Thunderclap today in the BitTorrent community, because the famous links site Mininova has decided to remove from its index all the .torrent links to download copyrighted files! 90th most visited site in the world, Mininova has not really had a choice following a complaint by the Dutch organization that fight against piracy, BREIN, which last summer won a favorable ruling. It was that or a face a 5 million euros penalty! The near closing of Mininova could precipitate the development of a fully decentralized version of BitTorrent.

Tags: BitTorrent, Mininova, Web


