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.
seems the same guys that harass the pirate bay are doing the rounds here too..
You should go to http://www.adventuresinlegalland.com and watch the video interview with Marc Stevens.
You’ll learn how to effectively destroy your opponent’s claims in court. Because the Supreme Court ruled that there must be a concrete loss for there to be a lawsuit. Very interesting stuff. A thousands lawyers won’t be worth the information this guy gives out.
Don’t get intimidated! Fight back!
small nitpick here, is it possible to change the javascript so it doesn’t automatically focus the search bar after the page loads? i’m trying to scroll down (or use ‘find as you type’ in firefox), and find it really annoying that my cursor is stuck in the search box.
otherwise, thanks for all your hard work to make mininova a great site!
haha, i see good old names here… we have tons of mails from James Young too, he’s always sending nice messages…
yeah, same point as ian. its really annoying :@
hey, have you noticed those torrents that stuck at around 95-98%? there’s starting to be a lot of those!!
Fake torrents and fake trackers INCOMING!!!
http://mongo56.org:3434/announce
is one of them for sure!
I’m 100% sure that mongo56 isn’t a fake tracker. It is one of the biggest free trackers.
ROFL… tell em to fuck off… u rnt hosting the actual file so its not our problem…
tell em to harrass someone else like the iranians or bin ladin
Come on everyone and their mother knows Marc Stevens is a complete fraus, get a life
why were all god’s comments delted?
Offensive language. Please watch your language on this blog.
Every one is trying to make a buck on nothing. The only going to succeed is by killing it compleatly. You will never kill p2p or bit torrent. There will always be a form of it wether it’s through irc, websites, FTP, or newly developed programs. For the Group of people who started this they know what they are doing and how to find the loop holes to get what they want. I’m not saying that every one knows how to do it but there are a few that do, and forunatly we all benifit from them.
Think back 10-15 years ago to a time before the internet. Yes there was a time for the younger people. Even then the record indestry was fighting a diffrent battle but still the same. Bootleggers, no not the clothing shop but people that would make copies of music that 1 wasn’t out yet 2 live recordings 3 reproduction of the vinal/casette on to Blank casettes. Now its just done on a diffrent medium insted of the old casettes we use computers and can make copies of cd’s and dvd’s and console games (provided they are cd or dvd). I wish that the music and video indestry take notes that instead of condemming it (wich will make more peopel go to it.) Embrace it, release specail footage on the web, un-released tracks that have not been on an album.
As the saying goes “When ever you make somthing idiot proof, a bigger, more stupid idot comes along and proves you wrong.” well its pretty much the same thing for recordings and video as the indisties make diffrent safe gards and protectors, peopel are going to find out ways to go around these gards.
Final thought. Never tell a group of people not to do it, Because they will.
Here ends my rant, srry its so long.
Why don’t record & movie companies just stop being so greedy & slam down the prices of their cd’s/dvd’s. They could pay the actors less ‘cos nobody’s worth 3 million or more to act in a movie & charge a fiver for a cd/dvd & make more profit as everyone would buy them as there wouldn’t be any point downloading them. If these companies still want to be so greedy then no-ones going to buy their merchandise & they deserve to go bust.
Totally agree ! Decrease prices to prevent piracy. So long as prices remain skyrocketing, sharing via p2p shall continue !
Come on man not again!!….A world without P2P program like BT…do they think that people would have sign up for higher value plan package for higher bandwidth?? A lot of ISP would have already been bankrupted years ago…
We are blooming the industry for heaven sake….lol
Don’t forget that when you buy music/film you don’t actually own the music/film - just the media and packaging - well i can live without that myself!
And i have seen new bands rocket in popularity (due to d/l’s) before they had much available to buy from the outlets - if the music industry knew whats good for them they’d do well to seed some torrents themselves, perhaps lower quality as a means of publicity of their releases - it would be a win-win situation!!
Yup! No one would get an ADSL 2+ or a T1 connection just to browse through web pages! Times when radio used to air all the good tracks without crappy advt. and the full songs too, are gone. Nosirree! These days it is only part of the song and that too at a request! What does the RIAA have to say about that? C’mon guys, we are making your artist famous and popular by listening to him in the first place.
Word to the altruistism. Greed is not art.
I can get old jazz, films, out of the way things that are never in the shops from Min. I would buy them but they are not out there. Also I can download stuff I would never dream of listening to or watching…and then I go and buy the artist’s other stuff - which I never would have normally…so everyone gains. This is not greed, totally, in my case, it is research and I find it interesting. I am housebound, looking after a sick person. I never go in a record shop and I certainly don’t ‘rip-off’ the music industry.
Just to put in my two cents.
As the price for: Theatre Admission, Cd’s Ect. The quailty of said items goes way down. Like seriously, you wonder why the movie industry has had it’s biggest slump in years.
And the Corporate music giant using artists like cattle. Sucking every last bit of them they can. They make a new album, tour, 2 months later, new album, more touring and so forth. If you constantly pressure artists to pump out as much as they can just so you can line your pockets, your going to get a cd with 2 maybe 3 singles with the rest being mindless filler.
The problem is that a good portion of the population doesn’t realize that when they go out and buy that new hilary duff cd, or go see one of thier shows. They are proving to industry people that they can keep putting out this tripe and mindless zombies will eat it up.
Same way with the movie industry, people continue to go see bad movies, and so they continue to make BAD movies.
Thanks for letting me vent.
-H
… just put this email in the spam folder
here is a copy of the email i sent to betsy at whatthebleep.com in regards to her dvd..
I have never heard of whatthebleepdoweknow. but after seeing your email at mininova.org, im now downloading it. and im gonna watch it. and burn it, and sell it on the street.
“And you have one choice- remove the pirated copy of my film from your
site or I will take all legal actions available to me.”
There aint **** you can do b***h. you got jacked. and you have a stupid name. you ******* cow.
Buh Bye
Just another case of them trying to keep the man down…
Sooner or later, the big industries are gonna realize the only way to fight this is to adapt to the technology, not become litigious with the people who use it…
hahaha nice one illacorp!!
post what she replies!
this is what I dont’ think they understand… It’s basic Economics, and it’s something that i think the Rap industry full heartly understands.
1. People who usually download items off of the interent, MORE THAN LIKELY, ALOT MORE THAN LIKELY, WEREN’T GOING TO BUY THE CD/MOVIE/SOFTWARE IN THE FIRST PLACE. If I have 500 games on my PC, you think if I didn’t have the internet I would go out and buy 500 games? You can’t just equate the number of downloads to the number of sales lost.
2. People like me, who download alot of underground CD’s, and if I like a underground CD I like, I will BUY the REAL cd when it comes out. The Rap industry does this alot. They release Cd’s that aren’t out in stores on the net to let people know who you are, and when their CD’s come out, people buy them.
3. I don’t buy crap, and at the same time, if something is worth buying, even if I have it on my PC, I go out and buy it. If I hear a CD that I download and like, that’s copyrighted, ,and I LIKE It, I go out and buy it. Same with Video Games. Same with Movies.
SHARING IS CARING!
i do have to agree that a lot of people that download are likley not to buy it but you also have to think this as well. We have reached a whole nother group of people that normaly wouldn listen/see the movie/music that is normaly being played. i am a good example of that. firstly i normaly listen to Country, rock, and clasic rock. somtimes ill go and see somthing about an artist and download it and see if i like it if i do then ill go out and get the cd (so that i can rip it the way i want it.) and if i dont like it ill either get rid of it or keep it because it sounds Ok.
lmfao u lot r jokerzzzzz, lol
spritez
also lol i beg u guys show us some the letters that pirate bay got, with the “flashy cop badge things?” lol i so wanna see dem
DMCA is a kangaroo act
Alot of money exchanged hands when that was being proccessed, and it went all the way to thew top of the internet company’s…
It’s people trying to get money for nothing
I.e. mininova
They make so much money from advertising, you’d think they would put some back into the industry there leeching off.
But no they just keep it for themselfs, it’s just legal piracy, i am shocked you’ve been abel to keep this going so long.
It’s all corrupt is you ask me.
I understand peoples’ gripe with the big ol’ record industry. As the keyboard player of ‘Babe Ruth’ I’m only
too well aware how EMI ripped the band off on a 4% deal’
Babe Ruth have recently released our first album in years
at our own hard earned expense - no record label.
\we are all scraping to make a living having put our own
money into the production of the music.
We are not a wealthy record label and in order to produce further albums need to make some money back from the sale
of Que Pasa, otherwise no more music from us.
We have the album available as download from the band’s website - http://www.baberuthband.com.
Recently we noticed that the album has been downloaded 810
times through Mininova - effectively taking our sales away.
We love people to enjoy our music, this is why we recorded it in the first place - but please support the little guys like us so that we are not out of pocket through supplying
music - we are not EMI or Universal etc… just doing our thing in the world as musicians. We were ripped off by EMI for years and would appreciate to not be ripped off again, thanks. We’re on your side.
Cheers
Dave Punshon - keys with Babe Ruth Band
Hi everyone
Janita Haan here.. felt sick to my stomach when Dave found this…. know it goes on…. so really shouldn’t be surprised but it felt as if we had been robbed …someone climbing in the window and taking away something most precious to us… Dave is right…. it took us a long time to record it as a huge thanks to all of you who had kept our music alive for so many years…. and it was a huge labour of love on our part…
feel disappointed and very sad….. a few of you out there who made the seed and leeched…. maybe you think you are doing the world a service…. but as Dave Punshon our ‘keys’ pointed out… you haved robbed us…you have no idea of the hours that we worked not being paid but forking out because we wanted to .. the money that comes in helps to keep the site up and running….too…..
It has been taken off now …. but we will have to be diligent…. to see if it turns up anywhere else…
whoever reads this …. please cut us a break and leave Que Pasa alone….
with every good wish
Janita singer
Babe Ruth Band
I loath the way record companies have stolen from artists in the past and I’m hoping that the internet will become a way for bands like Babe Ruth to survive and perhaps make some money. The concept has been been proven with the likes of Trent Reznor having great success with his latest album.
Sadly there are so many tales of musicians left with no money from unscrupulous deals and now for bands to be ripped off by their own fans is appalling.
I just bought the Que Pasa album and It’s absolutely fantastic. I would be more than happy to pay double the amount or more for a lossless, less compressed version as well.
I have to say thanks to Dave, Janita and the rest of the band, hearing you again and in such good form is bloody marvellous.
Best wishes and success to you.
Bernie Cavanagh