Thread: Mininova Adds Another Billion Torrent Downloads

Mininova, one of the world’s most visited BitTorrent sites, broke another download record today. Just a few hours ago the download counter displayed a staggering 8,000,000,000 downloads. That’s enough for everyone on planet earth to have one - and then some.



Founded in January 2005, Mininova quickly became one of the most successful torrent sites. With millions of daily users the site is now listed among the top 100 most frequently visited websites on the entire Internet, and its traffic still continues to grow.
When combined, Mininova’s visitors have been downloading well over 10 million torrents a day and performing an equal number of searches on the site. These millions of downloads add up quickly and since the birth of the site a massive 8 billion torrents have been downloaded by Mininova users.

Mininova’s growth rate is not reducing either, and the site still has several relatively untapped and upcoming markets to look forward to. India for example, where torrents are quickly gaining popularity. Over the past year the number of visitors to Mininova from India has doubled, and with 1.1 billion people and only a couple million broadband subscribers to date, there is a huge amount of untapped potential.
In common with fellow torrent sites such as The Pirate Bay and isoHunt, Mininova hasn’t been spared from legal troubles. The site will appear in court this May, where the local anti-piracy outfit BREIN will demand a filtering mechanism to restrict access to copyright infringing ‘links’.

The Mininova trial is likely to set an important precedent for all other BitTorrent indexers hosted in The Netherlands. Erik and the other Mininova founders think they have the law on their side. “We have confidence in the outcome of the case and we don’t think Mininova will cease to exist,” he told TorrentFreak earlier.

In the meantime, Mininova continue business as usual in their new office.

Whatever the outcome of the trial will be, Mininova will undoubtedly see the 10 billionth torrent download later this year.

amazing. long live bittorrent!! lol

That is really impressive. I started using it after shopping around a bit when suprnova went down, but I seemed to be one of the few people I knew who did, everyone else seemed to default to TPB. Best of luck to them in their trial...

OH MY GOD!

Whats Bigger Mininova or The Pirate bay?

I think TPB is still bigger. Also depends if you mean how many peers, or how many downloads, but I think TPB is in the lead for both still. It's difficult to find exact stats, though.

mininova was always my favorite public tracker. The search feature kills tpb in my opinion. Way more organized.

Good to know that a torrent site is in the list of 100 most visited site all over the world.

lol me iz the only one fidning this a treat?

Soon there will be no movies anymore because of piracy haha lol:P

Yeah.. poor movie studios really struggling to make a dollar.

Speaking of which, I'm curious how the Wolverine leak will affect the movie. I haven't downloaded the torrent, since I don't want to see an incomplete version, but the leak has certainly made me interested in the movie. Before, I didn't really care, but I have to admit, now I'm curious.