After several months of legal wrangling, Mininova, famous-sharing service BitTorrent links, falls in rank, and bends to the verdict in the case against the Brein, the Netherlands Organization for the fight against piracy. Site administrators have removed Thursday, the full links to download files subject to copyright. Pending a possible appeal, Mininova will simply reference the files legally distributed in its program Content Distribution.
Sentenced last August 26, Mininova had three months to remove all links to content protected by copyright, under penalty of a fine of 1 000 per illegal torrent up to 5 million euros. Its directors were also put in place a filtering device to prevent them prior to sending links of this type.
"We tested several filtering devices past two months, but we realized it was neither technically nor operationally, to implement an effective system to 100%. Therefore, we decided that the only valid option was limited to torrents from Mininova's Content Distribution Program ", explained the team on his blog, adding it is still considering the possibility to appeal the verdict.
Founded in 2005 Mininova contain approximately 1.3 million file torrents. During November, the site has surpassed the ten billion torrent files distributed to users. It remains to see how to react to the millions of visitors. Se rueront they legal to files hosted by the platform, to selling services online, or about the many alternatives that already exist on the Web?
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