MiniNova vs Them verdict put back
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Everything stops for holidays.
Including the wise (we assume) auld (we presume) heads designated to reach a decision in the case of Dutch indexing site MiniNova versus the KKK – Korporate Kopyright Kartels.
“Here’s a short update on the ongoing court trial,” says the MiniNova blog, going on:
“The judge has postponed the date of the verdict (originally planned July 15) to August 26, due to the summer holiday period.”
Not that the guys over at MiniNova — under attack from BREIN, Holland’s version of the RIAA and MPAA combined — are taking things lying down, threatening to sue a parliamentary working party examining Holland’s copyright laws.
Last year the group evaluated copyright laws, eventually publishingthe 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,” including »»»
- 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,” said MiniNova.
Stay tuned.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
MiniNova blog – Verdict postponed, July 9, 2009
under attack from BREIN – ‘How to bypass MiniNova filters’, May 9, 2009
threatening to sue – MiniNova threatens to sue Dutch parliament, July 2, 2009
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