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Mininova Starts Filtering Torrents

Posted by timothy on from the afterthought-beforetrial dept.

Dreen writes with this snippet from TorrentFreak: "Just a few days before their court appearance, Mininova, the largest BitTorrent site on the Internet, has started to filter content. The site is using a third-party content recognition system that will detect and remove torrent files that link to copyright-infringing files."

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  1. Re:Why Bother by Animaether · · Score: 1, Redundant

    quite possibly so

    But at least you -can- download that legally without restrictions from the copyright holder itself; unlike the other results.

    that's all I meant, really, but you're absolutely right that Microsoft probably hasn't authorized alternative distribution channels /nokarma