The Dutch anti-piracy organization warns the BitTorrent tracker site that it must "take effective measures to prevent it and if they can not then it must stop. "The BREIN foundation, a joint Dutch anti-piracy program of authors, artists and producers of music, film, and interactive software in the fight against Intellectual Property theft, is warning Mininova.org, the 52nd largest site in the world according to Alexa, and apparently the largest BitTorrent tracker site around, that it must "take effective measures to curtail this [copyright] abuse" on its own or be stopped from doing so by the courts. With more han 30 million unique visitors per month and 5 billion total downloads and counting, the Netherlands-based site is a prime target for anti-piracy organizations like BREIN. "Mininova has a business model that is based on illegality. It benefits from large-scale infringement, "says BREIN director Tim Kuik (Google Translation). "A Take Down Notice procedure is absolutely insufficient for a site that structurally and systematically using unauthorized files. Notice & Take Down to work against leaks to the crane but not as wide open as with Mininova. A comparison of sites that offer essentially legally organize does not. Mininova organizes almost exclusively illegal supply and earns its revenues there. They should therefore take effective measures to prevent it and if they can not then it must stop. " In other words, it wants it to prevent the illegal file-sharing of copyrighted material in the first place and not just respond after the fact to takedown requests. "This is a matter of principle for BREIN. We come with Mininova not explain why we have this question now before the court, "says Kuik (Google Translation). "There is a long time with Mininova talked about possible solutions but ultimately they do not want to take responsibility for their actions. You can still talk endlessly but runs by the injury to persons entitled to and is going Mininova earn millions." So what does Mininova have to say? It thinks the status quo is just fine and that it does respond to takedown notices. It's simply a big site and responding to takedown requests simply takes time. "Mininova is just too big to filter each file," said Mininova-owner Erik Dubbelboertold to Dutch news site Nu.nl. "This is the only proper way to do it." [Via The Register] |
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"A Take Down Notice procedure is absolutely insufficient" - BREIN
WTF???? English, do they speak it? LOLZ!
Since they're Dutch I would say no. And it even said this was a Google translation, so we shouldn't expect too much. He was probably using a colloquial expression and it didn't translate well.