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Monthly Archive for October, 2005
We installed a new (third) server a few days ago. We moved the forum, this blog, the ads-targeting application, CodePost and some other stuff to this new box.
For those of you who’re interested, here are the specs:
Dell PE1850
Dual Xeon 2,8Ghz
2GB DDR Memory
2x 73 GB Harddisk (RAID1)
10Mbit flatfee internet connection
Hopefully this will make loading pages from the main servers even faster 
We, the mininova admins, are glad to release another website for the community.
After a few weeks of coding, designing and testing with our team, CodePost is officially launched.
More information about this project can be found on the FAQ page, which reads:
CodePost is a website where developers share their creations.
Posts can be submitted in four different categories. You can share useful pieces of code you wrote, awful pieces of code other people wrote, images of you nicest creations, and screenshots of your desktop.
Other visitors can leave feedback on your work by posting comments.
CodePost should be easy-to-use website for both unexperienced users and skilled programmers. We hope you like the site as much as we do
However, this post is not completely unrelated to mininova. We are planning to integrate the CodePost user and comment system, along with some other useful features on mininova soon. And with that, mininova should be even better Enjoy.
We get quite some “copyright infringement” mails. Below are some funny quotes from these mails.
From a WebSheriff mail: “Intructions” we should immediately comply with:
You must undertake to take out a half-page advertisements in Billboard Magazine, Music Week Magazine and Music & Media Magazine within fourteen (14) days of the date hereof clarifying the fact that (a) your usage of Trademark, the Masters, the Compositions and the Goodwill was not authorised by or otherwise associated with our client, (b) the services offered by you under the Trademark, the Masters, the Compositions and the Goodwill were not offered by or on behalf of our client and (c) you are no longer trading either under or otherwise by use of the Trademark, the Masters, the Compositions and the Goodwill. Furthermore, the said advertisement must include an apology to our client.
From a GrayZone DMCA mail:
I, the undersigned, do solemnly and sincerely declare and CERTIFY UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY that…
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Finally, notwithstanding our use of this required notice form, we believe that www.mininova.org ‘s activities and services fall outside the scope of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”). Our use of this form, as required by law, is meant to facilitate www.mininova.org ‘s removal of the infringing materials listed above and is not meant to suggest or imply that www.mininova.org ‘s activities and services are within the scope of the DMCA.
More examples of these DMCA notices can be found here.
Besides mails from people who thank us for running mininova, we also receive different kind of mails. Here is a small collection.
Subject: your web site needs recreating
well, welldone for creating the most annoying website i’ve ever seen. In fact f*ck bit torrent. What a pile of shit. Typical of a good idea been wasted once again.
Subject: u dumb badword
how can u putsoca and dancehall in the same topic, are u retarded
Subject: INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT
MY NAME IS MR EMMANUEL DAVIES AND I OWN AND RUN MUN MUN INTERNATIONAL A
MUSIC, PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION COMPANY.
I HAVE RECENTLY VISITED YOUR SITE AND SEEN A COPYRIGHTED PRODUCT OF MINE
FOR DOWNLOAD “REGGAE DANCEHALL SPLASH”
I HAVE NOT GIVEN PERMISSION FOR THIS PRODUCT TO BE ON YOUR SITE NEITHER
DOWNLOADED
I WOULD LIKE LIKE TO KNOW WHY YOU ARE BREAKING THE LAW! AND I WOULD LIKE TO
KNOW WHO HAS GIVEN YOU PERMISSION TO HOST MY CD AND MAKE IT AVAILABLE
I WILL AWAIT YOUR REPLY AND WILL GET IN CONTACT WITH MY SOLICITORS TO
PROSECUTE AND HAVE YOUR SITE SHUT DOWN IF YOUR REPLY IS NOT SATISFACTERY.
MR E DAVIES (MD)
Subject: Pirate
Hey web thief,
Is this the way you do business, you are doing illegal stuff, and some people are not happy that you are steeling someone business.
You think it is normal?
With no regards,
Co Mast
As you can see on the graph, we’ve been having some downtime. Some of this downtime is related to problems at our host. Others where caused by an unknown error on our webserver.
!Warning! technical talk:
Somehow, two seperated networks got connected with eachother, which caused a spanningtree miscommunication on different fibre rings. We have disabled some ports in order to break the connection between the two networks. During the last two hours we’ve tried to lower CPU load (> 75%) on some switches, caused by spanningtree protocol. This resulted in short outages for some customers.
Nothing mininova-related in this post, but I really had a good laugh after viewing this videoclip of Pendulum - Slam.