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Tech Talk => Software, Security, Programming and Internet => Topic started by: woodyear99 on November 26, 2009, 11:42:35 AM
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Hmm one less site to visit :p
http://torrentfreak.com/mininova-deletes-all-infringing-torrents-and-goes-legal-091126/
Mininova’s decision to delete all infringing torrents from its index marks the end of an era that started five years ago.
In December 2004, the demise of the mighty Suprnova left a meteor crater in the fledgling BitTorrent landscape. This gaping hole was soon filled by the dozens of new sites that emerged to fulfil the public’s increasing demands for torrents. Mininova became the most successful of all.
Mininova was founded in early 2005 by five Dutch students, just a month after Suprnova closed its doors. The site started out as a hobby project created by tech-savvy teenagers, but in the years that followed the site’s founders managed to turn it into a successful business that generated millions of dollars in revenue.
With increased popularity also came numerous complaints from copyright holders, who saw their intellectual property being shared by users of the site. For years Mininova has complied with these takedown requests, but earlier this year the Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN decided to take the torrent site to court nonetheless, demanding that the operators proactively filter torrents pointing to copyrighted material.
The case went to court in June and a few weeks later the verdict was announced. 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.
To avoid having to pay these penalties, the Mininova team saw no other option than to disable access to all torrents except those that were uploaded to their content distribution platform. This means that only approved uploaders can share torrents through the site for now.
During the last few months, Mininova has extensively tested several filtering techniques, but none of these proved 100% effective. “It’s very unfortunate that we’re forced to take this action, but we saw no other option,” Mininova co-founder Niek told TorrentFreak.
Mininova still hasn’t decided yet whether they will appeal the verdict, Niek further told TorrentFreak. They have appealed the verdict pro-forma, which gives the company more time to decide whether they will indeed continue with the appeal. As it looks now, a successful appeal is the only option for Mininova to bring all torrents back.
In the meantime the Mininova team will focus on other projects besides Mininova, as well as growing the number of users for their content distribution platform.
The implications of Mininova’s decision will have a huge impact on the BitTorrent community. The millions of Mininova users and uploaders have to look for a new home, but perhaps even more importantly, Mininova had the largest collection of user-submitted torrents that were used by dozens of smaller torrent indexers.
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WEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY i now see this yes...
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I doubbbttttttttttttttttt. Nah hoss NAH. WTF going on. First TPB now Mini? What next?
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Well F@#K me sideways. :(
No more beta testing?
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Hehe remember when one goes down 10 more rise out of the ashes :)
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Note to self: get stuff when you say you would b4 crap like this happens!!!
Son of a......lol
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WTMFCAB?!!!!!
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demonoid, piratebay, mininova...and word on the street is isohunt not 'safe'
newsgroup ftw oui
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Private torrent sites FTW!!!
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the noose keeps tightening as an era comes to a close. Ahoy mateys! To shore with you land lovers!
update...the mininova trashing doesn't seem to be hurting torrent speeds though, this is almost a record for my 10mb connection.
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yar i pulled a naruto ep is a lil over a minute...record time oui
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http://torrentfreak.com/10-alternatives-to-mininova-091126/ (http://torrentfreak.com/10-alternatives-to-mininova-091126/)
After nearly five years of loyal service, Mininova disabled access to over a million torrent files when it partly shut down its website. Starting today, only approved publishers are able to upload files to the site, but luckily there are plenty of alternatives and potential replacements BitTorrent users can flock to.
With an impressive 175,820,430 visits and close to a billion page views in the last 30 days, Mininova set a record that they will be unable to break in the near future. Last August a Dutch court ruled that Mininova had to remove all links to ‘infringing’ torrent files, with disastrous consequences.
Since it is technically unfeasible to pre-approve or filter every potentially infringing torrent file, the Mininova team decided to throw in the towel and only allow torrents to be submitted by approved uploaders. This move resulted in the deletion of more than a million torrents, many of which were not infringing any copyrights at all.
Thankfully, there are still plenty of alternatives for those BitTorrent users who are looking for the latest Ubuntu, OpenSUSE or Fedora release.
1. Torrentzap
2. Fenopy
3. ExtraTorrent
4. KickassTorrents
5. BTjunkie
5. Monova
7. isoHunt
8. yourBitTorrent
9. The Pirate Bay
10. ShareReactor
Update: The owner of Monova, told TorrentFreak that he has reserved all Mininova usernames for people who want to make the switch to his site. The account names can be claimed here. Also, we replaced some sites in the original top 10 because they went down or started to serve trojans,or viruses.
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* bookmarks ALL *
Arrr?
(http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e189/asemchuck_bucket/Pirate20Girl.gif)
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Holy fudgenuggets! Monova is just like mininova...only better!
Long live the torrents.
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* bookmarks ALL *
Arrr?
(http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e189/asemchuck_bucket/Pirate20Girl.gif)
Haha I like the bling
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monova (http://www.monova.org [u) FTW
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Holy fudgenuggets! Monova is just like mininova...only better!
Long live the torrents.
Yup. Seems like the 'adult' section well populated as well. :)
There's an adult section!!?
"...uhhh Houston...we have a possible New Hoss sighting, over" :happy0203:
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Not only an adult section, but a dedicated button on the menu for it lol.
They have yuh back boy arc.
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Well that's just Prime
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No shock here.....
http://torrentfreak.com/mininova-traffic-plummets-after-going-legal-091205/ (http://torrentfreak.com/mininova-traffic-plummets-after-going-legal-091205/)
Mininova Traffic Plummets After Going ‘Legal’
Written by Ernesto on December 05, 2009
Roughly a week ago, Mininova was still the largest torrent site on the Internet, but this quickly changed after the site’s founders removed of millions of torrents to avoid having to pay millions of dollars in fines. In the days that followed, traffic to the site dropped 66%, while the number of daily downloads are less than 4% of what they used to be.
After nearly five years of loyal service, Mininova deleted over a million torrent files when it partly shut down its website a week ago. What remains are a few thousand torrents that were uploaded though its content distribution platform, which only lists uploads by approved users.
Mininova was forced to take such a drastic measure following a negative verdict in their court battle with the local anti-piracy outfit BREIN this summer. The torrent indexer was told by the court to remove all infringing torrent files from its index. This was technically unfeasible according to the Mininova team, who were left with no other choice than to remove all torrent files uploaded by regular users.
This move resulted in the deletion of more than a million torrents, many of which were not infringing any copyrights at all. As expected, the consequences of this decision for Mininova’s traffic, as well as the number of searches and downloads on the site, are disastrous.
In just a few days Mininova’s traffic plummeted by 66%, from well over 5 million visits the day before the torrents were removed, to just 1.8 million yesterday. If the downward trend continues at this rate, the site will have less than a million visits a day a week from now, throwing it out of the top 10 most visited torrent sites that it led for two years in a row.
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...and it will eventually go the way of the dodo like all other slain torrent sites.
I not worried though. There will be many others to take its place.
LONG LIVE BITTORRENT!!! (Arr mateys :))
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torrents going trackerless as i understand so the use of these sites will soon dwindle to nothing more than hosting links...guys...anyone interested in starting up a kinda gatt p2p community? i mean im pretty sure we all have something that would intrest each other...*looks at arc* AHEM something that woudl interst each other
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guess who's back.........DEMONOID!!!!
Didn't want to make a new thread so.....
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w0000t!!
been bloody long enough
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'wipes tear'
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Looks like IsoHunt is now under the crosshair.
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/isohunt_takes_hit_loses_crucial_lawsuit (http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/isohunt_takes_hit_loses_crucial_lawsuit)