Mininova Filters Copyright Infringing Torrents
Written by Ernesto on May 06, 2009Just a few days before their court appearance, Mininova, the largest BitTorrent site on the Internet, has started to filter content. The site is using a third party content recognition system that will detect and remove torrent files that link to copyright infringing files.
Starting today, Mininova will use a content recognition system that detects and removes torrent files linking to copyright infringing files. The system will also prevent the torrents from being re-uploaded to mininova later on.
Mininova co-founder Niek told TorrentFreak that the system will be tested for 12 weeks with only a few titles. With this trial Mininova collaborates with an association representing several TV/movie content owners. Niek couldn’t tell us which one, but our best guess would be that it’s the MPA(A).
The content removal system should be seen as an extension of the existing copyright policy according to Niek, who also said that the current trial will be used to find out whether the content recognition system is a workable and effective solution.
The system was selected by the copyright holders themselves who want an easier way to get torrent files removed than the current notice and takedown policy, and it is operated by an undisclosed third party. Interestingly, this collaboration does not mean that the upcoming court case against BREIN is off the table.
Later this month BREIN hopes to convince the court that Mininova has to filter its search results, so that all .torrent files which may point to unauthorized content are removed. Up until now, Mininova refused to interfere with the search results, claiming that the DMCA take-down procedure they have is good enough. This has clearly changed now.
The response from Mininova’s users is mostly negative, with one commenter saying “Shame to see such a nice site decide to go hang itself,” and another adding “Wow, guess you guys are caving under the pressure. Too bad its all over now.”
The effectiveness of this filtering system, and how it will affect mininova’s popularity is yet to be seen, but it sure is a radical development.
Breaking story, more info will be added.
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293 Responses
Right.. Another one bites the dust AH, another one bites the dust..
An understandable reaction, but if the filter turns out to be effective, you can likely kiss the site’s popularity goodbye.
F**K that
hmm been on mininova and thus far still see plenty of good stuff. guess it’s one of them “for show” filters for all the legal jibbady-jappedy
This could be the beginning of the end of a free internet.
And here Mininova goes… when the filters work good, then this was MiniNova’s life. Damn it was such a good clean site :(
the end is coming :(
yeah..it’s a plus to the trial, but still, a filter is going to destroy mininova, as a piracy site…
And there goes all of the torrents along with all of the members. How lame is that
*Site removed from bookmarks*
lamers !
TPB here we come !
thepiratebay will live. no censorship !
i hate you mininova.
TBP isn’t living on, seems to be down right now.
April Foo…! Oh.. :-(
Time for Speakeasies, food website upfront. And *cough* in the back room.
…and, the Mininova search plugin is removed.
pirate bay CONFIRMED
DOWN
we need a new Super Savior a new Napster
with a tracking system cant be shut down de centralized bitches
Dude, this really is crappy news!
Requiescat In Pace Mininova.
@13 There are some private trackers like that already!
torrentz to go
noticed TPB is down too. What’s going on?
Hmm… It’s more than a month since the 1st of april…
Haha! Yes, we are winning. REMEMBER, WE, THE MPAA, OWN THE INTERNET AND THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT EXCEPT CRY IN FRONT OF YOUR COMPUTER. NEVER FORGET THAT MY NERDS.
Just looking at the front page of Mininova would suggest that the filter isn’t that effective… yet.
So who is the 3rd party ?
the IFPA. Would it not be in this 3rd partys interest to quash everything as opposed to running the risk of a lawsuit. Of course then it would be out of business.
Wheres my car?
minnova bendovah
Pirate bay judge accused of bias in another case…
http://sofiak.com/blog/judge-in-spectrial-accused-of-being-biased-in-another-case/
To make things clear:
This is a trial, we are testing whether content recognition is a good technique to identify infringing content. We test this with just a couple of torrents/works, and the trial last 12 weeks.
Hope this answers most questions.
I am LAME.
goodbye Mininova, how sad
taking it off my bookmarks as I type
:(
Reminds me of TorrentSpy. I guess it’s about time to cull my bookmarks.
well I guess I can scratch another one off my list. Sad, I really did like Mininova for public tracker. Watch, their popularity is about to decline rapidly. Sad how they caved into the pressure. Its a sad day with TPB going to jail, and now Mininova defeated … they are killing everything … :(
@24
Hope this judge is impeached from the bench. Do industry plaintiffs get to hand pick the judges for their cases in Sweden? WTF?
*Site removed from bookmarks*
TPB is currently offline due maintance it should be back online soon. Mininova did sell their soul for cheap price. I suggest you guys start use other torrent sites than mininova.
http://isohunt.com/
http://btjunkie.org/
http://www.torrentz.com/
http://www.torrents.to/
and ofc TBP :)
Also boycott mininova for their actions.
Some study have shown pirates are biggest music buyers.
Internet pirates buy 10 times more music than others
http://www.zitzot.com/internet-pirates-buy-10-times-more-music-than-others/
@21 i’m glad you still spanking the monkey in front of your pc. douchebag
Erm guys, ever thought that it might just be eyewash for the industry? They never said these “filters” were going to work effectively ;)
Look at YouTube, they have their Content ID system, yet plenty of pirated stuff still makes its way on there.
wot a cave in will not be the biggest site in few months once that filter strips the amount of files down
more public sites will start up aswell loads of tracker software out there
This is too sad to be true…
@29 C-3PO
My thoughts exactly
Well since mininova caved you going to see a lot of major piracy teams that cam, movies and release screeners pull away from them as it shows that, there be people watching the sites now.
@32 r3loaded
They caved in to the industry on this.
Next they’ll be logging IP’s and handing over those logs to their new masters.
Too bad. It looks like Mininova has been infected with swine flu. Must stay away from contagion!
sigh :/ removed from bookmarks :(
Haha Late April Fools
Seems likely that TPB-trial has huge effects, not on TPB but on the others. It truly is a shame =’/
/me removes minivova from bookmarks. Thank god for TPB (even if it is down atm)
Mininova is not a tracker.
It was a dump site.
Who cares? Do people actually use it? Just get a good private tracker like Demonoid.
It’s sad
had to happen but rather hypocritical reaction. didn’t worry before but are craping backwards now. their popularity will diminish quickly. shame. by the time TPB appeal is heard, there wont be any torrent sites left on the ‘net. there is no way riaa, mafiaa or any of the other anti piracy sites etc should be allowed to use a ‘none final judgement’ as is the case with TPB, as a precedent or a definite outcome, to enable them to threaten other sites or internet companies. they are assuming much more than they should and that there will be no alteration to the verdict. to me, this shows that not only was the original verdict a forgone conclusion, but all subsequent verdicts will be the same, showing that corruption is more powerful than the law. but, just as before, there will be nothing done to change what is going on or to even stem their advance to totally control the internet. once it is too late, it is too late!!
They don’t run a tracker.. so who cares?
To bad they didn’t have the courage to stand up and fight against the MAFIAA like TPB. Instead they choose to start a down-spiralling process that can only end with the death of MiniNova…
MiniNova = The MAFIAA’s new pet!
P.S. Anybody knows why TPB is down again? Another Fiber-cabel gone bad?
This could be a very smart legal move from mininova they could show court we are trying but filters just don’t work
@46
With all the attention TPB gets, it isn’t really that weird that their servers are smoking…
the pirate bay is down
mininova is very profesional and respects copyright. i think they will do good in their case because they are not malicious like the pirate bay. I had torrents of my work removed from mininova.
i would advertise on mininova. they do not intentionally allow your work to be stolen. it is a good website for the most part.
they are a good example of a torrent site that can record labels and media companies can utilize because they do not operate like a ghost company like most other torrent sites. I wish mininova well.
I am very thankful to them for being respectful to content creators.
they played it safe but this is just a great example of a reoccuring cycle in which public trackers are going bye bye
@48:
Hmm, good point…
Guess we all got the hebeejebees if suddenly the MAFIAA found some obscure way of taking TPB down…
Goodbye Minisuckers nothing will change if site like minisuckers follow the commands of those rich CEO bastard of the music,movie company. the retarded system that sucks.
it’s ridiculus what happens now in the wake of the TPB trial. torrent sites giving in to the pressure of the industry and closing sites left and right. i don’t really use bittorrent, but this kind of censorship on the internet must stop.
okey.. without any copyright content… what’s left?
a few free songs/demos/game-patches/documentaries and a ton of porn-porn-porn.
@49 shut up troll. no one wants your unfair copyrights and its not stealing so stfu.
We rule. Hahaha!
Is this a surprise?
Mininova have always caved for the hollywood cocks. Seriously, Mininova’s source is copyrighted. Mininova never cared about bitching with the big guys or fighting against, they delete torrents on demand for christ’s sake. Check the copyright section… No Mininova is no loss. We have Suprnova!
It’s time for a new P2P super encripted technology.
tpb trackers are still working anyone the url for their ipv6 site?
@49
Your letting the labels steal from you every time a CD is bought or a song is played on the radio. Perhaps it is time for you to think about releasing your own material or signing up to a independent label. If you have already taken these steps then maybe no one buys your music because it is just plain horrible.
Mininova is just trying to save their own miserable hides. It’s possible they will be striking deals with the record labels next, and perhaps signing up with advertisers. There will always be another indexer to take Mininova’s place. I for one have never used the site before.
@57 no, that site is down as well.
LOLZ@Mininova..
BBYE old friend!
@58
Second that……………
@mppa
no you dont rule infact youve shot yourself in the foot now people are going to be less and less willing to buy stuff and your pos corporation will fade into obvilivion as the big media companies all come crashing down someday and your company will be forgotten. Trolls dont win in the end.
I will never visit Mininova again.
Better to be safe then sorry.
Babye Mininova!
Looks like us filesharers are going to have to find something new.
Ya the filter is working all right because windows vista x86 and x64 iso torrents were removed the very next day but by god’s grace TPB is still going strong so i had no problems.But guess i will have to find another good site for torrents from now on.
I use Mininova and sometimes do download copyrighted stuff from there like TV shows I can’t watch here anyways but I find it interesting how it will turn out being a programmer my self :)
Why I find it interesting? Because there is no true way to filter stuff :) From what they said they seem o want to build some kind of database of copyright works and then to try to filter torrents that somehow match with items in that database. Joke is that there are like thousands of ways to trick such automatic systems. There is no way even for humans to 100% tell if this torrent contains copyrighted material or no unless you download it and examine it.
So I am very curious how this filter will fail :)
Such a shame. Mininova was my favourite public tracker since a couple of years – till now. No worries though – the hydra lives on, both in the public and private! ;)
#60
I own my own business and i do not work for corporations at all. everyone thinks just corporations are being hurt by torrents but small businesses suffer the most. I pay 8.000 a month to advertise my own videos.
I have a right to take them down from torrent sites. torrent sites are usually like ghosts and the owners hide themselves and contact informtion. this is not a good business model that anyone would want to embrace.
tpb was rude. disrespectful and they deserve their sentence. Mininova make an effort because they do not create their own content.
people took advantage o rightsholders work through the use of new technology and thought it would be free but will find that by abusing this technology, the internet will be censored as the content belongs to the content creators.
I tpb kept their actions on the low instead of trying to be rockstars with other peoples content, it would not be so bad for other torrent sites. Mininova rocks!!
Removing Mininova from Bookmarks.
Deleting western movies and comic book feeds.
The Nova has exploded. Time to move on to new stars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbG-U_mOl3k
“Well since mininova caved you going to see a lot of major piracy teams that cam, movies and release screeners pull away from them as it shows that, there be people watching the sites now.”
What a stupid n00b. Has NFI that the scene is responsible for almost all copyrighted content and what the scene even is.
I probably doesn’t even occur to his tiny brain that the scene expressly doesn’t want their conetnt spread anywhere and that they do not want it to be available to the general n00b public.
What an uninformed twit like most of the losers that comment here – just have no idea about anything. Much as you hate to think it, that probably includes you if you’re reading this no matter how much it hurts to think that yo9u dont know jackshit.
damn p*ssies
F&*K you mininova.
@71
You are paying $8,000 per month to advertise your videos? So then your ROI must be pretty good if you can afford an advertising budget such as that. Then how has file sharing damaged your profit margin? Again perhaps you need to learn to adapt your business model. Perhaps you are in the wrong business. If you are only interested in making money why not become a lawyer or better yet take position with the RIAA or MPAA. I am going to have to reiterate my position that if torrents are hurting your profits then perhaps you need to have better quality videos.
DAMNZ!
What do we do now when mininova is deadz and tpb is offline:<
@77
Then we have lost everything…
its not like mininova run the tracker for these files, just use google instead!, we need to protect the trackersm, thats whats important!,
reminds me of this
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
Then they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
I did not speak out;
I was not a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out for me.
And this track
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Tb8Jo11uGo
hell to the haters and my the world be free for all and not to interptation for any gov or corpration.
way to go for stick up for freedom
Bruce Schneier:
Because the government gets to define what’s wrong, and they keep changing the definition
TPB rulez!!!
Mininova suck!!
/me removes Mininova from bookmarks. They’re just being cowards, not taking a stand for themselves… They might have the largest # of .torrent files, but we all know who tracks all of them :p
“OMG,content filter, the world is TEH END!!!!”
Public torrent sites will have to do stuff like this to stay online.We should remember that they are torrent index sites, not our copyright infringement buddies.
P2P as a technology can come under scrutiny any day now.It needs some good faith.
Blatant grand-scale downloading of everything in plain sight – I mean, how much can it last?
Mininova is a P*ssy !
#76
my videos are #1 sellers. I do not have to adapt to anything i do not want to. how about you adapting to a 90% pay cut?
I am in business because i know how to control my content distribution. It was never made to be free. yes i do it for the money. as you work on your job and toil for money.
anyway, my videos stay profitable because i keep them off of torrent sites. your jealousy for my huge earnings and successful business is apparent. that is not my problem. Pirates always fall in the end.
How does this content recognition work any way? Does it download file in a torrent? Does it scan nfo’s for movie/CD/program titles?
So now that mininova sucks where can I go to find torrents?
“my videos are #1 sellers”
Hey, we have a celebrity in Torrent Freak! C’mon mate, sing us something.
tpb is dowwwwwwwn!!!!
hahahahahahahaha!!!!
they thought they were rockstars.
they thought they were god.
hahahaha!!!!!
Oh, it was just a troll.
You actually believed him for even a minute? He belongs under the bridge with his cohorts.
Hey, hold a minute.
The ship hasn’t sunk yet and the nova still shines.
It’s only about TV/movie torrents, not other content who you can download for personal / education use such as music and books.
And, another fact, some of the copyright holders of movie & TV could be too lazy to probe the content or have decided to don’t take steps to the torrents and thus not joined the probing association.
torentspy?
youtorrent?
mininova?
Too bad mininova caved in.
Fuck mininova!!
Long life the bay!!
most of you work on jobs for the man and do not understand running your own business or are just to lazy to try. not my problem.
point is….. i control my content not you or your silly business model “trent reznor or radiohead” suggestions.
you stay poor because you do not believe in yourself to create and put your money where your mouth is.
I create my own destiny.
most of you work on jobs for the man and do not understand running your own business or are just to lazy to try. not my problem.
point is….. i control my content not you or your silly business model “trent reznor or radiohead” suggestions.
you stay poor because you do not believe in yourself to create and put your money where your mouth is.
I create my own destiny.
I can’t believe they will let this happen…mininova is really suckin right now
@85
Well, if you were indeed a professional, you wouldn’t be wasting your time trolling on a pro-torrent site would you?
to all> please do not feed the troll.
Mininova tracks nothing so no big loss.
Their name is worth a lot though (goodwill) so I won’t be surprised if the owners sell it and it pops up in the Ukrain or another territory where EU and US laws do not apply.
freedom of speech.
its not just a pro torrent site.
the truth hurts!!
i cant help it if you are a lazy common worker who needs copyrighted content for freee to get you through your day. grow a brain!
“the Ukrain or another territory where EU and US laws do not apply.”
Hey, maybe torrent sites should move to these places! Especially these days when the crisis is making the EU extension difficult.
Yeah, that means TPB will be no.1, soon…
Arghh me hearties, be up soon.
from suprbay
Everybody Relax.
The site is down temporarily, but will be up in a little while.
Until then, I strongly recommend that you use the internet for its secondary use: Searching for Porn and Stock Quotes.
Thank You
Eat shite trolls
Both TPB and Mininova suck ass big time and only dumb noobs use them.
LOL
mininova is just a dump site anyways, barely moderated, and full of fakes and bullshit……i like the smaller more intimate communities. but i will miss them as a dump site.
It’s a sad day for the internets.
Also it seems. Nothing on the hand ;)here. I’m thinking eleborate hoax. Or conspiracy.
Either way, the end of the world is probably near.
:
As if the most overreaching, kneejerk and unconstitutional copy protection policy in the world (DMCA) isn’t enough to protect their content.
I always knew Mininova would fast capitulate once its business survival became seriously threatened. Fair play to them, though, they have created a nice site there and I’m not surprised at them wanting to see that continue on into becoming a workable content distribution service.
They’ve always had these intentions though, and no one with any clue should find themselves surprised by this move.
If you want an untouchable system you need to decentralise control. Wherever you create a centralised concentration of power you can be assured that those that find themselves in an elevated position will wish to retain that status. Many businesses birthed via the explotation of ‘grey areas’ fast attempt to legitimise activities once they reach this state.
at least mininova has a defense that they can stand by.
tpb is going to give all of your ip, upload, download information to the authorities to get a break on their sentence.
their defense was that they were not doing anything illegal in swedens laws. now that they know it is illegal, they are going to give you away.
#108
good point
#109
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Lobbyorganisations on torrentfreak comments. Go fuck yourself. :)
nothing really more to add. mininova has caved to the pressure.
im gutted, i only used mininova as it was such a clean, friendly site.
with any luck all this filtering stuff will fail and they will just scrap it. but i doubt this.
aah well, im off to tpb like everyone else..
n00b site…who cares
#111
“aah well, im off to tpb like everyone else..”
tpb is dowwwwwwwwn!!!
hahaha
Whos arsed and actually uses gay public trackers anyway goodbye and thank god
to ‘by tpb down’. as you say, you dont have to adapt if you don’t want to, but then why should anyone else? just because you deem something as being right or wrong, doesn’t mean that it is or that you are correct.
I hope they keep logs of what the filter removes. If it removes something that is available under a CC license, they should turn around and sue the filter provider for claiming copyright on a work that they do not have the rights to.
Wow. What a shame to see them cave like that. Wonder who is next.
the pirate bay’s lawyers told them to take the site down so they could have an inkling of a chance at an appeal. they will lose anyway with a name like the stolen bay. LOL!
handing over you ip adresses right now!!!
what a silly trollop
It would be one thing if Mininova was testing their *own* filtering system. But they aren’t. They’re testing a thirdy part filtering system handpicked by the goddamn MAFIAA, who they are now working in collaboration with.
So Mininova can go straight to hell.
Meanwhile the only thing this accomplishes is driving even more people to The Pirate Bay, which isn’t going to fold like a cheap suit over BS legal threats or hop into bed with the MAFIAA at the first sign of pressure.
@my brain is on druggs11
“tpb is going to give all of your ip, upload, download information to the authorities to get a break on their sentence.”
What sentence? Oh, you mean the one they’re never going to serve?
Nice try.
119 troll is epic troll :)
bye bye mininova….
so mininova will have to remove 98% of it’s content.
Originally Posted by torrentshredder
tpb state is also available at:
http://reprobate.se/tpb-status/
Originally Posted by torrentshredder
tpb state is also available at:
http://reprobate.se/tpb-status/
thepiratebay is back to action!!!
goodbye public trackers, hello private trackers
TPB is BACK UP for me!!!!!!!!!!!!
*laughs @ trolls*
TPB back up, here too!
@mininova – a bitter move, hope remains a joke
Why are there so many comments that say ‘Off my bookmark’ etc. Things don’t change in a second. There is no good guy or bad guy and you definitely can’t turn into the bad guy instantly. World doesn’t work like that. Besides, its easy to be brave when you are anonymous. The business of running a site is different. So, ease up and give it time. Lets see what happens..
I still see TV Shows, games and anime there so apparently it doesn’t work to remove torrents yet.
well now i wont use mininova anymore !
sissy mininova sux now
For idiots claiming that it isn’t working…they said its a trial and at the beginning of the trial, it will only work for a few keywords. Expect it to grow as the trial period (12 weeks), continues.
WTF man, whats up with Mininoa all of a sudden. Chumps!
privacy-web.net.tc
eat shite trolls.
TPB owns you.
see:
www youtube com/watch?v=qfXMmrubh5E
put in your own dots buttwipes!
TPB is up guys.
Well it looks like Mininova has sold out to the authorities, oh well there goes the bookmark for this tracker. It could very well become an MPAA IP address farming site… Mininova, you’ve let us all down..
mininova will turn in a boring site… fortunately there´re certain of other torrents pages
File sharer’s should really stay one step ahead ;) try renaming stuff better! If only there was a trend like My_dogs_movie-_Not_bolt.avi LOL
if everyone bands together theres no system that would work against file sharing! Fact!
One of FXG’s movies are gone (the last one, Underworld- Rise of the Lycans). I assume the filtering has begun…
Every action has a reaction.
Filter goes boom, hurray it works -> Most mininova users say bye bye to the website.
Filter goes oh oh, doesnt work -> Mininova users will start searching for other options cause they know its a matter of time mininova gets another kind of “filter”
As for today, mininova will loose lots of torrent uploaders, only downloaders will stay as long as the torrents they want, the “illegal” ones, stay in the site.
Hurray rapdishare…
rip suprnova
rip mininova
invisinova? f-u-nova?
this is rediculous
There will always be google searches for “.torrent” so relax.
Thats how I found TPB, that’s how I have found every other site I use.
D:
and thus mininova experienced a swift and mournful death.
It’s called censorship.
Filters. Great.
This reminds me of those traffic fishers that used to indict people for sharing free music because it falsely detected a snippet as being Madonnas latest hit or something of the like.
I really don’t like where this is going, legality/illegality and all connected problems or not.
George Orwell should be mandatory reading and main phrases and passages should be plastered across every website these days..
WTF are they doing?? I removed them from my Bookmarks. I see TPB is still down… :-/
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And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who’s to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you’re looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn’t be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the now high chancellors. More than four hundred years ago a great citizen wished to embed the idea of revolution forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words, they are perspectives. So if you’ve seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you then I would suggest you allow the days to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand beside me and take back our Internet!
Bye bye.
Eaten by the system and now moved to the other side.
And so the internet begins to die.
the simple fact that mininova caved to BREIN and has put up a system that, if it is effective, will remove certain torrents with no human check should be more then enough for the internet to never use mininova again.
the only real action we can take at this point is simply make a statement. let mininova lose 99% of its users overnight. when ThePirateBay is taken offline, bring it back up and so on.
we have to show the world that this is not the way of this age, and that we are sick and tired of the old fatties abusing us for easy bux
going going gone!!!!
@68 wonderwhy-er
I thought the same thing, how can a filtering system detect each upload of *New Hollywood Movie*.rar.
Each up could be compressed differently and hence have a different hash.
The titles the most obvious choice, but hell, that ©0u17 b3 f0O13d easily enough.
Anyways, my ISP’s kind enough to give a public proxy to all it’s customers so Mininova’s on my FoxyProxy list for the time being.
I’m a triple lifetime member of The Pirate Bay. Make that quadruple today. I want the record to be quite clear if ever The Pirate Bay cooperates with so-called authorities.
Behave like you have a pair, even if you don’t. God Bless the salty dogs who operate The Pirate Bay.
Dirty Rotten Pirate
Hey everyone removing them from your bookmarks..
Don’t give up just yet and stop freaking out.
everything is going to be fine
i don’t understand all the commotion…
only about 20% of torrents are illegal…right?
so this filtering system isn’t going to affect the majority of you…right?
all your linux distros are safe! everybody calm down. it’s not like they’re taking the linux distros away. nothing has changed. all your linux distro downloading can go on as usual…
lololololol
In the Star-Trek future, I’ll use Torrents to download Automobiles, and your sister.
lolololol
Too bad, I love(d) mininova. :,-(
fucking sellouts…
The system is effective to filter fixed keywords, so technically, it will be proven effective.
Mininova is a business, don’t expect decency from the capitalist world.
What ever happened to if one site dies another two will take its place? :(. I hope there are new sites in the making.
And tpb down do us all a favor and go fuck yourself. We all know you still live with your mom and have no future. Seriously do humanity a favor and eat a gun. Thanks.
time to start using http://www.thepirategoogle.com/
@ 147 – Are you even human?
@ In the Star-Trek future, I’ll use Torrents to download Automobiles, and your sister. lolololol
WOW Wish I could do that you stupid a***licking Brainless Twat.
I guess yesterday will be the last time I use Mininova.org … Watch now isohunt will do the same thing..
We is all DOOMED cos we is black….
This is by far the worst news I have heard all day. I had no idea that Mininova was even going to court. They are by far my #1 tracker besides TPB. I cant believe this is happening to us. I have had enough bad news lately about torrent sites all together. When is it going to stop. When will the MPAA/RIAA realize that they will never completly stop us from sharing movies and music? It’s just not going to happen. True pirates will always find a way to stay one step ahead of the game. There will always be private trackers, I guess all the lawsuits drive the scene underground. Long live the scene.
Jay, New York, USA
@by Jay
This is by far the worst news I have heard all day. I had no idea that Mininova was even going to court. They are by far my #1 tracker besides TPB.
Mininova do not operate their own tracker..!!!!….How many more times do peeps have to repeat this?….THEY ARE(Were)A DUMPING SITE.
Whatever. Emule has been, is, and always be filter free.
someone please tell us where to go next? i used mininova a lot and i need somewhere else to go now
@oliver stoned
someone please tell us where to go next? i used mininova a lot and i need somewhere else to go now
Google is your friend….(even tho they are evil)……lol.
What can I say, I ain’t surprised. I knew this would happen.
Them bitches are whiny pussies.
I never understood how such a crapsite could have even the billionth torrent.
There are so much more better sites out there…
Heed my word: This is a win, not a loss!
no i want the good secret sites. time to investigate private sites i guess.
No mather what tracker you may run or who you may be, you won’t be man enough.
@oliver stoned
No i want the good secret sites. time to investigate private sites i guess.
Yes … Secrets the name of the game…How secret do you think sites are that you can get into?…If you can….Anyone can…
i figured it out this far i guess i can figure the rest out. If you can’t help Bugger then just quit commenting back.
Looks like its time for the next *nova.org page. Is maxinova.org allready taken??
Good Luck Oliver……
thanks bugger
just for the record tpb is back up for now
your welcome…xxx
WTF… filter… *deletes Mininova from bookmarks toolbar* TPB and Demonoid here we come!
If i was a small and poor country, i would just make a big investment in internet, cable and bandwith, and become the new internet zuper powah!
Fill your queues well you can xD
Most content can still be found just fine on Mininova unless they can seriously filter like everything I can’t imagine it doing a lot of good, I get relatively obscure stuff off of public trackers…I go private if I think there is a risk involved.
<>42 May 06, 2009 at 16:10 by Huh?
Who cares? Do people actually use it? Just get a good private tracker like Demonoid.<>
Demonoid is not a private tracker. It is a public tracker (hence the reason there are so many multi-tracker externals) that uses a membership system to join. The ratios are not enforced since bittorrent was never designed to track ratios and the system has many failures.
<>49 May 06, 2009 at 16:22 by tpb down
I am very thankful to them for being respectful to content creators.<>
What you fail to realize is just how little money is lost by filesharing.
Most filesharers are in a position where they cannot afford to buy, will not buy, or try before they buy. The latter actually generates revenue for artists and companies that sell quality items.
After reading all the responses, did many of you not read what “NIEK” said? They are “testing” the system with a “FEW” torrents. [shakes head]
The problem is separating piracy from filesharing.
Filesharers worldwide need to rally and have the antiquated copyright laws changed.
Education of the public and filesharers is paramount in this effort.
http://www.h33t.com where filesharing is pure. :)
I thought that Mininova team had balls and courage, but I was definitely wrong.
They are a bunch of cowards acting like sheeps, satisfying the caprices of the outdated and obsolete USA entertainment industry.
I don’t care really, when Napster was shutdown I did worry the first time now I don’t cause I know there will be the next Pirate Bay and the next Mininova or next Napster just around the corner.
It may be even totally different from todays.
Imagine a decentralized network with an autoimmune system against the MAFIAA. With ratings and a multiplier to some system that kind of categorize users in anonymity LoL
Hardware protection doesn’t work when you have means to virtualize anything.
Software protection is useless.
Laws it seems have no effect on the needs of the people and the incredible part is that people are not afraid of doing this thing.
By the way anonymous filesharing already exist with clients like StealthNET and Share(successor of Winny) that are more easy to use then I2P but strangely people still didn’t feel the need to anonymize themselves yet.
So now
If they succeed, how many pirates do you think they’ll convert into buyers with this?
None.
ends are also new beginnings.
F**K that, pussies! All they are doing is taking a dump on their own site and pushing us towards Demonoid or TPB, or in the end, Closed Sites… Stop wimping out! Stand your ground, be Men like the owners of TPB!
I for one welcome our new internet dictator God Overlords – the MPAA
So, i heard they’ve got an office in the good part of utrecht, holland; wonder how they’re going to be paying the rent in the next couple of months! ..or probably it’ll be payed for them, by our BFF’s the mpaa/riaa/ifpi etc etc etc
sadly
money rules the world
still
United we stand divided we fall, when TPB appeals and wins we will all be standing behind them rather than the other pussies wondering why they ever thought it was a good idea to surrender.
so where is everyone going to migrate to?
whats the next big thing?
The war is lost the moment you gave in…
Just too bad
and just like that mininova’s popularity drops 85 percent. Just weeding out the unfit and feeble.
um
no its all still there…..
this is from right now:
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13:36 13 comments[I][D]Fast And Furious[2009]R5-DvDrip H 264 AAC [Eng]-Westy1983 in Action 810.56 MB 562 3156
21:39 23 comments[I][D]Push[2009] ENG DvDrip XVID–CHUPPI– in Action 800.24 MB 646 2623
13:31 7 comments[D]Push (2009)[Ahashare] in Sci-Fi 708.74 MB 446 1794
13:30 9 comments[D]The Terminators (2009)[dvdrip][Ahashare] in Action 699.22 MB 408 1911
09:01 2 comments[I][D]Taking Chance 2009 PROPER DVDRiP XViD-DOCUMENT-NoRAR™ in War 714.8 MB 166 956
16:40 [D]Star System Se Non Ci Sei Non Esisti 2008 iTALiAN MD R5-XViD-FREE[Ultima Frontiera] in Comedy 689.41 MB 67 1354
00:34 [D]Jack Squad 2009 DVDRip XviD [ digitaltrend.org ] in Action 1.37 GB 21 351
16:04 [D]Il Dottor Dolittle 5 2009 iTALiAN STV DVDRip XviD-SVD[volpebianca] in Comedy 697.03 MB 28 852
07:21 3 comments[I][D]Push (2009) NL Subs DVDR DivXNL-Team in Sci-Fi 1.04 GB 187 809
16:44 1 comments[D]The Wrestler ((2008)) DvDrip(divx)BigbrO in Drama 701.03 MB 275 521
Blazer, A.K.A. L.o.C., Silverado, etc. yes you! No one is interested in your opinion and shameless plugs of h33t.
Quit trolling for Lacadameon. Your knees must be raw from kneeling before him.
They were always too quick to ban uploaders anyway. Because every crack/keygen or .rar file is falsely detected with virus total. Which is the virus scanner used by all the mods.
I’m moving to The Pirate Bay now. I don’t want to be getting letters to my isp from the MPAA, who knows what else is inside the filter.
I’m switching to http://www.plentyoftorrents.com
Hopefully Canada is safe from the MPAA.
so, they made boat loads of cash from ads an now it’s time to move on..
<>
Atleast I support Mininova and the fact that their torrents are all manually uploaded.
Mininova is a fantastic site and I won’t abandon them anytime soon like the cockroaches swimming for the next log before this one sinks.
Uneducated filesharers need to be educated.
I live, love, and support filesharing.
I upload, share, and hope that those who can’t afford what I have, are limited by geographical constraints, Lost or ruined their copy, or are censored by unjust laws, have the opportunity to experience what they never would have been able to experience before P2P.
That is the difference “my friend”. Call me what you like, but i’ll die a friendly filesharer.
Where is the love in filesharing these days?
http://www.h33t.com where moderators help you instead of scream and ban you like other sites.
Join us in reality and the future of filesharing.
Thank you also Torrentfreak for allowing different opinions, debate, and good dialogue. You guys help educate the masses here. :Thumbs up:
Bookmark removed for now.
Mininova, question is whether you want to hide in the dark corner or be among the heroes of the people when copyright changes. Because that is the future. One of these choices has a future as a torrent site, the other does not.
they’re trying protect themselves from legal action – why does this make them pussies? it’s all well and good for you, sitting on your home pc – virtually immune to charges as individuals generally aren’t worth the effort. the people running this site don’t want to get cleaned out by fines or jail – if you’re so filled with bravado, why don’t you take their place on the stand? better yet, make a public tracker yourself and leave yourself open to these attacks yourself.
but you won’t, you’ll sit there downloading shows, movies, music and programs from wherever you can – and you’ll say that you weren’t going to buy it anyway, or that you suffer from ‘geographical constraints’.
complete nonsense; the overwhelming majority of downloaders are those who want something for nothing. regardless of your views towards labels and studios and whatever else, by not buying products you’re hurting the artists/programmers/whatever; what a nice way to pay them back.
your average joe who uses mininova won’t realise this is the case and will carry on visiting mininova, and probably just get annoyed that they can’t find what they want (like when Napster starting filtering back in the day). they’ll eventually just stop using mininova and use TPB/isohunt or something.
@204
I kinda agree with you. Mininova’s business profile has been known for a long time, so it should come as no surprise that they backed down when the David met the Goliath. They were probably given an ultimatum, and they are aware that they might go down regardless of the TPB appeal, so they decided to play it safe, as most people would.
Nowadays bittorrent is about free internet, but like you said – there is in it still more of the ‘free’ as in beer, than ‘free’ as in freedom.
The Pirate Bay are alot more outspoken and political and I will always respect them for that.
But Mininova hands out bans like they’re going out of fashion. So I dont really care what happens to them. Onto TPB, Isohunt, PlentyofTorrents, Torrentz and Btjunkie.
@ 99 May 06, 2009 at 17:48 by tpb downn1
i cant help it if you are a lazy content creator who needs money for free to get you through your day. grow a brain!
“But Mininova hands out bans like they’re going out of fashion. So I dont really care what happens to them. Onto TPB, Isohunt, PlentyofTorrents, Torrentz and Btjunkie.”
Just you wait, Pirate ;)
All your ships is gonna sink, one by one.
Really badass guys..
Shouting from behind your computers that mininova caved in and how they’re the MPAA’s bitch and what not. But I bet if MPAA came knocking at your door, you would be crying like a little baby cuz they come to take your porn away.
Public trackers are 14-year old kiddos. If you think you’re so awesome, start your own tracker and show mininova how it’s done.
I’ll be standing at the sideline laughing my ass off when mommy and daddy have to pay for your failed torrent-experiment.
I had loads of my torrents removed. I’m not atall happy. sure i can reupload them but it all takes time.. and ide be suspicious of mininova from now on. they might be hosting trap torrents so beware!
f*ck this
IRT “UberBadAssGeek”,
that’s why I don’t understand Petter Sunde and his Co. workers from PirateBay; they’re sacrificing their lives for the Pirate comunity, witch is roughly all cut-throat teenagers, and also many people with “no-room-for-sympathy/understanding” mentality.
“I don’t care who I get free stuff from, as long as I get it!”
No wonder all those torrent sites shut down after PirateBay got pwned, and no wonder MiniNova are taking precausions when they’re facing the Big Boot of Copyright.
This is a comunity based of people that can’t be arsed to support the people behind the stuff they like, i.e music and movies.
Why the hell should people be interested in supporting this comunity when all they get is a “Fuck you” when something is done witch they don’t like?
IRT “UberBadAssGeek”,
that’s why I don’t understand Petter Sunde and his Co. workers from PirateBay; they’re sacrificing their lives for the Pirate comunity, witch is roughly all cut-throat teenagers, and also many people with “no-room-for-sympathy/understanding” mentality.
“I don’t care who I get free stuff from, as long as I get it!”
No wonder all those torrent sites shut down after PirateBay got pwned, and no wonder MiniNova are taking precausions when they’re facing the Big Boot of Copyright.
This is a comunity based of people that can’t be arsed to support the people behind the stuff they like, i.e music and movies.
Why the hell should people be interested in supporting this comunity when all they get is a “F*k you” when something is done witch they don’t like?
It is easy, there must be a P2P system of finding .torrents, then we do not need mininova like sites. Then in all torrent programs, must keep the .torrent files until are deleted. As easy as that.
Soo they will remove alll torrents ?
OMG! I just added a torrent to mininova.. check this!
Your torrent has been uploaded succesfully. It will not appear immediately on the site, as the content will be downloaded first by a third party to check for infringing content. If the content is found to be non-infringing, the torrent will be posted on the site right away.
:@:@
Im sure its not easy like everybody would like to think it is.. but you had a good run.. seriously.. dont filter content.. just shutdown.. it really makes no difference anyway.
RIP Mininova..
We will always remember you.. kinda..
Gosh, april’s fool runs quite late this year…
P2p has each file hosted by an individual on his pc. Torrents are the same but can have more than one individual sharing a file for more peers but require a tracker website to monitor peers or something.
Is it not possible to make software which serves as a self hosted tracker for the files you share?
Then once again they would have to go after the public because we would not need these websites like TPB!!!FTW and Mininova(sic)
Fuck the RIAA
Sorry if this is an uninformed suggestion.
P2p has each file hosted by an individual on his pc. Torrents are the same but can have more than one individual sharing a file for more peers but require a tracker website to monitor peers or something.
Is it not possible to make software which serves as a self hosted tracker for the files you share?
Then once again they would have to go after the public because we would not need these websites like TPB!!!FTW and Mininova(sic)
F*ck the RIAA
Sorry if this is an uninformed suggestion.
You keep talking about pirates and ppl getting free stuff and not supporting the artists, etc…..
Come on! The whole idea behind filesharing is freedom and if I buy something and you want to check it out then how can you say that I am a pirate?? So, some of you really have never bought a movie or CD and let someone borrow it??? Filesharing is the same thing. As for taking money out of the pockets of artists and programmers…These are the same artists that make 20 million a movie, plus revenue from games, shirts, etc… That is just one example in a cosmos of billions of examples. Come on ppl…open ur eyes and get off the MPAA’s NUTZ
PEACE
@nafnosseb
That technology, as far as I know, is in beta right now. Expanding on how DHT works (no tracker, you connect to DHT nodes to share peer info) it will potentially allow for trackerless torrents.
Keep in mind, right now, if a tracker dies, that torrent is still alive as long as the peers stay connected, and because of DHT, this can keep a “dead” torrent alive for years.
It’s slowly gaining ground, I’m pretty sure there’s some TF articles on this very subject.
the problem lies with distribution. You still need to share the .torrent file itself, which is now considered illegal, not it’s not a one stop fix.
But it will allow for distributed torrent networks that are effectively impossible to stop.
Don’t be fooled, they know this, and are now on the warpath to decree it is the ISPs duty to filter that content from their networks.
It’s a never ending cat and mouse game of advancing technology, the good thing is the “hackers and crackers” are more interested in finding new ways to do things, than the idiots at the top are interested in stopping them.
Yeah mininova’s ruined and i’m not just saying that.
They removed all the Futurama and Simpsons seasons and if you re-upload them they will remove those torrents aswell!!
and i would bet one of the companies suing them would be fox!!
So, time to find a new Mininova :(
vaarwel Mini no va
little no go (spanish)
You have committed digital suicide.
RIP\
mannnnnn
mininova gave me a virus anyway, i don’t use it. got malware’d.
Actually, Mininova was a good site (never a tracker), but it wasn’t one of my favourites: TPB, isohunt (and its tracker sibling Torrentbox) and Demonoid, so I don’t really care about Mininova.
The problem isn’t the filtering itself, the problem is that Mininova sold out to MAFIAA. There’s only a tiny step left for them to hand over uploaders’ IPs to MAFIAA or whoever threatens/pays them. Never again I’ll upload my torrents to this site and neither I’m touching it at all.
Technically speaking, we don’t need torrent file hosters already, since all major torrent clients support downloading .torrent files from peers directly (all you need is some form of torrent hash in magnet link (Azureus, uTorrent) or bctp link (BitComet) form). It’s just like ed2k link, but shorter, much like DC++ magnets.
I think such indexers (and maybe even trackers) should move to Tor network, where they’d be effectively unreachable not only for MAFIAA, but for bought police/judges/governments as well. Peers would then have an option to either continue to use fast, but insecure P2P traffic in its current form (while peer-to-tracker would be anonymoused), or move it Tor as well, gaining anonyminity at cost of speed (anonymizing both peer-to-peer and peer-to-tracker traffic).
Why does no-oe ever mention btjunkie.org? It lies about the number of seeders but still hosts loads of files and has a good layout.
Also torrents.to, which searches mininova, tpb, isohunt, demonoid, btjunkie etc. etc.
Personally I use Demonoid first and foremost, then if I don’t find what I want i use torrents.to, finally if that doesn’t work I use rapidshare.
Stop limiting yourselves guys ;)
@228
there is also rsstorrents.com for multiple search sites and its work fine for me.
WTF is that!
Mininova what are you trying to do?
Are you kidding with us?
Move your servers to an island that goverment’s don’t sign any international copyright agreement!
Other wise Mininova will die day by day.
Uploaders and visitors will quickly move on to other sites while Mininova manages to selfdestruct.
Btw it’s around 8 years since I last used Napster…
…and I haven’t visited ShareReactor or Suprnova in five years…
…still filesharing is growing stronger every day.
“Uploaders and visitors will quickly move on to other sites while Mininova manages to selfdestruct.”
+1
Cut off the head and another grows back. We’re in a war gentlemen. Surrender is not an option.
if mininova will go there is no problem any other site will come up to be honest main site is piratebay which provide trackers and if any thing happent to it then its the end
Back episodes of Boston Legal have been removed. This change does have actual consequences.
The fact mininova has a DMCA page should have been a sign of this…not to mention they have their domain registered with godaddy and their forums hosted in the US (which frankly could get them pulled into US Courts).
Whimpy mininova bites the dust. TPB still standing strong.
And the funny thing was right after the TPB verdict the whole mininova forum was talking about staying off TPB to avoid getting into legal trouble…
no more mininova for me (not that i was a lot on it anyway, HAIL PIRATEBAY!)
They [filtered]are [blocked] another [deleted][blocked]… so there!!
If you are going to take shots at Blazer have some balls don’t post Anonymous like a little Bit$% your just another computer nerd with keyboard balls
1981CamaroZ28
The filter seems to be working quite fine. Bones is a very popular show on Fox. Just look at the results.
http://www.mininova.org/search/?search=Bones&cat=8
Ok no more bittorrent? We’ll find something else, I’m not worried about that.
1981CamaroZ28 looks like the whole h33t herd came here after the douche bag Anonymous tried to pin Blazer down. :)
I can imagine him/her/it behind an old and shitty computer trying to be all witty on the internet because he/she/it has no life.
and what Blazer said, h33t is the place.
Mininova, i hope you stay standing as all of my torrents and h33t’s are propagated there.
Yep, that filter sure is working good. You can still download all the Van Halen, U2, Star Wars, and goodness knows what else on Mininova right now.
The Pirate Bay has been working fine for me all week. Bit-Torrent is going nowhere anytime soon.
MPAAnova = Epic Fail
H33t really is the best out there!!
Sorry mininova…hope u make it,but if not the fire will always be warm and friendly at THE #1 place: H33T
And to the one who bashed Blazer: F*** U…8-) You are a piece of s**t example of wat we are trying to keep out of the torrent community LOL
Peace ppl–SK
@54
porn is under copyright too
Any BT-tracker (admins) wh0(ch) do(es) not have the GONADS (i.e. balls or ovaries) to put up a full-blooded FIGHT against Censorshit MAFIAA, punching above their weight, like TPB heroes, deserve(s) naught but ignominous defeat/disappearance.
TPB lead by example, others should learn and follow … i.e. ridicule + resist, reseed + reorganise unto victory or the dying breath.
Victory to the Resistance, siempre!
@251:
Yes, everyone should bite the dust so you can keep downloading your free games/porn/movies.
Who said something about a community?
I’ll keep using http://www.plentyoftorrents.com to find my torrents so this doesn’t really bother me. If one site goes down theres plenty more to search on Plenty of Torrents.
Mininova SUCKS
HOW TO BYPASS MININOVA FILTER: http://www.mininova.org/com/2569928
Theres still a few cards to play, you can’t kill piracy the sites will just move to Russia for example :)
I think they can also get you where your companys based out of. Even if the servers are hosted in north korea.
DDoS them.
The You-Tubifcation of Mininova is a sad thing. It will lead to it being marginalized, and eventually MN will be irrelevant. Im sure they know this.
TPB, while a bit slow and clunky nowadays, stands a chance to regain the lead in terms of trackers. This also opens the market for other trackers and more innovation in the BT realm.
i tried to DL your sister, but to torrent got removed for inaccurate description. :-(
“The system was selected by the copyright holders themselves who want an easier way to”
break the laws because they are that greedy.
Copyright is theft.
Mininova’s still one of the top 100 sites on the entire Internet according to Alexa.
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/mininova.org
They’re currently ranked 87. So even if they loose visitors they’ll still be doing well. They’re in about the best situation to go legit.
Alexa lists these sites as related links:
The Pirate Bay
thepiratebay.org/
Torrentreactor.net
http://www.torrentreactor.net/
Torrent Portal
http://www.torrentportal.com/
Torrentbox.com
http://www.torrentbox.com/
phpBB
http://www.phpbb.com/
myBittorrent.com
http://www.mybittorrent.com/
Demonoid.com
http://www.demonoid.com/
isoHunt – P2P and BitTorrent link releases
verified-p2p-links.com/
SuprNova.org
suprnova.org/
isoHunt
isohunt.com/
It’s just a matter of time before those sites see lawsuits, if they already haven’t.
Sad to see Mininova go. I don’t like private sites, and search sites like torrentz and btjunkie don’t have the user feedback that Mininova has. Are there another good torrent indext site out there (other than TPB)?
so basically we are giving some 3rd party the power to veto anything we publish on the internet? we have to get their permission now? fuck that.
Finally, Fuck the illegal hobo’s. Cheap broke teenage nerds who can’t pay for programs, movies or music.
Let them cry.
Copy AND PASTE THIS IF YOU HATE BASEMENT LIVING NERDS WHO THINK DOWNLOADING IS COOL
Why do they bother filtering copyrighted content? They can just as well close down, it won’t make a difference.
yo, who cares? wanna know why? course you do. this will start to separate the big players from the upstarts. we don’t know who considers themselves either yet. therefore, those content owners who will upload their content themselves will continue to use mininova as a platform cause its good distro. as far as lazy people downloading movie and music, there will always be someonwhere, until we get integrity.
For all of you who think the copyright owners are greedy, I’ve got a sweat shop where you can come and work the rest of your life for free. Any takers? What, are you greedy? You want compensation for your labor? Hippocrits!!!
it will be sad to see them go but there are more were they came from so keep on downloading
Goodbye, mininova, it’s been a blast.
And so another big tracker dies…
irc, emule, chat rooms theres loads of other ways for us to send eachother .torrent files. :)
mass emails ;)
@kermonk Well said, Copyright law is theft of our rights. F*ck digital copyright law.
“Copyright law is theft of our rights.”
—————–
and why should the recipients have more rights to a work than the creator of that work?
textbook backwards logic, there.
try again.
you have absolutely NO RIGHT (legal, moral, or otherwise) to unlawfully distribute an infinite amount of copies to complete strangers across the entire planet.
I see it as a good thing that one major player could go down. It’s been grabbing a huge chunk of bittorrent users and thus pretty much prevented smaller and more innovative indexing sites to form.
It’s a good thing not to be relying solely on one P2P program. Don’t forget that the good old eMule is still out there and more decentralized than ever thanks to KAD :)
Whether legal or not the fact remains that you cannot stop it, you must work with it! Its proven that filesharing ahs hardly any affect on the profits of the industry, in some circumstances it can in fact help. Why should we buy a film only to find out its shit? If i was doing my job shit i wouldnt expect to get paid!
So you either work with the latest technology or continue this lost cause!
As fro Mininova, dump site with lots of fakes and so so, TPB rules most of the time, but there are many more!
Warez types of traders will always exist on some level, but it is good to see some move towards stemming it without handing out more rounds of lawsuits.
All of you warezers, if you poured yourself into writing some software or music and then thousands of safe anonymous people around the globe hit the blogs saying its their right to have it for free, what would you be inclined to do?
Why do we need to Bypass content filtering ?
As you might know mininova starts filtering copyrighted material, i dont upload protected content But i fear that such filters may also delete
files wich are not violating copyrights as example Creative Commons music wich has a 4 second part wich is similar to an protected title. Also many Companies demand licenses and copyright on files wich are definitely in the Public Domain and not Copyrighted anymore.
As Example i uploaded charlie Chaplin videos from 1917 on youtube but this videos got deledet because a Movie comapany claimed false
copyrights on these videos. Just have a look to the offical US Copyright law wich says that any work prior 1922 is not Copyrighted anymore.
So im writing this Text not to help you violating copyright but avoiding that legal content might be blocked by failure or Grief of some
Movie and Music companies. I just want to protect your legal content from being censored.
On the other side i can understand mininova since they do not want that users missuse their Content distribution service to share copyrighted stuff. Because this would be quite dangerous for mininova if illegal copyrighted content is hosted directly on their servers. So help mininova by not uploading any copyrighted stuff to their CD service !
Howto:
It is very very easy to bypass such filters.
Just put your files in a encrypted .rar or .zip archive and choose an password, so The filtersoftware cannot acces the archive to look if the original file is is on the Banlist or not.
Then use Gimp or Photoshop to create an imagefile wich includes the password and save it in the same folder as the archive, use some filters and effects to make in unreadeable for machines.
Then create the Torrent from this folder. So Downloaders get the password and can
Open the file but the automated filters of film/music industry cannot open it and cannot see if the file is on their banlist or not.
Works like a Captcha i think you understand what i mean ;)
I also think this way is also the Best for mininova because since mininova is doing everything
to remove copyrighted material even if they have no succes Curts will see no reason to forbid mininova
because it is not the fault of mininova that the content filter does not work for encrypted files.
As Example Rapidshare is allready using copyright filters but they cannot stop users from uploading these files
since all Rapidshare users use encryption. It think this method will also work quite well with torrents.
So dont worry and continue sharing your legal content, the net was build for freedom and it is impossible to take this freedom away.
I hope you and also the mininova staff understand my viewpoint, i dont want to help people sharing illegal content but prevent legal files from being censored like youtubes content recognition does.
Thanks for reading ;)
thats the beauty of ;9http://www.plentyoftorrents.com though. no matter who goes down they are always up and they keep track of whats going o in the industry. It just sucks that TPB is running a break out of frames script.
mininova has kept me entertained on some lonely nights and i will miss it dearly.maybe someone should think of doing a video version of spotify. i dont know what the answer is but its a sad time for mininova users. thanks mininova, goodbye old friend x
All aXXo-torrents are gone!!
I guess this will be only for their curt.
AxxO stops uploading movies before all these things happen. and before ThePirateBay had trouble…
i believe that AxxO is not gone,
AxxO knew what will happen.
TF should curious about this….
to mininova.org
you have been one of the best torrent sites around, good looks, usually found anything i wanted and i loved the comment system
i can understand your position about the filter, but you should not have gone with a third party one that was chosen by the enemy(it could be the mpaa’s “backdoor” into getting ip’s and such)
this is the final nail in your coffin i wonder how long you can breath under six feet of dirt?
hopefully you will realize your mistakes, or at least grow a set.
i will keep an eye on you untill it dies / or is reborn
freedom is not free, we must fight for it or we will all perish under the treads of oppression.
true freedom = no money / currency
no money = no greed = no crime = no poverty = no famine = no war
all that would be left to conquer would be racism
Do a search for “The Mentalist” not many results… it’s a 12 week trial on a few things… and it’s working. Bah!
You guys are gonna get all time low. You will get the least visitors now as well as most drop in torrent vistors. Such a sold out crap.
Easy, just name the movies after their IMDB number…
This will soon show on
http://www.mininova.org/statistics
The more the Mpaa tigtens thier grip
the more we slip through their fingers.
http://www.dmntorrents.com
I’ve seen the site in mininova last time…
check their site… they got lots of torrents too
I was trying to download hentai material and the search came up with nothing
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