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Yesterday, Holland’s MiniNova looked like the pic on the right.

Not  any more.

Because, “From now on, we are limiting Mininova.org to our Content Distribution service,” says the MiniNova blog.

In other words, the copyright hammer has fallen on one of the net’s most famous indexing sites.

All corporate industry torrents have gone.

“By doing so, we comply with the ruling of the Court of Utrecht of last August.,” says the MiniNova team going on »»»

Unfortunately the court ruling leaves us no other option than to take our platform offline, except for the Content Distribution service. According to the verdict (Dutch link) we have to prevent uploads of torrents to Mininova that refer to certain titles or to similar-looking titles. We’ve been testing some filtering systems the last couple of months, but we found that it’s neither technically nor operationally possible to implement a 100% working filter system. Therefore, we decided that the only option is to limit Mininova to Content Distribution torrents from now on. We are still considering an appeal at this moment.

We launched our Content Distribution service in 2007. This service allows producers and artists to easily publish and distribute their content for free through Mininova. The launch of Content Distribution has proven to be a success. Countless content owners have used Content Distribution to distribute their content (e.g. albums and documentaries) for free to millions of users. For example, the Dutch band Silence is Sexy released their complete album on Mininova and received the Interactive Award 2009 for doing so. The Dutch television broadcaster VPRO decided to start using Content Distribution in 2009 in order to distribute documentaries.

We would like to thank you for your support. Especially everyone that contributed to Mininova receives a big “thank you!” for the effort! We hope to keep welcoming you on Mininova and our other projects.”

Below is how the site looks today

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So is this the end?

Not according to Eric Dubbelboer.

“We will continue with our Content Distribution service, trying to get  more and better content for it,” he told p2pnet. “We still see a future in free content  delivery using bittorrent.

“The team will also stay together. We have a lot of other things we are  doing together (www.snotr.com, www.dispostable.com, for example).”

Good luck, guys, and all the best.

Stay tuned.

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