Mininova Ordered to Remove All ‘Infringing’ Torrents

Mininova has lost its civil dispute with Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN. The judge ruled that Mininova is not directly responsible for any copyright infringement, but ordered it to remove all torrents linking to copyrighted material within three months, or face a penalty of up to 5 million euros.

Mininova were sued this spring by BREIN, an outfit which protects the rights of several large entertainment industry corporations.

Today, the judge ruled that the world’s largest BitTorrent indexer has been ordered to clean up its site and remove all torrents that link to infringing content.

BREIN’s intention was not to shut down the site. Instead, the organization called for a filter based on infringing keywords and possibly digital fingerprints to guarantee that the rights holders have sufficient means to protect their content.

http://torrentfreak.com/mininova-ordered-to-remove-all-infringing-torrents-090826/

Looks like all the torrent sites are going down one by one.

They are giving Mininova three months to remove every infringing torrent which will cause chaos as it means the staff have to download pretty much everything, have knowledge if it has copyright and make sure it's being shared without permission.

Then there's going to be chaos when they remove stuff which isn't "infringing" while BREIN just watch and say if you can't you pay loads of money. They might as well say pay now because there asking an almost impossible task.