Just 5 months ago we blogged about the 1 billion download milestone, and I’m very happy and excited to announce that we broke the 2 billion (2,000,000,000) torrent downloads mark today!
This is very good news, it means our site is growing exponential: the amount of total torrent downloads roughly doubles every half year. And more downloads means more exposure, so more content available on our website. There is also a story on TorrentFreak about this milestone.
I thought it would be nice to show a breakdown of the download numbers per category, so here is a graph:
| Torrents category | Percentage of total downloads |
|---|---|
| Anime | 3.61% |
| Books | 3.04% |
| Games | 6.59% |
| Movies | 17.89% |
| Music | 21.21% |
| Pictures | 0.53% |
| Software | 5.61% |
| TV Shows | 40.11% |
| Other | 1.42% |
This clearly shows that TV Shows content is more popular than ever, followed by Music and Movies.
Of course this is not the end, if the growth keeps continuing we might be able to reach the 4 billion mark by the end of this year! Watch out, Apple iTunes…
good job guys, you’ve built this site so well! congrats
CONGRATULATIONS 2BILLION CRIKEY!!!
Congratulations
Keep up your great work!!!
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WOW. 2 Billion Downloads. And where i come from the biggest torrent site now has 30000 downloads in 2 years
woohoo, keep it up guys!:)
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Ya Mininova still has a dreamcast section up and still active. thats why i love you Mininova.
Yeah, mininova is a great torrent tracker. Use to be one of my favorites. But it’s extremely hard to glance through all the files now and find what you want. There is tons of French stuff mixed in with it all, plus some other languages. I think the next step mininova should make is to not just divide up by categories, but by languages as well.
Mininova is great as long as you know what you’re looking for. But some times you just want to browse around at what’s available, which is a pain when 40-60% of the page is in French, which isn’t what I need.
Lmao all the shit i download is due to the simple fact i either can’t afford it or i don’t feel some of the software is worth the 50 dollars so i don’t see how you can justify that we cost companies such amounts specially when they have already made more than their fair share to begin with.
No entiendo bien el ingles, pero parece que dice que ya van 2 BILLONES de descargas??? del putas, si hubieran cobrado un centavo por cada enlace bittorrent fueran millonarios,
felicitaciones
PLEASE READ BELOW ARTICLE TAKEN FROM AN AUSTRALIAN NEWS WEBSITE:
Australians are leaders in online piracy. But can you really get caught?
Katie Cincotta reports
Pirates of old scoured the globe for chests bursting with jewels, plundering ships and pillaging ports for clues to buried treasure. Modern-day pirates aren’t quite so greedy, happy to settle for entertainment “gold” such as the latest TV shows, music and Hollywood movies.
Much to the distress of film and music studios, downloaders can now score the hottest releases from the comfort of their home. All you need is broadband, file-sharing software and a little knowhow.
On January 1, the Australian Copyright Amendment Act introduced new limited exceptions for personal format-shifting and time-shifting, such as burning a legitimate DVD for personal use or copying a legal CD onto your iPod, but it’s still illegal to download or distribute copyrighted content online with on-the-spot fines of up to $93,500.
But the prospect of a court date with Paramount Pictures or Sony hasn’t deterred Australians, who have become world-class pirates.
A survey released by British web monitoring company Envisional found that Aussies are the world’s second-largest downloaders of online pirated TV programs (15.6 per cent), second only to Britain (18.5 per cent) and ahead of the US (7.3 per cent).
The global piracy report pointed to increased bandwidth, technology innovations and a strong demand for US TV shows as contributing to the online piracy boom, with 70 per cent of it happening through the peer-to-peer king BitTorrent, which now boasts 135 million users.
So far, this has largely gone unpunished. Alex Malik, a technology lawyer completing his PhD in intellectual property rights protection, says nobody in Australia has been sued for personal downloading, and that most copyright owners have chased the instigators – the “uploaders” or “trackers” who spread pirated content through server sites such as torrentspy.com.
But in the US, the music industry has sued more than 20,000 people for illegal file-sharing – mostly uploaders, but some downloaders as well – including a 12-year-old New York girl using the online music site Kazaa, who eventually settled out of court for $2000.”
Some countries such as the US, Canada and the UK have gone a lot further in targeting individuals.
Australia is one of the countries where it hasn’t happened yet,” Mr Malik says.
Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) spokesman Stephen Jenner says the local film industry’s strategy has been to target the “big fish” in a bid to stop piracy.”
With the pyramid of criminal activity, we’re interested in those further up the chain, like those camcording films and uploading them on sites,” he says.
AFACT says piracy only becomes a global avalanche when camcorded films are distributed through an underground network of high-speed servers known as “topsites”, which is costing the big motion picture studios an estimated $2.3 billion a year.
Australia’s anti-piracy bodies – MIPI for music, AFACT for films and ASTRA for pay TV – are trying to fight illegal downloading through education, law enforcement and a proposed code of conduct for internet service providers (ISPs).
MIPI’s general manager Sabiene Heindl says the proposed ISP code would use new pirate detection technology to track illegal activity via IP addresses, with the ISP giving three warnings before closing an account.
Despite the fact that MIPI figures show a whopping 18 per cent of Australians are downloading illegally, there seems to be safety in numbers – for now at least. “It’s not within anybody’s capabilities to be suing 2.8 million people,” Ms Heindl says.
Detection and legal action appears a complex task considering the scale of global downloading. Envisional’s 2006 paper on internet video piracy describes the vast peer-to-peer networks as the “deep internet”, with that traffic now making up 60 per cent of all net usage.
New file-swarming technology, which pulls together different pieces of a file from separate users, means you can now download a TV episode or a film within a matter of days. The more people in the swarm, the faster the “torrent” file spreads.
Envisional head of piracy intelligence David Price says TV downloads have skyrocketed in the past two years, exploding tenfold from 100,000 downloads to more than 1 million copies of the popular US TV shows.
“Something might be aired on a Wednesday night in the US at 9pm, it hits the net no later than half an hour after it’s finished, and within two weeks we’ve seen between a million and a million-and-a-half downloads worldwide,” he says.
The piracy researcher says the rise of suspense serials might help to explain growing audience impatience. “You have these shows with such a strong narrative drive, like Prison Break, Lost and Heroes, where people are desperate to see the next episode,” he says.
Dr Price believes those devoted fans are broadening the category of downloaders, with file-sharing no longer a cottage industry run by students or computer nerds.
“What TV downloading and BitTorrent has brought is a range of new downloaders. It’s become something that has become socially acceptable,” he says.
Melbourne nurse Noah (not his real name) has a collection of almost 100 pirated movies and TV serials that he’s downloaded via BitTorrent.
“Your average punter can do this and it costs you nothing aside from your downloads. It feels like you’re bypassing the system. The scale of it should really be a wake-up call for TV programmers and the studios,” he says.
When searching for the Oscar-winning film The Last King of Scotland, Noah finds 56 torrents available. He downloads a file by Axxo, BitTorrent’s most popular DVD ripper. “Axxo has all the best movie copies so you tend to trust him. His file sizes are around 700 MB, which fit perfectly onto a standard CD,” he says.
Noah observes that 2625 “seeders” – people who have already downloaded the movie – exist for the movie file, which is a good indication of the likely download success. “The higher the numbers of seeders, the more chance of getting the movie downloaded and the faster the movie downloads,” he says.
When Noah begins downloading the film there are 4442 other downloaders – or “leechers” as they’re known – who are doing the same thing around the world. It takes him 42 hours to complete the download of a film that debuted in local cinemas just three months earlier.
“The quality is beautiful – almost like DVD,” Noah says. “I shared 45 per cent of it while it was downloading, which means I helped propagate further copies. It keeps the community running.”
A keen fan of medical dramas, at the time of writing Noah was 11 episodes in front of the current Australian programming schedule of Grey’s Anatomy. He views this as payback for Australia’s excessive lag times. “We’re just so far behind the US, which is crazy,” he says. “Channel Seven has changed the timeslot a few times on Grey’s, and (when you’re) doing shiftwork, that’s frustrating. Downloading lets me watch it any time.”
Tech lawyer Alex Malik agrees that Australia’s long delays in screening overseas TV shows are driving internet piracy.
“People are cramming for content but the people who own it want to hold it back. But can you blame the consumers for rebelling, if that’s all they can do?” he asks.
Mr Malik says one of the main solutions to internet piracy is to offer inexpensive legitimate download sites that provide a short release window.
“Some people will download things because they don’t want to pay . . . but the majority download because there’s no legitimate alternative. One of the things that reduced music piracy was the growth of services like iTunes,” he says.
MIPI research shows that iTunes is converting some pirates, with illegal file-sharing dropping in Australia from 21 to 18 per cent last year.
Network Ten’s general manager for digital Damian Smith says networks are starting to air overseas content earlier to try to combat piracy.
“The lead times between broadcast in the US and broadcast in Australia are reducing dramatically. For the first time last year, Jericho effectively aired the same day as in the US,” he says.
In January, Ten began offering free downloads of Supernatural, both as a branding exercise and a new advertising vehicle.
“Day one it’s definitely about branding for the program but over time, as the audience, grows we fully expect it to be a serious advertising adjunct to broadcast sponsorship,” Mr Smith says.
Ninemsn’s Catch Up TV service has opted for a paid model, giving viewers five-day access to CSI or McLeod’s Daughters for $1.99 from the night they air, using digital rights management to deactivate the content after the rental period is over.
Ninemsn head of services Niamh Collins says the TV industry is aware of prolific piracy and is trying to offer viewers legitimate means.
“We’re definitely answering the need for sites that don’t infringe copyright. And there’s evidence that consumers are willing to pay, based on our experience with Catch Up TV,” she says.
Henry, a self-confessed Melbourne music freak with a 40 GB iRiver and iPod Nano, says almost all of his 8000 digital music tracks have been downloaded illegally using Napster and LimeWire. He says in order for him to download legally, tracks would have to get cheaper than the current $1.69 pricetag offered on the Australian iTunes site.
Henry admits it’s unlikely that he’ll stop downloading TV shows because of the personal programming power it gives him.
“I downloaded series 1 and 2 of Dead Like Me, about a girl who dies and becomes a grim reaper,” he says. “That show might never air in Australia. I watched Veronica Mars about a year before it got to Australia. That feels so cool and exclusive.”
The former software tester says he doesn’t feel guilty about stealing from an industry as it is already making so much money and considers copyright infringement a meagre offence.
“It’s just so common, why should you feel guilty that you’re breaking the law? On a scale of one to 100 of criminal behaviour, internet piracy probably rates a three.”
Piracy expert David Price admits that taking legal action against individuals won’t solve web piracy. “They need to make the content available for free or for a small fee and that’s where they’re really lagging. It’s not until that happens that you’ll start making a dent in piracy.”
Good One. Clean, crisp site. No wonder it’s doing so well.
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All the latest movies ,software,music,books and more.
Over 2 billion downloads and increasing all the while.
Many thanks to all you out there that made it possible.
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Congratz! more billions to come of course, and thinking about the economy….what economy?? LOL
Mininova is the definite recommend for clean torrents. No unwanted porn or spyware. It’s no wonder why you guys doubled downloads in five months. Keep it up!
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Congrats mininova! This site is absolutely brilliant.
To those who’ve stated that the economy has lost much money because of this, well if you’re that concerned, DON’T USE IT!
Personally, I am eternally grateful that sites like mininova exist. They not only provide an outlet for sharing and receiving various materials/media, but also create a sense of ‘online community’.
Once again, congratulations, see you at the party?
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mini nova is my top site for movies tv shows i used piriatebay before but my uncule told me about this and i use this all off the time
Since the beginning. Its been a pleasure.
congrats! Mininova is a mail stone for the search. Thanks a lot.
Guys 3 words Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!
Oooh 3 mores Succes! Succes! Succes!
No need I think to translate that in English…
Guys big MERCI from France, all the country is behind you.
Tkx to prove us everyday that the world can be a nice sharing place for all of us.
Keep the faith Guys
And Hi to all of you around the world cause you make that possible everyday too…
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I am completely overwhelmed! By far, Mininova has provided me the best p2p file sharing experience with the help of their torrent filled database…
And with the advent of Content Distribution, I wonder…I just wonder…
Way to go guys…
-James
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Congrats guys. I remember when I used to like meganova over this because they had better stuff but you guys overcame over night. One of the biggest thing I love about your site is that I can go on it and not worry about anyone else (especially kids) being in the room since you don’t have any porn (nude) pics on the page.
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