Another Torrent Site Bites The Dust: Mininova Goes Legit

Another P2P site goes down in flames as popular torrent site Mininova has been forced to comply with the ruling of the Court Of Utrecht. They are now only offering Content Distribution torrents. An official announcement by the site can be viewed at the Mininova blog.

Here’s an excerpt from their official announcement:

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 we have to prevent uploads of torrents to Mininova that refer to certain titles or to similar-looking titles. We’ve been testing some filtering systems the last couple of months, but we found that it’s neither technically nor operationally possible to implement a 100% working filter system. Therefore, we decided that the only option is to limit Mininova to Content Distribution torrents from now on. We are still considering an appeal at this moment.

As they say in the world of peer to peer, “Another shall take its place”.