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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."

6 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.

    --
    Shh.
  2. Re:Debate! by sopssa · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's nice that you have this "fight the power!" attitude and all, but some of us actually have lives and loved ones to care about. Most of us, actually. They fighted in court, lost and now they're complying to the court order. What is the other way? Yell "NO YOU WONT DO THIS TO US" and go to jail? No thank you.

    But seeing you're here to write about their lack of principle, why don't you do something?

  3. Re:Debate! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    grow up and get a job little kid.

  4. Re:And thus dies Mininova. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    GPL also works through Copyright law. I guess you must be a huge advocate of infringing the copyright on GPL code too?

    Fuck all the pirates. I hope they all get sued till they're bankrupt.

    I'm going to donate $50 to MPAA/RIAA now. Yay ! :)

  5. 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.

  6. Re:And thus dies Mininova. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, 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.

    aww, look at the little babby trying to speak with the grown-ups. cute