Mininova ordered to clean up all pirated content from its site

Mininova ordered to clean up all pirated content from its site

Mininova is one of the most popular torrent search engines on the web.

The service has just lost a major lawsuit in the Utrecht District Court.

The court has ordered the service to remove all pirated media content from the network within a period of three months.

The court ruling said: “The court didn’t agree with Mininova’s argument that it was impossible for it to find and remove torrents that point to copyrighted materials.”

Mininova had claimed that they removed the infringing content from their service as soon as the owner contacted them.

The court was not impressed. The ruling stated: “The court believes it’s generally known that commercially made films, games, music and TV series are copyrighted and that these works are only copyright-free in exceptional cases.”

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