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- blackjack75, on 05/19/2008, -8/+95This has to stop. I mean whores and pot are ok. But teenagers downloading movies illegally, now that is too much. We don't want people to think the Dutch have no moral values.
- Oea420, on 05/19/2008, -3/+63I don't understand it.. mininova is just google specialized for torrents
You can do the same thing you do on mininova, ON GOOGLE!
Try it!
Go to google
Search for "Insert Movie Here Torrent"
holy ***** look at that, those google scumbags! They are supporting piracy! Sue google! - Akraz, on 05/19/2008, -10/+66***** THE.. brein????
- timusca, on 05/19/2008, -13/+68***** THE RIAA!!!!
- poidh, on 05/19/2008, -5/+57I download from mininova every day. I don't consider it illegal because the films I download have been shown on TV and it's legal to record from the TV so why on earth would it be illegal to download a film which is effectively in the public domain?
So, I hope mininova stays up for ever and ever and ever. - Postawa, on 05/19/2008, -15/+55***** BREIN.
- Jenadae, on 05/19/2008, -2/+39A: Hi i need a gun
B: Oh i know a guy that has a gun for sale his name is George
A: You're under arrest
>.> - sylvok, on 05/19/2008, -1/+29Mininova has more people, I would use TPB but their search sucks.
- greenlight2001, on 05/19/2008, -3/+26***** THING SUCKS!
- SmackMyMac, on 05/19/2008, -3/+24LEAVE MININOVA ALONE! LEAVE IT ALONE!
All they want to do is provide torrents...They provide a service. What do you Do?!
ALL YOU WANT TO DO IS SUE SUE SUE!!
LEAVE IT ALONE!
/end runny mascara rant. - Fordi, on 05/19/2008, -1/+20Dearest MPAA,
Ha. Ha haha, haha ha haha ha.
Ha.
Sincerely,
[any given torrent site] - noots, on 05/19/2008, -1/+18LOUD NOISES
- spudnic, on 05/19/2008, -3/+20Because piracy funds TERRORISTS
- Cryoniq, on 05/19/2008, -2/+18So.. when are they going after Google, Yahoo, MSN Search and so on? Torrent sites and trackers are just as legal/illegal as Google and so on. They do the very same thing. This whole crap is so silly.
But.. let's face it, it is the companies that realised they can suck cash out of the record and movie industry (lawyers and silly websheriffes). If I had a company in the area, I would milk em for all the cash I could get to as well. - sd11208, on 05/19/2008, -5/+21***** the riaa in the ASS hard, with no baby oil.
- AHerdOfElk, on 05/19/2008, -6/+20When will this stop? The RIAA, MPAA, and other such organizations are only hurting themselves when they try to shut down sites such as Mininova and constantly sue 11-year old kids who download music. Torrenting and downloading music and movies in general can't be stopped, and it's a futile move on their part to keep trying to stop it.
- javaroast, on 05/20/2008, -0/+14I've been watching the Movie and Music industry play this stupid game of Whack-a-Mole for ages now. In that time downloading has only expanded, grown and become more efficient. They need to stop fighting this losing cause and come up with a new game plan.
- Oea420, on 05/19/2008, -0/+13Considering mininova catalogues piratebay torrents, it's infinitely more useful than piratebay can ever be?
- kyelewis, on 05/20/2008, -0/+13There isn't much of a technical difference.
Google hosts a HTML file, which points to a location.
Mininova hosts a torrent file, which points to a location.
The only differences I can see are that
'-Torrent files include more information to make sure the file you reached was the one they intended, and
- Torrent files point you to more than one location, and
- Torrent files typically end with a .torrent - RandyGandy, on 05/19/2008, -1/+13I DON'T KNOW WHAT WERE ALL YELLING ABOUT!
- renegadeafk, on 05/19/2008, -2/+11What the ***** are you talking about?
- carlosos, on 05/20/2008, -1/+10And the torrent file is just a link to the tracker to get the files.
So, Mininova stores the links which link to the tracker while Google links to the links that link to the tracker. :) - leonhyral, on 05/20/2008, -0/+9***** IT! WE'LL DO IT LIVE!
- anagoge, on 05/19/2008, -6/+15I download from Mininova too, but I just wanted to reply to your comment about the fact that you "don't consider it illegal because the films I download have been shown on TV and it's legal to record from the TV"
Somewhere along the line, someone had to pay for the rights of that film to be aired on TV. This will fall to the network usually. In order to make up that money, they'll either advertise inbetween the film or, ask you to pay a subscription charge in order to do away with ads. There is always money involved somewhere.
By downloading from Mininova, you effectively cut out the finances and get the film for free. The only person that benefits is you. The studios see no return on your download and so there is less incentive to make a sequel/use the same actors/directors etc.
I think if you want to justify downloading intellectual property then you must also unfortunately give in to the fact that somewhere along the line, someone has to pay and that is usually the customer i.e. you. - javaroast, on 05/20/2008, -2/+11Fine, so instead of suing why don't they produce their own torrents with advertising in them. Make high quality torrents of their shows, add some special features and add some advertisements. Hell they could set up their own private trackers and a catalog and indexing site and reap all the benefits and advertisement money that could bring. But... that would require just a sliver of innovative thought, so it ain't happening.
- str1fe, on 05/19/2008, -1/+9Thepiratebay.org has a traffic rank of: 97
Mininova.org has a traffic rank of: 52
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/ ... - Vinsher, on 05/19/2008, -4/+12Must... save... Mininova... It's on par with air for my survival...
- uberduger, on 05/20/2008, -0/+8In many cases, it's now actually easier to go to Google, type in '[name of album/show] .rar -torrent' than it is to fire up Bittorrent and search TPB/Mininova....
- gsensel, on 05/20/2008, -0/+8Dugg because its true. The majority of my torrents use TPB tracker, but i find them on mininova.
- sylvok, on 05/19/2008, -1/+9o.O
- NeoCortex, on 05/20/2008, -1/+9Brein? Weren't they an alien race in Star Trek?
- poidh, on 05/20/2008, -0/+7:)
Well if it's any consolation, I don't buy counterfeit DVD which the dodgy geezers sell down the pub. - Phillycat81, on 05/20/2008, -0/+7It's amazing technology those torrent files have holding massive 2 hour movies in 20kb files!!!
- EnderMB, on 05/20/2008, -2/+8The second Mininova is shut down five new websites will rise to take its place, and when BitTorrent is finally taken down we'll have a better way of sharing files.
Sometimes I wonder why they even bother... - poidh, on 05/19/2008, -3/+9I consider the film/music industry to have had their fill from me in the years before filesharing when high prices were charged for media. For example, you'd have to spend £15 on a CD with only 1 or 2 good songs on it, or you'd pay to see a film at the cinema, pay for it on VHS, then pay again for DVD, then pay again for the "director's cut". They had the consumer by the balls back then and now it's time for payback.
In any case, according to the TV Licensing Authority in the UK, if you pay your license then you can record whatever you like off of the TV. Plus, TV adverts have no effect on me, plus I try not to watch them anyway.
If someone wants to charge me £10 a month for me to be able to download/legally share whatever I like and as much as I like then I'll pay, because that's the kind of service I'd like to see. However, the film industry is still trying to cling to the "let's screw the consumer for every last penny" business model, so I'm not inclined to play ball until things change. I think that many if not most people who are aware of p2p would be with me on that one. - Katana314, on 05/20/2008, -0/+6Raise your hand if you didn't see that comment coming from a mile away.
- maldovix, on 05/19/2008, -0/+6alexa and quantcast rankings beg to differ
- inactive, on 05/20/2008, -0/+5Peer Guardian does not protect you
- vault, on 05/20/2008, -0/+5You are dense http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMJVpn4BM_Y
- shark72, on 05/20/2008, -0/+5Sorry... facilitating copyright infringement has legal consequences, just as direct copyright infringement does. Another term you may have heard is "contributory copyright infringement."
For many crimes and misdemeanors, you can add "facilitating" in front of it and it's still against the law.
To fight the enemy, we must understand them. Sticking our heads in the sand and calling them "idiots" or pretending that they don't know how BitTorrent technology works is dangerous. It might make you feel good in the short term, but the ugly truth is (a) they're pretty smart (just evil), (b) they do indeed understand how BitTorrent works, and (c) unfortunately, they understand the law better than you do. And if you're not careful, they may use the law to come after you. - Skooma714, on 05/20/2008, -0/+5The representative will promptly not care and go swim in the dumpster full of money the RIAA left last night outside his mansion.
- inactive, on 05/20/2008, -1/+6Don't forget the CRIA - the Canadian Record Industry Association
- graemee, on 05/20/2008, -0/+4We can say what BREIN's been smoking.
- kamisama, on 05/20/2008, -1/+5Never heard of the band Filter? That song became popular after it was used in that x-files episode where "Giovanni Ribisi" played that freaky kid Darren Peter oswald that could manipulate lightning. My best guess is he wants to torch BREIN, you know kind of like "***** the riaa". Either that or he's just delusional.
- MacSuxWindozSux, on 05/20/2008, -0/+4Model based on illegal activity does not meant their business model is illegal.
***** BREIN. - Mushroonaut, on 07/11/2008, -0/+4Nooooo, not Mininova!
- ZaZ2137, on 05/20/2008, -0/+4Sounds like the Star Trek race (DS9 reference)
- jhshukla, on 05/20/2008, -0/+4Bollywood is a movie industry.
- uberduger, on 05/20/2008, -1/+5FTA: 'Tim Kuik, managing director of BREIN, said that Mininova’s business model is based on illegal activity. “A notice and take down procedure is absolutely insufficient for a site that makes use of unauthorized files, structurally and systematically,” he added.'
Hold on, did he not understand the part about Youtube?!? Don't know about you guys, but between music videos, clips of comedy shows and clips of TV/film, I believe that about 98% of what I watch on there is illegal from a copyright perspective. Yet they are fine with it.... Ohhhh, wait, it's owned by Google! Sorry, my bad. I forgot that if it's Google doing the providing, it's legal. -
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