Mininova Breaks 10 Billion Torrent Downloads
Written by Ernesto on November 19, 2009Despite negative court verdicts against the two leading torrent sites, the BitTorrent popularity surge is still underway judging from ever increasing download figures. Mininova, the most visited BitTorrent indexer, broke an impressive record today. Since its inception, the site has served a dazzling 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, today the 10 billionth torrent file was downloaded from Mininova, an impressive achievement to say the least.
Although the site is still going strong, with the increasing visitor numbers month after month, things have definitely changed behind the scenes.
When asked for a comment on whether they had predicted the site would grow this rapidly, Mininova co-founder Erik Dubbelboer told TorrentFreak: “We never really expected anything. We don’t really tend to focus on these numbers, we are just trying to run the site the best way we can.”
Previously the Mininova team welcomed these download records with more enthusiasm, but times have changed. In common with their counterparts at the Pirate Bay, we get the impression that the torrent site is not their core business anymore, which is not really that surprising considering the legal troubles Mininova faces.
In August, Mininova lost in court against Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN. The judge ruled that the world’s largest BitTorrent indexer had to clean up its site and remove all torrents that link to infringing content. Mininova has yet to decide whether or not they will appeal the case.
Possibly related to this uncertain future, Erik said that they are not going to release any new features or major upgrades to the site anytime soon. “At the moment we are mainly focusing on other projects besides Mininova,” he informed us.
This year has undoubtedly been a turbulent one for Mininova. Nevertheless, we want to congratulate the Mininova team for reaching this new milestone, whether they like it or not.
Mininova’s download counter as of this morning
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53 Responses
Mweh… If they’re tired they could shut it down now.
DHT is the way to go!
don’t you still need a web based application to do the search of what you want to download?
or magnet technology supports that already?
#1
@3 FAIL
Mininova, my 2nd stop when searching for a torrent.
ThePirateBay to Mininova to isoHunt to Torrentz then Google.
My main problem with Mininova is how it organizes its categories, like viewing the most popular torrents.
Mininova actually has a pretty good layout and structure for organizing torrents in my opinion. It’s subcategories and ‘genres’ for media is an interesting implementation and can be somewhat useful. It would be a shame to see the site disappear….the comments alone on a lot of the torrents are very useful.
10 billion downloads though,…[consume, consume, and consume some more]
time for a party in Utrecht, where there headquarters are based!
Mininova sold out months ago when they started automatically deleting all sorts of good torrents. Why anyone would still use them, I don’t know. They clearly don’t care, based on their comments. People should be looking toward another source and move on.
Well Big Media, if you did not have you head up your a55 you could have made money with this. Why imagine if you had set up a system that charged, oh say a dollar a download that would be …
wow thats allot of downloads image the loss from the record companised haha!
Mininova celebrating 10 billion downloads and 10 billion virus’s/trojans and worms infecting pc globally.
Congrats!
@8
You talk about “selling out” but what would you do with the most powerful lawyers in the world on your bag? Either speak from experience or don’t at all but most of all stfu xxx
Cud sumbody do the math for me, one dollar times 10 BILLION.
I is a stoopid pyrate!
And how does one infer that they are still going strong with the only fact provided in this article that “Mininova Reached 10 billionth torrent download.”
Rate is a differential measure, you need two observation on instances and the time-period.
what if they reached 10b-100 torrents six months ago? Will you call ‘100 torrents in last six months’ as still going strong?
lol at topic, How do we break 10 billion torrent downloads?
appropriate options:
“Mininova Breaks Record of 10 Billion Torrent Downloads” — If there ever was a record for 10b torrent downloads.
“Mininova sets Record 10 Billion Torrent Downloads”
“Mininova crosses 10 Billion Torrent Download mark”
etc.
so more downloads have been done from mininova than there are people on the earth, nice.
Wonder what their other projects are….
So where are the trolls? Did they crawl back into the slime from whence they came?
need help please. Just installed windows 7 ultimate and when I try to download a video file my internet connection turns off. my vonage works, but no web browsing or downloading. restart computer everything is fine till I try a video file again. Is this comcast doing this or windows 7? Please help if you can
rapidshare works fine only bittorrent tried other client no help.
@Gosh
This not the forum for that kind of question. Try using google, plenty of info there.
Troll Hunter
Sorry if this is not the right place. google was no help spent hours trying to find my answer.If you have any better idea i’m all ears. most people here are tech inclined so I thought I might get an answer here the easiest.
Try asking on a windows 7 forum, make an account at one if you have to. They won’t care if your copy of windows is legit or not
…..that works out at about 65 torrents a second.. :)
So that would be $65 US per second for four years by my math. What a shame Big Media money grubbing, sue the world and lose your a$$ industry jagoffs, you could have made this money. You instead decided to try and maintain your old, outdated, and obsolete methods and when you fail, you blame us.
Fools!
Meh.. Not such an impressive number really. If we were to say there are 100 million active , unique internet users then that is a mere 100 downloads each.. But of course there are many, many more real users of the internet.
This also goes to show how few of real internet users actually use bittorrent.. Ok sure, not all bt traffic can be seen on a single indexing site but it is one of the most used and been around a while too. 6 billion people on the earth.. At least 20% have connections.. That’s over 1 billion connections.. 10 downloads each, over the course of the life of mininova..
Sorta puts things into perspective when the holywood legal teams target individuals, wasting thousands of dollars per case..
Mininova download numbers are completely fake.
Several times I’ve uploaded torrents that after 12-24 hours had over 500-1000 downloads, but only 10-50 peers at the most.
Fake, bloated, missleading.
[The download numbers are the numbers of times the torrent file has been downloaded. Often other sites will download the torrent file to put on their own site. Also, don't forget people will drop on and off all the time, so the scrape values have never been more than a rough indication - Ben]
Some Troll, .neo.troll and Reasoned Troll are busy celebrating with the RIAA/MPAA at how they are at successful at stopping file sharing. xD
I don’t know about this DHT/PEX magnet crap. It seems instead of using a fast centralized tracker they are basically putting all the workload on the peers. so when you d/l everyone is vulturing all your bandwidth and what do ya get way toooo long to d/l. When you are d/ling 25kb and u/ling .5-1.0 mb feels like getting raped and you haven’t even d/led it yet. You can’t throttle dht either just drags ya down more… I don’t see how this could be better but by burning up the PEX’s HDD’s… Whatever…
I could barely download anything off of mininova. Hardley anybody on there. Cool they could clear that much. LMAO
Google Largest Tracker/DHT rock on Google.com
Next stop 100 billion.
Mininova? Ain’t that the site that hosts only “private” torrents? During the last few months, I found only “password needed” trackers in their torrents. DHT etc. prohibited of course, then I wouldn’t care.
Too bad, I really loved their RSS-Feed when I could still use their .torrent files.
first
Downloads: 10,010,081,496
at time of posting this, since TPB has had all that trouble mininova started getting more popular i guess
wierd! I can hit this site with hidemyip but not directly @ http://www.torrentfreak.com
I will check my transmogrifier.
regards
fair play to mininova, but it’s pretty irrlevant if thery capitulate annd either:
a) don’t appeal the case
b) move to a new host (out of brein’s reach etc)
The founder’s comments seem to indicate that they don’t really know themselves what they’ll do
“@ 33 Nov 19, 2009 at 13:11 by nobody
Mininova? Ain’t that the site that hosts only “private” torrents?…”
Wouldn’t it be better to visit the site to find out if you are not sure, and no, the site is not private and has always been public. There are however some private torrents listed on the site. They are usually marked with a P.
The 4 billion download mark blog post mentioned that at the time, their Alexa rank was 54th. They’ve dropped since then to 90th. That’s still a major feat but that’s still a major drop.
wow thats alot.
http://www.plentyoftorrents.com
10 Billion….Jesus. God bless the internet.
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@38
#33 was being sarcastic.
A private torrent doesn’t JUST mean it originated from/on a private tracker.
A private torrent can also one a person would release being password-protected for only a number of people. It would be stupid, but its possible and very realistic.
What 33 meant was basically most of the torrents on Mininova are basically worthless.
A torrent can have a 100 seeds and still be slower than 1 seed on a private tracker. Sure, sure, seedboxes and all. But you cannot ignore the fact.
On a private tracker, you’d be lucky to find a torrent thats not “HOT” (popular/recent, what have you) with more than 10 or 20 seeds.
But if you do even find that, the torrent will probably download by the time you minimize your client and check your email.
On Mininova on the other hand, a billion torrents with only a couple thousands are properly seeded. Don’t quote me on that. Just get the point. :D
Anyway, Mininova, you are now less than a shadow of your past failures. I don’t blame YOU, in fact, I respect you. I blame your users. Here’s to your Golden Age.
Note: I was never much of a Mininova user, but I know what impact it had and it did save my behind a few times in the past. So again, here’s to your Golden Age.
mininova is crap anymore. waiting for demonoid to return
i dont like mininova
so many fucking spanish / hindu and chinese movies WITHOUT subs
thats the reason they have so many downloads
it’s stories like these i believe that have made mininova the target and what is now a limited resource.
Mark my words:
“T minus 4 days until Mininova collapse”
Congratulations guys!!!
good bye mninova
R.I.P. to the greatest torrent site ever :(
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goodbye Mininova… Thanks for everything!
http://kyl3b0rg.blogspot.com/2009/11/sad-day-for-torrent-users-mininova.html
This reminds me of the day Supanova went down.
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