BitTorrent Site Mininova Gets Shut Down
An article in Billboard.biz explained Netherlands Bit Torrent site called Mininova was disabled this past week on November 26. According to the article Mininova has had more than 10 billion downloads that all have had copyright protected. Such as films, games, music, and television programs. In August of this year they were ordered to remove all the torrents linking to illegal content within three months or else they would have to face a fine. Since then the court has ruled that Mininova’s response to this warning was not sufficient. The site disabled its infringing service yesterday. The site still operates in a reduced capacity that uses a featured content service, which allows only licensed content to be downloaded. The site released on its blog that they have been testing out different types of filtering systems that would give access to unlicensed material but they found that it is impossible have a filter system that works 100 percent of the time. Though this is based in the Netherlands there is a lot of cracking down going on for the illegal sharing of torrents and decisions like this are going to affect decisions being made over here. There is still much debate going on about the 3 strike policy for downloading illegally.
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