Article by George Norman

On 07 May 2009

Mininova, torrent tracker that’s way up there in the popularity charts as The Pirate Bay is, has announced a move that is meant to put a stop to copyright infringement done via P2P file sharing. The Netherlands-based site will implement content recognition technology that should filter out copyright infringing torrents.

“Here at Mininova we are working continuously on ways to improve our platform. One example is our content distribution service, where we offer producers and artists a way to expose and share their work with BitTorrent users. We decided to extend our platform and run a trial with content recognition. This basically means that likely infringing video files referred to by torrents are checked by a third party content recognition system. If the system finds that the file corresponds to unauthorized content, we remove and block the torrent that refers to this file on Mininova,” explained Mininova.


The move, according to the Mininova staff, is meant to aid copyright owners in removing copyright infringing torrents from Mininova while at the same time offering a properly good platform to the regular user that shares non-infringing files via the torrent site. The content recognition system will be initially tested on a limited number of titles, for a period of 12 weeks.

Mininova is due in court later this month and the reason why it is in legal hot water is because local anti-piracy organization BREIN wants Mininova to filter torrents. Well, they got it, but according to Mininova co-founder Niek, with the introduction of this content recognition system the trial has not been dismissed; instead it will serve as a means of finding out whether it is a workable and effective means of combating copyright infringement.

Last but not least, it must be said that the content recognition system has not been selected by Mininova; it has been selected by the copyright holders, who want to employ a more efficient means of removing infringing torrents (as opposed to the not so efficient notice and takedown policy). The content recognition system is managed by an undisclosed 3rd party.



Tags: Mininova, BREIN, Torrent, P2P, File sharing, Copyright

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