MiniNova Introduces Free Content Distribution

There’s no such thing as too much money you talk about the industry – the Big 4 have proven it – their ongoing battle against P2P piracy has had, in their own words, “devastating” effects upon their businesses. Don’t you just feel compassionate about that?

p2pnet was right to dub the current state of affairs “a massive entertainment division run by a handful of corporate dinosaurs fronted by groups of corrupt executive politicians” considering that the members of the Big 4 are pulling strings and setting the rules for everyone from up there affectedly fluttering the copyright infringement flag which is only hiding a merely commercial interests.

The organised music cartel has recently set their dog – BREIN, Holland’s equivalent of the RIAA and MPAA put together, on MiniNova, because it doesn’t filter its search results.
As the site’s owners (who’d been trying to reach a fair solution with the Big 4 for a year) refused to comply a court case is almost inevitable.

However, MiniNova, goes on with its plan to launch a content distribution system, emphasizing these features:

• Premium exposure to more than 35 million people visiting Mininova.org monthly. Distributed content will be marked as featured, listed at the top of the frontpage.
• No bandwidth costs: upload your content once, and we’ll distribute and seed it for you. Proven to scale to millions of downloads, even with large files.
• Easy interface, no need to master the technical background of P2P and BitTorrent protocols. Distributing content takes a single click. We also provide detailed statistics showing how often your content is downloaded and from which countries.
• And best of all, it’s totally free!

Here’s what MiniNova spokesman Niek told p2pnet in a short interview:

p2pnet: This looks like a genuine effort to provide a no-strings-attached P2P distribution system for independent music at no cost to musicians. Is that how you see it?

Niek: Yes. The idea is to build the ultimate platform for producers who want to distribute their content to a broad audience for free.

p2pnet: How do you plan to stop people from uploading DRM-protected content or spam?

Niek: We review every CD application.

p2pnet: Can anyone use this? Like, ordinary people with a love of music making songs in their bedroom studios?

Niek: Everybody can apply for a CD account, as long as the content is of high quality and interesting for the majority of Mininova users.

p2pnet: If this a free service, how wil you suppoort it?

Niek: We hope the current web-page advertisements will be enough.
Stay tuned.