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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. The torrent indexer was told by the court to remove all infringing torrent files from its index. This was technically unfeasible according to the Mininova team, who were left with no other choice than to remove all torrent files uploaded by regular users.

This move resulted in the deletion of more than a million torrents, many of which were not infringing any copyrights at all. As expected, the consequences of this decision for Mininova’s traffic, as well as the number of searches and downloads on the site, are disastrous.

In just a few days Mininova’s traffic plummeted by 66%, from well over 5 million visits the day before the torrents were removed, to just 1.8 million yesterday. If the downward trend continues at this rate, the site will have less than a million visits a day a week from now, throwing it out of the top 10 most visited torrent sites that it led for two years in a row.

Mininova’s visits per day

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Even more striking perhaps is the drop in downloads and searches. As can be seen from the graph below, the number of downloads dropped from over 10 million a day to just 371,424. The number of searches went down from 10 to 3 million, a less steep drop than the downloads, probably indicating that not everyone is aware of the reduced number of torrents on the site.

Downloads and searches on Mininova

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So what’s next?

There is no doubt that Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN will be proud of their accomplishment, but aside from ruining Mininova’s business it will not have a significant impact on the overall volume of BitTorrent traffic. As always, new sites emerge by the dozens as old ones are shut down and users quickly adapt to the new situation.

A network engineer at a major Aussie ISP has confirmed that Mininova’s partial shutdown has had no noticeable effect on traffic volumes. “I didn’t notice any reduction in [torrent] traffic when The Pirate Bay went down. It’s hard to see how there’d be any significant change from Mininova’s withdrawal.”

That said, the ‘end’ of Mininova does leave a scar behind. For years most torrent indexers heavily relied on torrents that were uploaded to Mininova. With over a million user-uploaded torrents, the site was without a doubt the main torrent provider on the Internet. Although most of the torrents are still mirrored on other sites, Mininova’s role as content provider has to be taken over by others.

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Well that's understandable people will just move on like tpb.

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You should probably say that people will move on to TPB. As at least I've moved to TPB now. ;)

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I would almost pay someone a thousand bucks to let about 30 skunks loose in BREIN's headquarters.

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:lol:

This time I agree with you. And maybe every member on nsane.forums would. (Considering the fact that I'm not payin anyone). :P

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I would almost pay someone a thousand bucks to let about 30 skunks loose in BREIN's headquarters.

hahahahaa!!

or just some gastly stink bombs....

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Mininova are a bunch of idiots because they removed a lot of legitimate torrents too. For instance many free MMOs use torrents to as a distribution mean which IS legitimate since they are free yet they even removed those as well, it doesn't make sense.

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Mininova are a bunch of idiots because they removed a lot of legitimate torrents too. For instance many free MMOs use torrents to as a distribution mean which IS legitimate since they are free yet they even removed those as well, it doesn't make sense.

They were forced Lohengrin, they had no other option. It's because there is no public debate about all this in the Netherlands, where I live, and politicians have hardly spoken about it. The judge who ruled in this case was probably incompetent.

I hate this kind of stuff, but there's practically nothing you can do about it...

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It's quite understandable why Mininova traffic went down.

I wonder when they will develop the guts to fight back fbca18c4d812e0d0f305884f9fd8a131.gif

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After what they did. They are bunch of idiots or fools whatever you may like to say them. They should have fought back. Lets see if someone starts tinynova or micronova now. :tooth:

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Mininova are a bunch of idiots because they removed a lot of legitimate torrents too. For instance many free MMOs use torrents to as a distribution mean which IS legitimate since they are free yet they even removed those as well, it doesn't make sense.

They were forced Lohengrin, they had no other option. It's because there is no public debate about all this in the Netherlands, where I live, and politicians have hardly spoken about it. The judge who ruled in this case was probably incompetent.

I hate this kind of stuff, but there's practically nothing you can do about it...

That's the point, they didn't have to since these were legitimate torrents.

Man, i need Demonoid to be back up sooon!

bleh, I haven't used that crappy tracker in ages, there are far better alternatives out there.

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Even I'm really watin for demonoid to be back online now. I feel that they will sort of give us a Christmas or New Year gift. :P

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Please let me know a pubic one. :beg:

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