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Re: Mininova.org Limits its activities to content Distribution
The internet is slowly coming under corporate control in my opinion. I'll post some info on upcoming Legislation some friends told me about also. Lets try avoid the Conspiracy Theory BS on this one though. The hard facts in this matter are crazy enough that we shouldn't have to resort to wild speculation.
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.
We launched our Content Distribution service in 2007. This service allows producers and artists to easily publish and distribute their content for free through Mininova. The launch of Content Distribution has proven to be a success. Countless content owners have used Content Distribution to distribute their content (e.g. albums and documentaries) for free to millions of users. For example, the Dutch band Silence is Sexy released their complete album on Mininova and received the Interactive Award 2009 for doing so. The Dutch television broadcaster VPRO decided to start using Content Distribution in 2009 in order to distribute documentaries.
We would like to thank you for your support. Especially everyone that contributed to Mininova receives a big “thank you!” for the effort! We hope to keep welcoming you on Mininova and our other projects (e.g. Snotr, Dispostable).
Thanks! The Mininova staff
Link:
http://mnstat.com/images/blog/index.html
American Legislation (Proposed) that may re shape the Internet as we currently experience it:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10320096-38.html
British Legislation (also Proposed) :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/no … onomy-bill
I'm Expecting at least one person to relate this back to Rupert Murdoch's "Internet will soon be over Comment". In fact if no one does I may have to myself, though I would be inclined to view the vast amount of current conspiracy theories as total BS used by the Alex Jones to shift books and DVDs to those willing to pay for any material that would blame others for their own perceived "mis-fortune"
- mickronson
- Rep: 118
Re: Mininova.org Limits its activities to content Distribution
couldnt really give a flying, about p2p. plenty of other ways that have been around longer and are still chugging along without much interference.
- mickronson
- Rep: 118
Re: Mininova.org Limits its activities to content Distribution
if you wanna stay with torrents just find a more private community to deal with. something like monkey house would be a place to start.
Re: Mininova.org Limits its activities to content Distribution
When Pirate Bay goes down, the p2p communities implode. Most people don't realize how most torrents lead right back to Pirate Bay regardless of which site you use.
There will be a recovery of course, but it will be a very long process. Whichever year Pirate Bay is destroyed, it will be one of that year's biggest news stories.
Re: Mininova.org Limits its activities to content Distribution
When Pirate Bay goes down, the p2p communities implode. Most people don't realize how most torrents lead right back to Pirate Bay regardless of which site you use.
There will be a recovery of course, but it will be a very long process. Whichever year Pirate Bay is destroyed, it will be one of that year's biggest news stories.
Yeah you know I heard that most trackers lead back to the pirate bay.
I was sure that pirate bay were to be shut down very soon? I had presumed that since they lost their case they would be ordered to close
- mickronson
- Rep: 118
Re: Mininova.org Limits its activities to content Distribution
er, no you're not.. PB aint the only fish in the sea.. and not all roads lead to PB.
fuck em all anyway.. I`m alright `jack`
