Mininova now has over 400 million torrent downloads, nearly 16 months after it’s launch. Currently, mininova is the most popular torrent site, leaving the piratebay and torrentspy behind.
At this very moment they’re even more popular than suprnova in the “old days“. And they continue to grow with over a million downloads per day.
Snarf-it.org, the torrent site built on the remains of the Suprnovaforums is back. New owner, same torrents.
snarf-it.org is now back online with it’s 300k torrent database and clean easy to use interface, no popups or sell out ads there. That however is the last time you will see any information from ourselves promoting it as [...]
Suprnova.org, once the biggest and most popular BitTorrent site on the net is for sale. Suprnova went offline 19 december 2004 and returned in 2005 as a P2P news site. Currently Suprnova still has pagerank 6 generating quite a lot of traffic.
A year after the closedown, Sloncek, the brain behind the legendary torrent site told [...]
Demonoid Downtime
What else happened this week?
* How to get BitTorrent working in Itunes
* I steal TV because I have to!
* Fenopy, the Ajax Torrent Search Engine
* Secret Cinema & Camera Obscura (private), for the cult and arthouse movie junks
* RIAA bandwidth leeching
* BitTorrent & TV at macworld
BREIN did it again. The Dutch anti-piracy organization forced TorrentIt and NLexperience to go offline. Although BREIN has no legal power, threatening with lawsuits and high fines seems to be an effective strategy to take the smaller BitTorrent sites down.
Targetpoint, an ad-company that is offering targeted ads is targeting BitTorrent sites. Targetpoint recognizes the potential that most BitTorrent sites have, and is already a partner of several torrent sites. Most of the time it stays with serving ads on a pay per click basis, but they sometimes go even further, and try to buy these sites.
During the past two weeks the Dutch anti-piracy organization BREIN forced 6 (small) torrent sites to stop their services. Brein is known for its intimidating techniques, and is successful in taking down sites, mostly set up by hobbyists.
You probably never expected it but even George Bush has his personal torrent site. The rumor is that he got interested in BitTorrent when Bono gave him a new Ipod. George likes to “shuffle the shuffle” and calls it “pretty high tech stuff”.
Check out George and his Ipod
Bush: Beach Boys, Beatles, let’s see, Alan [...]
last night the Oscar winners were announced
Update: Piratebay taken Down by Swedish Police
