Mininova: Over 8 Billion Downloads, Faces Court

[exfileme]

Evidently, The Pirate Bay isn't the only BitTorrent search engine scheduled to walk the plank. Even though Mininova scored its eight billionth download over the weekend, the masterminds behind the site are suffering legal issues as well.


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[Guest]

Bandwidth limitation is BAD BAD idea. What about those of use that use VPN's to move large files (like movie productions) from home to work. I'm sure I use 100's of Gigabytes worth of bandwidth weekly.

 

[mcnuggetofdeath]

So I'm currently trying to hold back the stream of joyous obscenities. I can't stand bullies in any environment. Whether the MPAA, RIAA, whomever. That combined with an intriguing legal argument definitely has my interest piqued. Currently hoping for something as unique as the King Kong Defense employed by thepiratebay.org. Im worried that if things like this continue, we'll end up with Microsoft suing because of the countless linux distros it claims violate appx 200 of IP's.

 

[mcnuggetofdeath]

So I'm currently trying to hold back the stream of joyous obscenities. I can't stand bullies in any environment. Whether the MPAA, RIAA, whomever. That combined with an intriguing legal argument definitely has my interest piqued. Currently hoping for something as unique as the King Kong Defense employed by thepiratebay.org. Im worried that if things like this continue, we'll end up with Microsoft suing because of the countless linux distros it claims violate appx 200 of IP's.

 

[mcnuggetofdeath]

crap. double post. sorry.

 

[lordfisch]

[citation][nom]Kevin Parrish[/nom]...Tuan's favorite DS title Dora Saves the Mermaids...[/citation]
Sweet! That game ROCKED!

 

[Guest]

Deja Vu

 

[hellwig]

Who plays DS games with an emulator? Doesn't that defeat the whole Touch-Screen and portability aspect of the hald-held nature of the DS? I suppose the games are fun regardless.

All these torrent-hosting lawsuits are obsurd. The companys are trying to implement copyright-law through obscurity. We should sue publishers of law-books. Think about it, every law book (textbook, reference, whatever) lists hundreds or thousands of crimes. Often times the books include examples of how to commit such crimes, surreptitiously disguised as "precedence" or "case-law".

 

[hellraiser06]

crap. double post. sorry.

Dont worry man, even Mr. Parrish did that in the article. lol.

Evidently, The Pirate Bay isn't the only BitTorrent search engine scheduled to walk the plank. Even though Mininova scored its eight billionth download over the weekend, the masterminds behind the site are suffering legal issues as well.

Evidently, The Pirate Bay isn't the only BitTorrent search engine scheduled to walk the plank. Even though Mininova scored its eight billionth download over the weekend, the masterminds behind the site are suffering legal issues as well.

 

[Tindytim]

[citation][nom]hellwig[/nom]Who plays DS games with an emulator? Doesn't that defeat the whole Touch-Screen and portability aspect of the hald-held nature of the DS?[/citation]
A mouse is a perfect stylus replacement.

 

[icebain]

there are flash mods for the DS that allow you to use micro SD cards to load ROMs

 

[shqtth]

Mr. Parrish kind of Perrished.... I don't see his post:-s

 

[daft]

hey Kevin, wana stop with the double headers? they are getting a little annoying

 

[JeanLuc]

"The numbers are quite staggering as a consumer, no less than horrifying to copyright owners"


If copyright owners reduced the price of there content and film studios made it easier to download films much like the music industry has done and removed that stupid HDCP crap from HD content execs wouldn't be crying in to their corn flakes every time they these sorts of numbers are published.

It would be interesting to see what would happen to piracy figures if were some companies with the balls to try out the above. Instead studios all stick together like an oil cartel to rip of the public for example how much more is to buy Blu-Ray movies instead of DVD's? 100% if not more? And in case you doubt there is collusion then why are films from different studio's all the same price when they came out?

Sorry for the rant but I just had to get that of my chest. Down with piracy and down with corporate rip-off's, there as bad as each other!

 

[garborg]

I still don't see why someone doesn't just set up a large torret site on some Carribian island where there is no international law.

 

[Darkk]

[citation][nom]garborg[/nom]I still don't see why someone doesn't just set up a large torret site on some Carribian island where there is no international law.[/citation]

Does "Pirates of The Carribean" mean anything?

 

[Guest]

I for one would LOVE to actually do something about this, i guess i'll just have to wait until the rest of the worlds people are fed up and are ready to move to the streets with me... In mass, not the puny numbers we've seen already (In sweden, against the governments rape of the people, also known as IPRED) Fuhrer Reinfeldt and his jolly band of politicians kinda screwed us over on that one... Not his idea, i know, but he had the chance to stop it, he didn't = Ultimately his fault!

 

[mrubermonkey]

How would you know that "Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended" was clean unless you, yourself, downloaded it? And that Fifth Amendment stuff will not work with me.

 

[andybird123]

I live in Vietnam. You can't buy real DVD's here, only knock off's coming out of China. I use mininova to get my hands on TV shows, movies and games that are impossible to get here. I'm not depriving anyone of money they would otherwise recieve.

If they want me to stop downloading their material for free, they should start selling their product here at a reasonable price.

 

[cruiseoveride]

@noahj : Does your boss know you're moving 100gb a month from work to home?