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| Feb 27, 2017 | Legendary Torrent Website Mininova Shutting Down For Good | James Geddes, Tech Times 27 February 2017, 08:02 am
Once giant torrent website Mininova is set to shut down for good. The site's forums are set to close imminently while according to an announcement on the file-sharing website, Mininov... |
| Feb 26, 2017 | Torrent Legend Mininova Will Shut Down For Good | In December 2004, the demise of the mighty Suprnova left a meteor crater in the fledgling BitTorrent landscape.
This gaping hole was soon filled by the dozens of new sites that emerged to fulfill the public’s increasing demands for torrents... |
| Dec 10, 2010 | Mininova Pays Settlement to BREIN to End BitTorrent Lawsuit | After operating for almost five full years, the BitTorrent giant Mininova deleted over a million torrent files from its site during November last year.
Mininova was left with little choice, having been forced into these drastic measures by ... |
| Aug 22, 2010 | The Most Popular Torrent Sites Of The Last Five Years | Despite many legal battles and pressure from anti-piracy outfits, the lists of the most visited torrent sites through the years show very little change. In fact, in half a decade only five torrent sites have taken a spot in the top three, a... |
| Feb 27, 2010 | Top 10 Torrent Sites Soon Without Mininova | Looking for the best torrent sites of 2011?
Compared to a year ago the BitTorrent landscape has changed significantly. The Pirate Bay decided to shut down its tracker last fall and a few weeks later Mininova partly shut down its website. Ho... |
| Feb 1, 2010 | Techno Diva Loves BitTorrent, Hates Spotify | Billie Ray Martin chalked up a few hits in the past two decades, including collaborations with late 80’s dance group S’Express.
Billy Ray has been remixed by some big names including Junior Vasquez, David Morales, BT, Roger Sanchez and Todd... |
| Jan 5, 2010 | Record Label Stops Signing Artists Because of Piracy | Let’s be clear from the start. People who share music on the Internet actually buy more than those who don’t. The music library of the average music fan may have expanded a bit in the last decade thanks to file-sharing, but in the same time... |
| Dec 13, 2009 | Top 25 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2009 | Update: The 2021 list of top torrent sites is published here.
2009 has been an eventful year for several well-established torrent sites, with The Pirate Bay, isoHunt and Mininova all battling in court against the entertainment industries. F... |
| Dec 1, 2009 | TorrentFreak TV, A Double Episode | TorrentFreak TV covers some of the best, most interesting or remarkable stories from the wonderful world of file-sharing. An HD version of these episodes is available on Mininova.
As always, we’re looking forward to your commentary. For que... |
| Nov 30, 2009 | Mininova buries pirate booty in its index, aims to go legit | reader comments 38 with 32 posters participating
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| Nov 26, 2009 | Mininova Deletes All Infringing Torrents and Goes ‘Legal’ | Mininova’s decision to delete all infringing torrents from its index marks the end of an era that started five years ago.
In December 2004, the demise of the mighty Suprnova left a meteor crater in the fledgling BitTorrent landscape. This g... |
| Nov 26, 2009 | Torrent giant Mininova takes down all copyright infringing content | Article content
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| Nov 19, 2009 | Mininova Breaks 10 Billion Torrent Downloads | Mininova, founded in January 2005, grew out to become one of the most successful torrent sites with millions of daily users.
The site has grown steadily over the years and continues to do so, despite a setback in court this summer. In fact,... |
| Oct 20, 2009 | TorrentFreak TV S02E02 | TorrentFreak TV covers some of the best, most interesting or remarkable stories from the wonderful world of file-sharing. An HD version of this episode is available on Mininova.
As always, we’re looking forward to your commentary. For quest... |
| Oct 13, 2009 | P2P Site Coalition to Help Indie Filmmakers | BitTorrent and file-sharing in general are often looked down upon, or even hated by Hollywood execs. On the other hand, most independent musicians and filmmakers see these new technologies as the ideal tool to publish their work at no cost,... |
| Oct 12, 2009 | Anti-Pirates Scare Kids with Propagandistic Comic Book | In an attempt to convince the local government that pirates don’t belong on the Internet, the Motion Picture Association (MPA) sent chief policy officer Greg Frazier over from Washington. Frazier was not alone though, as he also brought in ... |
| Oct 6, 2009 | TorrentFreak TV Season 2 Kicks Off | TorrentFreak TV covers some of the best, most interesting or remarkable stories from the wonderful world of file-sharing. An HD version of this episode is available on Mininova.
As always, we’re looking forward to your commentary. For quest... |
| Sep 26, 2009 | A Brilliant Open Letter Song On Piracy To Lily Allen | Say what you like about Lily Allen. Agree with her. Disagree with her if you like. Whatever the position, it’s difficult to take it away from her – she has done more in the last week to raise the online debate over illicit file-sharing than... |
| Aug 26, 2009 | Mininova Ordered to Remove All ‘Infringing’ Torrents | Mininova were sued this spring by BREIN, an outfit which protects the rights of several large entertainment industry corporations.
Today, the judge ruled that the world’s largest BitTorrent indexer has been ordered to clean up its site and ... |
| Aug 26, 2009 | Mininova is next to get takedown orders from Netherlands court | The world's largest torrent indexing site Mininova is the next site to fall to anti-piracy group Stichting BREIN, Dutch news services are reporting today.
A civil court order handed down today has given Mininova three months to remove ... |
| Aug 22, 2009 | 25 Great Pirate Bay Alternatives | Replacing The Pirate Bay is easier said then done. The tracker is currently responsible for approximately half of all public torrent transfers, which represents a significant percentage of global Internet traffic.
However, history has shown... |
| Aug 17, 2009 | Radiohead Leak Their New Track To BitTorrent | Radiohead are no strangers to BitTorrent after the well-documented pay-what-you-like “In Rainbows” album unofficially racked up many thousands of downloads using the protocol.
Late last week the band’s BitTorrent link was revitalized after ... |
| Aug 7, 2009 | Axxo Returns to Mininova, Or Does He? | This March, aXXo – BitTorrent’s most praised uploader – went silent. In the months that followed many people wondered what had happened to him, while some even decided to exploit the situation by posing as aXXo on various sites.
However, to... |
| Jul 3, 2009 | Playing Whack-A-Mole With Data: The Pirate Bay Lives On | Like everyone else I’ve been reading, talking to friends and thinking about this for the last couple of days. What I’m about to say is the result of that — my own opinion and nothing more.
Let’s start with a great fact: that, as Rasmus Flei... |
| Jul 2, 2009 | Mininova Demands Rectification from Dutch Parliament | In common with most other European countries The Netherlands is trying to find a solution to the ever increasing use of file-sharing sites to share copyrighted material. Presently, downloading movies and music for personal use in The Nether... |
| Jun 30, 2009 | Digg and Mininova Team Up to Seed Bruno | With a theater release scheduled for less than two weeks time, Bruno is doing several interviews promoting his upcoming mockumentary. One of the most anticipated Q and A sessions is the Dialogg with the Digg.com community that was released ... |
| Jun 29, 2009 | Is Piracy Also Increasing The Quality Of New Movies? | We recently wrote about how the singer of the popular band the Fleet Foxes felt that unauthorized file sharing has improved the quality of new music, because it allows musicians to experience much more music, and that helps create more and ... |
| Jun 27, 2009 | Get you some Mojo (SDK for WebOS) | Get some sweet, sweet Palm Mojo early. It’s basically the SDK for WebOS and it just showed up on the interwebs. Most interesting, however, is the lengths folks will go not to anger the Palm Gods:
Currently, no word on whether or not Palm is... |
| Jun 26, 2009 | Michael Jackson’s Death Causes Surge On BitTorrent | Michael Jackson suffered a cardiac arrest on Thursday afternoon, which was likely caused by a Demerol overdose and ultimately led to his death.
There is no doubt that Jackson had a tremendous impact on several generations of musicians, and ... |
| Jun 11, 2009 | Scanner Darkly Producer Puts Latest Movie on BitTorrent | Tommy Pallotta is an American film director and producer from Texas, currently living in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Being this far away from his home country is one of the reasons why he became a BitTorrent enthusiast, no further explanati... |
| Jun 6, 2009 | Mininova Must Block The Pirate Bay and aXXo, BREIN Demands | This Tuesday the world’s largest BitTorrent indexer appeared in court. Mininova, operated by five Dutchmen who turned their hobby project into a successful business, were sued by Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN which protects the rights of s... |
| Jun 2, 2009 | Mininova and BREIN Clash in Court | Mininova, based in The Netherlands and founded by five Dutch students, was up against local anti-piracy outfit BREIN in court today. BREIN’s lawyer tried to convince the court that Mininova has to remove from their site any torrents linking... |
| May 31, 2009 | Nielsen Hugely Underestimates BitTorrent Traffic | Nielsen, one of the largest market research companies worldwide is probably best known for their TV-show ratings in the US. However, they’re also looking into less old fashioned media outlets such as BitTorrent. Most recently, they say they... |
| May 20, 2009 | TorrentFreak TV Episode 11 | TorrentFreak TV covers some of the best, most interesting or remarkable stories from the wonderful world of BitTorrent. An HD version of this episode is available on Mininova.
As always, we’re looking forward to your commentary. For questio... |
| May 18, 2009 | Mininova Court Trial Postponed Until June | Mininova, based in The Netherlands, is up against local anti-piracy outfit BREIN, which has a reputation for forcing torrent sites offline. Through legal action, BREIN now hopes to convince the court that Mininova has to filter its search r... |
| May 11, 2009 | Popular Torrents Start to Disappear From Mininova | A few days ago the owners of BitTorrent’s largest torrent indexer announced that they would start experimenting with a new content removal tool that enables copyright holders to easily remove and ban torrents from the site. The system seems... |
| May 6, 2009 | Mininova Filters Copyright Infringing Torrents | Starting today, Mininova will use a content recognition system that detects and removes torrent files linking to copyright infringing files. The system will also prevent the torrents from being re-uploaded to mininova later on.
Mininova co-... |
| May 4, 2009 | TorrentFreak TV Episode 10 | TorrentFreak TV covers some of the best, most interesting or remarkable stories from the wonderful world of BitTorrent. An HD version of this episode is available on Mininova.
As always, we’re looking forward to your commentary. For questio... |
| Apr 20, 2009 | Comedian Louis CK Gets BitTorrent Content Removed By Asking Nicely | A reader, who prefers to go by the name Angry Young Man, points us to an interesting set of comments on a torrent of a recent stand up comedy performance by the comedian Louis CK, where it appears the comedian himself showed up on Mininova ... |
| Apr 17, 2009 | As Court Prepares Shackles For The Pirate Bay, Other Torrent Sites Are Ready To Replace It | Despite some early fumbling by the prosecution, a judge in Sweden handed down a guilty verdict today in the case against The Pirate Bay, the popular BitTorrent search site. The four founders, who still seem to think this is a big joke, each... |
| Apr 11, 2009 | Mininova Adds Another Billion Torrent Downloads | Founded in January 2005, Mininova quickly became one of the most successful torrent sites. With millions of daily users the site is now listed among the top 100 most frequently visited websites on the entire Internet, and its traffic still ... |
| Apr 7, 2009 | TorrentFreak TV Episode 8 | TorrentFreak TV covers some of the best, most interesting or remarkable stories from the wonderful world of BitTorrent. A torrent for this episode is available on Mininova.
As always, we’re looking forward to your commentary.
For questions ... |
| Apr 1, 2009 | Unreleased Michael Jackson Songs Hit BitTorrent | Back in 2007, TorrentFreak reported on ‘The Biggest BitTorrent Leak‘, as anti-piracy company Media Defender was hacked and their internal emails went public. Since then, just about every movie, album and game has leaked to BitTorrent before... |
| Mar 31, 2009 | O aXXo, Where Art Thou? | The most recent torrent uploaded by aXXo dates back to March 11. In the days that followed, millions have been waiting anxiously for fresh content, performing their daily aXXo search on their favorite torrent sites in vain.
The aXXo brand h... |
| Mar 30, 2009 | Mininova Helps Artists to Monetize Torrents | Mininova’s content distribution platform has been around since 2007. All files published on the content distribution platform are both tracked and seeded by Mininova. This ensures high download speeds while the publishers don’t have to worr... |
| Mar 26, 2009 | TorrentBoy, Free Kids Book on the TorrentSphere | On first sight, Wesley – the main character in the book – is not really different from the other kids in school. However, this quickly changes when the sewage treatment plant is in danger. In order to protect mankind Wesley transforms into ... |
| Mar 24, 2009 | TorrentFreak TV Episode 7 | TorrentFreak TV covers some of the best, most interesting or remarkable stories from the wonderful world of BitTorrent. A torrent for this episode is available on Mininova.
As always, we’re looking forward to your commentary.
For questions ... |
| Mar 21, 2009 | Psycho-Thriller ‘Blank’ Premieres For Free on BitTorrent | Times are certainly changing and slowly but surely people are beginning to realize that rather than trying to fight piracy and destroy file-sharing networks, the best approach is to embrace your one-time rivals and try and create something ... |
| Mar 16, 2009 | Mininova Trial Due in Two Months | The top three BitTorrent sites are all involved in at least one court case. The Pirate Bay trial has just ended and isoHunt is involved in a case against the MPAA, and one against CRIA – the Canadian equivalent of the RIAA.
Mininova, based ... |
| Mar 16, 2009 | Behind the Scenes at Mininova | Most visitors to Mininova will be completely unaware that this is not your regular torrent site. Unlike many private torrent sites – operating on the fringes of legality and trying to keep a fairly low profile (whilst gathering donations in... |
| Mar 13, 2009 | Fake aXXo Torrents Bombard BitTorrent | Uploading fake files to file-sharing networks is nothing new. Older networks such as KaZaA’s FastTrack and LimeWire’s Gnutella have long been a haven for junk and malicious files but as more and more people migrated to BitTorrent, it natura... |
| Mar 12, 2009 | Torrent search engine Mininova earning | reader comments 26 with 20 posters participating, including story author
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| Mar 8, 2009 | TorrentFreak TV Episode 6 | TorrentFreak TV covers some of the best, most interesting or remarkable stories from the wonderful world of BitTorrent. A torrent for this episode is available on Mininova.
We welcome Stacia as our new host.
For questions, comments or sugge... |
| Mar 7, 2009 | Mininova Hit By Massive DDoS Attack | DDoS attacks are not an unusual event for BitTorrent sites, with smaller sites suffering the effects more often than they’d like. However, to take out one of the big players requires some serious power, and that is exactly what Mininova is ... |
| Feb 19, 2009 | Mininova Upgrades Layout, Servers and Office | One of the most significant changes for the Mininova staff is the new office, located in the city center of Utrecht. The new office has more space than the temporary one they moved into last year. Aside from the five current employees there... |
| Feb 17, 2009 | Download Steal This Film – Spectrial Edition | The first two parts of the Steal This Film documentaries have been a great success. Both releases were downloaded an estimated 5 millions times each, and both films remain well seeded on BitTorrent up until today.
Later this year, the Leagu... |
| Feb 11, 2009 | Get Your TV-Torrent Fix with Miro | Formerly known as the Democracy player, Miro is an Internet TV player that allows you to automatically download and watch the latest TV shows, video podcasts and more. The application comes with thousands of predefined channels and the late... |
| Feb 10, 2009 | aXXo Issues Anti-Piracy Warning | The relatively silent aXXo has appeared during the last few days. Speaking with the users of Mininova, he outlined some advice to help mitigate the effects of what he believes to be a potential security risk. The problem could cause downloa... |
| Feb 9, 2009 | Mininova – One Million Torrents Strong | To keep up with the exponential growth in its early days, Mininova was kindly hosted by Anakata of The Pirate Bay, and later by Gary Fung of isoHunt. Demand was high, so it didn’t take long before the site had to invest in their own servers... |
| Jan 15, 2009 | Happy Birthday Mininova, 4 Years Young Today | After the unfortunate demise of the mighty Suprnova in December 2004, a large gap appeared in the BitTorrent community. Five Dutchmen – Erik, Jos, Matthijs, Niek and Rob – were inspired by the successes of Suprnova, and on January 15 2005, ... |
| Jan 8, 2009 | BitTorrent as Marketing Tool, Nominated for an Interactive Award | Silence is Sexy is not the first band to have used BitTorrent to share music for free, thousands did so before them. However, they were smart enough to submit the concept to the Interactive Award jury and now find themselves nominated as on... |
| Jan 5, 2009 | Mininova’s Torrent Downloads Double to 7 Billion in a Year | Mininova, founded in January 2005, soon became one of the most successful torrent sites. The site has grown steadily over recent months, and for a few weeks now the millions of daily users have been downloading well over 10 million torrents... |
| Dec 28, 2008 | Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2008 | Tip: Want to download Torrents anonymously? Try TorrentPrivacy, the only way to download torrents securely.
The list is based on traffic rank reports from Compete and Alexa, backed up by visitor reports from some of the site admins.
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| Dec 18, 2008 | TorrentFreak TV Episode 5 | ‘TorrentFreak TV’ is a biweekly recap of some of the best, most interesting or remarkable stories from the wonderful world of BitTorrent. A torrent for this episode is available on Mininova.
For questions, comments or suggestions, feel free... |
| Dec 4, 2008 | How Canada Fought Bad Copyright Law: Showing Why Copyright Law Matters | You may recall, just about a year ago, there was suddenly a bunch of news over the possibility of Canada introducing its own version of the US’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). To the surprise of both the entertainment industry (wh... |
| Nov 30, 2008 | Top 10 BitTorrent and RSS Tips | In this article we will cover some of the most useful RSS tips and tricks for BitTorrent users. 1. Download via RSS
Let’s start of with the most important part – downloading .torrent files from an RSS feed. There are a couple of BitTorrent ... |
| Nov 19, 2008 | Mininova Trials Video Torrent Ads | The new advertising technology, Hyper MP, inserts small clickable ads into the corner of the screen. Aside from the ads, there are no limitations to the video content. Hyper MP is currently being tested on an amateur feature length comedy t... |
| Nov 17, 2008 | Mininova Down, to Return Stronger Than Ever Before | Similar to The Pirate Bay, Mininova is experiencing a traffic surge. Since August, the number of visitors has grown by approximately 35%, to almost 5 million every day. It come as no surprise that such an increase is stretching the limits o... |
| Nov 8, 2008 | China Hijacks Popular BitTorrent Sites | Just a week ago, reports came in that China had started to ban 10 video hosting sites, allegedly because of “regulations violations”. Other sites, including China’s largest eDonkey indexing site, VeryCD, received warnings. A few days later,... |
| Nov 5, 2008 | TorrentFreak TV Episode 2 | ‘TorrentFreak TV’ is a biweekly recap of some of the best, most interesting or remarkable stories from the wonderful world of BitTorrent.
The episode can be downloaded from Mininova as well. For tips, comments or suggestions, feel free to c... |
| Nov 1, 2008 | The Pirate Bay Tops 20 Million Peers | By November 2007, The Pirate Bay was tracking around 6 million peers, up from ‘just’ 3 million the year before. The growth has been amazing, and it doesn’t seem that it is going to slow down anytime soon.
One of the reasons it was possible ... |
| Oct 17, 2008 | Sweet, BitTorrent Users – Pirate My Book Please! | Sweet…Pirate My Book Please
Guest post: Dan Morrill, Program Director at City University of Seattle
BitTorrent needs to do things to survive the lawsuit roiled atmosphere that is happening world wide. There is no argument; there is a lot of... |
| Oct 13, 2008 | Artists See a Future With BitTorrent | Giving away music for free might not sound like a very solid business model to most people, but it is. Most artists make most money from concerts and merchandise, not so much album sales. Even more so, the key to success are the fans, and w... |
| Oct 12, 2008 | TorrentFreak TV Launches | The plan is to release a new episode every other week. The episodes will be posted here on TorrentFreak, and in the near future on TorrentFreak.tv, with an iTunes compatible RSS feed.
We’re all very excited about this new project, and we ho... |
| Oct 10, 2008 | Portal: Prelude released; now you know what you're doing this weekend | The fan-made (but reportedly very professional) prequel to Portal I mentioned last month has been released! Thought you guys might want it, Portal fans as you are. Download it here, it’s about 775MB(!). Torrent here (meg a second, woo-hoo).... |
| Sep 23, 2008 | Mininova Breaks Download Records | The BitTorrent popularity explosion is still underway, and it’s picking up speed with the start of the new TV-season. Several BitTorrent sites are now amongst the most visited sites anywhere on the web, and Mininova is believed to be the la... |
| Sep 7, 2008 | Anti-Piracy Scam Emails Target BitTorrent Users | Over the years BitTorrent has attracted some shady figures. We’ve reported on malware ridden BitTorrent clients and media players, a BitTorrent site that infects its users with spyware, and several other scams.
Although most scams can be av... |
| Sep 1, 2008 | BitTorrent Searches Skyrocket as Sites Grow | The Pirate Bay, Mininova and isoHunt combined achieve over a billion pageviews a month. These are quite remarkable statistics when you consider that together, the trio run on less than 100 servers (cf. Facebook has 10,000).
Despite all thre... |
| Jul 8, 2008 | Download Torrents Remotely with Mininova Bookmarks | Importing torrents via RSS can be very useful if you’re at work, school, or at a friends place. With this new feature from mininova you only have to bookmark the torrent, and it will start downloading automatically when your BitTorrent clie... |
| Jul 5, 2008 | Top Torrent Sites Ranked by Google | It is hard to make a definite list of the most popular BitTorrent sites. Over the years we’ve made quite a few lists, and reported some of the latest trends. Most lists we published were based on Alexa‘s ranking, mainly because it was prett... |
| Jun 29, 2008 | Coming Soon: Pirate TV Show | Matt recently told us that he has been working on turning the book into a TV show with Jesse Alexander, the Executive Producer of the popular TV-shows Heroes and Lost. “It all happened a few months back when I was in LA talking to Disney, M... |
| Jun 21, 2008 | IsoHunt adds 10.000 Free and Legal Albums | When BitTorrent sites have come under attack by media groups and their battalions of lawyers, it’s usual for them to pull up the drawbridge and keep the site going as is, and try to get the case over with as soon as possible. The other opti... |
| Jun 11, 2008 | BitTorrent Trio Hit a Billion Pageviews a Month | Most recently, isoHunt managed to get a spot among the 100 120 most visited domains on the Internet, according to Alexa’s new and improved statistics.
Isohunt – the third largest BitTorrent site with 350.000.000 pageviews a month – is one o... |
| May 26, 2008 | Mininova, 5 Billion Downloads and Counting | Mininova is currently the most visited BitTorrent site, and with approximately 3.5 million visitors a day, the site has gathered a spot among the 50 most popular websites on the Internet.
When we reported about the 3 billionth download back... |
| May 19, 2008 | Mininova Faces Legal Action: Filter or Else | BREIN, the Dutch anti-piracy outfit responsible for shuttering or forcing torrent sites such as Demonoid overseas, has announced that it will take BitTorrent-behemoth Mininova to court. BREIN hopes the court will force Mininova to filter it... |
| May 4, 2008 | Mininova Heads Towards 5 Billion Downloads | The Pirate Bay may get all the headlines, but BitTorrent directory Mininova continues to grow. Stats from the site above (some are public, some via a non-published link) show the site is quickly racing towards 5 billion downloads after havi... |
| Apr 30, 2008 | Mininova’s Traffic Doubles in a Year | To say that Mininova has grown quite a bit since it has started three years ago, is probably something of an understatement.
November last year saw Mininova breaking into Alexa’s list of the 50 most visited websites on the Internet, which i... |
| Apr 28, 2008 | Book Authors See BitTorrent As a Promotional Tool | More and more authors seem to recognize the power of BitTorrent as a means to generate more sales, and actually upload free copies onto BitTorrent themselves.
Best selling author Paulo Coelho posted several of his books on BitTorrent, which... |
| Mar 31, 2008 | LegalTorrents Reopens as Community Driven Portal | LegalTorrents originally started in 2003. The website was founded by Simon Carless, and it listed a small collection of hand-picked .torrent files that were approved by content owners. Until today, Carless was the only person responsible fo... |
| Mar 26, 2008 | Mininova Helps CBC to Distribute TV-Show | Last week we reported that CBC, Canada’s public television broadcaster, was about to release CNGPM on BitTorrent. Because of server issues, CBC has now turned to mininova, who now seed the torrent files for the show.
Tessa Sproule, head of ... |
| Mar 22, 2008 | BitTorrent Sites Show Explosive Growth | We decided to compile a list of the 25 most popular BitTorrent sites, and see how their (relative) popularity has grown over the past three months. Out of the 25 sites in the list, 21 improved their ranking in Alexa’s list of most popular s... |
| Mar 20, 2008 | Torrent site Mininova to test video streaming | The popular BitTorrent tracking site Mininova is working with a Dutch university development team in the development of an online video streaming service that may later be integrated into the site.
The service will begin with closed beta te... |
| Mar 19, 2008 | Mininova to Launch BitTorrent Video Streaming | The new feature will be integrated into the featured torrents section, which lists all the distributors taking part in Mininova’s content distribution platform.
The Open Source “swarmplayer” which is used for the video streaming service is ... |
| Mar 8, 2008 | Stage6: The Beginning of the End for Streaming Video | It cost at least $1m a month to run Stage6 with its 17.4 million unique users a month, whereas (at an informed guess) The Pirate Bay costs about $50,000 a month all-in for its 92.5 million. That’s $57,000 per million users for Stage6; $540 ... |
| Mar 1, 2008 | BitTorrent Rip Off Sites, and How to Avoid Them | Spamming BitTorrent sites with fake movies is nothing new. We’ve reported before how people download movies only to find out that they require a special media player to play it, or others, which are bundled with malware to infect their PC w... |
| Feb 25, 2008 | Oscar Winners 2008 Popular on BitTorrent | Winning an Oscar is probably the best thing that can happen to a movie. DVD sales sky-rocket, and even more importantly, the number of people downloading the movie through BitTorrent increases dramatically.
Mininova’s search cloud is a nice... |
| Feb 25, 2008 | Consumers need to lock the door on internet crime by securing their wireless networks | Core Facts
According to the Guardian, the government says it intends to launch a consultation on legislation for ISPs and rights holders to "cooperate in taking action on illegal file sharing... with a view to implementing legislation ... |
| Feb 23, 2008 | Mininova: Serving Billions of Torrents and Buying Bugattis | The Mininova team has always been on top of the latest p2p developments. They recently launched a content distribution platform for independent publishers, a music streaming feature, and in the meanwhile they served billions of torrents. In... |
| Feb 9, 2008 | Mininova Launches Music Torrent Streaming | With the new music streaming feature users can listen to individual music tracks, streamed from .torrent files. It is integrated in the featured torrents section, which lists all the distributors that take part in Mininova’s content distrib... |