Tuesday 28 August 2012

UKNova removes torrents from it's site

UKNova, a well known torrent indexing site has removed it's torrent indexing. This was because UKNova has been getting threats of legal action from the Federation Against Copyright Theft. The Federation wanted to remove all material belonging to UKNova members and all torrents as well.

Unlike most torrenting sites UKNova never made money out of advertisements or fees from it's members. It has asked for donations from it's members if there want to. And untill now the site never got an single complaint for nearly a decade from 2003 till 2012.



About UKNova infomation ''UKNova was originally created in 2003 to enable people to share British television programmes. Initially the site focussed on soap operas, but quickly grew to coverage a range of television and radio entertainment.

The main aim of UKNova is to enable people to see programmes they would not otherwise be able to watch, perhaps because they live abroad or have missed something they wanted to watch when it was broadcast live.

None of the shows that are available from UKNova are stored on our servers. The UKNova website does not itself ‘share’ any copyrighted material with anyone else. It simply allows people who wish to share programming to link up with one another, using the BitTorrent protocol.

It is one of the fundamental principles of UKNova that we do not wish to cause any harm to potential revenue streams for broadcasters and programme makers. For this reason, no television or radio programme that is available for purchase worldwide from retailers, on CD, DVD or video, is allowed to be shared on this website. Please do not ask for material to be uploaded here that is available to buy. Such material is not allowed.

UKNova is free to use. It is not possible to buy ratio bonuses, special privileges, or anything else like that. The site survives purely from voluntary donations and all donations go towards the costs of running the server. If you use the site and the service it provides, please try to contribute to the running costs by donating.''

So what else is there to do on the site? Well the chatroom and forums still remain but the site is no longer taking in anymore members.

No comments:

Post a Comment

WannaCrypt0r Ransomware: Plunging The World Into Chaos

W e all know of the dangers of NSA's leaked exploits could do if it was to ever fall into the wrong hands. But no one could have predict...