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

[...] Read the Entire Story…Source: Torrent Freak [...]

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.

By: nerdd.net | news and opinion

nerdd.net | news and opinion — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:01:50 +0000

Mininova\’s Torrent Downloads Double to 7 Billion in a Year | nerdd.net…

\r\nThe BitTorrent popularity surge is still underway, with more users discovering that its the fast…

By: EZEE

EZEE — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:19:09 +0000

umm… why?

By: Izkata

Izkata — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:09:34 +0000

Yeah, Mininova was the first torrent site I ever found, 3 and a half years ago thanks to a Google search, and it's the only one I have in my favorites list. I always go there first.

By: Unidentified

Unidentified — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:47:47 +0000

If you check the "(search titles only)" in TPB, it will only search in titles, and exclude the discription..

The searching of description is somewhat beneficial sometimes, especially if you know a song name, but dont know the album's name.. hehe

And yeah, mini and TPB do make a really good combination.

By: NubCakes

NubCakes — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:59:48 +0000

A much, much better way is to use Bit Che. This not only searches many public trackers but also the vast majority of private sites also – provided you can provide a valid login & pass and download the appropriate plugin from the website (the built-in plugins are old and often dont work as well or at all). The vast majority of the time downloading from private trackers will be many times faster – people are motivated to upload and be "potential seeds", ie. seed to leech ratio will usually be many times more than 1, whereas at public sites it's usually less than 1 … and it's also safer if you care about this.

Google does not index any private sites and also does not display the number of seeds & peers and arrange results according to other criteria either. Google also has non-torrent results interspersed.

Your way is simple but not the "best" at all. I recommend you download Bit Che as it's far superior.

By: NubCakes

NubCakes — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:50:44 +0000

"2) clean site (no fakes, etc)"

Erm, Mininova has many fakes and what's more I've noticed fake files uploaded to Mininova (using public trackers such as TPB of course) are not removed for a long, long time in comparison to TPB.

By: NubCakes

NubCakes — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:49:00 +0000

"with more users discovering that it’s the fastest way to transfer large files online."

ROFL laughing … no seriously. Fair enough BT is the faster P2P network, hands down but that's still a lot slower than Usenet, FTP, DCC and HTTP downloads. Yes FTP, DCC and HTTP can vary in speeds if you dont know where to find good servers or operators that share connections in an appropriate manner amongst users – and to achieve this users must be queued very often. However, that still doesn't change the basic premise that they are faster.

As for Usenet, that's full speed all of the time with no waiting whatsoever – in terms of speed – and some rare content (however that works both ways certainly – but all Usenet content is the same speed…) – Usenet is vastly superior to any P2P. BT is great, but it's highly dependent on file popularity, seed to leech ratio and users connection speeds still (ie home connections).

So making that statement is just wrong.

By: DK1134

DK1134 — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:14:01 +0000

When searching The Pirate Bay just tick the box "search titles only" and it's very accurate. IMO Mininova is full of Malware, even more so than TPB.

By: DK1134

DK1134 — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:10:54 +0000

Mininova’s Way Of Leeching Torrent Downloads Double to 7 Billion in a Year With No Risk, Expense Or Upkeep Of Maintaining Their Own Tracker, Unless You Want To Upload Something Legal Then You Can Use Their Tracker.

I'm Not Too Impressed.

By: ignorance is bliss

ignorance is bliss — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:48:14 +0000

even tho i mainly use my private tracker if there was something old or obscure that i was looking for,i was always going to TPB, lol never even tried mini b4, an yes like others have said the search/results from tpb is random at best , guess gonna have to bookmark mini and give them a try

By: John Mighty

John Mighty — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:18:19 +0000

Wow, that is truly amazing!

web-privacy.pro.tc

By: r0ck

r0ck — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:16:59 +0000

Anyone but me think this is an incredibly sexy huge number? 7.000.000.000 downloads? That’s stunning.

By: anonymouss

anonymouss — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:14:54 +0000

another x million mininova download story – yawn, excuse me while I take another extensive nap from torrent news.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:41:59 +0000

The best way to find torrents is simple. Google it, what ever you are looking for plus torrent. DOes the job better than all the other trackers.

By: Yehhanyos

Yehhanyos — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:31:09 +0000

May be because when you search in mininova, they only search in titles, unlike thepiratebay that searches in titles and description.

Mininova is what it is because of 1) nice web design 2) clean site (no fakes, etc) 3) the search method 4) the highlighting in the search is also great so on, so on

But, i have to say that i love both of them mini and tpb <3

By: RRR

RRR — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:14:12 +0000

yeah the pirate bay has had a bad search algorithm since day 1. i believe they tried to rewrite the code like a year ago but the search still gives many many random results

By: EZEE

EZEE — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:58:50 +0000

One of the main reasons is their search engine is really really good.

I love thepiratebay and would any day of the week buy the guys who run TPB a beer if ever i bumped into them… but even though their are the most popular (and notorious) tracker their search sucks… really really sucks.

If i need something, I and most of my pals always head over to Mini, heck, even google sends you to mini rather than TPB most of the time..

In the end you may be downloading from tpb.. but theres a very good chance you got there via mini.

Its almost the google of torrent finding.

Good job mini… hope you double up again!

Cheers!
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