A Dutch court ruled in August 2009 that Mininova must remove all torrents that could lead a user to infringing material. The order was carried out in November, when all torrents, save for those associated with the Content Distribution Network, were removed. It was little surprise that Mininova’s traffic plummeted. The question was how far Mininova would fall, and if the Dutch based company would ever be heard from again.
But Mininova is a special breed of BitTorrent site. Not nearly as belligerent as The Pirate Bay, the entertainment industry never sought to annihilate this BitTorrent search engine. MiniNova, unlike its brethren, is seen as a moderate in the online copyright wars; a website that if given the chance, could succeed as a legitimate enterprise. Although BREIN was Mininova’s adversary in court, their web server was never raided, nor was there any demand to shut the website down – the only demand that BREIN had was to prevent the distribution of torrents that pointed to copyrighted material....
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