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Legal proceedings BREIN vs Mininova end, parties settled

On the August 26th, 2009, the Court of Utrecht (The Netherlands) reached a verdict in the case between anti-piracy organization BREIN and Mininova. The verdict implied that Mininova has to ensure that users of its torrent platform won’t upload torrent-filesif there is reasonable doubt that the actual content contains copyrighted works. Mininova appealed this verdict at the Court of Amsterdam and Brein prepared a claim for damages on behalf of its members.
Both parties have now reached a settlement. Mininova will abide
the verdict of the Court of Utrecht and will withdraw the appeal. In
order to settle the matter permanently, Mininova pays Brein an
undisclosed amount of money.BREIN protects authors, performers,
producers, publishers and distributors of music, films, games,
interactive software and digital books against structural infringement
and abuse of their work.