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ISPs Are Not Required to Block the Pirate Bay, Dutch Court Rules

Anti-piracy groups have been fighting sites associated with copyright infringement on more and more fronts. Going after high-visibility targets sometimes works, Mininova was ordered to effectively shut down last year, and sometimes doesn’t, the Pirate Bay is still very much alive and kicking. So these groups st...

19 July 2010
12:03 GMT

There's Life After Piracy, Mininova Strikes Deal with ViewCave

ViewCave, a new online film distribution and video streaming company based in California, will be alternatively releasing content in torrent form through Mininova's service. After a court decision forced the famous torrent tracker to remove all infringing content, Mininova's management finds a glimmer of ho...

27 May 2010
10:49 GMT

Mininova Removes All Infringing Torrents

The largest BitTorrent indexer in the world, Mininova, decided to remove all torrents from the sites, except for those uploaded through its Content Distribution platform. The decision comes after a court decision which forced the site to remove all infringing torrents. In the face of legal consequences and with no p...

26 November 2009
09:53 GMT

Demonoid Is Facing Hardware Troubles, Downtime Expected

TorrentFreak reports that Ukrainian-based BitTorrent tracker Demonoid is facing some huge hardware problems that will certainly result in some downtime for its users. Demonoid admins have admitted to having serious problems with a lot of components ranging from system memory, hard-drives and power circuits.It seems t...

4 September 2009
04:15 GMT

Court Orders Mininova to Remove All Illegal Torrents

Mininova has lost a lawsuit filed by the Dutch anti-piracy organization BREIN and the judge ordered the torrent site to remove all infringing content within three months. While the court didn't hold Mininova responsible for the illegal content linked to on the site, it believed that the torrent aggregator could ...

26 August 2009
09:11 GMT

Pirate Bay Founders Get Served Through Twitter

BREIN, an organization created by the movie, music and gaming industries, located in the Netherlands, recently went after Mininova, the largest torrent indexer in the world, and took the site to court for copyright infringement. Part of its claim was that Mininova blocked bittorrent trackers known to have illegal con...

25 June 2009
06:00 GMT

Mininova Goes to Court

With the whole Pirate Bay trial controversy not even close to settling down, here comes another case of copyright taking torrent sites to court. This time it was the Netherlands’ popular torrent indexing site Mininova's turn to go to court with the local anti-piracy group BREIN. BREIN is accusing Mininov...

4 June 2009
09:04 GMT

Mininova: 5 Billion Downloads, 32 Million Unique Visitors

Mininova, which is said to be the most popular BitTorrent website on the Internet, has just reached a new milestone as it passed 5 billion torrent downloads. The announcement comes after only one week since BREIN, a Dutch anti-piracy group, said it planned to file a lawsuit against Mininova because it provided links ...

27 May 2008
02:43 GMT

Mininova Forced to Remove Pirated Torrents

Although Mininova is the most popular BitTorrent service on the web, this doesn't stop the copyright organization to go after the website and force it to remove copyright infringement torrent files. For those of you who don't know, Mininova is way more popular than The Pirate Bay, being placed on position n...

20 May 2008
02:20 GMT


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