News around the web: Mininova Goes ‘Legal’

User Comments: 29

1. November 26, 2009 12:24 PM
   Deso said:

   Hahahaha

   "are vampires real?"

   Now that's legit news for you.

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2. November 26, 2009 1:01 PM
   

   tengeta said:

   Mininova going legal? What, is this the 25th time they've claimed that now?

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3. November 26, 2009 1:10 PM
   

   DarKSeeD said:

   More and more torrent sites will go down. Look at The Pirate Bay case...

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4. November 26, 2009 1:16 PM
   Ithryl said:

   Wonder where are all the torrent sites are headed. With more and more government watch and forced isp watch over the customers it's prolly not hard to guess.

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5. November 26, 2009 1:42 PM
   kaonis92 said:

   After Pirate Bay went down, many will follow as they are afraid to have a similar ending. But...they will never be able to have internet under their complete control

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6. November 26, 2009 2:07 PM
   AllEyezOnMe said:

   The Internet is a level playing field with forever changing goal posts, just another shift of the goal posts with Mininova going "legit", a sacrifice has to be made for propaganda to the greedy, bloated rich film and music industries artists & investors, and the leeching, bloody-sucking Lawyers. They should move with the times, embrace and develop P2P, instead of charging OTT prices to us the consumers, such as for BDs, DVDs and CDs!!!

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7. November 26, 2009 2:25 PM
   

   Puiu said:

   There are only a few good alternatives to mininova, but i'm sure that they won't last long too.

   They did the right thing by not appealing because they wouldn't stand a chance to win. At least they don't have to pay a ridiculous amount of money after loosing.

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8. November 26, 2009 2:55 PM
   Styl said:

   kaonis92 said:

   After Pirate Bay went down, many will follow as they are afraid to have a similar ending. But...they will never be able to have internet under their complete control

   TPB is still alive, its just trackerless now, using DHT, PEX, and Magnet links.

   I knew Mininova was finished when they started filtering content. It was only a matter of time before they removed everything except a handful of featured content.

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9. November 26, 2009 3:15 PM
   ColdPreacher said:

   Wow Wikipedia may be on its final stand.

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10. November 26, 2009 3:39 PM
    matchu said:

    Yeah... I absolutely love wikipedia. So useful for my school work / background reading. And just darned interesting sometimes, too =P i hope it stays up.

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11. November 26, 2009 4:09 PM
    vangrat said:

    I am really hoping that Wikipedia does not crash n burn, that website has kept me awake and sain through so many long nights..

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12. November 26, 2009 4:21 PM
    

    slh28, TechSpot Paladin, said:

    Wow I'm a little shocked and kind of saddened that mininova got castrated, they started taking down some torrents a few months ago but I just had a browse and everything's gone! There's not even software and games categories on the home page any more. But as always there's still loads of alternative torrent sites although mininova always had informative comments on the torrents.

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13. November 26, 2009 6:42 PM
    saintbodhisatva said:

    I dont think it will be just content that wikipedia has to deal with, financially this would have an impact as well.

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14. November 26, 2009 6:44 PM
    Peroucho8 said:

    it's sad for me that mininova is like that now.. it was my first torrent site =(

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15. November 26, 2009 7:07 PM
    Serag said:

    I really hope Wikipedia recover from this..

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16. November 26, 2009 8:48 PM
    levar said:

    Great mininova goes legal, thats really awesome, must be because the closing of tpb. Scared maybe, sad though and wiki ouch that would suck, the beta just started wow I really hope it recovers.

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17. November 26, 2009 9:07 PM
    yorro said:

    5970 destroys GTX295 !?

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18. November 26, 2009 9:08 PM
    holyPaladin said:

    Ouch I use mininova a lot....

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19. November 26, 2009 10:33 PM
    

    Timonius said:

    "Spin-based electronics gets boost @ BBC News" That's some pretty neat stuff. Can't wait for 'spintronics'! But will it become practical in our lifetime?

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20. November 26, 2009 11:54 PM
    levar said:

    holyPaladin said:

    Ouch I use mininova a lot....

    they're gonna lose a LOT of users. Good news for new private trackers

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21. November 27, 2009 2:46 AM
    

    Xclusiveitalian said:

    I hope wikipedia doesn't get shut down becuase some killer, that site has helped me alot with my education, and whenever i have a question about someone, or something, I go there first for a quick history lesson just to gain some understanding. I know the site isn't 100% right but from my experience people never post lies, and speculation is always duely noted. This would be an epic loss for the internet if it does and then no site is safe.

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22. November 27, 2009 7:12 AM
    fref said:

    Farewell Mininova, we'll miss you. With The Pirate Bay now out of the picture, what's left? I guess the bittorrent days are coming to an end, and we'll see an alternative to bittorrent emerge soon.

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23. November 27, 2009 9:30 AM
    buttus said:

    Jeez....Mininova goes legit, Pirate Bay dies....are the torrentz an endangered species?

    Apart from that, I think I will have to wait for Julio to do a contest for a 5970 card as there is NO way I could ever justify that expense to the wife should I purchase one. Winning on the other hand....

    

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24. November 27, 2009 2:09 PM
    

    kodrutz said:

    Yup, it really does that, and it can also cook and wash your car!

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25. November 27, 2009 2:18 PM
    

    kodrutz said:

    Whoops, it was supposed to be an answer to yorro... :|

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