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Mininova limits its activities to Content Distribution service
Published on November 26, 2009 in Mininova-related news. 93 Comments

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
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Too bad, I used to get whatever TV shows I couldn't record on my DVR because 2 things were already recording.

for tv should you should use eztv not mininova anyways.

One goes down, another one goes up tomorrow. :2 cents:

Things are definetly a changing in the torrent world that is for sure

they should redirect it to a different torrent site, it technically won't be linking

Yeah, because redirecting with a script and/or code that clearly sends you to another website is technically not linking :1orglaugh

Tell it to the judge kid :1orglaugh

torrent traffic is on the decline anyway.

What is their site?

Wow. That will certainly kill their site.

There goes their mad money from advertising...

Actually I don't think they made all that much... But there goes what they did have.