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Italian anti-piracy group, Federation Against Music Piracy (FPM), has claimed that they have successfully forced the deletion of 20,000 torrents on Mininova, and thousands of other torrents on other website (and several eD2k direct connect servers) in their latest effort to clean up the Internet.
Mininova co-founder Erik Dubbelboer says he's not aware of any communication between FMP and Mininova, although Mininova's blog did mention several months ago that they would start implementing a trial of a torrent removal system.
Mininova is current in court, and I speculate these overtures to anti-piracy groups may be an effort to show that they have systems in place to deal with pirated material, and that the onus must be on the content owners to track down and inform Mininova of abuses (which are then promptly dealt with). The RIAA/MPAA would argue the opposite, that it is up to Mininova to ensure no pirated materials (or torrents/links to pirated materials) ever gets posted or are promptly deleted through self monitoring. The RIAA/MPAA has been asking ISPs to do the same, while not offering financial assistance (unless "not suing" is considered one). It seems they want others to do their dirty work, and the only work they are willing to do themselves, to protect their beloved content owners, is to go to court (and count all the money that content owners give to them). It's like a modern day protection racket.
More on the FPM actions that allegedly took place:
Mininova co-founder Erik Dubbelboer says he's not aware of any communication between FMP and Mininova, although Mininova's blog did mention several months ago that they would start implementing a trial of a torrent removal system.
Mininova is current in court, and I speculate these overtures to anti-piracy groups may be an effort to show that they have systems in place to deal with pirated material, and that the onus must be on the content owners to track down and inform Mininova of abuses (which are then promptly dealt with). The RIAA/MPAA would argue the opposite, that it is up to Mininova to ensure no pirated materials (or torrents/links to pirated materials) ever gets posted or are promptly deleted through self monitoring. The RIAA/MPAA has been asking ISPs to do the same, while not offering financial assistance (unless "not suing" is considered one). It seems they want others to do their dirty work, and the only work they are willing to do themselves, to protect their beloved content owners, is to go to court (and count all the money that content owners give to them). It's like a modern day protection racket.
More on the FPM actions that allegedly took place:
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