RSSMininova is next to get takedown orders from Netherlands court
By Tim Conneally | Published August 26, 2009, 11:17 AM
The world's largest torrent indexing site Mininova is the next site to fall to anti-piracy group Stichting BREIN, Dutch news services are reporting today.
A civil court order handed down today has given Mininova three months to remove all copyrighted works from its servers or face a €5 million fine. Stichting BREIN (lit: "The Brain Foundation"), which represents copyright holders, took action against The Pirate Bay earlier in the summer and won on similar grounds. However, that particular case is in appeal and awaiting its retrial on October 5.
Unlike the Pirate Bay, however, Mininova was already working with copyright groups to devise appropriate content filters. As its Web site policy currently reads, "Please note that we do not host any copyrighted content on this website. The torrent (metadata) files that we host do not contain data that might be copyrighted in any way."
On its blog today, the Mininova team says it is considering appeal as well: "The court did not agree with Brein on all demands. Specifically, it ruled that Mininova does not infringe copyright and neighboring rights. The court also found Mininova can not be expected to remove files that are 'reasonably likely' refer to infringing material. Remarkably, the verdict does not give any consideration to the fact that Mininova has developed a content filter for Brein, nor to the cooperation between Mininova and other organizations of rights holders. This surprises Mininova, because it has always stressed the importance of cooperation."
now they have "Piratebay" on the run, it was just a matter of time before they go after the rest,
a bit like the "3-Strike Rule", as soon as they get a big part ISP to accept policing there coustomers, then the rest will more and likely follow suit, hopefully people will fight against this one though, ISP's in my opioion do not have any right of filtering, or accessing people's data, just on the off chance they may be downloading illegal material, because this could lead to the postal service going through people's mail just in case persons are sending information that could be considered a national security threat,
now the daddy has fallen "Piratebay", the rest are a prime target,
i just hope this doesn't start a new cycle of power, if we can't stop people from doing something, then we will make the ISP's stop it instead, a very very controversial situation.
it's very dis-concerning knowing that one's ISP could be recording and monitoring what were doing on the internet, feels our freedom on the internet may just become a little more controlled in the future.
feels like a war is going on right now, ISP-RIAA-Government-PEOPLE'S RIGHTS.
it's quite surprising how powerful the RIAA has become in such a short space of time.
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|I'm waiting for mobile mesh networks to take off and become very popular. That will reduce, if not eliminate, the need for ISPs.
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|w8 I'm confused... PirateBay got shut down supposedly but it's back up...
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|The game of Whack a Mole continues...
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|napster - whack, kazaa - whack, pirate bay - whack, how many whacks do they get?
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|I think whacking itself will become an industry!!
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|Hell yeah! take them down f**gs - who cares - we have private sites!!!
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|Hmm... So we had Suprnova...then Mininova... there will be more - even if Mini falls. And of course there's always other alternatives.
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|You do realize that this isn't the first time.......
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