Mininova bans pirated and non-ownership files for good

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Published on November 26, 2009

 

Hi all,

 

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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Their new requirements are:

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* You are (or your company is) the copyright owner or publisher of quality content.

* You would like to distribute your content for free.

* You agree that you will not upload DRM-protected content or spam.

http://www.mininova.org/apply

I discovered this b/c all my album torrents were suddenly gone. But I can re-upload them (which I will) since I own them, but have to sign up for a content dist. account (which is still free).

mightynova.org

also, if you haven't noticed demonoid has been down for some time. I really like demonoid for finding good music and really want to get mine on there. All this doesn't bother me that much since I buy all my software, but as far as music goes, i support (even being an artist myself) 100% being able to download and find any music you want, and finding other ways to support artists, or just donate to them via paypal which a lot of big name artists have caught on to.

  On 11/29/2009 at 5:55 PM, ZeroHour said:

mightynova.org

of course there are many other torrent sites, but mininova as the name alone was a big one and still will be, but there will be less rare music on there along with new and artist owned uploads. I like it all mixed together :) But yeah, there's plenty of other options, but mininova i have always liked b/c its a nice layout, not a whole bunch of ads, and has pretty decent seeding, unlike tpb which is pretty big but has turned into grab and no seed.

are people torrenting rare stuff from regular(non-invite) torrent-sites? wut? try one of those post-oink sites

noticed that. used this and isohunt. plenty of alternatives but yeah, it was quality

  On 11/29/2009 at 6:42 PM, goDel said:

are people torrenting rare stuff from regular(non-invite) torrent-sites? wut? try one of those post-oink sites

not really, but mininova was one of the only ones that i could still find decent stuff on, and has been convenient since demonoid went down.

I thought most video files had moved to rapidshare type services, and I only find rare musics on slsk anyway.

i like http://www.torrentz.com/ as some sort of meta-torrent search site. if mininova or the piratebay stop posting the good stuff there's always other places which end up uploading it.

lol torrents

lol http://www.torrentz.com/ is taking a hammering ... -server down-

Joyrex should have a msg like this for our down times.

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Our hamster powered servers are overloaded. They are begging for a minutes rest.

Somebody please, think of the hamsters!

 

 

everyone will just switch to magnet/DHT links and membership only sites. the trend present at the moment cannot be stopped. either the MAFIAA faces up to this fact, or they will die.

cheers kaini, you triggered me to search a nice article explaining what you meant.

heh @ user viewing thread called 'NoResults' .. apt or deliberate?

even in sydney ?? .. you can buy over the net you know, but i'll leave you with your little excuse ;-] ..

but yeah, i'll reinforce that out of print argument, so many lush disco's

Wow, that place is still going. Bought slanted and enchanted there a long time ago.

well i think it was red eye, maybe it was another one.

demonoid is the real loss. they need to get their shit together.

i just noticed the banner add in your sig. WOW !!

  On 12/1/2009 at 6:26 PM, delet... said:

i just noticed the banner add in your sig. WOW !!

I want a pony :(