Mininova Removes All Copyrighted Material

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The Bittorrent site Mininova has decided to remove all user submitted torrents in compliance with a ruling from a Dutch court. Since the ruling the site had experimented with various filtering tools, and had removed any torrent at the request of the rights holder, but that wasn't enough for the court system. The move was done in order to avoid €5 million in fines. The only torrents that will be allowed on the site from now on are those submitted through the content distribution service. The site is said to be considering appeal of the ruling, but no action has been taken on this front.

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sdy284 on November 30, 2009 04:48PM Ten Alternatives to Mininova from Lifehacker http://lifehacker.com/5415321/ten-alternatives-to-mininova reply to this

Zertz on November 30, 2009 05:39PM A great site has been taken down. Now, an even better one shall take the reigns. reply to this

bilcliff on December 1, 2009 01:59AM was going to post this on the forums on the day it happened but i wasn't entirely sure that it complied with the rules reply to this

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