Monthly Archive for May, 2009

Court trial with BREIN postponed until June 2nd

Published on May 18, 2009 in Mininova-related news. 202 Comments

Hi all,

The upcoming court trial with BREIN, which was planned on Wednesday May 20th, has been postponed until Tuesday June 2nd, at 13:00 hours. The reason for this postponement is solely due to personal circumstances of our attorney and has explicitly nothing to do with the content of the case.

We would like to thank the parties involved for their cooperation in this postponement.

Regards,

The Mininova staff

Torrent removal trial

Published on May 6, 2009 in Mininova technical and Mininova-related news. 710 Comments

Hi all,

Here at Mininova we are working continuously on ways to improve our platform. One example is our content distribution service, where we offer producers and artists a way to expose and share their work with BitTorrent users.

Today, we decided to extend our platform and run a trial with content recognition. This basically means that likely infringing video files referred to by torrents are checked by a third party content recognition system. If the system finds that the file corresponds to unauthorized content, we remove and block the torrent that refers to this file on Mininova.

We hope that this system will make it easier for copyright owners to remove torrents that refer to infringing content from Mininova, while still offering the best platform to our users.

Cheers!

The Mininova staff