Remove ‘infringing torrents’ MiniNova ordered
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- It’s an all-out war by Hollywood and the Big 4 music labels against every ‘consumer’ everywhere, and the individuals and organisations who work with, and for, them.
With their owned-and-operated ‘trade’ units such as the RIAA, MPAA, BREIN, BPI, IFPI, out front, Time-Warner, Fox, Disney, Columbia, Paramount, MGM, and Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music, are spending hundreds of millions of dollars in the media and behind-closed-doors political lobbying to gain complete and total control of ‘product’ distribution online.
This means suing their own customers and haemorrhaging users, but that’s acceptable because in their world, their very survival means losing a few million people now to gain total control of the online ‘consumer’ base of the future, and how and where they buy ‘product’.
It’s a carefully orchestrated, universal campaign with indexing sites included as victims of the music and movie cartels.
One such is MiniNova which, says Nos TV, quoted by DutchNews.nl, has now been, “ordered to remove all copyright-protected material from its website within three months or face fines as high as â¬5m (about $7,137,328),
BREIN is Holland’s version of the RIAA and MPAA combined. It went to court to have thousands of files – such as films and music – removed, said the story, going on, “Mininova, used by one million people a month in the Netherlands alone, had pledged to remove copyrighted material when alerted to its presence. But the foundation said this did not go far enough, Nos reported.
“The judge said that although Mininova did not break copyright legislation itself, if did allow users to do so and ordered it to remove all suspect links within three months.”
Says Holland’s TorrentFreak, “The court did not agree with Mininova`s defense that it is impossible to moderate all torrents that are uploaded to the site. It further said that Mininova is encouraging its users to download copyrighted material, helped by the several moderators that the site has in place.
The moderators keep the site clean and `family friendly` by removing torrents linking to adult content, viruses and fake files, says the story, going on:
“They do this proactively and in response to user feedback, the court concluded, pointing out that they should also be able to moderate torrents that link to copyrighted material.”
Mininova has three months to appeal the decision.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
DutchNews.nl – File-sharing site Mininova loses in court, August 26, 2009
TorrentFreak – Mininova Ordered to Remove All `Infringing` Torrents, August 26, 2009
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August 26th, 2009 at 11:07 am
This is satire right?
Its a joke to everyone who knows they are asking for something thats impossible, in order to pressure miniova to shut down.
Their is not a company in the world who could afford to police a torrent site 24 hours a day 7 days a week and still not have a single case of infringement. It’s ridiculous, insane, moronic to believe that you can sue a website(s) into policing itself and organizations like BREIN degrade technological evolution by even trying. Granted sometimes we progress because of court precedents in some countries e.g. Napster, look how well that turned out for the anti-p2p organizations. Go after microsofts’s MSN messenger. Make microsoft force every single infringing file to not be transferable person to person. I can predict the response BREIN would get.
Something along the lines of…. “We believe in intellectual property rights, but we regret to inform you that your request is simply not possible”.
The irony, for all their misleading, misinformed comments on filesharing. BREIN actually provided me with free entertainment. Thanks for all the laughs BREIN. Wish you would share more comedy more often.
August 26th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
So they don’t want their content on Mininova.
Ok, fine. We’ll remove it. This way, the indie music gets downloaded and exposed more.
August 27th, 2009 at 1:20 am
The indie music wont get downloaded more. Sadly, bit torrent users rarely download torrents to be exposed to a completely unknown band. They download the music they already like, and want more of. That’s why you routinely find garbage commercial bands in the top downloaded torrent section.
Bit torrent is the distribution. The promotion (getting people to hear the music in the first place) needs to come from somewhere else.
Radio is stuck in the past. It used to provide this function, playing unknown music and making it popular. They cant do this anymore though. Independent Promotion (payola 2.0), conglomeration, and national playlists limit the variety on commercial radio. DJ’s can no longer choose what they play, and unless you’re band is the next big thing being pushed by the industry, you have little chance of getting airplay.
Radio listenership is dropping. The youth are looking for a new way to hear good music. If indie bands can latch on to promotional innovations before the record companies, you can bet someone will be downloading their torrents.
August 27th, 2009 at 8:20 am
It is impressive,Thank you!
August 28th, 2009 at 12:22 am
Mininova considers appealing in Brein case
Utrecht, August 26th 2009 â Today the Dutch Court of Utrecht ruled that BitTorrent platform Mininova acts unlawful. Mininova considers to appeal this judgment.
The court did not agree with Brein on all demands. Specifically, it ruled that Mininova does not infringe copyright and neighboring rights. The court also found Mininova can not be expected to remove files that are âreasonably likelyâ refer to infringing material.
Remarkably, the verdict does not give any consideration to the fact that Mininova has developed a content filter for Brein, nor to the cooperation between Mininova and other organizations of rights holders. This surprises Mininova, because it has always stressed the importance of cooperation.
Erik Dubbelboer, co-founder of Mininova: âWe are obviously not satisfied with this ruling. The result of this ruling for Mininova is that we have to reevaluate our business operations. At this time, we cannot determine what this will actually entail or imply. We will have to examine the verdict thoroughly first. We are considering to appeal this judgment.â
http://blog.mininova.org/articles/2009/08/26/mininova-considers-appealing-in-brein-case