While few are crying over The Pirate Bay, Mininova is a different case. Mininova has been fighting BREIN, the Dutch copyright authority, but unlike The Pirate Bay, this isn't a fight to the death. Instead, BREIN doesn't want to see the more moderate Mininova eliminated - rather only torrent files it feels link to copyrighted works.

Mininova fought the good fight in court, and tried to argue that it's impossible to keep track of every potentially copyrighted work. But that wasn't good enough for the courts, who felt if the moderators can keep pornography and other undesirable content off Mininova, torrents pointing to copyrighted content shouldn't be a stretch either. Apparently, Mininova's take down procedure for removing potentially infringing torrents wasn't good enough for the courts either. But compared to other BitTorrent sites, Mininova's position isn't dire.

The court ruled Mininova has 3 months to remove infringing torrents and to prevent such torrent from appearing on the site. If they don't, Mininova will be fined 1,000 Euro per infringing link, and up to 5 million Euro total (or $7 million dollars).

But what will Mininova be with many of its most popular torrent removed?

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