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| Mininova....Inime nee kudukkanum ova... :( |
Mininova, the largest torrent site on the Internet, has removed all torrents except those that were uploaded through its content distribution service. Mininova’s founders took the drastic decision after they lost a civil dispute against Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN, and were ordered to remove all infringing torrents from the site.
Mininova’s decision to delete all infringing torrents from its index marks the end of an era that started five years ago.
In December 2004, the demise of the mighty Suprnova left a meteor crater in the fledgling BitTorrent landscape. This gaping hole was soon filled by the dozens of new sites that emerged to fulfil the public’s increasing demands for torrents. Mininova became the most successful of all.
Mininova was founded in early 2005 by five Dutch students, just a month after Suprnova closed its doors. The site started out as a hobby project created by tech-savvy teenagers, but in the years that followed the site’s founders managed to turn it into a successful business that generated millions of dollars in revenue.
With increased popularity also came numerous complaints from copyright holders, who saw their intellectual property being shared by users of the site. For years Mininova has complied with these takedown requests, but earlier this year the Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN decided to take the torrent site to court nonetheless, demanding that the operators proactively filter torrents pointing to copyrighted material.
The case went to court in June and a few weeks later the verdict was announced. The judge ruled that Mininova is not directly responsible for any copyright infringements, but ordered it to remove all torrents linking to copyrighted material within three months, or face a penalty of up to 5 million euros.
To avoid having to pay these penalties, the Mininova team saw no other option than to disable access to all torrents except those that were uploaded to their content distribution platform. This means that only approved uploaders can share torrents through the site for now.
During the last few months, Mininova has extensively tested several filtering techniques, but none of these proved 100% effective. “It’s very unfortunate that we’re forced to take this action, but we saw no other option,” Mininova co-founder Niek told TorrentFreak.
Mininova still hasn’t decided yet whether they will appeal the verdict, Niek further told TorrentFreak. They have appealed the verdict pro-forma, which gives the company more time to decide whether they will indeed continue with the appeal. As it looks now, a successful appeal is the only option for Mininova to bring all torrents back.
In the meantime the Mininova team will focus on other projects besides Mininova, as well as growing the number of users for their content distribution platform.
The implications of Mininova’s decision will have a huge impact on the BitTorrent community. The millions of Mininova users and uploaders have to look for a new home, but perhaps even more importantly, Mininova had the largest collection of user-submitted torrents that were used by dozens of smaller torrent indexers.Labels: 2005, axxo, Kikka, legal, mininova, torrents, users |
posted by Venkat@Kikka @ Thursday, November 26, 2009  |
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| void Microsoft(Yahoo)!!! |
Bangalore: When news broke on Friday of Microsoft’s Godfather-like “offer you can’t refuse” to the shareholders of Internet portal leader Yahoo, there was more than average interest in India’s own Silicon City, which is home to large research and development teams for both U.S.-based technology entities.
Microsoft has the larger presence in India — some 5,000-strong — and the software sultan has two key R&D centres. The one in Bangalore is home to Microsoft Research, a hardcore forward-looking research team, led by P. Anandan, which has strong links with academia. It also houses a separate team that creates and supports most of the Indian language initiatives of MSN — Microsoft Network — the browser and search arm.
However, the larger team of engineers is to be found in Hyderabad, where the Microsoft India Development Centre (MIDC) at Gachibowli, is the company’s biggest product development group outside the United States. Headed by Srini Koppulu, one of Microsoft’s longest serving development executives, the MIDC has been key to the company moving many of its flagship Windows and Office applications to the mobile phone.
Yahoo has just over 1,000 India-based engineers — and since 2007, Stanford University scientist Prabhakar Raghavan, a recognised expert on Web search technology, and global head of Yahoo Research, has been guiding the efforts here. Interestingly, India has bucked the trend and made Yahoo the most popular e-mail tool in the country.
The research group has created a number of local search and Indian language tools even while helping to craft the recent “OneSearch” mobile search tool, launched worldwide. “We just had to tap the great talent here,” Yahoo co-founder David Filo told The Hindu on his last visit to Bangalore in 2007.
“This mega bid is of course an acknowledgement of Microsoft’s failure to monetise its online presence, and of the unshakable dominance of Google,” comments Prasanto K. Roy, doyen of Indian technology editors and Editor-in-Chief, CyberMedia Group Publications, in a communication to The Hindu. He adds: “It is ironic that Microsoft of all companies is talking about the evils of monopoly and one-player dominance, when it says that together with Yahoo, it can offer a credible alternative. The bid is a great thing for Yahoo, for even if it does not take the offer; but chances are that it would, for it will not easily get a better offer.”
If the deal goes through, there will inevitably be some overlaps in the India-end of development activity, but based as it is on much-wanted skills, one need not expect that many engineers will be ‘let go.’ |
| posted by Venkat@Kikka @ Saturday, February 02, 2008 |
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| BlueSoleil v5.0.5 |
BlueSoleil v5.0.5 Build.178 Description :
BlueSoleil is a center for the easy wireless life on your PC or laptop. With 3Mbps data speed feature, users can experience better music quality with Bluetooth EDR Stereo AV headset and Bluetooth keyboard/mouse running together.
BlueSoleil 5.0 is a milestone in the BlueSoleil history, with more user-friendly graphical interface. Besides all the features in BlueSoleil Standard version, the biggest change is that BlueSoleil 5.0 has dual graphical interface, classic BlueSoleil GUI and Windows explorer GUI.
Highlight Functions :
1. Support Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and 2.1+EDR.
2. Better support of multiple Windows accounts.
3."Send to" function. Right-click a selected file in explorer, to send the file to other
Bluetooth devices via the "Send to" popup menu
1. Send by Bluetooth" and "set as default" functions in Microsoft Outlook.
2. "Create desktop shortcut "function. You can create shortcuts for devices and services on the desktop by
3. right-clicking the device or service icon. Dragging a device or a service icon and dropping it to the desktop can also create the shortcut.
4. Support 64bit OS.
5. CSR, ISSC main chipset compatible.
Platform Requirement :
CPU : 600MHz or above
RAM : 128M or above
Screen : 800*600 or above
Display : Adapter True Color 16bits or above
OS : Windows2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista 32Bit
Screenshot :
http://i23.tinypic.com/23m980.jpg
Download :
rapidshare.com/files/71098731/BlueSoleil.v5.0.5.Build.178.zip |
| posted by Venkat@Kikka @ Wednesday, January 09, 2008 |
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| BILLA PREVIEW |
::::::;::::::;::::::BILLA 2007::::::;::::::;::::::
Starring: Ajith Kumar, Nayantara, Namitha, Rahman, Prabhu Director: VishnuvardhanMusic: Yuvan Shankar Raja Producer: Suresh Balaji LISTEN TO BILLA SONGS HERE::(ONLINE MUSIC)
Cool Wallies(still More to be uploaded):::::
CLICK HERE FOR PICS... |
| posted by Venkat@Kikka @ Wednesday, November 28, 2007 |
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| MASCRYPT : : LAP |
MASCRYPT is a Lover's Application (LAP) which is a new trend of passing messages that is going to be established between the lovers. This Mascrypt helps u in encrypting the messages so others dont understand wat u are trying to covey to ur lover. Already some couples have already found some new ways of communicating things with their partner.But am sure that this will help in some way.
Once u download it tats it ..
- UNRAR THE FILE
- EXECUTE LAP.EXE
- GIVE A INPUT TEXT
- CHOOSE A NUMBER FOR ENCRYPTION
- MAKE SURE TAT U BOTH KNOW THE NUMBER
- USE SAME KEY FOR DECRYPTION TO GET OLD TEXT
- IF U FEEL U CAN PASTE THE OUTPUT INTO INPUT TO ENCRYPT TWICE
- BUT U HAV TO DECRYPT TWICE TO GET THE SAME INPUT
convey the lebel of encryption and no. of times u encrypt to ur partner through a phone call..and that'll be helpful for ur partner to decrypt...
Labels: LAP, LOVE CAESER, MASCRYPT, MESSAGE ENCRYPTION FOR LOVERS |
| posted by Venkat@Kikka @ Sunday, April 15, 2007 |
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