It's not a good week to be a BitTorrent tracker
A site called BTArena popped up recently, offering a complete copy of TPB's index. But it looks like Romanian authorities are threatening that site's operator.
And now a Dutch judge has ordered rival Bittorrent site Mininova to remove every last torrent that links to copyrighted materials. The site has 3 months to comply. If it doesn't meet the deadline, Mininova's operators will face a penalty of up to 5 million Euros, or about $7.1 million.
Mininova has reportedly begun removing some torrents. But it's ridiculously difficult to keep people from uploading copyrighted content to peer to peer networks. And if the site does succeed in ridding itself of illegally uploaded content, the question remains: will anyone use it anymore?
