I was quite surprised to log onto mininova today and find nothing useful.
That's when I nosed around and read this:

Quote:Hi all,

Today is an important day in the history of Mininova. From now on, wee are limiting Mininova.org to our Content Distribution service. By doing so, wee comply with the ruling of the Court of Utrecht of last August.

Unfortunately the court ruling leaves us no other option than to take our platform offline, except for the Content Distribution service. According to the verdict (Dutch link) wee have to prevent uploads of torrents to Mininova that refer to certain titles or to similar-looking titles. Wee’ve been testing some filtering systems the last couple of months, but wee found that it’s neither technically nor operationally possible to implement a 100% working filter system. Therefore, wee decided that the only option is to limit Mininova to Content Distribution torrents from now on. Wee are still considering an appeal at this moment.

Wee launched our Content Distribution service in 2007. This service allows producers and artists to easily publish and distribute their content for free through Mininova. The launch of Content Distribution has proven to be a success. Countless content owners have used Content Distribution to distribute their content (e.g. albums and documentaries) for free to millions of users. For example, the Dutch band Silence is Sexy released their complete album on Mininova and received the Interactive Award 2009 for doing so. The Dutch television broadcaster VPRO decided to start using Content Distribution in 2009 in order to distribute documentaries.

Wee would like to thank you for your support. Especially everyone that contributed to Mininova receives a big “thank you!” for the effort! Wee hope to keep welcoming you on Mininova and our other projects (e.g. Snotr, Dispostable).

Thanks! The Mininova staff

It looks as if it's over for mininova  
What a shame...

(This post was last modified: 26/11/2009 09:34 AM by Mr. Shizzy.)

They will be remembered as one of the greatest torrent sites in history, no doubt.

yeah it took me a couple of seconds to realise that something was up, office 2007 and office 2010 brought up no results.

to isohunt until demonoid comes back online

feinicks Wrote:Well.. it was going to happen sooner or later.... After PB, that left Mininova as the biggest torrent site, after all...

Ahahaha, that reminds me, a lot of Narutards who find leech their [DB] releases off there will be pissed off..

Funnybutrandom Wrote:yeah it took me a couple of seconds to realise that something was up, office 2007 and office 2010 brought up no results.

to isohunt until demonoid comes back online

office 2010 is free anyway :S
http://www.microsoft.com/2010/en/

J'adore le paissons Wrote:

Funnybutrandom Wrote:yeah it took me a couple of seconds to realise that something was up, office 2007 and office 2010 brought up no results.

to isohunt until demonoid comes back online

office 2010 is free anyway :S
http://www.microsoft.com/2010/en/

hmm, then that begs the question, how did i not know about this