Earlier in the month popular torrent site Mininova recorded their eight billionth download. The site was founded in January of 2005 and is one of the world’s most successful torrent sites. According to Torrentfreak the site is one of the top 100 most visited websites on the entire internet. Mininova reached the 8 billion point thanks to visitors downloading over 10 million torrents a day.
Although the majority of headlines recently have revolved around the legal troubles of fellow torrent site The Pirate Bay, Mininova has not been spared from its own legal troubles. Anti-piracy organization BREIN will be taking Mininova to court this May. BREIN is a Dutch based organization conducting activities similar to the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) or the CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association). BREIN is demanding Mininova implement a filtering mechanism to weed out torrents that link to items that infringe on copyrights.
In an exclusive interview with Torrent Freak the founders of Mininova stated, “We have confidence in the outcome of the case and we don’t think Mininova will cease to exist,” Mininova is continuing operations as normal in the lead up to the May court date. Mininova President Erik Dubbelboer believes the case is not meant to determine the legality of torrent sites but to determine what sort of filters torrent sites should be forced to implement. Dubbelboer stated, “The case wont say much about the legality of torrent sites, but it will give more insight into what measures BitTorrent indexers and similar services have to take in order to make sure that they don’t link to illegal content, In particular, it deals with the question of whether or not website owners have to actively filter content. In other words, is a notice and takedown policy sufficient or not.”.
An important distinction between the recent Pirate Bay case and the Mininova case is who is being targeted. In the Mininova case the company is being targeted while in the Pirate Bay case it was a criminal trial for the individuals involved with the site.
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I just think that it is illegal. I mean downloading movies for free is not good at all.
O RLY?@Gem
@Gem
Watch ‘Steal This Film’ 1 or 2 but be warned: you may have ot use bittorrent to watch it! It might open your mind a little…
These pirates are committing acts which are as destructive as child pornography and rape. They deserve penalties equaling the severity of common crimes. Justice will come and the law breakers will lose these few niche web portals.
im not downloading for free ! in fact none is bcoz you pay for your internet connection !
Wow, the other day file-sharing was compared to using cocaine, and now to child porn and rape? Ask any of the victims of any of these crimes, or former addicts of the former, and I doubt any will tell you that downloading a song is as destructive. In fact, shame on you and the other fella for even making the suggestion.
“I want the world, and I want it now”, not when some publishing company executive decides I can have it. I want free access to everything…the whole culture, just like i want free air and free water — and if there’s any creative artists or performers out there who are starving, then drop me a line and i’ll send you a food parcel
LOL!!! x100000000
Oh come on! Are you serious? Rape? Since when is downloading considered a physical crime? Is someone going to have to have therapy cus of downloading? Anyone with a brain would know otherwise that downloading is nothing compared to rape..
“Justice will come and the law breakers will lose these few niche web portals” – Uh ok let me know when that will happen it seems it never has since napster ended.. you had years to try and ban this whole thing of file sharing and still nothing, still losing, still going no where, wasting more money and making file sharing more popular as it hits the mainstream media.. watch mininova go to 10 billion… then look at your oh so grand ways of “fighting crime” online again..as you claim its oh so severe and mentally tormenting to others (referring to your rape comparison)… I think you need to rethink your whole persona there Mr.
theres a new sheriff in town its name is Qtrax free legally licensed p2p music downloads now there is an alternative to steeling
I don’t know about you guys but I would rather have someone steal ALL my movies and ALL my music than rape me.
@BREIN
YOU ARE AN IDIOT! How does rape equate to downloading music or movies?As far loosing of those few niche portals, the last time I checked there are about 500,000 BT sites and growing (exponentially).
Good luck on closing them and all those other sites. The fact that you do not present any intelligent argument could only mean that you were hatched and pea-size brain is overloaded.
@BREIN
You are so hyperbolic, you cannot even take yourself seriously.
Child porn and rape are physical acts of criminal brutality. Copying a few bytes of data is less criminal than the banking industry charging 23% on a credit card.
Seriously.
Get your priorities straight, or you will find yourself in the same boat as the religious right or the muslim extremists.
@diskjockey
Muahahhahhhaa! Amen. Piracy hurts an awful lot less, and is sure to be far less traumatic. Ask anybody who’s been raped or victimized by child porn what they’d prefer and Im sure they’d smack you over the head for asking such a stupid question.
Too bad some politicians seem to buy this load of bull.