Los Angeles - Mininova, currently the most popular BitTorrent site with over 30 million unique monthly visitors, is soon to be the target of a lawsuit at the hands of Dutch anti-piracy organization BREIN, TorrentFreak reports.

The lawsuit will seek to compel Mininova to filter unauthorized copyrighted media from its search results, which along with such files, also contain legitimate links to content from publishers including the CBC.

For its part, Mininova maintains that it operates much like YouTube, in that it removes copyrighted media on a case-by-case basis when asked to do so by a copyright owner.

"We will proceed to court with full confidence. We operate within the law, as we maintain our ‘notice and take down' policy," Erik Dubbelboer, one of the co-founders of Mininova, told TorrentFreak.

BREIN does not believe Mininova's argument holds water.

"A notice and take down procedure is absolutely insufficient for a site that makes use of unauthorized files, structurally and systematically," Tim Kuik, managing director of BREIN, told TorrentFreak.

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