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Mininova Breaks 3 Billion Downloads Barrier

Mininova reached another milestone as they just passed the 3 billion .torrent download mark. The impressive number of 3 million daily users now download almost 10 million .torrent files a day.

Mininova Breaks 3 Billion Downloads BarrierMininova is by far the most visited BitTorrent site at the moment, and they are still growing. The site currently has over 3 million visitors per day which places them in the list of 100 most visited websites on the Internet.

Erik from Mininova told TorrentFreak that he expected to reach the 3 million downloads faster than this, but he’s not complaining since the current traffic numbers keep the servers busy enough. “We hope to reach the 4 billion mark in 4 or 5 months from now” he added.

Mininova continues to optimize their site and server park in order to cope with the increasing traffic. As can be seen from the graph, the 3 billion download mark was reached by the end of October, and there is no sign that the growth is slowing down any time soon. I wonder if it will ever stop.

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  • Gambra

    Just keeps on growin

  • Section8

    Second Paragraph “3 million downloads”

    Good to know torrents are growing and growing.

  • Wade

    Good to hear. I do not like the layout of Mininova. But I know it is great for getting n00bs into torrents, so it is great that it is there to spread the word, and the content. Good luck to Mininova, keep ‘em coming.

  • dmp

    make your mind up

    was it 3 billion or 3 million?

    CONSISTENCY – CAN YOU DO IT?

  • Anonymous

    both

  • limmey

    Wow…thats incredible…

  • system

    [quote comment="201282"]I know its a bit Offtopic, but OiNK is back at scam.dl.am/[/quote]

    I highly doubt it.
    The oink domains are still owned by oink, if he was going to bring it back he wouldn’t set it up under some redirector service (dl.am).

    Just another scam site.

  • Darnell

    That’s a lot of Linux distros!!!

  • ynard

    Guys, it says 3 billion TOTAL downloads and 3 million DAILY visitors who download 10 million torrents EVERY DAY.

    doh…

  • Anonymous

    [quote comment="201269"]make your mind up

    was it 3 billion or 3 million?

    CONSISTENCY – CAN YOU DO IT?[/quote]

    COMPREHENSION – CAN YOU DO IT?

  • mp3japan

    duh… 3 million per day, 3 billion all time

  • MP

    Mininova for president.

  • cheeseeater

    [quote comment="201255"]Good to hear. I do not like the layout of Mininova. But I know it is great for getting n00bs into torrents, so it is great that it is there to spread the word, and the content. Good luck to Mininova, keep ‘em coming.[/quote]

    For those who don’t have any invites to private trackers (which would be most people, n00bs included), Mininova is the best place to find torrents, although TPB is definately a close second. Other public sites have far fewer torrents, IMHO.

    I’ve been involved in downloading via torrents for 4 years or so and have yet to get an invite from anyone. Then again, I don’t upload torrents as I have no time. Downloading is simple, easy and not very time consuming. Creating DVD’s from the torrents is another story….

  • over 9,000!!

    Congrats Mininova! This site has been the standard over the past year. As far as the look, they continue to keep the look consistent but do make changes when necessary, just not a complete overhaul. The ads are also not intrusive at all.
    They also are on top of deleting fake torrents quickly making users feel comfortable. The ever better part, they are an indexing site and do not host any trackers. That means they will be around for a long time. Sweet.

  • mcrex77

    Darnell

    You would think with all those linux distros downloaded from mininova MS would be in trouble :p

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  • hoodlum

    [quote comment="201370"]
    I’ve been involved in downloading via torrents for 4 years or so and have yet to get an invite from anyone. Then again, I don’t upload torrents as I have no time. Downloading is simple, easy and not very time consuming. Creating DVD’s from the torrents is another story….[/quote]

    even losers can get invites at http://www.inviteshare.com

  • Mr. X

    very impressive.

  • LSD

    Is mininova still here?

    Oh right, i forgot people that arent on good sites go here :P

  • Kos

    I personally don’t like Mininova. Lot’s of torrents with trackers that require registration.

    But it’s a good place to look if I don’t find it on ThePirateBay.

  • mnml

    they are the best torrent index imo, but they should add some server on their bay.

  • Lovly

    Mininova rocks! I hope they become No.1..

    Msg 2 Mininova: Dont sell it on to Google or Microsoft

  • Me

    Why does it say “Milion” on the graph?

  • because

    a 1000 million is a billion.

    3000 million is 3 billion

  • ^ moron

    because 3000 million = 3 billion

    *sigh*

  • Reply to Me

    It says milion on the graph coz 1000 milion is 1 bilion

  • Free Pirate Alliance

    Keep up the fight Mininova, you’ve done us good for some time now.

  • @ because and moron

    i think he was making reference to the fact that the graph misspelled million you jackass

  • I think the real question is,

    Why do each of the visitors need to download the mini-nova 3 times. (average)

    This also suggests, that most users are downloading mini-nova many more times than they actually need…

    judging by the download numbers, and the total amount of internet users, and systems capable of actually running the program coupled with the fact, that Mini-nova, at 4 billion downloads, will have pushed out 1 download 4 times for every single user on the internet.

    Sorry, but that stinks severely of inflated numbers and possibly fraud.

  • It’s not a client, its a torrent tracker..

    Your arguement would make since if Mini-Nova was a client app, but since it’s a torrent tracker, you sound stupid for not bothering to look at the site.

  • 3 billion?

    bite me!

  • master

    [quote comment="202032"]Why do each of the visitors need to download the mini-nova 3 times. (average)

    This also suggests, that most users are downloading mini-nova many more times than they actually need…

    judging by the download numbers, and the total amount of internet users, and systems capable of actually running the program coupled with the fact, that Mini-nova, at 4 billion downloads, will have pushed out 1 download 4 times for every single user on the internet.

    Sorry, but that stinks severely of inflated numbers and possibly fraud.[/quote]

    Each visitor is not downloading 3 times, but it can also be 3 different files.
    so mr.I think the real question, first get your question right and then think.

  • nb

    Is this number actual LOCAL downloads, or are they using the completed download statistics from the trackers?

    mininova’s stats say:
    Total torrent downloads: 3,016,437,181

    But if it is calculated the same as:
    Total seeds: 6,474,197
    Total leechers: 2,154,493,911

    By just using the SUM(seeders), SUM(leechers), SUM(downloads)

    If they are doing it that way, then there are sites that beat this long ago.

    For example, TorrentPortal.com has 4,637,938,299 downloads complete (not just .torrents downloaded). Which is 1.6 billion downloads more if that is how they are tracking it. This data is from the TRACKERS, not mininova.

  • Niek

    @nb: no, the number mentioned is the amount of .torrent downloads (as this article also states, BTW). More info @ http://blog.mininova.org/articles/2007/11/01/more-than-3-billion-downloads/

  • $

    [quote]Your arguement would make since if Mini-Nova was a client app, but since it’s a torrent tracker, you sound stupid for not bothering to look at the site.[/quote]

    Mininova isn’t a tracker, it’s an index site.

  • lol

    yeah thats right. :P

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  • xmido

    i like mininova for few reasons. 1)fake torrents r removed quickly. 2)i am subscribed to aXXo user account newsfeed in the site. 3)torrents r very well categorized.(never saw torrent in wrong category)
    4)lots of comments by users.

  • badbazza

    well done congrats

  • SUMO

    SUMOTorrent.com reached today 25 million torrents download mark!

    Nothing compared to Mininova of course, but we also increased our traffic by 100x in 6 months, and we will keep growing!!!

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  • dinker

    3 billion stolen files, that’s what it is what if you get caught

  • fatpants

    mininova rocks.
    but where the hell is axxo???

  • Anonymous

    I really enjoy torrents from mininova, I really do, and I think they are great!
    Mininova is #1, just be careful, you’re the biggest target out there.
    There are interests that want this stopped and the more popular this gets the more they may feel they are loosing. And rules will be bent, broken or made to ruin all our fun.
    Good luck and keep up the good work.

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    i luv mininova..huhu

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