Mininova Removes All Copyright-Infringing Torrents 352
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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."
This is great (Score:5, Funny)
It's always annoying to have loads of stolen software music and films come up when I am searching for a torrent.
Having mininova get rid of all the illigal stuff will make it much easier and more pleasant to use. Legitimate stuff gets buried as there is so much more stolen stuff.
I hope other torrent sites follow suit, even just for the ease of use reasons.
Oh no! What will I do? (Score:5, Funny)
Mininova is gone!
If only there'd be some kind of alternative! I guess I'll just have to rely on sumotorrent, btjunkie, eztv, fenopy, isohunt, seedpeer, torrentz, torrentbox, torrentdownloads.net, torrent portal, torrentreactor.net, torrentreactor.to, alivetorrents, demonoid, boxtorrent, animelab, animesuki, kickasstorrents, torrentplaza, movietorrents, torrentomega, flixflux, overget, superfundo and all the other sites I can easily find on google by doing a simple search.
I hope I'll be able to survive!
Re:Well, dang. (Score:4, Funny)
Where do those of us looking for not-legally avaliable stuff, like dubbed anime go now?
You could always go teach English in Japan.
Typo in summary (Score:2, Funny)
> Mininova Removes All Copyright-Infringing Torrents
Mininova Removes All Torrents ...Here, fixed that for ya
Re:Whack-A-Mole (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Another site will replace it. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Debate! (Score:5, Funny)
I thought that duty to rescue only applies to fellow humans and not RIAA lawyers?
Re:Another site will replace it. (Score:3, Funny)
Mininova replaced Suprnova, and Mininova will be replaced by another site. It's like playing whack-a-mole, except there are 1000 moles and 1 hammer.
Next up: Moderatelysizednova.
Re:Debate! (Score:5, Funny)
If more people learned the power of saying "no" the world would be a better place.
No
Let me get my video camera... (Score:5, Funny)
You called that one, I sure couldn't just stand there and watch. I mean, how often do you get a chance to kick a RIAA person WHILE they are having a heart attack?
Re:Debate! (Score:5, Funny)
In the 1990's our primary industry, fishing, collapsed as the stocks were not properly managed from a government and citizen perspective.
Not to mention from the perspective of the fish!