Mininova ordered to purge all links to copyrighted files

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Fresh off a set of legal wins against The Pirate Bay , the music and movie industries have just scored another court victory against the massive BitTorrent search engine Mininova. A Dutch judge in Utrecht has given Mininova three months to purge all links to copyrighted content from its site—or pay up to €5 million in penalties. As with The Pirate Bay, Mininova’s operators weren’t accused of copyright infringement.