goodbye Mininova… Thanks for everything!

“T minus 4 days until Mininova collapse”

#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.

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http://www.plentyoftorrents.com

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 founder’s comments seem to indicate that they don’t really know themselves what they’ll do

I will check my transmogrifier.

regards

Too bad, I really loved their RSS-Feed when I could still use their .torrent files.

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]

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..

Fools!

This not the forum for that kind of question. Try using google, plenty of info there.