Comments on: Mininova’s Torrent Downloads Double to 7 Billion in a Year

By: Happy Birthday Mininova, 4 Years Young Today | IDTorrent Blog

Happy Birthday Mininova, 4 Years Young Today | IDTorrent Blog — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:14:05 +0000

[...] a few days ago, Mininova announced it had delivered its 7 billionth torrent, which left everyone wondering where it was all going to end. Today, the BitTorrent [...]

By: Neko

Neko — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:20:15 +0000

RIP SuprNova!

We hardly new ye! Now look what your spawn has grown into. Take that RIAA!

By: Mavi

Mavi — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 02:41:08 +0000

dont use public for many but demon and mini the 2 i would use…

By: EOTW

EOTW — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 05:10:35 +0000

My ISP shut my service off Thursday because WB sent them a letter telling them I had DL'd GRAN TORINO, which I had. Last year, HBO shut my service down for DL an ep of GENERATION KILL. I got both torrents from Mininova. Just letting you know that folks are watching. for me, I'm finished with the site and finished DL video.

By: paulo

paulo — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:35:07 +0000

hey hay alguien que me pueda hayudar a como usar utorrens , es que no puedo ver ninguna pelicula

By: NubCakes

NubCakes — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:16:28 +0000

Well duh… so does internet and food. It's still faster than Bittorrent. No ones making you pay for it but if you do it's faster than Bittorrent.

By: NubCakes

NubCakes — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:14:51 +0000

Er … I don't get it. Do you not realise that after you have uploaded a full copy into the swarm clients can download the file without contacting your client?

You silly twat, lay off the cannabis and pain medication for gods sakes.

By: warsystems » Mininova’s Torrent Downloads Double to 7 Billion in a Year - fades iTunes in comparison

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:04:21 +0000

[...] Mininova co-founder Niek told TorrentFreak that he expects this growth to continue in the new year. “Traffic is still growing according to Quantcast and Google Analytics. Unless something drastically changes, I see no reason why this will be different in 2009,” he commented. – Torrentfreak [...]

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Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:29:01 +0000

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By: The Technology Blog: Mininovas Torrent Downloads Double to 7 Billion in a Year

The Technology Blog: Mininovas Torrent Downloads Double to 7 Billion in a Year — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:37:00 +0000

[...] double from 3.5 billion to 7 billion during 2008, and this download rate is still increasing.Link:http://torrentfreak.com/mininovas-torrent-downloads-doubled-in-a-year-090105/ Posted by Makin at [...]

By: Television Archiving » Blog Archive » links for 2009-01-06

Television Archiving » Blog Archive » links for 2009-01-06 — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:55:45 +0000

[...] Mininova’s Torrent Downloads Double to 7 Billion in a Year | TorrentFreak "Today, just a few days into 2009, Mininova is close to recording the 7 billionth download, a double up compared to a year ago." Mininova is just one of a number of comparably-sized tracker sites; it's hard to imagine the MPAA and RIAA not settling on some other strategy to disrupt these networks. (tags: p2p bittorrent filesharing) [...]

By: Faku

Faku — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:32:15 +0000

Fuckhead, Seedpeer invented the verified torrents. Torrentz is a crappy site anywayz.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:23:05 +0000

Fuck mininova, I hope they get shut down soon

By: unknown

unknown — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:18:42 +0000

When searching with the piratebay just tick the option "Only search titles" and you wont be getting random hits.

keep it up mininova and the piratebay… keep it up

By: John

John — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:28:53 +0000

Just so you know if you search for the file you want followed by tpb in google it pretty much always finds what you want off of the piratebay ;)

By: jasperwillem

jasperwillem — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:22:37 +0000

Good to see this sites growing. I still prefer the verified sign of Torrentz and then see where I end up. Mininova, TPB, as long as I get the torrent.

By: The Great Geek Manual News » Mininova’s Torrent Downloads Double to 7 Billion in a Year

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:25:21 +0000

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By: xylene

xylene — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:05:09 +0000

Usenet costs money

By: xylene

xylene — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:04:43 +0000

Seems about the right time to voice my concern with Mininova.org

I've numerous times uploaded torrents to Mininova and regardless of how unpopular the content I uploaded seemed, I've always quickly gotten 30-60 downloads, while maybe only 2-5 people have been actually leeching from me (simultaneously uploading to btmon, tpb, btjunkie and such also).

I personally think the figures are doctored. I see my torrent file download count rising alot more than I see actually represented in peers in my uTorrent.

By: Jack B. Nimble

Jack B. Nimble — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:56:56 +0000

I don’t doubt Mininova do some big numbers for usage as it’s a nice and popular site, but I do wonder about their torrent download figures. My experience suggests you need to deduct around 75 hits for a download from the get-go to bring the number closer to reality. Sure, this won’t affect popular torrents much, but many of the unpopular torrents download numbers will be being grossly inflated if the numbers are not adjusted for this.

What those “75″ or so instant hits are on a torrent I don’t know. I’d take a guess at a good number of those being other torrent sites (ever noticed how a torrent uploaded to Mininova spreads like wildfire across a plethora of torrent sites?).

Still, nice site though, the best IMO.