Hi everyone!
We would like to update you about the following matters.
Lawsuit
First of all, the Dutch anti-piracy organization BREIN has announced to begin a full proceedings lawsuit (Dutch terminology: ‘bodemprocedure’) against Mininova. BREIN demands that we implement a filter on Mininova and take responsibility to prevent possible copyright infringements being taken place by our users. We discussed this matter with BREIN for a long time, but we couldn’t agree as their demands are both disproportionate and invalid.
The lawsuit will likely take several years and will take place in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Our case will be defended by Christiaan Alberdingk Thijm of KaZaA fame and VIta Zwaan. We will proceed to court with full confidence, and defend our unique position in the BitTorrent world and our current copyright policy. The court decision will be important for many other community-driven websites, like Google and YouTube.
As a side note: please know that we do not provide user information to third parties. For you as a Mininova user, nothing will change for now. More press coverage: English or Dutch.
5 billion downloads
In other news: we passed the mark of 5 billion (5,000,000,000) torrent downloads yesterday. The previous mark, 4 billion downloads, was reached in February this year. TorrentFreak has full coverage on this story.
Stay up-to-date
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Good Luck and many downloads in the future.
u all probs think this is a dumb question but is this illegal to download from this site or not
Well it depends on your national legislation…In some country’s only uploading is illegal, in some is downloading illegal as well.
finn
finnhitchcock@gmail.com
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Hi Guys,
I’ve been using your website for some time now and I’ve been reading about your future lawsuit.
I just want to say, if there is anything I can do to help then I am all ears. I live in Thailand where there is no real law against copyright infringement. Maybe you should think of transferring ownership of Mininova over to a Thai company. Let’s see how far BREIN get with the prosecution of a Thai company over European copyright law. The Thai government would laugh at them. If such a company had Thai employees then the Thai government and Thai courts would stand tall behind that company.
Not just a thought guys, it’s a real option.
David.
i don’t even make a dollar a day but will be glad to donate a $ for a cause.
Keep up the good work. We need sites like this which doesn’t even ask for a penny but delivers quality.
Way to go mininova. All the corporates have to learn a lesson from you
CERTAINTY!
ON BEHALF OF WORLD!
ANDRÉ LUIZ FIGUEIREDO DE CARVALHO
BRAZILIAN LAWYER
ANDRELUIZFIGUEIREDODECARVALHO@WALLA.COM
http://WWW.SUPERLATA.COM
Congratulations and more power.
I love mininova.
God bless u all
Hope to all comes right in the end.
mininova is the best site i have ever been on. it has helped me alot, i live in England and i am willing to pay anything to help this site in this case. i am actually a trainee lawyer therefore i can fight for you. you will definitely win this case, by miles.
mininova rulezzzzzzzzz you capitalistick dogs
Good Luck with the case guys. Mininova Rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good luck mininova.
luv mininova, and good luck to you guys! Booooo! BREIN
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