Another One Bites The Dust: BitTorrent Giant Mininova Forced To Go Legal
By paidContent.co.uk on Nov 27, 2009 with Comments 1
It calls itself “the ultimate BitTorrent source”, but P2P tracker Mininova has now removed almost all links to copyrighted content after complying with a cease-and-desist court ruling in August from Dutch entertainment rightsholder group Brein.
As the site’s staff write in a blog post, only content uploaded via the site’s legal P2P distribution service will be available, meaning Battletar Galactica episodes and Lady Gaga tracks have been replaced by more obscure music artists…
The ruling, from a court in Utrecht, claims that the site used to receive 3,500 new torrents a day and was regularly visited by five million daily … to read the full story, visit paidContent.co.uk
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