MiniNova deletes copyright torrents
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Yesterday, Holland’s MiniNova looked like the pic on the right.
Not any more.
Because, “From now on, we are limiting Mininova.org to our Content Distribution service,” says the MiniNova blog.
In other words, the copyright hammer has fallen on one of the net’s most famous indexing sites.
All corporate industry torrents have gone.
“By doing so, we comply with the ruling of the Court of Utrecht of last August.,” says the MiniNova team going on »»»
Unfortunately the court ruling leaves us no other option than to take our platform offline, except for the Content Distribution service. According to the verdict (Dutch link) we have to prevent uploads of torrents to Mininova that refer to certain titles or to similar-looking titles. We`ve been testing some filtering systems the last couple of months, but we found that it`s neither technically nor operationally possible to implement a 100% working filter system. Therefore, we decided that the only option is to limit Mininova to Content Distribution torrents from now on. We are still considering an appeal at this moment.
We launched our Content Distribution service in 2007. This service allows producers and artists to easily publish and distribute their content for free through Mininova. The launch of Content Distribution has proven to be a success. Countless content owners have used Content Distribution to distribute their content (e.g. albums and documentaries) for free to millions of users. For example, the Dutch band Silence is Sexy released their complete album on Mininova and received the Interactive Award 2009 for doing so. The Dutch television broadcaster VPRO decided to start using Content Distribution in 2009 in order to distribute documentaries.
We would like to thank you for your support. Especially everyone that contributed to Mininova receives a big thank you! for the effort! We hope to keep welcoming you on Mininova and our other projects.”
Below is how the site looks today
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So is this the end?
Not according to Eric Dubbelboer.
“We will continue with our Content Distribution service, trying to get more and better content for it,” he told p2pnet. “We still see a future in free content delivery using bittorrent.
“The team will also stay together. We have a lot of other things we are doing together (www.snotr.com, www.dispostable.com, for example).”
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MiniNova blog – Mininova limits its activities to Content Distribution service, November 26, 2009
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November 26th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Just as newspapers obscure themselves from their readers through pay walls, so copyright holders obscure their works from the public.
It is quite farcical.
(If only Pandora would come back to Europe and similarly only stream music from musicians who actually wanted to be freely promoted.)
Soon, ‘(c)’ will take on the same significance as ‘radioactive hazard’, i.e. no one will want anything with such a mark anywhere near their homes or children, it’s so dangerous.
In a few years’ time the copyright maximising cartel will realise it’s error and say “Ooops. Sorry. Please forgive us. Really, it’s safe to share our material now. Really, it is. We’ve decontaminated it from any nastiness. We won’t disconnect you, sue you into oblivion, or send your kids to jail.”.
Too late.
November 26th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
@Crosbie,
Additionally, until your last paragraph comes true, they will sue for infringement because the songs that are copyright free or even CC, will sound “too similar” to another copyrighted artist’s works.
November 26th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
demonoid where are you? come back really soon, okay?
November 26th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
@robert, yep, that’s going to help the backlash. The thing is ACTA doesn’t require evidence of infringement, so as you suggest similarity=infringement too. Even CC and GPL works aren’t immune. If someone suspects they infringe, too bad. They may as well do.
The cartel wants to turn the Internet into a theme park that they own. And that means kicking anyone out who is obnoxious in their eyes, e.g. a freeloader. The thing is they can easily kick people out, because they’ll have ‘higher rate licenses’ for ISPs to offer them to come back. In other words “Linux infringes our patents. Goodbye.” followed by “Have you tried our prestige Internet access package? Higher bandwidth and our special ‘download anything from anywhere’ license!”.
This is the forthcoming choice the cartel would like to offer people:
1) $40/month standard ISP package – if you respect copyright and don’t share/download anything without paying for it
2) $150/month prestige ISP package – if you’ve been disconnected from standard/unlicensed ISP packages or would rather not be, and can afford to pay through the nose
November 26th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
@Crosbie:
Think that’s possible?
Then why not have a bunch of people write stuff now and scour for “Sounds Similar” and declair infringement and have the labels’ sites taken down
November 26th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
Don’t worry Robert, labels will be exempt from ‘graduated response’. For them you’ll need lawyers and evidence of infringement (dependent upon provenance, not similarity).
November 26th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Maybe we can find a judge who’s fair and will nail the labels?
November 26th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
Robert, maybe we can foment a popular uprising to abolish copyright?
November 27th, 2009 at 11:14 am
*sigh*
They could move to Sweeeeden or the Ukraine and Bunk with the TPB guys lol
November 28th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
mininova was legal so shutting down your own legal service becap of mafiaa is fked up . just use http://www.mininova.biz instead
November 29th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
“…just use http://www…..biz”
Fuckin’ spammers.