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Mininova Removes All Copyright-Infringing Torrents

Posted by Soulskill on from the another-one-bites-the-dust dept.

Pabugs writes with news that popular torrent site Mininova has abandoned their attempts at filtering and simply deleted all torrents other than the legal ones they facilitate through their Content Distribution service. According to their blog post, they were left "no other option than to take [their] platform offline" after a court ruling from August. "The judge ruled that Mininova is not directly responsible for any copyright infringements, but ordered it to remove all torrents linking to copyrighted material within three months, or face a penalty of up to 5 million euros."

2 of 352 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Debate! by headkase · · Score: 1, Troll

    I have yet to get my +5, Troll but that does not keep me from trying.

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    Shh.
  2. Re:And thus dies Mininova. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Assholes like you have screwed the rest of us honest folk. If losers like you weren't pirating media and using them as intended, there would _NEVER_ be any need for draconian DRM.

    Want something for free or on your terms? Create it yourself. Hire the actors yourself. Hire software developers yourself. Hire musicians yourself. Hire game programmers yourself. I guess stealing is easier.

    Pirates = slimy thiefs = scum

    I hope every ISP turns over scum like you over to the RIAA lawyers. Its going to be fun watching rats like you squrim as RIAA cracks down on the torrent sites.