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Top Tier BitTorrent Sites Suffer Pain in 2009
Following the messy death of Napster in 2001, the continued rise of file-sharing services took many by surprise. It took very little time for users to adapt to other sharing techniques and before long, services such as Kazaa, eD2K and BitTorrent were the hottest property on the net, gathering a momentum that would prove difficult, if not impossible to stop. Dozens of notable BitTorrent sites have emerged since things really began to take off in 2002/2003, and literally thousands of lesser known private communities have flourished.
Continue reading »Mininova Traffic Plummets After Going ‘Legal’
After nearly five years of loyal service, Mininova deleted over a million torrent files when it partly shut down its website a week ago. What remains are a few thousand torrents that were uploaded though its content distribution platform, which only lists uploads by approved users. Mininova was forced to take such a drastic measure following a negative verdict in their court battle with the local anti-piracy outfit BREIN this summer.
Continue reading »TorrentFreak TV, A Double Episode
TorrentFreak TV covers some of the best, most interesting or remarkable stories from the wonderful world of file-sharing. An HD version of these episodes is available on Mininova . As always, we’re looking forward to your commentary.
Continue reading »Lessons The Next Big Torrent Sites Will Learn From Mininova
In June 2005 when the now-famous Grokster decision was handed down, initial reaction was almost unanimous. The Internet was alive with this historic defeat – Grokster had been savaged by the Supreme Court, lost their case in the biggest possible way and would have to shut down. No other outfit would dare get involved in file-sharing again, was the knee-jerk assumption, since this case proved it was illegal.
Continue reading »Mininova buries pirate booty in its index, aims to go legit
Popular BitTorrent site Mininova is undertaking a drastic transformation in an effort to legitimize its services by purging all torrents that enable access to copyright-protected content. File-sharing enthusiasts view this as a major blow to the vitality of the BitTorrent piracy ecosystem. The move will bring Mininova into compliance with an August ruling in which a Dutch judge ordered the site’s operators to remove links to infringing content within three months.
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