Mininova Breaks Download Records
Written by Ernesto on September 23, 2008Mininova, the most visited BitTorrent site, broke two download records today. Since its inception, the site has served 6 billion torrent downloads and today reached an all time record of more than 10 million downloads served in a single day. Has today been BitTorrent’s busiest day ever?
The BitTorrent popularity explosion is still underway, and it’s picking up speed with the start of the new TV-season. Several BitTorrent sites are now amongst the most visited sites anywhere on the web, and Mininova is believed to be the largest.
We’ve been reporting on Mininova’s download figures for a while now. In June 2007 Mininova saw its 2 billionth download. This figure has since tripled to 6 billion – an impressive figure for a site that has been around for less than four years.
Over the past months, the downloads have been growing steadily, and today, another record was broken. Over 10 million torrents were downloaded in a single day – 117.6 per second – a rate never achieved before. With many TV-shows debuting today, this has been the busiest day ever on Mininova, and probably on other BitTorrent sites as well.
While the movie and music studios are complaining loudly, TV-shows are getting the most downloads on BitTorrent. On average, half of all the BitTorrent downloads at any given point in time are TV-episodes. The availability of free-streams seems to bring this figure down a little, but only in the US.
Meanwhile, the Mininova team is focusing more on premium publishers. Last year the site launched a content distribution platform where publishers can offer their content to the millions of Mininova visitors without any charge. Mininova users can download these premium files at high speeds, and they even have the option to stream music and video.
Perhaps it’s a good idea if some of the TV publishers go talk to the Mininova team, and get an account there. We’re sure that they are welcome at their new office.
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33 Responses
Pirate Bay FTW
damn, its me again first.
good to see so many records down. i bet that those ppl ruling the music/movie industry like big numbers, maybe this will finally make them open their minds to something new, inovative, not expensive and easy to handle.
damn, i wasnt first, but my comment has more sense :p ye, TPB rocks so f****** hard, but its good to see some other big players in it, good to see great BAY not taking all the heat alone. go bay, go mininova. we are proud of you!
Arrr me mateys!
Hoist the flag and make those bastards from the RIAA/MAFIAA walk the plank!
Mininova is good but full of virus.
Long Live to mininova and the dudes who is running it.
Shiver me timbers. Arrr indeed.
Long live all torrents!!!!!
Altho the pirate bay will always be a symbol of strength for ‘pirates’ I have to say mininova is always my first choice to visit purely for simplicity with eztv using them as an upload site. I must of made up about 4 or 5 of those 10 million or so downloads today.
Mininova is a good example of how torrents can help artists and business through sharing files, I think most would have a hard time denying that.
busiest day? maybe, with all these season premiers …
Hats off to Mininova and TPB Mininova needs a real good virus cleanup !!!!
have you got your slacker uprising movie yet??
Hats off to Mr. Moore for releasing it via bit torrent!!
P.S. they even used a canadian tracker
woot
#11
Woot!
today was huge because of the release of SOO much tv (2 new heroes episodes, prison break, terminator and all the cbs sitcoms) it is not supprising at all that it is soo huge, looking at next week it should be almost the same if not more because of more new shows on the sunday.
^ STFU troll
Wow!! that a great news… amazing!!! :)
It’s great to see that the BitTorrent community is big and growing fast each day… :)
YAY TO MININOVA SUCCESS
death to the pirates
long live mininova!
Yipeeayeah!..long live mininova long live the Piracy!!1
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Wow there office is nice.. if you click on the VIEW ON MAP button on the mininova website underneath the picture it gives you a birds eye view of the place (But at an angle ive never seen, instead of TOP DOWN its like angled sideways). Very cool!
@1
Agreed. “The Bay” runs a tracker, would like to see Mininova do the same.
The $ & FED & mininova /statistics
are happy together.
Bernanke need a mininova-tax
10 Billion each Day and Wall Street
is rescued.
If Mininova launch their own tracker it would be icing on the cake.
FilthyRichmond.com is teh taint
Wow, I certainly would not want their bandwidth bill! Whew! Can you imagine?
Jess
http://www.anonweb.eu.tc
@ #2
Fail.
mininova sucks!!!
TPB rules…
26 Sep 24, 2008 at 17:44 : what exactly is a fail there?
^^duh^^.. u wasnt first matey
so many great tv shows this week. Will have to take me a long time to watch all of them.
so what if i wasnt first? is that so important? did you understood what i wrote in that 2 comments?
I was one of them : )
Pulp Fiction, in 720p.
i go on mini bcz its very easy to use and always get clean torrent
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