Mininova, 5 Billion Downloads and Counting
Written by Ernesto on May 26, 2008Today, one of Mininova’s users will will have the honor to download the 5 billionth torrent, an impressive figure for a site that has only been around for little over three years. If Mininova continues to grow at this rate, we might see the 10 billionth download before the year ends.
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 in November, Erik from Mininova told TorrentFreak: “We hope to reach the 4 billion mark in 4 or 5 months from now”. He didn’t have to wait that long, as it only took 78 days before they got there. The TV-show category remains the most popular, approximately half of all downloads from Mininova are torrents relating to TV-episodes.
The popularity of Mininova became apparent a few weeks ago when the site was offline for nearly a day because of hardware issues. The millions of visitors had to go elsewhere to feed their BitTorrent habit, and as a result, other sites like Torrentz.com and SumoTorrent saw a huge traffic increase, and almost went down under the strain.
The Mininova team will continue to optimize the site in order to handle the continuous traffic increase. On top of this, they are also adding new services and features such as a content distribution platform for independent publishers, a music streaming feature, and more recently, video streaming.
From the looks of it, Mininova’s growth will not be halted anytime soon, unless there is outside intervention. Last week, the Dutch anti-piracy organization BREIN announced that it will take legal action against the site, not to take it down, but to force it to filter copyrighted content. Erik from Mininova said in a response they “will proceed to court with full confidence,” and they will continue to serve torrents.
Mininova downloads since 2005.
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One of the best sites and still going strong well done.
exponential
Sorry but i want to ask you something ernesto didn’t you be tired to promote mininova.org, we don’t need one big site but several big sites. i think you need to promote new beginners than big sites. big sites are big enough. and promote more public trackers. indexers comes and indexers moves, what we need is trackers.
@3
Perhaps we need both.
Congrats mininova
Congratulations Mininova!
It all may be coming to an end very soon
I agree that all this focusing on big numbers, although looking good interest-wise, isn’t much good news.
It would be better with a more spread userbase, with several big public sites.
I know there not only Mininova, I just hope it will stay that way.
Shows how much effect the anti-piracy guys are having doesn’t it?
#3 is right.
A new one quickly grows. :D
If the others were as well layed out and and as easy on the eye as mininova they’d get more popular too. Most of them are just too ugly.
@3
You’re right, I agree with you, but there’s always gonna be a number one which will always warrent a mention.
In fact we could begin mentioning up and coming sites right here right now.
Does anybody have a personal recommendations? Preferably sites with open registration?
Lol the torrent count on their site keeps going up and down when i refresh
He isnt promoting anything.. hes reporting news.. sure they get promo out of it but does the article say MININOVA IS AWSOME USE IT!! No it doesnt, they made a milestone.
If you had rubbed your two brain cells together and thought about this I wouldnt of had to post this comment.
@13
Or in fact, why isn’t Jam using the opportunity to promote these sites in his/her post?
Actually, I’d love to see new sites mentioned on this site. Of course, stories are stories, but perhaps an occasional mention of “Something to look at” could be implemented(sp?) into TF as well.
Hooray for Mininova.
@15
Lol, this news was reported one week ago (about mininova was down and brein). First, info about a successful commercial ad: A commercial advertisement doesn’t say “awesome use this product” they will just give positive sides of a product. However this is not a commercial advertisement, but this article shows a lot of positive sides of mininova, so it recommends (activate) people to take an action, example “go to mininova and download from there”. So you can see this article as an advertisement of mininova. I hope I have brought your two brain cells together. If your two cells have been brought together you will conclude that, the new bittorrent indexers and trackers have no chance to stand in http://www. And this is a big issue, if mininova has gone what will you do, or in general what will we do???
Consequences = the small sites will be removed faster from www because they can’t hold; they have no money to stand etc. If we have a lot of mininova, we will win. And promoting one site (mininova) is a weakness.
wtf? you guys are weird theres a gillion trackers. why look for some little tiny unknown one when there are perfectly good giant sites.
tpb, mininova, demonoid, and boxtorrents. there. why bother with the rest when these are up and running. if they go down LOL for a long period of time LMAO then maybe find something else but seriously…
never used mininova, never had the need. TPB, Isohunt and demonoid fulfill my needs.
@all of you criticizing this article:
although it would be great for more trackers to grow to the success of such sites as mininova and TPB, there is certainly nothing wrong with supporting the success of the torrent giants. in fact, i would argue that we, as pirates, benefit from these giants. what better way to stick it to the RIAA than to show them that in spite of all the lawsuits and bullshit, mininova still has 5 billion downloads, and 3.5 million users per day. thats a lot of zeros.
stop the damn “my E-Penis is bigger than yours” crap mininova is popular and is the leader for torrent indexers it shows others what to do to get popular and how to do it IE be user friendly although i do agree somewhat this article is like the 100m mens races no one truly cares who’s the fastest its just nice to know what time he got so you can bring it up in some conversation to look smart in front of the girl/boy
also it would be interesting to compare such torrent sites with the likes of rapidshare and megaupload (yes not all their content is movies and such but lets face it most of it is)
After seeing the stats , all I can say is…..’WoW’ !!!
Awesome…
All the best guys…
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Waiting for 10 billion…
mininova is great sh1t, not great thing! They don’t host .torrent files, so fuck them!
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