Mininova Deletes Most Torrents Under Court Threat

Courtesy Techdirt  Mon, 11/30/2009 - 03:46

Back in August, we noted that a Dutch court, at the urging of anti-piracy group BREIN (which has a history of questionable tactics ), had ordered Mininova to remove all infringing links from its index.

Even though the court admitted that Mininova itself was not infringing, it was told to remove any torrents that linked to infringing material.

Since there's simply no way to know whether the torrents link to infringing material, and tests of some filtering solutions...

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