Mininova Adds Another Billion Torrent Downloads

Written by Ernesto on April 11, 2009 

Mininova, one of the world’s most visited BitTorrent sites, broke another download record today. Just a few hours ago the download counter displayed a staggering 8,000,000,000 downloads. That’s enough for everyone on planet earth to have one – and then some.

mininovaFounded 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 continues to grow.

When combined, Mininova’s visitors have been downloading well over 10 million torrents a day and performing an equal number of searches on the site. These millions of downloads add up quickly and since the birth of the site a massive 8 billion torrents have been downloaded by Mininova users.

Mininova’s growth rate is not reducing either, and the site still has several relatively untapped and upcoming markets to look forward to. India for example, where torrents are quickly gaining popularity. Over the past year the number of visitors to Mininova from India has doubled, and with 1.1 billion people and only a couple million broadband subscribers to date, there is a huge amount of untapped potential.

In common with fellow torrent sites such as The Pirate Bay and isoHunt, Mininova hasn’t been spared from legal troubles. The site will appear in court this May, where the local anti-piracy outfit BREIN will demand a filtering mechanism to restrict access to copyright infringing ‘links’.

The Mininova trial is likely to set an important precedent for all other BitTorrent indexers hosted in The Netherlands. Erik and the other Mininova founders think they have the law on their side. “We have confidence in the outcome of the case and we don’t think Mininova will cease to exist,” he told TorrentFreak earlier.

In the meantime, Mininova continues business as usual in their new office. Lately they have been emphasizing the legal use of BitTorrent currently employed by hundreds of independent filmmakers and musicians. In March the site released a new feature that aims to help artists to not only distribute, but also monetize their work.

Whatever the outcome of the trial will be, Mininova will undoubtedly see the 10 billionth torrent download later this year.

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49 Responses

1 Apr 11, 2009 at 23:53 by Rand0m

Impressive

2 Apr 12, 2009 at 00:10 by liquidmonkey

wow! keep going mininova, keep going!!!

3 Apr 12, 2009 at 00:11 by JustMe

i knew p2p was huge, but this is incredible! :) Do I get a prize for 10 Billionth user? lol

4 Apr 12, 2009 at 00:16 by Andrew

@JustMe,

A prize? You’re allready getting everything for free ;)

5 Apr 12, 2009 at 00:26 by strongbad

congrats :D

6 Apr 12, 2009 at 00:29 by DeMon

rock on!

gotta love Mininova man. simply the best layout and quite a vast amount and variety of different torrents!

keep it up!

7 Apr 12, 2009 at 00:30 by mou

the spice must flow

8 Apr 12, 2009 at 00:41 by Hacker/pirates of the world UNITE

NO not free
he has to buy computer equipment , which the movie houses all have a hand in, he has to learn how to use software , and also has to BUY internet that is all in one way or another OWNED by hollywood these days.

nothing is free
and bittorrent
YOUR PAYING FOR DISTRIBUTION

9 Apr 12, 2009 at 02:06 by /now if only..

The hardware & the bandwidth cost money but you cant buy the knowledge that people share between each other, its all about good karma & bettering ourselves.

keep up the good work mininova

2010 FTW

10 Apr 12, 2009 at 03:00 by Torrentia

Simply awesome/n it really rules

11 Apr 12, 2009 at 03:39 by Ghostofchris

Go Mininova!!!

12 Apr 12, 2009 at 03:47 by dissenter

Reasoned Ass would be spewing, hahahaha!

13 Apr 12, 2009 at 03:49 by couchy

good stuff MININOVA love your work and to everyone that helps make mininova what it is THANKS….

14 Apr 12, 2009 at 03:52 by more crap

It would be ok if mininova was actually a tracker and didn’t just index everything from everyone else, who actually run the torrent sites.

15 Apr 12, 2009 at 04:04 by JustMe

@andrew

I know, just being funny. everyone feels entitled to have everything for free because they can. lol.

@#8

learning how to use the software? you are kidding right? I used to use IRC,(pre-napster days kids) this is more user friendly for the noobs by a factor of 10. ;)

@#9

You seem to get it. We should all be in it for the “free as in gratis not free as in beer:.

Thanks again Mininova

16 Apr 12, 2009 at 04:25 by anonymous

Some other breaking news titles from torrentfreak:
Mininova Hits 400 Million Downloads http://torrentfreak.com/mininova-hits-400-million-downloads/
Mininova Reaches 1 Billion Downloads http://torrentfreak.com/mininova-reaches-1-billion-downloads/
Mininova Breaks 2 Billion Downloads Barrier http://torrentfreak.com/mininova-breaks-2-billion-downloads-barrier/
Mininova Breaks 3 Billion Downloads Barrier http://torrentfreak.com/mininova-3-million-downloads-071101/
Mininova Adds Another Billion Torrent Downloads http://torrentfreak.com/mininova-adds-another-billion-torrent-downloads-090411
Mininova, 5 Billion Downloads and Counting http://torrentfreak.com/mininova-5-billion-downloads-and-counting-080526/
Mininova’s Torrent Downloads Double to 7 Billion in a Year … http://torrentfreak.com/mininovas-torrent-downloads-doubled-in-a-year-090105/

And if you’re sick of download counting news you can start being informed of other great counts:

Mininova – One Million Torrents Strong http://torrentfreak.com/mininova-one-million-torrents-strong-090209/
Mininova Hits The Million Torrent Uploads Mark http://torrentfreak.com/mininova-hits-million-torrent-uploads-mark-071118/
Mininova’s Traffic Doubles in a Year http://torrentfreak.com/mininovas-traffic-doubles-in-a-year-080430/
‘Mininova’ the 9th Most Googled Word in 2006 http://torrentfreak.com/mininova-the-9th-most-googled-word-in-2006/

17 Apr 12, 2009 at 05:33 by UltraLeetJ

“That’s enough for everyone on planet earth to have one – and then some.” Clarify? One what, then some what?… lol seems like fractions are not applied here.

18 Apr 12, 2009 at 06:44 by Mr.Afghanistan

Someone please Close Mininova :P
Brein where are you :P ?

19 Apr 12, 2009 at 07:11 by dikkiedik

Mininova stats are not accurate by a long shot. I know because I uploaded to their site. Stats on their site was much higher than in the swarm.

20 Apr 12, 2009 at 08:50 by Vash

@ UltraLeetJ

Lol, there isn’t 8 Billion people on Earth yet. So, every person could have one (download), and them some… leftovers (downloads).

21 Apr 12, 2009 at 10:35 by JMD88

Demonoid registrations are open.

22 Apr 12, 2009 at 10:37 by Gargamel

“Mininova stats are not accurate by a long shot. I know because I uploaded to their site. Stats on their site was much higher than in the swarm.”

ROFL, are you a freaking moron…? If you can’t work out why the numbers are higher than you really cluelss.

In any case, Mininova is slow, filled with crap content & users that dont share – in other words it’s a shitty, lowest common denominator site that people who don’t know better use.

Public trackers are so sh!t

23 Apr 12, 2009 at 11:52 by Fred

Mininova – now indexing another billion of torrents from other trackers!

24 Apr 12, 2009 at 12:46 by @JMD88

Thanx for the info!

25 Apr 12, 2009 at 13:12 by Anonymous

@ #17

use your brain, fool! :P

worlds population is

6,706,993,152

so 8 billion downloads is enough for everyone to have downloaded 1 file each. then over a billion in change!

26 Apr 12, 2009 at 13:25 by SplishSplash

Yeehaaaa! Nice stats there!

27 Apr 12, 2009 at 15:05 by Anonymous

Miniova is my dump site

28 Apr 12, 2009 at 15:24 by joshua

If TPB went down, 7.9 billion will choke.

29 Apr 12, 2009 at 15:55 by Anonymous

Wow, this is HUGE! Congrats Mininova! :)

30 Apr 12, 2009 at 15:55 by d35i

i love pirataby

31 Apr 12, 2009 at 16:46 by Anonymous

@24, I thought it was 6,706,993,153. Oh well, so much to accuracy.

32 Apr 12, 2009 at 16:52 by dwpbike

i like mininova because i can find vbr mp3

33 Apr 12, 2009 at 17:02 by ...

Mini Nova still doesn’t track torrent though. There kind of useless in my book.

not to mention there making money off of there scam.

fuck mini nova in all its entirety.

34 Apr 12, 2009 at 17:52 by Anonymous

Miniova is everyones dump site

35 Apr 12, 2009 at 18:07 by neo

TPB FTW

36 Apr 12, 2009 at 18:40 by JustMe

@30

Maybe he is taking into account that someone was born in the time it took to write the message? lol

@20

Frankly, I’m surprised you have the brainpower to turn your PC on. Even more amazing is coherent sentances, even if you have no clue what you are saying.

37 Apr 12, 2009 at 19:32 by Kanuck

Hehe…Just like McDonald’s

McMininova….over 8 billion servered!

38 Apr 12, 2009 at 19:33 by X-Pirate

Mininova have a tracker.
Check it out, they do legal content on it so you have the creators blessing when dl it:

What is Content Distribution?

Content Distribution is a new service of Mininova which allows content creators to easily publish and distribute their content for free. Mininova sponsors the required seeding bandwidth and provides the exposure on the website. Advantages for users include higher quality premium content availability and higher transfer speeds, without additional costs. Distributed content is marked as “Featured torrents” at the Mininova front-page.

39 Apr 12, 2009 at 22:10 by Yehhanyos

27 Apr 12, 2009 at 15:24 by joshua
If TPB went down, 7.9 billion will choke.

If TPB went down, uploaders will chosse other trackers when they upload their torrents. Then people will start to create another trackers to take TPB’s place and its popularity.

If TPB and mininova went down, torrenters will switch to another indexers sites

http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-survival-the-way-of-the-hydra/

40 Apr 13, 2009 at 00:36 by PENOR

that must be gallons of seamon

41 Apr 13, 2009 at 00:57 by tufo

all in the world used this site, jeje

http://videosdemandriva.blogspot.com

42 Apr 13, 2009 at 04:26 by Vash

@JustMe

Excuse me? I think you have the wrong person.

43 Apr 13, 2009 at 07:47 by Director web

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44 Apr 13, 2009 at 13:06 by TPB

Congratz TPB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Keep UP.. yea.. since TPB hosts 70% of the .torrents in mininova.

45 Apr 13, 2009 at 13:10 by Deleriumz

Release TrTorrent Toolbar

http://trtorrent.ourtoolbar.com/

46 Apr 13, 2009 at 13:35 by Stormblade

Das müsst ihr euch unbedingt angucken!!!
Es ist wirklich abgefahren!!!:D

http://www.youtupe-com-watch-2332-fsdkjfc-1223-11ds.inserat.in

47 Apr 14, 2009 at 03:03 by crumpler million dollar home

crumpler million dollar home

48 Apr 15, 2009 at 01:41 by Ivan_PSP

I love Mininova is one the greatest website ever made. I have downloaded so many torrents from there i have uploaded about 1 Terabyte. Mininova will never die soon 9 Billion. I love Mininova always torrents are real no fake shit.

49 Apr 16, 2009 at 13:40 by Milojer

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