Mininova limits its activities to Content Distribution service (미니노바 콘텐츠 서비스 제한)

Mininova limits its activities to Content Distribution service 

Published on November 26, 2009 in Mininova-related news.

 

Hi all,

Today is an important day in the history of Mininova. From now on, we are limiting Mininova.org to our Content Distribution service. By doing so, we comply with the ruling of the Court of Utrecht of last August.

Unfortunately the court ruling leaves us no other option than to take our platform offline, except for the Content Distribution service. According to the verdict (Dutch link) we have to prevent uploads of torrents to Mininova that refer to certain titles or to similar-looking titles. We’ve been testing some filtering systems the last couple of months, but we found that it’s neither technically nor operationally possible to implement a 100% working filter system. Therefore, we decided that the only option is to limit Mininova to Content Distribution torrents from now on. We are still considering an appeal at this moment.

We launched our Content Distribution service in 2007. This service allows producers and artists to easily publish and distribute their content for free through Mininova. The launch of Content Distribution has proven to be a success. Countless content owners have used Content Distribution to distribute their content (e.g. albums and documentaries) for free to millions of users. For example, the Dutch band Silence is Sexy released their complete album on Mininova and received the Interactive Award 2009 for doing so. The Dutch television broadcaster VPRO decided to start using Content Distribution in 2009 in order to distribute documentaries.

We would like to thank you for your support. Especially everyone that contributed to Mininova receives a big “thank you!” for the effort! We hope to keep welcoming you on Mininova and our other projects (e.g. Snotr, Dispostable).

Thanks! The Mininova staff

 

engels

November 27, 2009 at 5:43 pm

thanks Mininova for all content that you provided for all this years

 

SAM

November 27, 2009 at 5:44 pm

FUCKING COPYRIGHT LAWS, FUCKING BERLIN NAZI COURT, FUKING INTERNET POLICE. I’M CRYNG TEARS OF BLOOD

 

Anonymous

November 27, 2009 at 5:44 pm

Thank you for the good times. This was one of my favorite torrents sites as their were no viruses in the torrents and all the comments were close to accurate.

Thanking you from the bottom of Heart.

“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”

 

한마디

 

지금부터 알려드리는 내용은 역사적으로 매우 슬픈 얘기가 될겁니다. 지금부터 미니노바의 콘텐츠 배포 서비스를 제한한다고 블로그에 정식으로 올라왔습니다. 미니노바는 네덜란드 국내에서만 월간 이용자가 100만명에 이를 정도로 인기를 얻는 파일 공유 웹사이트로 수천건의 영화, 음악 파일 등이 올라 있습니다.

 

유럽 각국이 인터넷 저작권 침해에 강력 대응하는 것이 매우 슬픈 일이며, 다시 돌아오길 희망합니다.

 

원문 : http://blog.mininova.org/articles/2009/11/26/mininova-limits-its-activities-to-content-distribution-service/