Mininova Drops Illegal Content, Now Offers Content Distribution Services

From DailyTech: Illegal file sharing is the big reason there is so much pressure on file sharing sites leading to legal battles and site closures. Across the globe anti-piracy groups like the MPAA, RIAA, and many more are fighting with all they have to close sites that allow users to share content.

The most notable of the file sharing and torrent sites that has been under attack was The Pirate Bay. The admins of The Pirate Bay openly mocked the agencies that were trying to take the site offline in August going so far as to produce shirts of +10 mockery.

A site similar to The Pirate Bay called Mininova became the next big target in the war against BitTorrent sites in August. Yesterday, Mininova announced that it was being forced to limit its activities to content distribution services only. The site admins wrote in a blog post that Mininova was limiting activities to content distribution only to comply with a court ruling from August.

The ruling warned that the site operators would face up to a $7.16 million fine if they did not remove all copyrighted material from their site in a three-month period. Mininova admins say that they tried filtering systems over the last few months but have found that it was neither technically or operationally possible to implement a system that was 100% effective.

The content distribution system that was launched in 2007 will live on. The service lets publishers and artists distribute content for free to Mininova users. Mininova reports that Dutch TV broadcaster VPRO uses the system to distribute documentaries and the band Silence is Sexy released their entire album with the service in 2009.

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