Anti-Piracy Group Claims Mass Mininova Torrent Deletion
Written by enigmax on July 22, 2009An Italian anti-piracy group is claiming a “major offensive” against nternet links to infringing music. Created by IFPI, the Federation Against Music Piracy (FPM) says that 20K torrents were removed from Mininova and another 10K links on other sites, along with 12 eD2K and Direct Connect servers.
The Federation Against Music Piracy (FPM) was created in 1996 when IFPI and FIMI (the Italian music industry federation) teamed up to spread its anti-piracy message more effectively in Italy.
Now FPM is claiming that a “major offensive” is underway against what it describes as “new forms of illegal file-sharing.” The group is claiming that it has successfully removed from the Internet more than 30,000 links to unauthorized music, which together generated 10 million illicit downloads.
Singling out Mininova as the single biggest host of links on its hitlist, FPM claims to have successfully ordered the torrent site to remove more than 20,000 torrents. Another 10,000 items were removed from online storage sites including Rapidshare and MegaUpload. FPM says that it will now work to have further infringing links removed on a daily basis.
In further action against file-sharing services, FPM claims to have shuttered a further 12 eD2K and Direct Connect servers although no further details have been made available.
Interestingly, Mininova co-founder Erik Dubbelboer was not aware of FPM’s takedown bombardment. He told TorrentFreak that they haven’t received any emails from FPM. So, unless FPM was sending the requests from a different email address not associated with its domain, their claim might be a bit overstated.
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*Shattered.
And isn’t it lovely, what’s the wages of the lusers that work for them?
Where does their pay come from, well, from legit sales obviously…
They’ll NEVER win really, kill people hearing new music, people won’t hear new music, people then won’t buy new music, artists and scam companies like ifpi won’t make as much and will have to fire people.
out goes one tracker,next for the damned riaa guys,and try to delete a horde of torrents,this must be stopped before they errase stuff from other major big trackers…
Mmmm, what assholes.
Yeah odd that they haven’t actually emailed them asking to remove links, at least not through any addresses associated with them. Which is odd considering that surely they would want as much publicity as possible? Or is it just the fact that they would probably just would get told to GTFO if they did.
“new forms of illegal file-sharing.”
Obviously someones just arose from their cave.
FASCISTS!
lol fail..
Hey but guess what guys? I uploaded like 10k torrents the other day.. which like equals a couple billion downloads…
dont believe me? too bad.. whatever i say is true cause i said so.
k thnx bai
watch all the torrents be dead.. no seeders/peers… ROFL THNX FOR THE CLEANUP!
ahahah
Hmmm..i THOUGHT THAT THE STUFF ON MININOVA WAS A BIT BAsic now i know why!
Oh I think I will go and download loads of music , seed for weeks and then just delete it- like the free disposable trash that it is!
Imagine paying for music LOL
Mininova would be fucking well aware of it if FPM had ordered them to remove 20,000 torrents.
So it’s painfully obvious that FPM are lying.
This puts the other 10,000 infringing items “removed” into severe doubt as well.
As to why they’d lie, they need to make it look like they’re waging an effective battle against filesharing so that the MAFIAA and/or clueless studios and labels will continue to fund them. If that seems familiar, it’s because Media-Defender used to(before the entire company imploded) and Web Sheriff continues to pull the same shit.
“Look how awesome and effective we are! Yes indeed, we’re totally putting a stop to filesharing!! Of course, we need money keep fighting… So if you’d kindly hand us a small fortune…”
They lost the game before even starting it.
Mininova is not a tracker, it’s just like Google… and indexer. so they didn’t actually remove anything… absofückinglutely anything from the internet, congrats!
Congrats on FüCK1NG FAILING! Kill yourselves… seriously.
Ooooh 30,000 torrents removed… but wait there are 100’s of thousands if not a million or more torrent files linking to all sorts of content.
Its like trying to empty an Olympic size swimming pool with a teaspoon if any of it is true at all that is.
Can’t get them all. Everyone will just search for new links, which will always be there if you just know where to look, as long as there is no decent legal alternative.
20,000 torrents removed from one tracker is just the tip of the iceberg. If FPM think that this is a significant number or that they are able to stop us, they are deluding themselves.
I thought Mininova had gone legal recently?
@15: No. I believe that they started distributing music from certain indie labels legally, but the site is the same as it always was.
d*mn hypocrites probably download all kinds of stuff when no ones watching their only in it for the money and because they cant find a real job if you took the money away theyd clear out.
DC server = doesn’t exist, massive incompetence FAiL
Mussolini is back! AAAAAH
fail at telling a convincing lie
next theyll say they deleted google from the internet…its the same sort of indexing service as mininova
and as believable as wiping out 30,000 torrents from online without even asking/telling anybody
again fail
Oh I think I will go and download loads of music , seed for weeks and then just delete it- like the free disposable trash that it is!
englishrussia.org
Imagine paying for music LOL
I am a pompous prat. Please divert your attention from the article and poke fun at me.
80% of those numbers were exaggerated.
I just checked a wide range of uploaders accounts and checked for a bunch of high visibility stuff like new movies.
They don’t appear to have removed a damn thing.
J.
I’m not sure why they would take pride for allegedly deleting files from mininova. No one uses it anymore.
What will they be bragging about next? That they’ve deleted files from The Pirate Bay?
Who would care? No one uses the dead horses when there are so many alternatives out there.
Pathetic.
Back to my downloading now…xD
What torrents are missing as anyone noticed anything at all?
lol mininova doesnt have a tracker..
so even if they DID remove links.. there still being shared..
I love how they tell us HOW they removed these so call torrents..
its so easy to make BS up and its not like anybody can check to see if its true except TECH heads and executives never listen to tech heads cause it causes there brain to explode.. its a whole deadly cycle.. in the end everybody will believe them.. even though nothing ever changed..
Mininova was the only site I used, and i was wondering why i couldnt get any movies from there all of a sudden
so can any one suggest any other sites i can use to get movies, that is like what mininova was, just download and watch
it would be much appreciated
dc hubs still ge4t attacked? not used them in forever thought they were all shut down using them today wouldnt be a smart idea if they are still about
Maybe somebody should tell that clueless Arda Gerkens c u n t.
I like the way they are hiding a .torrent file in a .torrent file on mininova now — YOU CANT STOP TORRENTS.
FPM masy CLAIM they have forced Mininova to remove 20,000 torrents, but it is just that, a claim.
Searching through torrents in the music category on there (mostly rock), I found quite a few that were still there.
So FPM is lying through their teeth. 20,000 is seriously inflated when the actual number is probably only about 200.
Aww shoot guys they going to kill P2P. Now we can no longer steal from the labels and then they won’t have to wait a while to build that golden statue.
p2p will be eradicated at this rate. OHNOES!!!
Wouldn’t it be great if they were actually called “The Federation Against Piracy” – FAP :)
I guess if I download music I would have noticed something…wait…ahhhh!…who am I kidding all the music that I download recently came from youtube so unless they kill youtube It will not make a difference LoL
Federation of Anti-piracy Guild
or
FAG
haha thanks team america
If only I used torrents to download music LoL
Unless Youtube, spotify and others gets closed I don’t see how they will do a dent on piracy LoL
Hell i could get 30,000 links on rapidshare deleted.
A simple email with “Copyright Infringment” as the subject
and any rapidshare links,is suffice enough for them to delte the links(go try it go to any warez index and grab a bunch of links(or upload your own text files and report them) and watch them all die.)
Ooh, I wonder how much artists money was spent on this little waste of time? I suggest that these torrents will reappear if not within days, then certainly within weeks.
The eDonkey network has never been so efficient !
In fact, since some days, it’s several tens of new fully functional edonkey servers that have been put online. Fuck You Cartel and Anti-Piracy Organizations. If you would like to help the mule team, slyck.com has lots of info. & Content also Re-Upped on Sites previously removed. Fuck you Cartel, don’t remove our shit!!
Oh yeah, & running an edonkey server is not illigal!!!!!!!! Some one should sue these organizations that are shutting them down.
nice nice, good work FPM
new ed2k servers are up screw you cartels
torrents have also been re-upped
didn’t mininova have a copyright filter?
The important Q, how many were up:ed during the same time it took them to remove the old ones?
I believe em’ mininova is a p*ssysite compared to other torrent sits
hahahahahahaha
my god, they removed 20.000. Well, congratulations. How many of those were uploaded again the next day under a different name though?
Ooooh, and you guys did see there iseasily over a million torrents there, right?
Well… really happy for u guys…
Assuming this is even true.. I bet you 50 000 torrents showed up to replace the 10 000 they took down.. Assuming it’s even true..
Frances Moore – Executive Vice President and Regional Director Europe
Olivia Regnier – Deputy Regional Direct and Regional Legal Counsel
Francine Cunningham – EU Government Affairs Manager and Head of Communication Europe
Ágata Pavía – Senior Adviser, Legal and Government Affairs
Lina Budroni – Office Manager
IFPI European Office
Square de Meeûs 40
1000 Brussels
Belgium
Tel: +32 2 511 9208
Fax: +32 2 502 3077
E-mail: euroinfo@ifpi.org
drop them a mail (or whatever you think is appropriate) and thank them for their good work|)
i sure did
Don’t let the notice fool you; that company locate in italy is formed from american companies and is well know for calling for thoughter laws against italian sharers;
also, i didn’t hear anything about closing DC hubs even if they existed in italy; i wonder about what is really true, or probably wasn’t italy.
Also, there are no ed2k servers here in italy.
“The group is claiming that it has successfully removed from the Internet more than 30,000 links to unauthorized music”
Ya! My butt! They are such a pack of liars and morons!
Even if it was true 30k torrents is nothing!
Oh and yes we just pie in the ocean and it raised the level a little bit! Right?
What a pack of Dorks!
Now What??? Pirate bay is gone and now Mininova is sinking..? Is there anything to look forward for? I don’t want to stop pirating because it saves me like $2000 a year.
ha! ha! ha! continue making us all laughing at you (i don’t spk english but my words are so simples and so true)
> An Italian anti-piracy group is claiming a “major offensive” against internet links to infringing music.
The most important double quotes in some time. This isn’t a major offensive.
Turning off internet access at the ISP level would be a *major* offensive.
This is PR, masterbatation and wasted adjectives, but this is not a major offensive.
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