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… choice. Perhaps the most famous example was the assault on Mininova, which culminated in the site having to remove huge numbers of … about to make even more. While successfully demanding that Mininova remove links to infringing content, BREIN have never really made …
… the cases against torrent sites like The Pirate Bay and Mininova, not hosting copyrighted material on ones site is no prerequisite for …
… the closure of Netherlands-based BitTorrent indexer, Mininova. The closure of this huge site didn’t happen in isolation though, …
… Last year, a Dutch court ordered fellow torrent site Mininova to install a similar measure. The operators of Mininova found it technically unfeasible to pre-approve or filter every …
… to that imposed against Netherlands-based torrent index, Mininova. With this in mind we asked how this UK ruling might be received by … are mindful of the effect that filtering had on Mininova‘s reputation with users and we hope to address those concerns and …
… There was a short blocking incident two years ago when Mininova, isoHunt and The Pirate Bay were hijacked and redirected to the …
… MPA material. This could mean that Newzbin is required, Mininova-style, to develop and implement filtering mechanisms. “At the …
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Left Quote“The Pirate Bay has been one of the most important movements in Sweden for freedom of speech, working against corruption and censorship.
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