Sad Sad day in the eyes of pirates!

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  1. interhacker

    interhacker Level IV

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    Hi all,

    Today is an important day in the history of Mininova. From now on, we are limiting Mininova.org to our Content Distribution service. By doing so, we comply with the ruling of the Court of Utrecht of last August.

    Unfortunately the court ruling leaves us no other option than to take our platform offline, except for the Content Distribution service. According to the verdict (Dutch link) we have to prevent uploads of torrents to Mininova that refer to certain titles or to similar-looking titles. We’ve been testing some filtering systems the last couple of months, but we found that it’s neither technically nor operationally possible to implement a 100% working filter system. Therefore, we decided that the only option is to limit Mininova to Content Distribution torrents from now on. We are still considering an appeal at this moment.

    We launched our Content Distribution service in 2007. This service allows producers and artists to easily publish and distribute their content for free through Mininova. The launch of Content Distribution has proven to be a success. Countless content owners have used Content Distribution to distribute their content (e.g. albums and documentaries) for free to millions of users. For example, the Dutch band Silence is Sexy released their complete album on Mininova and received the Interactive Award 2009 for doing so. The Dutch television broadcaster VPRO decided to start using Content Distribution in 2009 in order to distribute documentaries.

    We would like to thank you for your support. Especially everyone that contributed to Mininova receives a big “thank you!” for the effort! We hope to keep welcoming you on Mininova and our other projects (e.g. Snotr, Dispostable).

    Thanks! The Mininova staff
     
  2. Will

    Will Level IV

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    Mininova was crap anyway..

    Everyone I know used piratebay or isohunt .. or even torrenthound <3
     
  3. Freja

    Freja Level IV

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    Ive always been using piratebay too. until it was banned in denmark. thank god for hidemyass.com
     
  4. interhacker

    interhacker Level IV

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    Mininova was the best for old time movies, also, AXXO hated TPB, he even stopped posting his moves on there.

    Either way,

    RIP mininova

    2004-2009
     
  5. domini212

    domini212 Level III

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    btjunkie is also a good one.
     
  6. assasin

    assasin Level IV

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    Any new torrent(any category)were first uploaded to mininova!!

    Mininova was popular!!!It was bound to happen sooner or later!!

    Bye,bye!!
     
  7. Richy

    Richy Level IV

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    I used Mininova to see a whole bunch of weird films... I'm gonna miss that site :(

    Now I have to get familiar with pirate bay *grumbles*
     
  8. mehungry

    mehungry Newbie

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    Aww man, i used mininova for the longest time x.x Oh well I guess I have to move on to something else
     
  9. Lily

    Lily Level I

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    Meh, I never used Mininova.
     
  10. vivitarium

    vivitarium Level I

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    Private trackers all the way!
     
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