Internet Mininova goes legit
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In fact, the rulings against mininova where long before the would-be buyers of the pirate bay announced their intention to buy TPB.
The actual wannabe TPB replacements are running strong. And TPB itself is far from going away. They shut down their tracker for good though.
The article insanity linked has some factual errors in it though. Mininova itself is and was never illegal. What users did with the site was found to be illegal. Therefor mininova was neither fined, nor directly punished. It was merely ordered to to remove all torrents linking to copyrighted material.
By the logic of the dutch court google would need to prevent it's site from linking to torrents and sites containing links to infringing copyright too. But that is another story entirely.
Here is the story from another viewpoint on TorrentFreak.
The actual wannabe TPB replacements are running strong. And TPB itself is far from going away. They shut down their tracker for good though.
The article insanity linked has some factual errors in it though. Mininova itself is and was never illegal. What users did with the site was found to be illegal. Therefor mininova was neither fined, nor directly punished. It was merely ordered to to remove all torrents linking to copyrighted material.
By the logic of the dutch court google would need to prevent it's site from linking to torrents and sites containing links to infringing copyright too. But that is another story entirely.
Here is the story from another viewpoint on TorrentFreak.
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Actually, the reality of the victory of the media industry is best described by the words of Pyrrhus:
One more such victory would utterly undo him.
The pirate bay does not shut down the tracker because of the media industry pressure alone. They would have operated it maybe one or two years more without, because actually the BitTorrent protocol already operates without trackers. Same with Mininova. Why have the legal trouble with a tracker, if you could just drop it.
Guess what: The media industry will now complain about the needed torrent files. And right when the media industry has bribed enough judges for getting the case in their ways, the BitTorrent protocol will likely run without torrent files or be moved in Darknets.
They can't win as long as the standards are free and everybody can build his own internet if needed. The Internet is anarchy. In the most negative and most positive possible way at the same time.
And honestly: I love the Internet for it. I don't want to be user in a TimeWarner or SonyInternet-Network. Both have shown that they consider basic constitutional rights and elemental ethic positions insignificant to profit. Which is never good. I could also deal with the Devil or the Mafia if I don't care about such peanuts.
One more such victory would utterly undo him.
The pirate bay does not shut down the tracker because of the media industry pressure alone. They would have operated it maybe one or two years more without, because actually the BitTorrent protocol already operates without trackers. Same with Mininova. Why have the legal trouble with a tracker, if you could just drop it.
Guess what: The media industry will now complain about the needed torrent files. And right when the media industry has bribed enough judges for getting the case in their ways, the BitTorrent protocol will likely run without torrent files or be moved in Darknets.
They can't win as long as the standards are free and everybody can build his own internet if needed. The Internet is anarchy. In the most negative and most positive possible way at the same time.
And honestly: I love the Internet for it. I don't want to be user in a TimeWarner or SonyInternet-Network. Both have shown that they consider basic constitutional rights and elemental ethic positions insignificant to profit. Which is never good. I could also deal with the Devil or the Mafia if I don't care about such peanuts.
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