Mininova Forced to Remove Pirated Torrents

Although Mininova is the most popular BitTorrent service on the web, this doesn't stop the copyright organization to go after the website and force it to remove copyright

infringement torrent files. For those of you who don't know, Mininova is way more popular than The Pirate Bay, being placed on position number 52 in the Alexa traffic ranking. According to TorrentFreak, BREIN, a Dutch anti-piracy group, said it would file a lawsuit against the BitTorrent service in order to force it to remove torrent files linking to pirated content.

However, the Mininova administrators are prepared to go to the judge, pointing to the internal guidelines which promptly explain that downloading from the website is not illegal as the content published on it is not protected by copyright. Moreover, in case some anti-piracy groups suspect Mininova of copyright infringement, the service has always been opened to talks and infringing content could be removed without the need for a lawsuit.

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This is an ethical act of law to remove the pirated torrents in order to save the copy right work. Copyright gives its owner exclusive rights to control, use and exploit the copyrighted work or parts of it for personal gain, profit or otherwise. Copyright protects the specific expression rather than the underlying idea under Malaysia’s Copyright Act 1987