Mininova Deletes All Infringing Torrents and Goes ‘Legal’
Written by Ernesto on November 26, 2009Mininova, the largest torrent site on the Internet, has removed all torrents except those that were uploaded through its content distribution service. Mininova’s founders took the drastic decision after they lost a civil dispute against Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN, and were ordered to remove all infringing torrents from the site.
Mininova’s decision to delete all infringing torrents from its index marks the end of an era that started five years ago.
In December 2004, the demise of the mighty Suprnova left a meteor crater in the fledgling BitTorrent landscape. This gaping hole was soon filled by the dozens of new sites that emerged to fulfil the public’s increasing demands for torrents. Mininova became the most successful of all.
Mininova was founded in early 2005 by five Dutch students, just a month after Suprnova closed its doors. The site started out as a hobby project created by tech-savvy teenagers, but in the years that followed the site’s founders managed to turn it into a successful business that generated millions of dollars in revenue.
With increased popularity also came numerous complaints from copyright holders, who saw their intellectual property being shared by users of the site. For years Mininova has complied with these takedown requests, but earlier this year the Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN decided to take the torrent site to court nonetheless, demanding that the operators proactively filter torrents pointing to copyrighted material.
The case went to court in June and a few weeks later the verdict was announced. The judge ruled that Mininova is not directly responsible for any copyright infringements, but ordered it to remove all torrents linking to copyrighted material within three months, or face a penalty of up to 5 million euros.
To avoid having to pay these penalties, the Mininova team saw no other option than to disable access to all torrents except those that were uploaded to their content distribution platform. This means that only approved uploaders can share torrents through the site for now.
During the last few months, Mininova has extensively tested several filtering techniques, but none of these proved 100% effective. “It’s very unfortunate that we’re forced to take this action, but we saw no other option,” Mininova co-founder Niek told TorrentFreak.
Mininova still hasn’t decided yet whether they will appeal the verdict, Niek further told TorrentFreak. They have appealed the verdict pro-forma, which gives the company more time to decide whether they will indeed continue with the appeal. As it looks now, a successful appeal is the only option for Mininova to bring all torrents back.
In the meantime the Mininova team will focus on other projects besides Mininova, as well as growing the number of users for their content distribution platform.
The implications of Mininova’s decision will have a huge impact on the BitTorrent community. The millions of Mininova users and uploaders have to look for a new home, but perhaps even more importantly, Mininova had the largest collection of user-submitted torrents that were used by dozens of smaller torrent indexers.
More information on the consequences and background of Mininova’s decision will be addressed in a follow up article.
Previously: AFACT v iiNet: Epic BitTorrent Copyright Case Concludes
Next: 10 Alternatives To Mininova
451 Responses
Time for another ‘hydra’.
WTFFFFFFFF
so after piratebay , now is mininova … doesnt look to good for all of us ! and honestly , i am buying more dvd’s now than ever before , and that because i can see them first on the net .
Bye bye MN
It was fun ’till it lasted.
off to more fertile shores …
Well, I appreciate everything that MiniNova has ever done, and I am grateful for their past services.
I hope one day, we will all be able to come together, and openly share content legally. Until that day…
Thank you MiniNovans, and may you be happy!
So long Mininova, and thanks for all the fish.
you mean “fun WHILE it lasted” :P
WTF… this is ridiculous… We have only Btjunkie and PirateBay(without tracker) available now?
man this sucks need to find a new home :(
Time for micronova?
didnt believe it till i saw it few minutes ago. :( i still believe demonoid will return, but mininova is done.
Seems like many people think that The Pirate Bay is dead. Just cause they read that TPB has shut down it’s tracker.
News! It’s still up and running! :D
Well with TPB dieing, and now MN, there is really nothing left. Thank god for Hulu. I would rather stab myself in the gut than watch live TV with its 7 minute commercial breaks.
That sucks..
it wont affect people having accounts in private trackers..but many dont have !!!
y man? it was best as it was. one more cool site lost.
The Death of Mininova….just the other day we read they hit 10 billion downloads, today they died……this is sad, they were the biggest dumpsite ever.
@Steve
No, many people stopped using TPB because they sold out. They merged with a large game company. Which means that their is now a greater possibility of that company, or them, selling the sites statistics to others.
This is why nearly every other post on the forums was, “omg add an account delete!”. They did, and a TON of people deleted their accounts and don’t use it anymore.
So im gonna ask the question:
Does anyone know some other good torrent sites?
R.I.P Mininova.
Just taken a look at it and well i’ll never be going back =(
Just move the business to Russia or something.
Whatever
Demonoid will be back soon :))
however you need a good ad blocker on this websites.
I recommend you Ad Muncher or Ad Block
Ad Block (this one works only with firefox browser)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865
Ad Muncher (this one id the best, supports all the browsers, have a lot of functions and daily filter list updates, it is a lot much better than any adblocker. It’s not free but definitely worth the money.)
http://shop.admuncher.com/
http://shop.admuncher.com/cgi-bin/download.pl/AM-Install.exe
@Armanian
Demonoid is all I can think of at the moment. It is private through. Also, with the way things are going, there may not be a good tracker until something new comes along…
Another one down and this was my favourite….
are there any clones ?
ah man this sucks, i use mininova for everything. my favourites list is swamped with user accounts from mininova like noir, fxm,fxg klaxxon, axxo, zektorm and others where can i go now ? mininova was the best u knew where u stood with it and u trusted the uploaders, now sum littles dicks will be signin up 4 accounts in the names we trust spreadedin viruses through out the download community.
R.I.P MININOVA IM GUTTED
Sad but it was obviously coming – I saw torrent links disappearing last night – magnet links were still there though, and that’s good enough!
Quit crying.You all sound like a big bunch of babys.Go to Walmart and have mommmy buy you a rattle.
There are tons of sites that have emerged in the last 6 months.
1.Get Scroogle.It’s Google without a tracking cookie.It sucks to be spied on even when I search the internet.
2.I find a new site every week.How about a public site with great.Use your noodle,and I’m sure you’ll be amazed what you can find.
content.http://rarbg.com/torrents.php
:( Cant believe it..my trusted friend in so many ways! Please come back :(
ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST
Gud bye mininova…..
Brein is becoming a rather effective killer. Gotta admit that. Think it’s time to head for the trenches…and out of their reach. Keep them communities alive!
I guess they’ll have to remove the “The ultimate BitTorrent source!” from the website’s title now.
Seeing is believing it’s wiped out
R.I.P Mininova
BOYCOT MN!!!!
This is a sad day indeed!!
Sorry!Take off the word “content.” and then plug this address into your browser.Theirs a lot of porn,which is not a bad thing,but you will also find a good diversity of content,and good download speeds.
Doesn’t make any difference.
Mininova died to me when it started filtering out illegal torrents a few months back. I’m using isohunt, ztorrent and kickasstorrents. They are indexing several small websites including themselves.
You can never stop this.
So the court agreed hosting torrents isn’t illegal, yet they gotta delete all torrents or pay $5m fine? Brein.. get lost.
With Mininova gone it’s perhaps time for Suprnova once again rise to the top. After all, the TPB guys did re-open it and while it seems to he somewhat dead it ought to be functional. Of course, a lot of torrent have been exclusive to MN, but it shouldn’t be too hard to re-upload them as long as they use some working tracker and/or don’t have the private flag set.
Well was expected !
gl
p2p is dead long live newsgroups and direct downloads.
Stop feeding the greedbag hollywood and do not got to a theatwer or buy any new movies.
Buy used stuff only.Fuck Hollywood assholes.
http://www.seedpeer.com/
http://www.bitenova.com/
http://www.torrentparty.com/
http://www.monova.org/
…
..they’re all indexer…
Mininova is the most known but not the only one.
You can even search torrent files thru emule..
another one down a few more major crappy public ones to go
My point exactly, calumais (#3). In the pre-P2P era I never bought as many CDs and DVDs as I do now.
Looks like some (stupid, blind) people prefer starvation to moderate but consistent business thanks to the Internet in general and P2P in particular. Their loss, not mine!!
Farewell and thank you, Mininova. Hello, TPB, isoHunt, etc.
Pirate bay was shut down and it moved to another country. Why not just move away from NL?
Mininova was my favorite torrent site so thank you for all you did. I just hope you guys will fight this and not fade away like this.
Thank god for warez-bb and direct downloads =)
Guys… Mininova is still there. You can apply to share your content. I belive in copyright. You get something, you pay for it, thats only fair, however, I do not like the way the movie/music industry abuses copyright and their methods to stop it. Thats disgusting. P2P is good, so is copyright, but everyone can see they’re abusing copyright.
fuccck
who cares !
mininova is long dead …
people already moved to aother alternative(s)
Cookie Monster @25
thanks nice looking site
There will always be another way to share your stuff, don’t worry. You just have to find it.
@16 no i don’t know of ANY other torrent sites whatsoever
*Grabs popcorn and watches the demise of Mininova*
RIP Mininova. You were useful until you became a wh0re and cheaply sold out
This is a good thing mininova did this, it legitimizes BitTorrent not just for illegal content but legal stuff too on a similar scale.
There are plenty of possibly better sites out there you just need to know where to look.
This is a good thing mininova did this, it legitimizes BitTorrent not just for illegal content but legal stuff too on a similar scale.
There are plenty of possibly better sites out there (maybe) you just need to know where to look.
never used mininova anyways lol
G’bye!
1. The Pirate Bay didn’t merge or anything with the Global Gaming whatever it’s name is.
2. The Bay is very much alive. It just doesn’t have a tracker of it’s own anymore. All works through DHT which most if not all of you’ve been using for a loooong time (even if you don’t know it.)
So all is well atleast when it comes to The Pirate Bay.
Never mind the bollocks.
Heads up, chaps.
Thanks to those who listed the other sites here. There a couple I wasn’t aware of and while I’ll miss Mininova, it looks like I’m not going to be as deprived as I originally thought.
Mininova, Rest in peace…
Long live isohunt.
wait someone actually still used this site? lol
queastion about kickasstorrents it’s closest thing i found to mininova i like the genere cat. I didn’t see any ads so how can they pay for bandwith bill now with mininova closed i am sure there is big spike in traffic.
Oh man… Mininova was the best after TPB… RIP, you will be missed.
not really that fussed as havnt used mininova since i found a decent private tracker in the summer.just a bit worrying that the same could maybe eventually happen to them
OMG…. how am i gonna catch up with all da series im catching up wit??? NOOOOOOooooo
This is the end, my only friend..
the end.
The world is going to the toilet.
R.I.P Mininova
@62 whats their name ??
Why are y’all acting like this is some kind of huge surprise?
Either y’all are really dumb or you just are plain stupid.
HINT1: They said months ago, they will go legal in due time, when they have found a method to filter illegal torrents.
HINT2: They have been testing their content filtering system for months now, and it has been an active topic for months now
HINT1 + HINT2 = Mininova goes legal, and deletes illegal torrents.
If y’all didn’t come to this conclusion months ago, y’all are simply UBERFAIL.
Why the fuck people still were uploading millions of torrents to Mininova, even after they announced they’ll filter them out is beyond my understanding.
I can only answer it by this: Stupid people are stupid.
Told you so!
http://torrentfreak.com/mininova-breaks-10-billion-torrent-downloads-091118/#comment-618290
At least I hope they will use dedicated seeders for their new “service”, its useless otherwise.
Go to
http://torrent-finder.com/
Problem solved…duh!
http://dididave.com …..Private tracker ….. Great releases…..fast speeds
meh. mininova was way over hyped.
Only an indexer anyway, plenty of other sites
MiniNova Bendsover
This just means some of you are going to have to find a site with less fakes, more seeders and a better layout. TPB is alive. Remember torrents still work perfectly without the tracker ;).
But enough about those two h33t, 1337x, kickasstorrents and the million other indexers should do you all fine.
Bah. Now where am I going to get my episodes of The Soup from. It was exclusive to Mininova since only one guy on the planet (hi TheAOG!) capped it each week after the scene stopped for some reason.
RIP Mininova :(
RIP Mininova.
And welcome to the darskide.
I agree with #10.
Anyone up for Micronova?
this sux big time..
a lot of my torrents were not infringing anyone and still got deleted..
well, KickassTorrents is a worthy substitute…
Mr. Kuik kicked some pirate ass once again.
WTF
i used mininova for all
from softwares to movies
this shouldnt happen
there is no good site as effective as mininova
i miss MN
even though the pirate bay , isohunt , and all other are good but no one can beat MN
hi users i there any site as good as mininova
axxo
secret_myth
blaze69
newartriot
FXG
FXM
and more users ….damn
i miss them
if gov. really want to stop piracy than go n catch those shopkeepers who sale those fucking,fake dvd n cd……….we ii miss u mininova……….
try superfundo.org for movies, and for everything else i use btjunkie and isohunt.
This crap is going too far, if they close one more sharing site I’m up for world wide boycott.
To MAFIAA:
We don’t need your shit, you need us to buy your shit.
You MAFIAA fucks think this is the way to treat customers? Okay then, I bet your customers will say their thank you (read fuck you) very very soon.
Thank you so much for all the torrents. It is a pity though, this site actually helped those who can’t afford to buy stuffs. I want you to know that I, together with the other loyal users of this site found a home here in Mininova. Now, our home is wrecked. We might as well as embark to another journey to find a new home. Thank you so much for everything and God Bless.
Thanksgiving my ASS!
RIP Mininova. Thanks for all the good stuff over the years.
Damn! can’t believe it.
The source is down
mini nova.. woh noooo
w t f rules!!
Mininova RIP
hi jaguar or any of other mininova users if u read this comment then reply
why dont u use h33t.com?
i actually dont use mini much
u can also use torrentz it has lot of content even w/o mininova (u can have any torrent by magnetiser an additional add on on fire fox ) :)
pirate bay has even more torrents then mininova…
When I hit the site this morning, I thought what the ****! Must be a technical problem. Then it hit me. The bomb dropped and MN was the target!!
Good bye Mini.
I will miss you
nooooooooooo
KickAssTorrents server’s in USA.
you leechers can test it out for the rest of us.
How can you not know any? Search engine man!
You can try http://www.music-torrentz.com for your audio needs,private site but reg is open
The cheek of it is.
Even aired to free-view shows, films etc are also removed.
How the feck can anybody justify that?
Even cable/sat’ TV shows etc, Murdock should ruddy well realise that not everybody is a greedy bastard with money to burn and can’t afford Sky TV.
Whatever the why’s and wherefore’s of films and music, new releases not aired to free-view.
All actions like insisting television material be removed achieves is to lower quality of life for the poorest families and individuals in society.
No justification whatsoever for stopping TV material and amounts to the corporate few oppressing the many.
You can bet R. Murdock is influencing a lot of this in the background, not just film makers etc.
Socialism is now one of the predominant political ideologies on the planet, USA, UK, Japan, China, Other European states, Russia, right wing politics is a firm second, why are Corporations in the digital entertainments industry able to dictate to the socialist leaders and governments.
So how can greedy corporations get these things done, which mainly effect poorer peoples the most, when the G20 and global predominant ideology is socialist.
A socialist government/administration who can allow corporations who are wealthy to affect the many in society who are not affluent at all and rely on some content which is subscription TV based downloadable through bit Torrent etc to improve quality of life, to be actioned purely due to greed in these industries, are not socialists in my view!
Where are the sentiments to challenge greed of the wealthy when it effects the poorer in society now, which is a great many who download, not through refusal to pay because they have money, but because they cannot afford to pay and eat, feed themselves and pay all the rising bills etc, if with children also paying for school stuff and everything they can’t get but because of advertising their kids want as far as films are concerned, music.
These industries create an environment where those missing out because of poverty are subjected to adverse sociopsychological negatives when media is advertised and adults and kids want to watch something interesting, simply being able to download some of the things like the material uploaded from Television offsets those negatives, improves quality of life for many poorer people who can just about afford an Internet connection.
All these sort of actions are doing at the end of the day is effecting the lower classes in society in favour of affluent greed, not everybody can afford to go to cinemas, buy the latest music, pay for sky TV/Movies/sport etc and those outlets are not going to gain customer demographic increases by stopping file sharing, they think they will but mainly all they achieve is making the already suffering, suffer even more because reality is very different to low income and unemployed peoples, very different to the tossers calling for file sharing to end who earn upwards of £50,000 a year, into millions.
Grrrrrrrrrr!
Fecking out of order!!!
Pax-Delta-Pan
Enlightened Evolution.
Tempered From The Chaotic Forge Of Life
I’ll just wait on demonoid,public trackers are done.
I know some of you think that you are not stealing when you download music/movies/software ect… You are. Why can’t you just buy copyrighted content. Who cares if the artist don’t get all the profits. Stealing is stealing. If you get something that is for sale, for free, you are stealing. Don’t call me a troll. I am just voicing my opinion.
Here is an idea, since these great websites are taken away from us one by one and our freedom along with it. Maybe we need a more “legal” approach to file sharing.
I propose to have a site that would have deals with distributors to have their tvshow/movies/music etc. in torrent form on the site. In exchange for a percentage of the money made by ads. And also the idea that if someone really likes a product they will probably buy it. I think there is alot of people who buy the cd/dvd after they download it if they like it.
That way end users keep getting great content for free, and artists/distributors keep getting paid.
Distributors, instead of looking at file sharing like an enemy, you could look at it as an advertising opportunity.
There is no way to watch so many shows for so many people. Torrent sites provide those opportunities. I dont think content distributors understand the reach their projects have. Just because they dont get paid directly doesnt mean it doesnt come back.
Mininova was a great site and hosted a lot of awesome content. Not just movies. Necessity is the mother of invention. Personally I can see a pattern happening where the act of fighting piracy is actually making it more widely available to the masses. This happened when p2p clients like napster were taken out. Torrents were invented. So you cant kill a torrent. But they realize you can kill the source of torrents. I have no doubt something will be invented that will make it easier and more secure to aquire any information you want.
I agree completely with the comment “I am buying more movies than ever because I get to watch them first”. I know my money going into movies is a good thing. I support the movies I like. The ones that dont make the grade dont matter to me. This is evolution. Survival of the fittest.
where can i find the torrent with all the mininova torrents ? ^^
they cant stop it. Others will replace them and they will go after it again and the cycle will continue.
noooooooo,i have been visiting this site every day for years,wtf,where am i gonna download my favourite tv shows from ,and blu ray rips,and music etc etc fuuuuuuuck
great work, what you did over the last years, guys. Thanks for that.
I honestly don’t give a shit if another major torrent site goes down. I see all this more as a platform more something even more ingenious to spring to life on the Internet.
And we still got eMule with fully decentralized Kademlia network, people. ;)
Hey, song by dan bull is cool
Dan Bull – Dear Mandy [an open letter to Lord Mandelson]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_P4lJD_OPI&feature=player_embedded
i miss it …….
It’s time for a new tech to take over. Something, I don’t know what, completely independent of servers or trackers. TPB has the right idea, but something even deeper underground is needed.
hmm, but is it so that they will delete it on request? because that isn’t so bad….
btjunkie seems the best now because people actually say if the files are any good or not. They comment on the quality of the files. Something most sites people never do. What was so good about mininova and piratebay.
WTF??!!!
They deleted Zeitgeist torrents and Zeitgeist Addendum with Hebrew Subtitles :’(
Al least I’m seeding it now :)
Ohhh…. >_ Documentary – Mininova
http://www.mininova.org/tor/3129889
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5153145/Zeitgeist_Addendum_DVDRip_XviD_Heb_Sub
Long live FREE WORLD!!!
Would have respected Mininova had they stopped their site.
By continuing to run they have showed themselves to be sellout whores.
http://mightynova.org/
:)
Demonoid better get their shite together cuz http://www.kickasstorrents.com/ is not such a bad alternitive.
Good Luck, Mininova.
I like the dispostable.com services of MN, and BayIMG & PasteBay of TPB. :)
The symbols will never die.
The age of public trackers and torrent-file hosters is over.
The age of private trackers and torrent-file blogs begins…
We need to routinely scrape all the major sites for the torrent hashid’s and/or make an open database / distrusted index system.
It needs:
* A distributed database, DHT, bittorrent already uses a distributed hash table for tracker less, we can use that, but the clients will need to long term store data as the DHT is somewhat ethereal and we need things like comments to be permanent.
* comments.
* list of file contents for searching.
* the ability to mark an entry as bad/spam.
* user PGP signing of entries so untrustworthy sources are scrubbed. You just mark an entry you know is legitimate as ‘good’ and then other data from that user is known to be of good quality, that can include other uses they have marked and their data.
* users can sign other users as being good or bad, so you build up a web of trust.
Otherwise grab something like Freenet, and just make a program on it specific for torrent information.
Another idea is a tor based index (we have the tor based tracker already). Or a network of them. Then people can use tor2web and similar sites or jump on real tor.
P2P torrent indexers. Many sites scraped their data from Mininova RSS feeds. There should be a protocol in place for that, one that includes spam, comments, openid users, etc…
Well, blaze69 has moved to us from mininova about 6 month ago… As for the hosting we are already in progress moving from the USA to spread the load and reduce risks.
come to:
https://www.waffles.fm/Main_Page
for all your musical needs.
All torrents freeleech for a limited time only. Dont be shy, come and join in the party today
Shame about TPB and Mininova though
:D
They should have just copied the pirate bay and done all their torrents through magnet links…
well why dont they just pop all the balloons and spit in the punch while they are at it! even better, lets just declare the internet as illegal and get it over with already… im going to go cry now…
Never used it so I’ll never miss it. Read nothing but bad things about it. To all those throwing themselves under vehicles thinking it’s the end of file sharing I have 2 words…….PRIVATE TRACKERS! Get invites and have your eyes opened finally.
Been on isohunt forever and it seems that nothing will change :E
#94 (Bob Smith), stop accusing people of stealing. FYI, I buy the stuff I do like after downloading it via P2P. So P2P is what allows me to separate good stuff from shit, and without it I wouldn’t be buying anything. So what is it gonna be, smart ass?
WARNING:
Dont use sites hosted in the USA, France or UK
– unless you want to be the victim of a fed honeypot or worse.
Those countries are not safe and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise
By the way, the Pirate Bay still works so its not the end of the world
well well well, guys…
What can i say?
Ill miss Mininova, it was by far my favourite site for getting my torrents…BUT there are only about a million others!
For every one that dies, another ten pop up to take its place. No big deal really. certainly wont slow me down one iota =)
btjunkie
isohunt
thepiratebay
torrentz
kickasstorrents
eztv
ahashare
torrentreactor
torrentscan
and of course privates like good ol’ demonoid
hell, i could name lots more! No worries =)
…Although i will miss you Mininova =(
No worries, Fung’s days are numbered.
This is the best thing that could have happened to countless other torrent sites out there, today.
Also, how is this even fucking legal? I’m tired of companies like Napster building their reputation and audience on “infringing” material and then once they’ve established themselves, going “legit”.
What other fucking industry allows that? Can you imagine if you opened up a car dealership and filled your lot with cars that you stole from the other car dealerships down the street? And then after a few years, you have made enough money and built up enough of a customer base (using the stolen cars to fuel your business, of course) that you can finally afford to go legitimate? And… nobody does anything? They’re just allowed to fucking do it? What the FUCK?!
Looks like Kickasstorrents is my new home now :)
I was truly shocked when I saw this. Mininova was my number one choice for all my torrent needs, and they weren’t always legal… I love Mininova for their awesome search, navigation and speed. Well, but then again, we still have IsoHunt and Hexagon, KickAss Torrents, BTMon, of course TPB… I really hope I will be able to get a replacement source. Hopefully no torrent is gone forever, as I am panically afraid of losing or forgetting stuff… :-(
that was stupid :(
This is starting to get a bit scary for torrent indexing sites. Still, they cannot close everyone.
Your friends from http://bitsnoop.com/ :)
They are closing in on Europe and America is already more or less a no go area for torrents.
F-ing American capitalist greedbags.
All I can say is people, learn Russian.
They have better torrent sites in the CIS countries than what has ever been seen in Europe.
I never could have guessed that this is what I’d be using my school-Russian for!
There are the private trackers of course, but they have less content and they plus you need an invite and sticking to a ratio.
@113…Bow. You have to be one of the Biggest A$$hats on the internetz.
Waffles is a private tracker, and it’s not Open.
Go Spam your shite somewhere else, you fukkin fuktard
All the kool kids use KickAssTorrents hosted in the Good Ole’ USA YEE HAA!!
Many sites, small group of people
NICE :-D
i give this a week or two and this site will be complete dead.. rofl u dont go to mininova for legal torrents.. they can aswell change to legalnova now rofl and see how long u last..
u must now even apply to upload anything.. i say goodluck and goodbye nova.
I was looking for an alt and I found this site. Its has a nice list of torrent sites.
http://myteev.blogspot.com/2008/04/torrents.html
check it out!
Many sites, small group of people
NICE!!
ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST. So long Mininova…….
Waiting for the Anonymous scriptkiddies to do their usual thing.
“I was truly shocked when I saw this. Mininova was my number one choice for all my torrent needs, and they weren’t always legal…”
How could you have possibly been shocked by this when they announced their “copyrighted content removal” procedure MANY months ago and had clearly stated their intent to go “legit”? It has only been a matter of time before they finally flipped the switch and most people have already found other homes.
http://leakz.net
biggest indexer now… :)
Boys, go look for another playground.
mininova is just a index who gives a the fk ( torrents still exsit hell we don’t even need trackers anymore) all there doing is cutting there income bye pushing there src of ad-based revue away
Well done Mininova. You’ve shown that your IQ is higher than that of most visitors to this site and that of the Swedish chefs
http://leakz.net
seems the biggest indexer now … :)
@TorrentSites: come to Hungary! :) No stopping you here… Nobody cares about torrent sites’ illegality here.
But warez-FTPs beware! This is not the country for you.
btw
I haven’t used mini nova since like 8 months ago
http://bitsnoop.com/
Site OPS, Advertisers, Hackers/Providers, Transit, Colo’s R ALL KNOWN.
YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US
Poppin Da Bottle
WE START WITH THE BIGGENS AND END WITH THE SMALL TIME THIEVES
Now go and encrypt yourselves!!!
kickasstorrents
http://www.kickasstorrents.com/
bookmark it. use it. best up and coming public torrent site.
I’ve had it with all this ‘You know you’re stealing’ crap posted in some of these comments. This is petty theft even when it is done by millions!. Plz go and visit wikileaks or something to get an idea of the real stealing and raping done by the big guys. The same sort of soul-deprived demonlike entities that are ripping whole countries off by evading tax, cheating with the rules, fukking over their workers and sickening their customers all because of a healthy profit. Now you try and make me feel guilty?!? Even while i’ve never ever spend more of my hard earned moneyz on shows, dvd’s and stuff as i’ve ever done before in my life. And all that thanks to the free shopping i can do on this internet thingie and thereby furthering my taste and thus delving deeper into the bag with chocolate cookies this sick industry offers me against whorewhopping prices. And i still spend like a mofo. And it’s the same story over and over. I’m not the only one buying cinema tickets, special dvd boxes, paying for band merchandise. And then what about the rest of the world? Those guys who need to walk 100 miles to the nearest theatre? Give us a break and let us share what’s worth sharing.
THANKS 2 Nesto for listing them all
There is obviously an issue with regards to copyright in our society. Millions and more are sharing all the time. This points the finger at the issue being systemic. We need to educate people to enable a wider debate. That is the only thing that will lead to fair change. Piracy is not the answer. There is a place for copyright that is not todays distorted parameters. Boycotting in the mean time is the answer, however, unless boycotting is whipped into shape it is also not the answer. Debate! Educate your friends and family it is a small start but it is the only way.
R.I.P. Mininova
Hmm, dididave don’t accept free email addresses which probably means that they sell the addresses to spamming scum.
For Asian movies I go to http://asiandvdclub.org They are a private tracker but are continuously open. Generally very fast. ADC is a good place to join if you want to get invites for other private trackers.
For the latest US releases I use movietorrents.org Again they are a private tracker but are open. Typical speed 500+ Kbps.
I use sites like Rlslog, Irfree, onelinkmoviez etc for the latest releases . They just post links to direct download sites like Megaupload to avoid being caught.
At least we still have isohunt.
http://www.torrentzap.com is an Excellent Alternative to mininova, all uploaders are welcomed there..
@Bob Smith
You are a troll and your dead wrong so get the hell out. (pushes bob smith out the window) bye ;). also congratulations on destroying your site mininova for it will be a ghost town in about a week.
Everyone who is crying about this, please don’t.
Whenever a torrent site goes down the shitter, nothing of value is lost. A newer, better site pops up and takes its place five minutes later. You talk about the entertainment industry being unable to evolve, you guys are the same. It happened when TF broke the news that TPB’s tracker was being taken offline in favour of DHT, the ironic thing being that the moaners were probably already using it unwittingly. So instead of lamenting the downfall of MN, take it as an opportunity to evolve. To quote NOFX, “Dinosaurs will die”.
#3 and #41
why?, why are you giving those companies more money now than ever? do you think that if we all start giving them more money now than ever they are going to change? they are most likely going to believe their tactics are working and push them harder, specially counting with more resources to screw us.
They are screwing us with the money we give them (or that you give them anyway, I continue my boicot).
@149 Harry Scratch:
Don’t be so pathetic. He has a different opinion, accept it, move on. People like you annoy me even more than the moaners.
Nice Troll @94
For those sad or freaking OUT:
There is no longer a need for websites to DL content. If I were to post a Magnetlink and a short description of what the files are, you would be able to get them. I could post them in the comments of a completely unrelated blog/site. As long as a search engine can index the site (i.e. G0091e), the files are “out there”. Hell, I could post the “Hex” on a T-shirt/bumper-sticker/graffiti and you could be able to get the files using DHT+PEX+Magnetlinks.
To The TROLLs: If I invent a machine that can make an exact copy of anything I aim it at, and I copy your car, am I stealing? Am I depriving you of your car? NO, there for NOT Stealing. The Fact is that Copyright law has been out paced and made obsolete by technology. Instead of going after and attacking the music consumer, the obsolete Industry should focus on ways to capitalise off of the new tech.
Come on N3ij
YOU can do it too!
ISPs feel less guilty about throtlling encrypted traffic
@ 25
“1.Get Scroogle. It’s Google without a tracking cookie. It sucks to be spied on even when I search the internet.”
Use the SSL link for even greater security.
https://ssl.scroogle.org/
that’s what happens when u don’t seed u lechers! go to block buster video u UN grateful Pricks
Meh who cares it was shitty to begin with. Constantly deleting ‘illegal content’. Now when will demonoid be back, that’s REAL NEWS.
***FUCK*** MININOVA
They’ve been a bunch of pussies for years trying to run a “family” site where swearwords as tame as “crap” are auto-munged to “****” and asshole mods will dick you for telling off people you troll the comment-threads of your torrents.
They deserve what’s coming next, which is an INSTANTANEOUS disappearance of 99.99% of their users.
If I copy your credit card, am I stealing?
If I copy the info on your PC, am I stealing?
If I copy your sisters nude pics, am I stealing?
If I copy your car, rob a bank with it and then get rid of the copy, would you have a problem with it?
If I copy your girlfriend, delete the orginal, shag her, and give her back to you. Would you mind?
OK, Sendaii (#152), so if I say “you’re an ass”, it’s just my opinion and you should move on, right?
Then… you’re an — well, you know the rest, don’t you? ;-)
@63 Nov 26, 2009 at 16:33 by jasonlaminx who wrote:
“OMG…. how am i gonna catch up with all da series im catching up wit??? NOOOOOOooooo”
If you can join Netflix, I pay $9.62 a month. If they are current shows, and aren’t on dvd yet, you can still find them.
@143
Big or small, theft is still theft. Ass.
I’d been working thru a huge collection of Dr Who episodes long out of print that some kind stranger had released to Mininova. They were a great stop-gap while waiting for the BBC to slowly trickle out official DVDs.
This is what makes me sad when a tracker goes. I don’t care too much about all the latest stuff, but it takes a huge catalogue of in-copyright but out-of-print material with it that can’t be obtained elsewhere. Certainly not from the media companies who own the copyright but don’t give a damn about releasing it for sale.
Well, isohunt is still alive, I guess I will stick to it then.
So they closed torrentspy > TPB > Mininova > next should be either isohunt or btjunkie.
in one word “LAME”
mininova removed from quick bar with great sadness in my heart
@ 153 Physuss
Unless I’m mistaken you still need a .torrent. Yes, the hash (from a magnet link) allows you to start peering, but unless yu find another one who has a .torrent you can’t do much as you have neigher the hashes of individual pieces nor filenames. I don’t think you can enter them by hand in any torrentclient.
But on the other hand: if there’s nobody out there with a .torrent then there are also no seeders, so one wouldn’t care anyway. It just seems to me that .torrents have a longer “life” for being independant files rather than textstrings like a magnetlink. Also clients tend to store .torrent somewhere, I’m not sure that they do the same with a link. Perhaps someone can clarify what exactly happens when giving uTorrent a link: does it store it somewhere permanently (with the information it gathered from other peers) and then load it when needed, or does it query the needed data every time from internet?
the two torrent sites I can think of that grows from day to day are:
http://www.lasttorrents.org/signup.php
(extremely generous and fast seeding, private but open registration, it offers many free torrents-meaning only upload counts)
http://www.h33t.com/login.php
(semiprivate like Demonoid was, no rating counted so very slow thx to the greedy vampire-leechers)
Both trackers have over a million members.
@162 Nov 26, 2009 at 18:42 by Stuntman Bob who wrote:
“I’d been working thru a huge collection of Dr Who episodes long out of print that some kind stranger had released to Mininova. They were a great stop-gap while waiting for the BBC to slowly trickle out official DVDs.”
Sorry for your loss.
Are you going to recreate new torrents and up them somewhere for those that might want what you already have?
“by Joker:
I’ll just wait on demonoid,public trackers are done.”
spoiler: demonoid’s tracker is public
Sad day for file sharers and the admin at Mini…..
But a great day for me….GIRUY Darkskythe and Tony, you ain’t god anymore.
Regards
TW :D
damn :( my favorite site :( what a waste… does anyone know familiar site to mininova ???
for anyone interested speed.cd is a private tracker and like all private trakers it has super fast downloads and much much more important you don’t need an invitation to join.
check it out speed.cd
@ 161 / Sectr9
“Big or small, theft is still theft.”
Even when we go down the “stealing” road there’s one very big “BUT”: “stealing” is a lot more wrong than “stealing from the stealers”. Because that’s what filesharers do, they “steal from the stealers”, the mediacompanies that’ve been stealing from the artists. I know this argument has been used many times and is pretty hollow anyway, but why should a pirate feel guilty when his/her actions *perhaps* cause the artist to receive some pennies less than he/she/they would anyway recieve? Especially when the pirated copy *perhaps* causes a pay from a future product/by other people who happen to like it?
http://www.kickasstorrents.com seems to be decent replacement for now
Ah well, I was banned anyway for uploading a torrent with a zip file. Long live TPB, isoHunt, and BitSnoop.
SEED!U PRICKS..DONATE 5 BUCKS CHEAP A$$.SO THE SIGHT STAYS STRONG!
Go with a private tracker thats where P2P is going…DARKnets
We hope Mininova didn’t actually delete all the torrents.
We have a Content Distribution account. In it we had uploaded content as well as torrents for artists distributing Creative Commons licensed Content.
All of the torrents were removed, only the uploaded content remains.
What about the legal torrents?
i wish people with nothing useful to say would just not say anything.
Dear corporate moneyhoarders,
We don’t need you BUT you need us. We feed your fat wallet so keep antagonizing us if you wish to become poor.
You can’t stop the digital revolution.
Thanks Mininova for all the good times. Moving on to the next.
“Nov 26, 2009 at 19:00 by rob in madrid
for anyone interested speed.cd is a private tracker and like all private trakers it has super fast downloads and much much more important you don’t need an invitation to join.
check it out speed.cd”
**Cough** Really Rob??
Private, but no need for invite??
Fantassstic… LOL
Sounds like a very private and secure site to me. :-/
Good riddance Mininova….banned me…but I prefer Demonoid anyway.
hard to beleive n so sad to sorry
Rot and wither, you bunch of cowardly bastards.
You had plenty of alternatives, but chose the easy way out. Good luck lasting more than a week with the DoS attacks you’re about to recieve…
Thanks #167
https://ssl.scroogle.org/
Please use this link for your search engine if you enjoy your privacy.
So another site has bite the dust thanks to the Corporate Powers-That-Be. The same powers that can corrupt governments and legal systems around the world. Not for protecting the rights of artists and whatnot but to protect the greed and power base of the corporate elite. The World, Open For Business….just not for everyone else!
170 Nov 26, 2009 at 18:32 by Mike18xx
***FUCK*** MININOVA
They’ve been a bunch of pussies for years trying to run a “family” site where swearwords as tame as “crap” are auto-munged to “****” and asshole mods will dick you for telling off people you troll the comment-threads of your torrents.
Right on point brother.At least at TPB you can tell the assholes that they are assholes.
“priceless”
Wow, I wonder how long it is going to take for mininova, alexa rank 90 of global websites drops to the pits of traffic hell.
Failures.
@172 P2P4ever:
Yep, that is your opinion and I will move on. I’ve been called worse in my time, why should I care if someone I don’t even know decides to call me an ass? =)
> If I copy the info on your PC, am I stealing?
Yeah, if I didn’t give it away. But once that stuff is out there for purchase, and someone buys it, and you make copies from HIM, then no… it’s sharing.
Simply put, you share it with the person who bought it. You don’t even touch the original computer.
On the other hand, private data on my PC has to be touched by someone to “steal” it. But if I gave my data to someone, then it doesn’t need to involve me any further.
http://madeup.ath.cx:89/article/2009.11.26/bittorrent_update.html
I guess this is my queue to move over to using newsgroups
this shouldn’t happen….
you guys rely on JUST mininova and tpb?….???? why?!?!? there are SO many HUGE private tracker communities… much better than these public crappy sites.
I suggest using ‘Scene-ers’
SceneDLL is probably the best.
It’s not torrents, just direct downloads.
http://beta.xldr.net/
or http://www.sceneddl.net
good sites still left:
btjunkie
isohunt
There is also kickasstorrents but they have no userbase, no comments and no ratings.
here’s a link that may be useful to people looking for other torrent sites:
http://members.quicknet.nl/romeria/bittorrentsites1.htm
Wow, a lot of you seem not to understand the concept of “private” trackers.
A tracker is not private when its “private” but doesn’t need invites or is open to registrations.
Failpeople fail badly at logic.
I think we the pirates should have new way and technology now.The DHT and Peer exchange should work better than these trackers as they are going to be settled down by Copyright Owners. Whatever we need to do is continue sharing the things but with many platforms and torrents should be backed up on private servers and DHT should be powerful. Hope MN can understand our feelings , and demonoid comes back online soon. Thanks MN for your service , we are thankful.
Damn…And I thought today couldn’t get worse. As usual Murphy’s law proved me wrong. I’m sad. After Demonoid, PB and two trackers from my country, Mininova was my choice to look for torrents. Demonoid is down for unknown period of time, PB is down and now Mininova’s gone… :(
#201, fail. It is said that redestributing, copying or modifying of copyright protected content without the explicite permission of the owner is breaking the law aka stealing intellectual property. If you make these copies and keep them for yourself (backup of your WinXP CD for example since we all know that in time CDs go bad and can’t be used anymore) without giving them away, there is no problem. The moment you start giving them away, you break the law, since yes, you bought it, but all who didn’t buy it and get it from you, didn’t pay for the product => stealing.
People need to start using things like the Tor HiddenTracker to get it going.
http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-hydra-anonymous-hidden-tracker-via-tor-090725/
http://z6gw6skubmo2pj43.onion:8080/announce (use with tor installed)
http://z6gw6skubmo2pj43.tor2web.com:8080/announce (don’t need tor installed for this)
I haven’t been using MiniNova for about 1+ year now and still got all my torrents…
For Tv Series I hit EZTV…
For Music I check Coda or TBP if in doubt I go for torrent-finder, always found my complete discograpies
For Movies I go with torrent-finder or isohunt or superfundo
For animes I use torrent-finder or private anime trackers
For games and applications I stopped using torrent and went with megaupload/rapidshare/netload direct downloads a long, long time ago.
For pdf’s I use private trackers and direct downloads.
Really all this uproar is simply because y’all are a lazy bunch of fools relying only on 1 source because its so f’king convenient. Well guess what? The joke’s on you! And I’m happy with schadenfreude.
Well the game of cat & mouse continues.
I find myself downloading all my media from direct download sites like megaupload these days, with the help of sites like sidereel that organize the links for me.
lol@ 171.
ill miss mininova as well and will probablly start using torrentzap. out of most of the sites that have been listed this one seems to have no adds and has a more friendly interface relative to MN.
For the f’king umpteenth time.
THE PIRATE BAY
IS
NOT
DOWN
NOR
SOLD OUT.
The deal fell through and they(the original owner) are still running it.
NO own PirateBay Tracker, BECAUSE IT’S F’KING NOT NEEDED with OpenBitTorrent.
Compendre,amigos?
I’ll miss Mininova but this pi$$es on oothefuxthat’s bonfire!
FU*K copyrights…
Go to hell!
Go Pirate …
let move the community to h1n1Torrent.com
WAT a sad day!!!!! But u know u can never end piracy. Hammer down a nail on and it protrudes on the other side, the same is the case with piracy. LONG LIVE PIRATES!
and hey believe me, bit torrent traffic won’t decrease an iota!
dont care wat anyone says mininova had the BEST layout with fast mods and hugest torrent base, should open a new site hosted on rlslog same host….speed.cd has very few users and fake axxo releases..
h33t and demoniod seem best now
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http://www.kickasstorrents.com is my choice……so sad for mininova:(….i want them back…:(….
All I see in these comments is an entire generation raised to think all digital content should be free.
You know what happens when everybody starts thinking that way? The content guys lose their jobs and the content dries up.
The only hope for content (music and movies in particular) is that countries worldwide start taking this more seriously.
Hey All!!
come say hi @
http://www.scenedemon.com/
and
http://www.scenedemon.us/
99% torrents all run on 100mbit lines!
Hey All!!
come say hi @
http://www.scenedemon.com/
and
http://www.scenedemon.us/
99% torrents all run on 100mbit lines!
dgi
@Post 216: lmfoa, so you also know how much of a knob end oothe is. ;)
@222 in that case advertisers should pay my cable bill for forceing me to watch there adds?commercials .its my airtime i pay for it.force us to wait 7 min to get back to a series.fuk that!
Sites that replace piratebay and mininova are
http://www.btjunkie.org
http://isohunt.com/
Hey All!!
come say hi @
http://www.scenedemon.com/
and
http://www.scenedemon.us/
99% torrents all run on 100mbit lines!
oinon
Sad news… This is big victory of MAFIAA(. I liked that site, but now it has absolutely no sense to go on Mininova (
Good bye and R.I.P. Mininova!
Hey All!!
come say hi @
http://www.scenedemon.com/
and
http://www.scenedemon.us/
99% torrents all run on 100mbit lines!
Torrents are dead IRC is the future
goodbye…and thanks for everything…
from haiti.
Like this Jews in Schindler’s List….
“Where do we go now?”
Now lets see how we bury all those lil private tracers. One by one. Torrentfiasco.
What are these small and closed pages?
Ppl looking in here wants a free easy replacement.
Try http://isohunt.com/
Pretending to care about Mininova.
Hey All!!
come say hi @
http://www.scenedemon.com/
and
http://www.scenedemon.us/
99% torrents all run on 100mbit lines!
sd
LMAO!!!!!! YOU STOOPID TARDS STILL USE MININOVA???? HAHAHHAhahahAHHAhAHAHhAHha
WHO CARES? GET LIFE U LEWZERS!
@222
I’ll repost:
“I’ve had it with all this ‘You know you’re stealing’ crap posted in some of these comments. This is petty theft even when it is done by millions!. Plz go and visit wikileaks or something to get an idea of the real stealing and raping done by the big guys. The same sort of soul-deprived demonlike entities that are ripping whole countries off by evading tax, cheating with the rules, fukking over their workers and sickening their customers all because of a healthy profit. Now you try and make me feel guilty?!? Even while i’ve never ever spend more of my hard earned moneyz on shows, dvd’s and stuff as i’ve ever done before in my life. And all that thanks to the free shopping i can do on this internet thingie and thereby furthering my taste and thus delving deeper into the bag with chocolate cookies this sick industry offers me against whorewhopping prices. And i still spend like a mofo. And it’s the same story over and over. I’m not the only one buying cinema tickets, special dvd boxes, paying for band merchandise. And then what about the rest of the world? Those guys who need to walk 100 miles to the nearest theatre? Give us a break and let us share what’s worth sharing.”
And you know what? There already excists an entire generation (for generations btw) who strongly believe in commercial entrepeneurship and profit at all cost. Entities who steal from us, the people, and thinks it’s ok because it’s backed by laws, courtorders or whatever. And they are proud of it, throw parties and announce profits that’ll make a sane man vomit in disgust. What we do is petty theft and it has it’s rewards for all participants.
Most people are paid shit for their work and still have to cough up the money to just afford a simple living. They do not have the time to fight this rotten system because they have to work two jobs and still need to be able to socialize and talk about whatever stupid nudity contest was on tv last night….
I’m sry…i’m just mad as hell, and not going to take it any more! Stop the whining over pirating stuff and i’ll stop whining over society and sick turds motivated by greed and the appeal of social status.
@EbilPhish
U iZ SOOOOO KWELZZZZ and 12 years old.
HAHAhaHAHAHAha
so who is saying kickasstorrents is hosted in the us? when i whois their ip address i show amsterdam.
http://tools.whois.net/index.php?fuseaction=whois.whoisbyipresults
http://h33t.com http://torrents.to http://demonoid.com (if back) http://scrapetorrent.com
Next time someone tries to acquire a torrentsite, try to be more positive instead of ridiculing the potential buyer. You see, torrent sites are going down and so will you when they are gone. So, drop the scorn and ridicule – your business will live longer.
I think we should really list who is really responsible for these kind of things.
Forget about BREIN, MPAA and RIAA for a moment and look who their members are:
F you Sony!
F you Walt Disney!
F you EMI!
F you NBC!
F you Viacom!
F you News Corp!
F you Time Warner!
The best thing about Mininova was that I could watch my favourite american shows months before they were shown in the UK! I’ve already paid my tv licence for the year, copyright or not, they still get there money!
What a bunch of D-bags!
It’s only a court order… who gives a shit?
Congrats to mininova and the last half decade they fought for freedom of communication.
The fight goes on, and btjunkie is taking in refugees.
We’re offering mininova refugees a warm place to stay, milk, cookies, & of course lots of TORRENTS =)
http://btjunkie.org
Wow, Mininova was just the best, sort by comments, size, seeds, leechers & had all of the best of the best.
pisses me off, They spent alot of money to have this done, there are ppl starving,families without homes because the idiots spent billions on a party “did not know how to manage mula”, soldiers at war also dieing at war, for what? This kind of bullshit, freedom? “oil” Who says that something is worth something? I take time taking a shit do they wanna put a price on that? Be My Guest…
Money hungry eating sons of Whores, Money Money Money.
Oh man what else can be said?
FUCK THE MAFIAA RIAA GTF GET A FUCKING LIFE, COCKSUCKING WHORES.
@74
you got a invite code????? if so send me one…
It’s really sad to see these sites become shadows of their former selves.
http://www.hoponbaby.com
Wow that’s fucking gay.
Mininova as a terrible site, all they did was index torrents with no tracker at all. The comment system over there sucked and everything was censored heavily.
I won’t miss them in the least bit.
Long live PirateBay, at least for now.
i’m sad to see them go legal, though i’ll be focusing more on private trackers now or other unhindered public ones P2P FTW !
CUNTS!!!
I think mininova should start doing what others before did.
Start using free content, there are tons of it on the internet and start producing or financing their own content if they can of course.
But what they could do is set up something like “slicethepie” for movies, videos and music and open a CC Commons section.
If you guys really want to hurt the MAFIAA this is how you do it for real. Once a roadmap is in place they will not be able to negate market to it.
I checked out some of the sites listed on this page.
Well everybdy knows isohunt and btjunkie but http://kickasstorrents.com (whole new level) and http://leakz.net (no community :( but huge index :)) stand out…
btjunkie.org is better than mininova anyways
@257 except kickasstorrents is a problem, because they host the torrents on the server. You can download them via http. Not the .torrents but the acutal files!
How long do you really think they’ll last?
StarWreck is a fantastic piece of fan based film the special effects are good and is done it by finnishs LoL
They even have a lot of movies on the pipeline and I think they could use some help and mininova could start doing that.
Ok! so we can’t use “that” content, but we sure can use others and create valid untouchable content.
I’m willing to live the MAFIAA behind and start a new “thing” one that will not have any Sony, BMG, EMI, Disney in it.
Yah I know its hard but I’m trully tired of those folks already and they killed my will to see any fun in their “products”.
Those who want to give up it is understandable and I wish you guys the best luck in the world going to your private trackers and what not.
I on the other hand want to stand up my ground and if that means no more films from hollywood or music from the big labels that is fine by me.
this is a sad day for bittorrent, a sad day for Internets, and a sad day for freedom! The MAFIAA will pay for this!!
Well it has been a great run Mininova. The legacy will live on.
RIP Mininova along side aXXo
I have been using:
http://www.kickasstorrents.com/
and
http://eztv.it/
Until something like mininova pops up again, those are two great substitutes
@ Argonomic
If content dried up, people would be sharing the public domain. I noticed that all the public domain content was also removed from Mininova, including freeware. WTF? This is just one more step in shutting down a distribution system of legitimate free content so the industry can try sell their crap. There were tons of torrents that contain content that has never been released for sale. If the companies wanted to make money off it, wouldn’t they release it? They just want to shut down distribution for idependent musicians and filmmakers. So who’s the ones stealing?
Copyright infringement is NOT stealing. No uploader has ever claimed the content to be their original work.
[ Like this Jews in Schindler’s List….
“Where do we go now?” ]
Good bye mininova. Am moving to kickasstorrent, my new torrent home. see you all mininova fans there. Till then…..
[P.S. R.I.P. Mininova. Will miss you Mnininova]
MN started dying a while ago. We need Demonoid back.
Oh for f’ks sake, stop this bitching and go to
http://www.btsites.tk/
I don’t understand why they just didn’t sell it, or move to a free country. destroying it served no purpose.
Remember – they are still considering an appeal
tend to use imdb.com to find the latest films being released and thenn http://www.dogpile.com (metasearch engine) to search for
title +torrent
Newsgroups
Goodbye Mininova, you’ll be missed :(
went to the site and they have a grand total of 34 torrents left!
GOOD Riddance! I hated Mini Nova and it’s Admins. Banned me for providing information on where to find the right Subtitles once! They got what they deserved. They should have respectfully just SHUT themselves down.
I bet these MiniNova admins are the same group of turd swappers that are running 1 of the 4 or so other sites that look exactly like MiniNova. Banning people left and right without a reason or even an email warning. Hell with them.
Last but not least, all you power tripping money hungry greedy corporations. Your power is in Advertising. P2P file sharing is only a very small percentage of internet users, but these internet users are the ones who Advertise internet itself to other users who are mainstream (Email, chat, etc) to start off with. Fighting File Sharing is almost an attack on the Internet itself. While I understand you want to make as much money as possible, I have this to say. The dire situation you face now with your fat wallets will NEVER go away. The Artists, Producers, Writers, and all those BEHIND The scenes will eventually form their own Group, saying Goodbye to the likes of Sony and DRM, and I would much rather have the CYCLE start over again, and put the money where it belongs, into the pockets of those who deserve it. So this is a revolutionary new time for a new Cycle to take place. In this battle, I feel sorry for those who wage the war. Torrents are like Vietnam and Afghanistan, you can’t win and you won’t win. Pay the people back! Oh and the $50 blu ray, keep dreaming. I’ll wait till the Blu-ray can be easily ripped and technology allows us to download faster and faster. I might even buy something from you *Bleeps* if you guarantee huge payouts to the 600 employees who made your movies possible.
Remind me of old Chinese proverb: Ack like pussy! treat like pussy!
Nice day for you, Mininova!
Soon, only music on the radio and DVD’s advertised on television will be selling, not all that obscure music and catalog titles.
Just as planned.
TL will become #1 now
Demonoid Anyone?
mandatory comment posted
@233
Mininova and nazis would be a better comparison. One stole art from Jews in Hollywood the other from Jews in Europe.
The story of Schindler’s Liste is ’scheiss falsch’ as one that that has seen the inner of birkenau told.
“Mininova Deletes All Infringing Torrents”
And how are they going to do that?
Even you tube can not keep up with that dealing with take down notices while you have hundred of million of people posting stuff all the time.
Mininova banned me two days ago and then shut down the next day.. Sad.. Weak.. Mininova Sellout? Anyways im moving to http://www.kickasstorrents.com/ for searching..
kickasstorrents gives “overloaded” right now :( Guess they cant take the heat !!??
anymore decent ones ?? I liked that leakz.net but its no signup, the others posted here apart from isohunt and btjunkie are worthless … so anymore ???
@108 Bob Smith: “Why can’t you just buy copyrighted content.”
* Because some content is not available for sale in some countries?
* Because some books etc… are out-of-print?
* Because buying content (if at all available) only serves to finance WIPO’s smear campaigns and increasingly repressive laws?
* Because buying content means paying sales taxes, and if your government wages war, you’re thus financing wars all around the globe?
There are plenty of reasons not to buy copyrighted content… just as there are plenty reasons to sponsor artists and authors through other means (donations, going to gigs etc.)
Mininova should now change its name to a better one like ShittyNova
Mininova was just an indexer, who cared about it anyways.
And now we hear the truth
“Mininova … a successful business that generated millions of dollars in revenue”
as if it was hard to guess. :P
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=209767999327&ref=nf
well join this then !
groups with accounts like on the dead Mininova; Noir, EZTV and others have uploaded and still are to monova.org
What a shame girls, looks like your going to have to man up, move out of your parents house and get a job to actually PAY for your entertainment.
What is Mininova?
I always use http://www.yourbittorrent.com/ :\
Well, mininova was one of the biggest torrentsites, LOL!
But I also used http://www.yourBittorrent.com . I was a fan of the former myBittorrent and since they became yourBittorrent things have improved on the site.
This is Pure ugly..All the Big jolt all of sudden!!! Team Minninova sucks..they couldnot stand the Heat like TPB!!!
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&ref=nf&gid=209767999327
@258
aXXo is NOT dead! He moved to speed.cd and is very much ACTIVE over there
Newartriot [bd riper]
Noir [xvid rls]
EZTV
1337x
Are all on Monova, with useraccounts to see their uploads directly.
lol @ the faggots crying about not being able to get torrents now. Lrn2google you twats.
There’s a plus to all of this; the torrents left on mininova are quite interesting. Check de documentary section. I’ll hope that the doc ‘7/7 Ripple Effect’ will get more attention as a result of all of this. Check it.
http://www.monova.org
bring back all the torrents like there was films on there that were from 30 and 40 years that you will never get on dvd like y would they care about copyright things with films that are out 10 20 30 years i wouldnt mind if they just took of all new releases that people put up bring back mininovaaaaaaaaaaa
I think Monova sucks. :)
Lotsa virusses, 40 different adverts per page (including fullscreen ones!)… crap.
(sarcastic comment follows)
good for them!!! wonder how long they will last now?
bring all the torrents back just get rid of all new releases bring back all the torrents from 10 20 30 years ago bring it bk
Not dead yet. I hope they manage to come back fully functional. The costs of a lawsuit are huge, appealing will make the bill even higher so they might just leave it at that and go for another project. Either way the media industry fails as there are plenty of alternatives out there.
Some people here commented on the blindness of those greedy bastards on the fact that more access to content means more sales. Well, that’s not the first time it happens. The big 3 auto manufacturers of the US closed their eyes to the evident trend of more efficient vehicles over the giant gas guzzling SUVs and they failed. Some media companies will start following them soon ;D
Dude that makes sense to me Dude
RT
http://www.complete-privacy.se.tc
So let me get this right…
When I download the latest Dr. Who it’s stealing.
When Goldman Sachs takes away your home and your job – that’s just good business.
OK, thanks. Just wanted to make sure.
LMFAO.. now they need to get rid of their crappy forums that have nothing but a bunch of punkass wannabes MODs and losers kissing their ass
Which anti piracy /pro copywrite groups were this judge a member of..
Never fear at least Google is still around to serve your torrent needs!
@207
Kickasstorrents does have comments, ratings and a forum.
Hey look at it all from an employment perspective. Without these torrent sites there would be no ANTI-P2P or Anti piracy groups. If they were to remove all sites, all those people will be jobless.
RIP mininova
http://www.likemyscreenshot.com
H33T IS THE BEST TORRENT SITE
PROUD TO BE THE MEMBER OF H33T
IT IS THE BEST ALTERNATE TO MININOVA
H33T ROCKS
http://www.kissasstorrents.com – we guarantee to protect and serve you the best and newest torrents. Join kissasstorrents.com today
You know it makes sense
PS, hanks for the database and email addys, mininova, we love you
This is all in vain. Mininova was a cute child of the Internet and p2p technology. So as long as you have the parents out there, they are going to give birth to other cool kids!!
Incredibly unbelievable, even though I saw it coming. I have visited this site almost everyday for the last 4yrs but once the ruling on PirateBay came down I knew it was just a matter of time before Mininova got hit! Being a torrent fan that still buys DVD’s and CD´s Torrent sites like Mininova enable me to filter out the good from the ridiculous! (Of which there are many.)
A victim of it’s own phenomenal success any torrent site that gets that big and that famous and generates that kind of revenue, was always going to be in “their” crosshairs. I predict that all the big torrent sites will fall one by one but I also predict that others will rise from the ashes.
The torrent community will never die, we are just too strong for that and” the force” will always be with us the people. However as for the future I believe the community will splinter and become much more fractious and faster moving sites up, sites down in the blink of an eye. We will always stay a few steps ahead of the greedy corps and their legal henchmen! So It’s to buckle and take the green pill people as the torrent community moves into a new era.
MININOVA Thanks for ride it was fab! I salute you!
Quick someone create mininova2.org
:D Lots of open source torrent sites.
http://www.plentyoftorrents.com
What really pisses me off is that often you can’t get dated material from legit outlets – it is deemed unsellable. Ergo Mininova filled that gap. i have countless old movies that are classics which I downloaded but are simply not on the shelf to buy. WTF. Someone grow a brain – if you want us to buy it – put it on the f****** shelf
mininova is just one address in our swarm ;) and we are 58 million strong ;)
more bullshit comments plz…
Not just Mininova. Sites that provide direct links to filehosts I won’t name are also getting nuked. This was one of the best — no spam, clean layout, fast loading, trustworthy links — and was killed just in the past week:
http://www.seriesgringas.tv/
For the CopyNazis monitoring this: You shitheads aren’t offering WHAT WE WANT FOR SALE. Most of the stuff I want YOU WON’T SELL TO ME. Get the fuck off your asses or get the fuck out of our way.
no bullshit about it buddy ,, chase us around the internet ,, u’ll see ;)
That’s it. I’m moving to China for more FREEDOM.
lol…There must be like 2000 torrents left
Yes, boys and girls, “free shit” is a non-sustainable business model.
FukPiratez, you can go die in a fire because as long as there are people like you, there will always be people like us.
Most of you must be fairly new to filesharing. Longtime filesharers stopped using TPB, Mininova, and other public trackers years ago.
You think these sites had depth of content? Wait til you work your way up to some good private sites and see what’s really available. You’ll never look back. ;)
@ Mini-who?
Not necessarily. I’ve been using torrents for about 6 years now (so I wouldn’t necessarily consider myself “new”), and I still use public trackers for most of my stuff (‘cept Demonoid, but that’s another story). Personally, I find that most of the stuff that can be found on private trackers can just as easily be found on public trackers.
Will miss Mininova but the torrent community will never die. We will get up, brush the dust off and move on. There are tons of torrent sites out there. We mourn but we are moving on.
RIP Mininova.
Hi Guys.
OBSCENE of ExtraScene Release Group.
I shared on Mininova for quite some time, it was an AMAZING site, full of aspiration at one point in time, and it was a good fight they carried on during their spree. Thanks Mininova. I also want to suggest to any whom are still looking for a great public site, to consider ET, my home site. We have great encoders and release groups whom post their releases there. Some of the best p2p releasers have accounts here, and our staff is committed to excellence. We support and care about file sharing, and we like to see others share too. We verify all of our torrents, and have an extensively large community. http://extratorrent.com
Where do I now go to check the Uploader Specific torrents which was one of the best and trusted feature in mininova ?
Just by bookmarking the uploaders ( secretmyth, saimey, jonny, eztv, fxg, xRG,NewArRiot ) that I trust,I was able to keep myself updated on the latest releases WITHOUT ever wondering if they are genuine or not..NOW There is no other such alternatives other than TPB ( which might also get shutdown like this anytime )..
Most of the sites which just indexes like seedpeer ,bitsnoop or kickass does not have a Uploader section and hence are full of FAKES !!!
No matter how much we will love or hate mininova..it will surely be missed !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Yes, boys and girls, “free shit” is a non-sustainable business model.”
Your problem is that they will always be people sharing stuff on internet for free even their own stuff. And your machavelic plan to control internet will never work as internet is impossible to control. Even if you still believe it can be done I have a bad new for you.
There is alternatives to internet that does not even required an ISP and of course these are all totally anonymous.
Mininova and public trackers are for amateurs never used any of them
lol…..so what, new tech is being developed, new ways to download.
life goes on.
they killed napster
look what happened…..
its to late,way to late
mininova bankrolled and went legit!
awesome! lol
theres always demonoid.
all those users just flooded everywhere else.
they didnt do a thing
Well as though who moaned about private trackers and their ilk on Mininova are starting to see their benefit. I suggest you go to
http://www.invitescene.com
which tracks invites for private sites including some of the really good sites, as well as the good bread and butter private trackers like IPT.
Just be warned you had better learn to seed and share or you WILL be banned.
Maybe this will help the scene as leeching is out of control on TPB and Mininova: seeding is good manners people. Just leave your torrents on your list for 48 hours and let it upload. I truly agree with Steve (Comment 312) the major benefit for me is not TS, Cams, or DVDScrs, it is twofold; old films and rarities and independents, which are usually 10x better than studio shite, and for 1080 bluerays which take forever but look amazing even through a projector… use 1080 as your search term. Be waned if all your hard drives are FAT32 most will be too large. Download to your Computer HD and then swap out. Mac users, just check you have a drive that is Mac Extended (CMD i will tell you how the disk is formatted).
Finally, this is a social revolution – believe in freedom of speech and go the movies, buy a film you really like, and keep entertainment affordable by dowloading the fark out of the net.
Peace out…
Oh please. There will always be places on the internet to find and take pilfered merchandise. It’ll just get riskier as time goes by.
Damn, I love Mininova! It updates about new torrents from time to time and are categorized neatly too. Now I guess I’m going with Isohunt. I really hope something like Mininova pops up again. With a neat interface.
good riddance
DAmN man …. !!
thanks and goodbye!
from south america, [DOT]CL
RIP mininova, you will be missed.
On the plus side, it just died and i already got 10 other sites from reading the comments. Most of them in MN’s same format.
What did they accomplish? ;)
Macronova?
Just wait till “Internet 2″ comes on line. It will spell the beginning of Chinese style control of your web surfing and the end of Internet Freedom. Welcome to the New World Order my friends.
The only thing I will miss about Mininova is MovieExtreme’s uploads. He was posting some really cool and obscure stuff. I wonder where he’ll post his torrents now.
R.I.P. Mininova
They say you’ll never forget your first :-)
I’ll miss you.
http://xtremespeeds.net – it’s private, but worth it.
WTF are you guys all doing? Why don’t we all make complaints to BREIN as well as letters and phone calls? SH*T this GOT to be stopped how can a few people CONTROL THE EARTH???!! Time to wake up!
And it only took the RIAA/MPAA + friends what? 4 years to kill Mininova? It must be frustrating to know there are literally hundreds of other torrent sites, all of which will be happy to take the ‘refugees’ from this minor inconvenience.
@337
You may find movieextreme’s uploads at monova as an alternative.
Below is the Link :
http://www.monova.org/user.php?id=movieextreme
Personally I dont think its fair, there are some older movies and music that you actually CANT buy in stores and from what im seeing,it just wont be available anywhere, even for a fee.Mininova was my absolute fave torrent site and had everything I wanted at the best quality.
R.I.P mininova
Boo sucks to the man!!!!
If they want to stop piracy, they should stop paying actors and such stupidly huge amounts of money for the work they do and drop the price of bluray disks dvd’s and players I think that the powers that be should look at the reasons for piracy starting in the first place thats how they’ll end it.
A@*holes!
Sad sad news indeed. I had uploaded a many a torrent at mininova. I could hardly believe it when I stopped by there and saw them all gone.
H33t & extratorrent are still decent alternatives for now, as far as open trackers go, but the best bet’s to find your way to a membership at a private tracker (but of course you’ll need some decent bandwidth up & down to ever be remotely happy at a private tracker. If you can’t seed to a 1.0 ratio or better then forget it).
Demonoid’s due to come back sometime, but they’re sort of a mix of public & private (public tracker – private site or semi-private). Demonoid was excellent and I hope they return sooner than later. Their forum was (and should be again) an excellent place to get yourself an invite to a private tracker.
The perfect way to kill a website.
We have many beautiful down jacket and boots, I hope you will be happy to shopping http://www.UggNetShop.com
So it seems that torrent files can be infringing even if gthey don’t actually contain any copyrighted material in them.
Well done Mininova for taking it proudly up the arse.
@344: You think the old man media industries give a shit about your ‘fairness’? Do they really care that people are sharing deleted works that they themselves cannot see the profitibility of re-release of said works.
The old man industries are just like the Equine Industry during the invention of the car. Anyone for the Red Flag Act again?
yes it is a sad day when this kind of thing can happen almost at will, but imo hanging around the public trackers so much is kinda just asking for it. But i really don’t see why all the long faces, there are tons of smaller private sites out there with pretty much revolving doors, as the “greedy leechers” are weeded out constantly, plus, content is filtered properly so quality is at its best 99.9 percent of the time. All you need to do is get out of the torrent client search bar and roll the web, i guarantee with SOME effort, in 5 -10 mins. all the peeps here could be hooked up, in 25 min i joined 8 private trackers that had open sign ups and they are all fairly reputable sites.
happy hunting and keep the seed alive
Brein, you’ve hurt more than just one site, you’ve hurt an entire community, and what’s more you’ve hurt the artists and companies you work for even more. All you’ve done is hardened the determination of those within this community, and instead of working with those who would benefit your clients, you’ve split the crater between us even further apart. Never again will I buy, rent or pay to see a movie or listen to a music cd, as I know your clients have paid you more than what we would have overly paid for their movie/music. In the pages of history, Mininova, a hero, murdered and falls at the hands a tyrant.
Thats why I use http://www.plentyoftorrents.com
Sites go down all the time but PoT is always up. So it makes it easier to search the big sites.
i am literally panicking. wtf.
Internet Is free and will always be free with or without “brien”ers.
If anything can be shared it will be shared no one going to or can stop it.
If you want sell your product without internet invovled then sell that which cannot be computed. sell vegetables.
But if you think you can hijack the net than your are WRONG.
DAMN WRONG.
http://www.mininova.biz/
http://mininovatorrents.net
http://www.monova.org/
mini is far from dead, only the mininova.org . I don’t mind changing my url do you?
http://www.twitter.com/overnetuser
Cowards cowards cowards!
What is wrong with these morons?
Can’t they just refuse/resist the fucking worse-than-nazi corporate dictatorship? What are they afraid of? They’re not gonna be sent to a death camp or something, so STAND UP AND FIGHT!
Police state now is coming toward Internet. Shocking. The same people enjoy getting their hand all over any new medium platform. (vomit)
RIP MiniNova
A good site is http://www.h33t.com
But..alas…not as good as what mininova was.
BEST Torrent Site , Join Us Now
http://h33t.com/userdetails.php?id=128558
This is nwo(europe, usa, russia, china etc et al ptb-ptbs) rearing its ugly ill-uminati head for the torrents that expose the truth. I hope a new mininova and other iso be created in replacement of this. Cyber Dictatorship and Paris Hilton rising. Theme Song====”Hypnotize” by Copy Right(Right To Copy With Torrents That Exposes Many Truths, just ask Mr. Alex Jones and Mr. Celente)====tbc====….
Torrents are dead. And that’s a good thing! BitTorrent is a foolish protocol, showing everyone your IP. Even those, who are coming after you. Today most file sharers have moved on to the safe haven Rapidshare/Megaupload via Google’s search.
isohunt is still the best game out there. Anyone that seriously thinks that TPB is a safe place to get torrents from is absolutely insane… I don’t trust them any longer, and by the downfall of traffic they have experienced, not too many others do.
Mininova started digging their own grave months ago, so this move doesn’t seem like too much of a surprise.
Demonoid looks iffy right now… they appear to have taken all of those server donations and ran. But that’s okay, since they were private and didn’t have the depth of content that public trackers have. Anyone that thinks otherwise must be rather new to filesharing.
h33t works, but it’s pretty ugly and limited, and ExtraTorrent is, well, rather lame.
kickasstorrents is okay, but like I said, it is no isohunt.
@ 359
You must be kidding. RS and megaupload are noobland.
let’s hope mininova will be back :)
one site goes down, ten new ones are coming up – thats the deal…
What ever happens, the thing is that no body can stop piracy. No regrets.
http://www.torrentz.com/
dey will keep on cumin if torrenters hve 2 do sumthng or 2moro another site will b down
Sign up at Torrent Zilla guys.. The D/L speeds are ALWAYS SO FAST. http://torrentzilla.org/
Goodbye Mininova:
http://www.mininova.org/statistics
(in short: ~50% reduction in traffic in one day.)
@368
This is only beginning… I Think in 2 weeks it will be more then 90% reduction in traffic (
Find all the alternatives here..
http://iambibhas.blogspot.com
Viva La Mininova!
But sadly it was fun while it lasted.
???
They cannot hold back the Ocean… Another BT Tracker will take mininova’s place…. The old Soviet Union is looking promising right now.. the suits and lawyers have no control over what happens in the old USSR… their threats mean little in that legal system.. at least that is my prediction… BT Junkie and ISO Hunt are still alive and doing well… MiniNova was cool because their community was not as vulgar and argumentative as BT Junkie.. so if you can cruise through all the spamming and chat cat comments.. BT Junkie is a good source….
Cowards.
first mj and now this. i dont know how much more my heart can take :(
Why cant Mininova follow the ThePirateBay ways. Fuck The Law! They got sued, fined and jailed but it is still running and getting cheered and fans are actully helping to pay fines by donating!
http://www.kickasstorrents.com/ looks pretty damn good. Even better than what Mininova was.
I just want to say something here guys.
Whilst not wanting to press anybodies panic buttons.
just be mindful of what we, the Torrent community, discovered a couple of years ago when an agent organisation of the MPAA had their Gmail hacked and their entire inbox was released on torrent and pinned online.
The dummy sites and faked tiles and everything came out.
What they was doing wasn’t legal in criminal law, let alone us and copyright, it isn’t actually piracy until somebody burns a copy to disk and sells it, we simply breech copyright but MPAA agents had hackers invading torrent sites, the lot.
From the Horses mouth in those emails, i read and analysed a lot of it as did many others, i put the damned emails in a torrent and passed it around myself, i know we said a fair bit about it on Suprbay when i still posted there.
When TPB went down, i stayed mainly with Mininova because i used it back when TorrentSpy was still up, knew it’s established and run decently, but i decided a while ago when those emails came out to check out any new site, see traffic rankings and the whois etc.
Because one consequence of closing down main torrent trackers, like TPB and Mininova, is migration of the community and reuptake to other trackers, they know this, it’s obvious, given past tactics it is safe to assume authorities have set up sites to get details of the migrating communities when main public trackers get closed or as with Mininova all the content taken down and parameters of operation shift.
So when big sites go down because of legal action, watch how you go with newer sites you turn to especially if downloading newer stuff and new music, cam versions etc and lots of it, they don’t mind hosting the stuff themselves to get downloader lists.
Of course there’s alternatives to mininova, apart from content i loved the user interface, i will miss it.
But stick to the established ones not newer and lesser used private trackers etc, newly set up private ones are going to have a lot of proving themselves.
me, i mainly download TV and older stuff so i’m not a primary consideration content wise, i’ve never liked them and have aid so in ways they don’t like so maybe on that level they’d love to feck me up but i really don’t give a crap, said so years ago and still don’t, i don’t hide.
But others may have more to lose, and prefer content authorities are more concerned about as being new releases which they think denies the industry of primary profit uptake, box office/DVD release.
Peer guardian etc and **established** sites, it’s not hard to check and the authorities involved haven’t played legal in the past, downright criminal in point of fact and no reason to assume they are all being legal now, corporate agents and corporations themselves consider themselves above the law, remember that.
For those who aren’t so savvy about the situation, i know a lot of you guys know the score but some seem, in the nicest way, a little naive about the playground we are in as downloaders, so i thought i’d just prompt a bit of downloader community recent history, lest we forget.
I’m sure Ernesto and others at TorrentFreak, some making comments to this thread remember the emails from that hacked Gmail account and the many fold tactics involved they contained, it was somewhat disconcerting when we all found out the scale of MediaDefenders who were operating for the MPAA, outed thanks to the group MediaDefender defenders, we owe those guys for that.
Peace. :)
Pax-Delta-Pan
Enlightened Evolution.
Tempered From The Chaotic Forge Of Life
Court orders…
One day there will be a LAW that says:
Can’t question authority…
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I could go on forever how i think this World System Sucks. But i just say one thing.
Teach your children to question authority. by George Carlin.
You guys can lean allot with his shows, and with Zeitgeist.
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RIP Mininova.org it as good while as last.
magnet links are not torrent files…
Well I never knew Mininova was a dutch operation. Should have know better after all it was the dutch who first legalized marijuana and slavery.
Well I never knew Mininova was a dutch operation. Should have known better after all it was the dutch who first legalized marijuana and slavery.
R.I.P. Mininova
You Guys, It Is Not Looking Good For The Future Of BT, Or P2P In General, The General Public Has To Do Something, Something Drastic, Something Effective, Something SOON
If Something Is Not Done Soon, it Could Be The End Of The World!!!!
LONG LIVE THE REMAINING BITORRENT TRACKERS
LONG LIVE THE PIRATE BAY
LONG LIVE HxH, FxG, FxM, AxG, Kookoo, And All The Other Active DvDrippers
LONG LIVE UTORRENT
R.I.P MININOVA
R.I.P THE OLD PIRATE BAY
R.I.P aXXo
every BT user should upload at least one movie, game, program, song. album, book, a month and tell those anti p2p bastards to f**k off!!!!!!!
RIP Mininova :(
Rise up http://www.plentyoftorrents.com ! xD
People are whining about all the uproar, but unless you have accounts on a good private site there isn’t a nice destination. Sure there are lots of other torrent sites but every one I’ve looked at either has a ton of advertisements, no actual content (i.e you look for a torrent and just get redirected to another torrent site and another, etc)
The nice thing about Mininova is its adds were on the right to look at if you chose, but not in the way. You searched for what you wanted, looked for a high seed count and downloaded it. Nice and simple.
That kind of ease of use is hard to find these days.
And while I only downloaded a few shows a week and watched the majority on my DVR, due to recent unemployment I’ve had to cancel my TV to save funds so it’s not like the argument of “just go buy DVD’s” applies, especially if I’m following shows each week.
R.I.P Mininova. We had some good times… You will be missed!
thank your mother for the rabbits…
When is google being taken down? I can find any warez I want there…
When is rapidshare/megaupload/etc being taken down? They profit from copyright infringement.
.. etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc
Mininova was a search engine. I hosted no copyrighted material at all, and this situation is a joke. Is it illegal to point out to someone a page in a book they are interested in? — Mininova is no different to this.
*it
the tv industry causes this by broadcasting programs 4, 6 or 12 months late outside the USA. the world will not wait.
broadcast it the same day/same week worldwide and no need to download.
So BREIN really want a full-scale war? – Well, they can have it then!
Will someone post all relevant contact details for the leading members of BREIN? – I’m sure someone will pay them a visit or just send them some nice gifts for Christmas, electronically or otherwise… It’s time to take this to the personal level and it ain’t gonna be pretty.
NO ONE WILL GO ON THE SITE AFTER A MONTH OR SOON AND IT WILL GO OFFLINE I BET
LoL…Personally, I dont really care, I guess I should..but I didnt like the site much anyway…
Just another site that bit the dust..
there are still a ton of sittes to choose from Ppl, it isnt the end of BT as we know it, we WILL survive
I had more than 100 rare musical albums on mininova with just close to 200 000 torrent file downloads. As a backup for the torrents upped on demonoid. now they still alive by DHT and the fact that many of them are also upped on sites like BTjunkiie and others alike by others, and the demonoid tracker ofcourse.
so I don’t fkn care. it’s full of dirty leechers anyway. and there’s better things to do afterall..
I’m also glad for those crying out for more media into their brains, cuz It is all part of the manipulation, being used in combination with other methods of control in your daily life.
methods used to wear you out, lower your quality of life:
1. Electrical waves (including your PC and cellphone, house electr. network, everything chipped)
2. Media, be it TV-radio-newspapers-magazines-internet (the most obvious method, yet the most enslaving)
3. Music, Sounds (different method than media, used in a different way although most times through the media)
So long MN, thanks for it all. Cya on the flipside!
Worst week in torrent industry
now day people only care about money, money and money.
this cannot be!
Ha ha ha mininomore, I told you i would get my own back for banning me for nothing, F(_)CKY()U Mininomore and rest in Pieces…
REZ!
Also F(_)CKY()U Mininomore MODS You Bunch of G@y @ss F@GB0ys, I hope your whole family die of swine flu…
REZ!
There is a private tracker open for reg at the moment, but only for a week
http://www.immortalseed.com
I recommend it for TV shows in particular, quite easy to keep a decent ratio.
Defiantly an alternative.
Goodbye Mininova and Have F@gg0t New Service too. im moving to h33t or other alternatives
BTW: how the already registed mininova users to migrate or just cancel their accounts?
409+410: maybe you were banned for being an obvious a$$clown haha :)
Well, it looks like DHT will rein in this struggle. These sites are useless and outdated.
Meh! its getting annoying keeping up with all the sites going down or being slow. Im just going to use http://www.plentyoftorrents.com so I can easily switch between the top sites.
Plentyoftorrents and kickasstorrents are both hosted in US. They both have suddenly come out of nowhere when other known sites are shutting down.
I smell a trap! I would stay away from these new sites until they are established and prove they are not some kind of honeypot. Call me a fool or an idiot or a n00b if you must, but I DO NOT trust them to not try something like this. We are all sad about recent events, looking for someplace to go, and out of the blue, practically at the same time, several new sites magically appear! They have already proven that they will use any means to get to us, why not this?
I feel a great disturbence in the force and my spidey sense is tingling!
Batten down the hatches me hearties there be dragons in these waters!
Prepare to repel boarders!
@ 401
Tim Kuik is the CEO of Brein and he is a total piece of crap.
Look at his web site http://timkuik.com/
especially the “victories” section where he says:
“TV land – I took down the biggest site ever!
by admin on Nov.28, 2008, under Victories
I can’t believe it! Yesterday we took down one of the biggest website hosting piracy! We totally got them! It all started when we were contacted by some guy who said he knew a place where a lot of illegal files were hosted. I noted down the info and called up my maffia buddies to prepare for a raid. I knew this was going to be a big but I never expected it to be the biggest bust in the history of piracy!
3 hours later I hopped in my porsche (my paycheck is amazing! If you thought all the money we get from lawsuits went to their respective owners, think again!) and me and my buddies were off to Leaseweb.
When we arrived Leaseweb welcomed us and we drank some milk and ate some cookies (since we bust shit there all the time it was not realy a surprise for them, I think they have a whole fridge full of milk, and cookies for everyone there). After that we confiscated all servers, we did a little victory dance and went back to our office in Hoofddorp.
Now It’s just a matter of time and we can bust all those dutch criminals who are uploading pirated files!
Tim.
PS: The confiscated servers had 45 TB of files! I got 425 new movies for my collection! Thanks TV land!”
he is a pirate for taking the movies from the tvland servers that he was confiscating.
#417 anon is right! Here is the direct link anonymoused…
TV land – I took down the biggest site ever!
Could he not be sued for the stealing of movies he claims he did? And how can you save that page as evidence?
Goodbye Mininova!
Thanks for all dump you brought to me!
Hey a good site to check out is:
http://www.trackeraccess.org
Reg..is open.
I found it looking for a replacement.
Reg is NOT open at trackeraccess! Invite only!
@421…it is open click on register,
no matter what it says.
Try reading the EULA for trackeraccess. I won’t be using this site, no thank you!
Sad day indeed, Mininova was the best torrent site to use for Torrents in my book by none. But I guess they had little choice in the end.
Unfortunately though, I’ll no longer be using them from now on. And they’ve pretty much signed there own site death warrant with this decision to remove them.
I just hope they realise this? If they don’t, they soon will over the next two weeks.
mininova was the only site which got seperate category for bollywood hindi movies .. miss u
went to
http://www.trackeraccess.org
the site is legit, I like it thanks for the link.
It says invite only but click register, its open rite now.
Demonoid had a better selection, in my opinion. Hopefully they return soon. I use BitMonster pretty frequently, but the porn is so prevalent there that it’s very hard to tolerate.
Mininova was the best, ever. Something will come along. It always does. When Napster died, people found a way to share their stuff.
Dam 1st M.Jackson then this…
Worst week in torrent history
dont you guys know this is gen Y?
………Y pay for it……….
have we payed enuff, we all die earlier now what more do you want
Dam 1st M.Jackson then this…
Worst week in torrent history
dont you guys know this is gen Y?
………Y pay for it……….
haven’t we payed enuff, we all die earlier now what more do you want
Why bother with just one torrent site when you can have access to 16 from one location?
I’ve been using http://www.Entertane.com for awhile, its great. Or http://www.torrenttree.com is another alternative.
Try using xdcc, its been around since the 90’s and elitewarez has never closed
torrentpond.com
Sorry to see MiniNova go it was a great public site but I am part of the best private torrentsite on the net! it has the fastest dowlaoads I guarrentee you have ever seen and all the best torrents available.
It may take a while to get in on open sign up but keep trying each day it is well worth the effort!
It is here digitalhive.org
oops http://digitalhive.org
its called TORRENTZ.com are you guys retarded?
F*c* Brein, i actually started buying DVDs after watching few episodes of series or a movie. Eg:- i bought prison break and house m.d. after watching episodes from Mininova. Also many many movies (gladiator, dark knight, Godfather, shawshank redemption, LOTR, fight club, once upon a time in America and many more .. i nearly brought 200+dvd).
I collect movies/tv series which are worth paying money and for me mininova was the only way to decide whats worth a keep. The stupid content distributors are acting like politicians who eat up the allotted funds even before distributing. You need to develop and provide opportunities so that you gain more. This is absolute bullshit and soon the HOLLYWOOD will realize that they will be losing more than gaining from this.
Also sites like this provide the platform for small player to reach millions of audience.(bid adieu to fresh talent). NOW we will see travolta, arnold again and again, how will thousands of new travolta get a chance to prove.
WTFFFFFFF Man this is lame
Maybe we should ship Tim Kuik to Somalië to fight Piracy over there. But I am guessing he is far too big of a WUSS to do that. With “his” victory.
He is nothing. He hasn’t done anything. BREIN is using other peoples, taxpayers, money to fill his pockets. That is all. He is hated, and will only be loved by his wife and children. But if he ever downloaded or downloads mp3’s or allows the use of pirated software (which HE won’t have to allow since he can afford the legal versions from MY money ;-) ) but sooner or later he will fall and not only the rest of the world but also his wife, children and family will see him for the hypocrite he really is.
Then, he will be all alone. And he’s ugly too. Damn… No wonder he feels he needs to compensate. Prolly needs to compensate for some other thing too…. :-P I wonder what the size of his car is.
Join IsoHunt and make sure this dont happen to them as well
use this torrent searcher:
http://torrents.to/
Isohunt and piratebay seem to be a good choice for torrent searches but Mininova was the best
Thanks for everything.
tnx to Mininova…4 all
Hey a good site to check out is:
http://www.inviteScene.com/
Reg..is open.
Get your all exclusive private torrent invites. InviteScene is your ultimate guide for all torrent trackers & your access to the best scene of web.
i’ve been using ninjavideo.net as my haven from mininova. it’s pretty decent, but the site design is sloppy
http://www.ninjavideo.net
A big thanks to mininova for seeing the error of breaking the law. Thanks to you people everywere will relize the importance of working for what they want instead of stealing it and denying the creators the reimbersment they deserve.
Hopefully other illegal sites will see mininova’s good example and change for the better.
I found a HOTTEST interracial club =MixedConnect *.* C0M=for black Women and white Men, or black Men and white Women, to interact with each other. Interracial is not a problem here, but a great merit to cherish!
Law abiding citizen why say that?I wont be able to download Assasins Creed 2 for PC now :( :,( R.I.P mininova
Private trackers is a good idea. For music downloaders use Spotify.
Youtube search:
Spotify for free
This works good, but Jonathan and other commercials on free spotify sucks, but live with it.
Wow, that sucks…
isohunt
Mininova is dead …
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