It isn’t, of course, but nonetheless, it’s still worth checking out.
It goes on »»»
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
Thanks for posting
UPDATE: The filtering isn’t necessarily permanent. At the moment, it’s running on a three-month trial basis, Erik tells p2pnet.
Stay tuned.
Jon Newton – p2pnet
May, 2009
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May 9th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
The issue with this is that it will make it even easier to pass viruses and trojans via bittorrent something that will drive the average user away.
May 9th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
There is also the problem of seeding. See, if 10 people get the same file from 10 different channels, they can’t just all make an identical rar out of it and start seeding the torrent. E.g., every copy of every file becomes unique. This takes torrents and makes them very similar to FTP — even downloading the same file doesn’t guarantee that you’ll get the benefits of using bittorrent.
There is another potential issue: what if they start disallowing archives or encrypted files as attempts to circumvent copyright protections? It’s a reasonable possibility given the media companies’ usual tactics. Forcing clear-text would make this technique useless.
Finally, there is the issue of laziness. Users want both security and simplicity. But simplicity wins out. When users are shown what a secure filesharing application actually looks like, they dump it in an instant and go back to bittorrent. So what we really need to do is change the laws. The technology isn’t going to get much better unless users are willing to change habits.
OneSwarm and Freenet are good examples of relatively and highly (respectively) secure filesharing apps. OneSwarm isn’t privacy protecting unless you know some other people that use it and connect to them. Freenet is more secure and anonymous, but you not only need to have someone to connect to, but you also need to have disk space available (even if you don’t share/download much), processor time and memory, and be willing to put up with slowness.
Basically, the more secure it is, the less convenient.
May 10th, 2009 at 8:35 am
“The issue with this is that it will make it even easier to pass viruses and trojans via bittorrent something that will drive the average user away.”
How so? A Rar file is just an archive. Unless it’s created as a self-extracting archive (which no torrent should be) there’s no code to execute, it has to be unpacked using an archive program like WinRar. Putting files into an archive doesn’t automatically make it any easier to fool users into running an EXE file than distributing the EXE alone.
May 10th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
The only problem I see with this is that in order to seed the file it must be left intact. The rar and image file must be left in the folder the same as when it was obtained. You can extract the contents to another area, but you still have to keep the original archive folder as well. So, with large files, space could become an issue
May 10th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
Quote – The only problem I see with this is that in order to seed the file it must be left intact. The rar and image file must be left in the folder the same as when it was obtained. You can extract the contents to another area, but you still have to keep the original archive folder as well. So, with large files, space could become an issue -
how is that different from a any rared file. most stuff is rared anyway, much better for ftp tansfers. how do you think all that stuff makes its way from the scene groups.
May 12th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
eztv has a simpler solution.
this is the message that eztv includes when they post on mininova.
they post a torrent for a text file which has the url for the direct torrent link:
“Due to mininovas current filtering system we are not uploading the direct torrent file of our releases.
Instead we will provide a text file which has a url of where you can download the correct torrent from.
Sorry for this inconvenience.
- EZTV Staff