mininova.org limits it's activities.....

[Orbital Shark]

Mininova limits it's activities to Content Distribution service.

Today is an important day in the history of Mininova. From now on, we are limiting Mininova.org to our Content Distribution service. By doing so, we comply with the ruling of the Court of Utrecht of last August.

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.

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[raj11650]

it would break millions of ppl !!!

 

[TheIceman6]

they're sharing Illegal contents.

 

[Fluffy]

they're sharing Illegal contents.

Indeed, which drives up the costs for us legit customers who buy their pc software.

 

[smarteyeball]

And yet another one bites the dust.

 

[jfar]

It's about time they close these places down.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

I already see this thread going in a bad direction.

 

[z3r010]

I already see this thread going in a bad direction.

I'm watching for it.

 

[smarteyeball]

I already see this thread going in a bad direction.

I'm watching for it.

You may as well just do it now and save a yourself the headdache.

 

[z3r010]

I know, but I hate being a heavy handed censor.

 

[rakeshz]

After piratebay mininova is the target !!! Next what ?

 

[Lee]

It is time for these to start disappearing. Think of how many virus this will stop from infecting those who seem to think these sites are cool because they offer free software, etc. :sarc:

 

[tw33k]

 

[Lebon14]

After piratebay mininova is the target !!! Next what ?

Isoh***? Probably. This is sad. They take everyone for banks with unlimited funds where we have to pay 20$ for an artist's album where there is only ONE good song. This is rediculous.

 

[blair]

what shall we do now? no one has any money anymore. such things make me sick

 

[Qdos]

I've often wondered how long Rapidshare has left...

 

[clalima]

Yes, mininova shared illegal content. But I personally do not agree about the closing. The only think that it does is to create opportunities to other sites develop a similar system and gather users.
And BTW, Pirate bay is up and running very well, I would say.
If downloading a US series episodes is illegal, then yes, I will continue to do illegal downloads, since those series are not aired in Brasil, where I live and I want to be able to watch them. Since the original broadcasters/producers (like Showtime, for example) are not present in Brasil, and they do not allows us with Brasillian IPs to watch from the site, people will keep downloading it.
Also, many (the majority actually, except EA games) of the game companies do not sell officially in Brasil the games DVDs nor they allow us with International Credit Cards to buy from the US site, we will keep doing it.
And when they do sell, like Microsoft, they sell a Windows 7 Ultimate for R$ 700. That is 1,4 time the minimum salary in Brasil. It would be the same as Windows 7 costing US$ 1000 in US.. That is just ridiculous.

 

[sergiogarcia9]

This sucks. Another one of the big ones down None of can say that we havent at some point used mininova and this is a sad day. But they cant kill us all. Pirating will continue, no matter what they will do. It has grown to the point of no return with over 500 different trackers and/or torrents sites over the net, including the private trackers and Warez (Downloading from RS, MU, MF, HF etc.)

 

[Jacee]

After piratebay mininova is the target !!! Next what ?

Isoh***? Probably. This is sad. They take everyone for banks with unlimited funds where we have to pay 20$ for an artist's album where there is only ONE good song. This is rediculous.

You can download one good song 99cents from Amazon.com or Rhapsody.
https://realstore.rhapsody.com/rhapsody/free/real%3bjsessionid=19EC18C25CEC070BA8968CC7BA3E9A15?_flowExecutionKey=_c7328A8B4-92D8-8292-96E3-19D7D5878374_kB3303D59-CFA4-A615-0D84-9EC30DF668D6

 

[blankojames]

So if you live in the states then downloading on air tv shows is illegal? I read that there were no laws on that yet since it was free trade to record to VHS or DVD and share as well as DVR and TiVO