Mininova
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Mininova is one of the biggest torrent listing sites. The site started in January 2005 as a successor to the (at that time very popular) SuprNova, which went offline at the end of 2004 due to legal issues. It is a directory and search engine for all kinds of torrent files. Visitors of mininova can anonymously upload torrents to this site, tracked by any BitTorrent tracker. Mininova does not allow pornographic submissions nor do they log the IP addresses of visitors. As of October 23, 2006, there are over 159,000 torrents in the mininova database[1]. Many of the torrents contain links to copyright protected material, and are illegal in several countries, including the United States. The word ‘mininova’ ranked 9 on Google’s list of most queried terms(Google Zeitgeist) in 2006[2].
Note that the web site mininova.org is in no way connected to the typosquatted site mininova.com, which belongs to the domain name warehouse Sedo.
[edit] See also
- Suprnova.org (now defunct)
- The Pirate Bay
- File sharing
- BitTorrent
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| BitTorrent (category) | |
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| Companies | BitTorrent, Inc. |
| Prominent individuals | |
| Technology | Tracker • Client • Super-seeding • Peer exchange • Broadcatching (BT RSS List) |
| Prominent clients (category) |
Official BitTorrent Client • ABC • Azureus • BitComet • BitTornado • KTorrent • Transmission • µTorrent • Halite
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| Prominent sites (category) | LokiTorrent • Suprnova.org • The Pirate Bay • AnimeSuki • Demonoid • Mininova • isoHunt • TorrentSpy • Empornium • UKNova |
