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Mininova pulls the plug

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Nov 26, 2009, 10:21:37 AM11/26/09
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Today I notice all material that might be copyright has gone from Mininova.

Their Blog:
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.

A Sad day.....

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