BREIN to Mininova: Filter Copyrighted Content or Face Legal Action
Date : 2008 05 19 Category : Web News
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The Dutch anti-piracy organization warns the BitTorrent tracker site that it must "take effective measures to prevent it and if they can not then it must stop. "
The BREIN foundation, a joint Dutch anti-piracy program of authors, artists and producers of music, film, and interactive software in the fight against Intellectual Property theft, is warning Mininova.org, the 52nd largest site in the world according to Alexa, and apparently the largest BitTorrent tracker site around, that it must "take effective measures to curtail this [copyright] abuse" on its own or be stopped from doing so by the courts.
With more han 30 million unique visitors per month and 5 billion total downloads and counting, the Netherlands-based site is a prime target for anti-piracy organizations like BREIN.
"Mininova has a business model that is based on illegality.