Added on 07 May 2009(894 Views)
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.
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RSSTags: Mininova, BREIN, Torrent, P2P, File sharing, Copyright
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Dan-O - 23 Oct 2009 00:15
Well I hope Mininova gets through any legal problems ok. I upload all my creative commons music there and it is a great site! Dan-O http://www.danosongs.com
MiniNova - 09 May 2009 18:50
HOW TO BYPASS MININOVA FILTER Why do we need to Bypass content filtering ? As you might know mininova starts filtering copyrighted material, i dont upload protected content But i fear that such filters may also delete files wich are not violating copyrights as example Creative Commons music wich has a 4 second part wich is similar to an protected title. Also many Companies demand licenses and copyright on files wich are definitely in the Public Domain and not Copyrighted anymore. As Example i uploaded charlie Chaplin videos from 1917 on youtube but this videos got deledet because a Movie comapany claimed false copyrights on these videos. Just have a look to the offical US Copyright law wich says that any work prior 1922 is not Copyrighted anymore. So im writing this Text not to help you violating copyright but avoiding that legal content might be blocked by failure or Grief of some Movie and Music companies. I just want to protect your legal content from being censored. On the other side i can understand mininova since they do not want that users missuse their Content distribution service to share copyrighted stuff. Because this would be quite dangerous for mininova if illegal copyrighted content is hosted directly on their servers. So help mininova by not uploading any copyrighted stuff to their CD service ! Howto: It is very very easy to bypass such filters. Just put your files in a encrypted .rar or .zip archive and choose an password, so The filtersoftware cannot acces the archive to look if the original file is is on the Banlist or not. Then use Gimp or Photoshop to create an imagefile wich includes the password and save it in the same folder as the archive, use some filters and effects to make in unreadeable for machines. Then create the Torrent from this folder. So Downloaders get the password and can Open the file but the automated filters of film/music industry cannot open it and cannot see if the file is on their banlist or not. Works like a Captcha i think you understand what i mean ;) I also think this way is also the Best for mininova because since mininova is doing everything to remove copyrighted material even if they have no succes Curts will see no reason to forbid mininova because it is not the fault of mininova that the content filter does not work for encrypted files. As Example Rapidshare is allready using copyright filters but they cannot stop users from uploading these files since all Rapidshare users use encryption. It think this method will also work quite well with torrents. So dont worry and continue sharing your legal content, the net was build for freedom and it is impossible to take this freedom away. I hope you and also the mininova staff understand my viewpoint, i dont want to help people sharing illegal content but prevent legal files from being censored like youtubes content recognition does. Thanks for reading ;)
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