Mininova, widely known as one of the largest and most popular BitTorrent sites, is now facing legal action from the Dutch anti-piracy organisation BREIN.  What makes this case special is that Mininoa is not a BitTorrent tracker and just indexes .torrent files from trackers elsewhere that users submit, such as those tracked by The Pirate Bay.  On the other hand, despite all the BitTorrent sites that faced legal action and were brought down, Mininova seemed to have escaped all along, at least up until now.

BREIN is taking Mininova to court to try forcing it to filter its search results, such that all content that may be unauthorised is removed.  Erik Dubbelboer, one of Mininova's co-founders expects Mininova to proceed to court with full confidence and believes Mininova operates within the law by maintaining its "notice and taken down" policy.  Other sites such as MySpace and YouTube have a similar policy where copyright holders can ask to have content removed. 

Unfortunately for Mininova, BREIN believes that Mininova's business model is based on its illegal activity and that its notice and taken down policy is totally insufficient due to the site making use of unauthorised files structurally and systematically.  BREIN has so far been successful in shutting down or forcing BitTorrent sites overseas, including one well known tracker Demonoid.