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ZehDon
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Mininova goes legal.

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November 26, 2009 10:52:47 PM from Demigod ForumsDemigod Forums

Yet another 'world's largest torrent site' has been forced to change the way it operates. The creators of Mininova have had to take the drastic action of deleting all of it's infringing torrents after losing a recent court battle.

Justice served to pirates, or yet another move towards a completely controlled and monetaised internet?

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Reply #1 November 27, 2009 12:14:36 AM
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Sad, but not TPB sad, always seemed like a suprnova spinoff anyway.

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Reply #2 November 27, 2009 7:47:09 AM
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Quoting ,
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Justice served to pirates, or yet another move towards a completely controlled and monetaised internet?

Thats my meaning. pirating "might" not be a good thing. and i do not really condone it, but still, to much controll and to little controll is not a good thing. the only thing this results in are new underground sites poping up and taking its place. but the good thing is, now people can use mininova as a example of all the legal stuff thats on torrent sites.

 

will be interesting to see where this goes. and what happends next in the tracker enviroment..

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Reply #3 November 27, 2009 8:58:33 AM
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It changes absolutly nothing, just makes TPB and other torrent sites stronger

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Reply #4 November 27, 2009 1:29:47 PM
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They still can't stop demonoid so i could careless lol. What can we really get through torrents legally? Unless its torrent original or torrents got permission from copyright owner to host something (Which usually mean we the downloader will be paying) thanthe torrent is pointless.

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Reply #5 November 27, 2009 1:36:55 PM
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Good that I live in a democratic country where the people make the laws. So if 50.001% say downloading is ok, then it is.
If I go to a broadcaster's site like ABC or CBS and want to watch a series, the site tell's me: you can't watch this because you aren't in the US. Guess what: I don't give a shit and I certainly won't one year for a localized, badly translated version of the series. Globalization my a$$.

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Reply #6 November 27, 2009 4:50:49 PM
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While I am glad that justice has been served, I'm still befuzzled as to what this accomplished.

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Reply #7 November 27, 2009 4:52:10 PM
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Quoting vindKtiv,
reply 6
While I am glad that justice has been served, I'm still befuzzled as to what this accomplished.
It has accomplished nothing, because for every one torrent site that goes down another will rise.

 

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Reply #8 November 27, 2009 5:56:36 PM
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Torrents and similar file sharing systems are the cheapest way to disperse content.  What you can get with them is anything someone wants to distribute.  If you designed a freeware game, it would cost almost nothing to distribute it via torrent.  No messing with the free hosting site restrictions, no bothering your users with advertisements, pop up windows, third party downloaders stuffed with spyware.  It's excellent technology, that it happens to be an effective method of copyright infringement is a byproduct of how good it is.  It's the digital equivalent of the photo copier.

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Reply #9 November 28, 2009 10:11:50 AM
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Torrents are mostly crap and viruses anyway. All the "Scene" groups post in Newsgroups first, then it filters down to the Torrent sites and Pier to Pier crap like Limewire and IMesh which are also chalked full of computer death.

I think in the years to come as technology gets better and better we'll see a Cyber-Police force that will actively hunt and prosecute pirates and anyone else who choses to share information without someone getting their "cut" of the action, copyrighted or not. Just a few years back, one of my favorite bands, Metallica, sued a 12 year old girl for downloading their MP3's. How ridiculous is that? They seriously took a 12 year old to court and had her poor parents fined for thousands of dollars. That's a serious douche-bag maneuver in my book. How greedy can you get that you need to sue a 12 year old?

I don't support what the pirates do, but I do support the "Spirit" in which they do it.

Most of the serious groups don't crack games so they can give them away for free to hurt a company. They do it for the challenge of cracking the .Exe and for the bragging rights to say "We did it first".

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Reply #10 November 28, 2009 10:33:03 AM
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While I whole heartedly support freedom of information, and am a big believer in the open source movements, I also believe in hard work and reaping the benefits of it; an honests days work for an honests days pay. In your example, Raven, I think making an example of a child is going to do more harm than good.

I think the internet and it's related technologies, like torrents, are still in their infancy - and as is usually the way, criminals are way ahead of the people trying to catch them in their abuse of such technologies. However, if having a pirate free internet means that every site needs to charge people to become members, or if every site needs to open itself up to third party examination without question to prove they're not pirates - then I'll take a pirate infested internet.

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Reply #11 November 30, 2009 2:25:20 AM
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Quoting heavenlysynn,
reply 7

Quoting vindKtiv, reply 6While I am glad that justice has been served, I'm still befuzzled as to what this accomplished.It has accomplished nothing, because for every one torrent site that goes down another will rise.
 

I would agree to this one. In fact a lot of other torrent sites are still there. Seeders are everywhere and so Leechers are too.

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Reply #12 November 30, 2009 2:54:42 PM
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At least it was the actual band taking someone to court, instead of the RIAA...

 

I give them a lot of credit for having the balls to do it themselves.

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