p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Dutch indexing site MiniNova is threatening to sue a parliamentary working party assigned to examine Holland’s copyright laws.

In January last, the group evaluated copyright laws, say the guys at MiniNova, under attack from BREIN, Holland’s version of the RIAA and MPAA combined.

The group published Auteursrechten. Een rapport (Copyright – a report) with, “several recommendations related to reforming copyright laws,” says the MiniNova blog.

But, “Unfortunately the report includes several factually incorrect assumptions related to Mininova,” it states.

Specifically, according to MiniNova, the report states »»»

• Mininova refuses to remove torrent files after a complaint has been filed
• Mininova adds `reviews` to torrent files uploaded by users
• Mininova pro-actively removes torrents that refer to `incorrect content (eg, porn)`

And, “Besides these factual errors, the report also implies that all torrents on Mininova refer to copyrighted material, that Mininova hosts the content itself, and that Mininova profits from distributing these torrents,” it says, the team point out, adding »»»

We are very displeased with the fact that the working group didn`t contact us prior to releasing this report, or even took a look at mininova.org. If they had done so, they would`ve seen that we offer a copyright policy service for content owners for years and that we work closely with the content industry.

We demand that the spreading of false information related to Mininova will be stopped.

In addition, we demand that the working group removes the name Mininova from the report and places a rectification on the website of the Dutch parliament and in several national newspapers.

If these demands are not met, we`ll consider legal steps. To our surprise and nuisance the working group refuses to respond to the essence of the claim, being the factual errors about us and our services.

Stay tuned.

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under attack from BREIN – `How to bypass MiniNova filters`, May 9, 2009
MiniNova blog – Mininova demands rectification report from working group, July 2, 2009

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