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…
Congrats lads. Keep it up, mininova is the #1 torrent site for me. Nice website, ‘chaos-free’ (unless most other torrent sites). Have been here since 2 months after the founding, and I’m to stick around for a while.
Yaaaaay…. the torrents I upload have been downloaded 1,387,277 times… so I can imagine…
congrats, this is an awesome milestone! i guess guys at leaseweb won’t be too happy to add another 100 mbit pipe to your rack
Sit back and relax cuz in 2 weeks i bet there will be 3 Billion Milestone record broken nigga
Congrats, all Brazilian say thank to you guys !!
The best torrent index site in the world !!
I always down here Smallville and Lost, I am in 40%
congrats again!!
Congrats Mininova…Mininova is the best torrent site ,no one can beat them..
Congrats guys! Mininova is wicked!! Im sure u will reach 4M before the end of the year.
congratulations mininova!
its mindboggling to think 2billion torrents have been downloaded from here, and that it will keep getting higher
Grats mininova!
You guys have the most hassle-free torrent site I’ve found so far. I hope you guys never get shut down because I would… *tear*…
I can’t even think about it…
Long life to Mininova!!!
awesome, unbelieved growth in torrent community
Unveliable… go guys i want 10 billion *:*
hey, wow this is a milestone, i cant help but think that if each download,eg; programs,games cost $1 each, that the community has ripped off 2billion from company’s… but we all know sum of the stuff on here is worth $50 to $500 , so basicly 50 billion worth that has not been put into the economy
Awesome!!!111
mininova RULZ!!!eleven!!
Well, guys, I’m proud of this site…
Congrats, you even made it to the newspaper in Finland; http://www.itviikko.fi/page.php?page_id=46&news_id=200714885&rss=8
SNIFFER…. that’s the exact same rubbish arguement that the dogs use to justify their campaign against the sharing community. That everyone who dl’s would have bought it if torrents had not been available.. utter crap.
We all know that we wouldn’t buy 1/1000 th of the crap that’s available on the net.
Knobjockey, you say we will buy 999/1000 of the crap op the net. That means that the community still steals 49.99 of the 50 billion…..
the more exposure of the site the greater chance of closure the site
your site is the dogs bollocks!! congratulations guys on making 2 billion. good luck for the future and the next billion.
well done guys if only u got a £ 4 every download
congratulations stuff go 4 the best
Yay! Mininova is t3h b35t! 2 billions will be low when it reaches 100 billions!
it very great what you do in this website
congratulations for 2 billions torrents it very good web site
and great life to mininova and thinks very much for all!!!!
Congrat. Mininova.org Rock N Roll~~ Be explosive next year to break more Billions. hahaha…
congratulations!
Mininova rules… congratulations guys!!
aww, geez, mininova is all grown up! it’s a full-on supernova!
Congratulations guys!
Mininova rocks and rules!
Amazing feat! The ultimate torrent site
Well Done Mininova,
It seems you are growing faster and faster and getting more known to the world as we know it =D.
Congrats! on your 2 billion Downloads!
Congrats!!! its a good site youve got here most of the content is genuine and of good quality keep up the good work!!!
mininova is just the best…… always good torrent.. good luck in heading to the next billion, and thanx for everything i’ve got from your website….
Awesome Guys!!!
I check the site daily and it has never let me down
Congrats Guys!!! It’s a excelente site!!!
internet
Congrats guys!
Congrats guys, as said above this is the best site ever.2 Billions dls thats really something, so once again;I would like to thank to all the people that had contributed and made this possible.
vvdubdicfbw
nice.
if information (knowledge) is power, than with all the dlds ive been making i feel like a freakin superman.
keep the info flow going people cuz the barrier of personal understanding is close and wee need to break it !!!
mininova you are the best ! keep going .
Congratulations dude !! Mininova is the best torrent site ! Keep up this fantastic work !!!!
2 Billion hits? how many would it been without aXXo and dIamond, not to mention PSP freaks ELSAPSP
Congratulations! Simply the best torrent site.Variety and quality. Great job.(PLEASE SEED Dragon Ball GT Episodes Complete! Thanks!)
great job. and keep it up.
Grats guys.
You are the new suprnova
Now don’t screw it up like they did!
Good job guys! You’re my #1 torrent resource. Don’t go changing
Out of those 2 billion torrents, I wonder how many of those resulted in a complete file download. I’m sure there’s people on here artificially inflating downloads so they appear on the front page, as well as torrents downloaded and abandoned for whatever reason. The ratio of torrent dl and complete files would be interesting to see.
Once again, good job
Congratulations guys and thanks a lot for making our downloading lives so easy! Anime, movies, TV shows… I don’t remember when was the last time I failed finding something on mininova (did it ever happen?!).
Kepp going!
it really is fulfilling to know that more people wil be connected and more stuff will be avilable thanx to torrent people
Hi from Novi Sad, former Yugoslavia. whats to say 15 years ago we had paper money with (2.000.000.000) this number on it. And you could only buy chewing gum with it.
Excellent news.
Keep up the great work.
Congrats, all portuguese say thank to you guys !!
The best torrent index site in the world !!
YAY. being a canuck myself, i’m also proud of this historic occasion. Keep up the great work, and dont change a thing!
Mininova will beat the FAME of GOOGLE …..am sure
Thanks A lot GUYS…..”U R DA BEST”
congrats. the best torrent site EVER!!!!!!
Respect! Stay fast, that’s why I use this site.
It’s sad to say, but the first website I check out after waking up every morning is Mininova.org. You guys really do have the easiest Torrent site to navigate. My favourite search terms are “mvgroup”, “BBC” and “axxo”. Thanks guys - keep those movies and documentaries coming. My only worry is that the more exposure you get, the more the “authorities” will come after you. I say screw the “authorities”.
Awesome! Mininova is simply the BEST Torrent site on the internet! Hope this place will never shut down… Keep up the great work guys!!!
Nice guys!
2 billion download
Congratulation guys, very good work, good luck
Internet is file sharing and file sharing is internet, other p2p protocols may not make it till the end, but torrents will make it because it is the best method for sharing files. Mininova is making a big difference. I know you are under great pressure, but hang on there and keep up the good job, thank you…
this site is nothing compared to other torrent sites
congrats nova.
Don’t let the riaa/mpaa see those #’s , they be all like wtfs lets sue joo ass’s.
i like to joine.
CONGRATZ GUYS!!!!!.IT”S JUST UNBELEIVEABLE TO EVEN THINK @ BILLION DOWNLOADS HAVE COMPLETED.A BIG THANK YOU FROM INDIA>KEEP UP THE GUD WORK!!!! -Daniel.D
Thank you & Congratulations.
You truly have a very special and unique project going on.
I see mininova as a mean of cultural exchange.
Being a resident outside The United States I have been given an opportunity to watch amazing broadcasts that I would never have an access to, had it not been for you.
It has been and still is pure pleasure.
So thanks again..& keep up the good work.
congratulations
http://www.mininova.org/get/760320
Congrats x 2bln, u made my 2Tb raid look small and ugly hehe
Greetz from Russia!
great site well done good luck with the next 2 billion
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cool guys we rock :)….
relax we will be crossing 3 b mark with in a few days …just wait and see
I love mininova (for some reason it always seems to be the site that helps me find what I need) but please get rid of the pop-ups!
Congrats Guys
It will only get better as time passes by
fkn superb best torrnt site ever
have to agree definatley th best website ever, clean almost popup free and efficient top marks from me
yeah
YEAY!! I’m delighted to be part of this great lil community ^^ Keep up the good work nova people =D
mininova egg heads, this growth is dangerous. slow down, i wouldn’t like to see another napstar
Congrats to all that mad this happen………..I look forward to many years of file sharing,
and for those that bitch about this, go fist yourself !
Thanx an have a great day !!!!
Congrats to the 2m. You are the BEST and keep up the good work.
i luv mininova thancks for making it happen
Mininova is cool! The best site in he world!
I want to know why after all the Great WWE, ECW, TNA torrents I have uploaded here why I have been banned? Whats the matter can’t you mods handle a few freedom of speech comments or are you so uptight and fucking conservative in the head that you cannot handle criticism by a deadicated uploader who goes to a lot of time and $$$ expense to constantly upload great wrestling torrents here for wrestling fans around the world? Why am I being disrespected here for? Im not Chris Benoit and I havent killed anyone and at the time I uploaded that torrent the REAL facts had NOT been made public yet. In closing I think you mods here are PATHETIC for deleting my account and all my comments on all the torrents I have uploaded here. From now on I’ll upload my torrents at The Pirate Bay where they dont do stupid shit like this and they say FUCK CENSORSHIP!!!!!
ooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!
nathink and thanks allot
Congrats. The scary fact about this site that if you can’t find a torrent of something in this site you won’t find it in any other site. May be they are using black magic to keep this way. However you’re the best MININOVA.
Thanks a lot.
this is the best site too download any great quality movies the sites r fucken shite yeah
oops made a mistake i mean all other sites r fucken shite
congratulation and thanks
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.
pssh .. well obviously 2 billion
mininova.org is like the best torrent site ever and i always recommened it to me frends.
Keep up the good work !
well done, well done to da best website 4 downloads eva!!!!
Supes is right there are NO porn pics
Congratulations and felicitations
from france
Great job guys. You’re the best torrent sites ever!
congratulations!!! thank you for all that great work!!!
mininova is THE BEST!!!
Hendrix711 from Tunisia.
Congratulations!!! Frm Qatar
Congratz
just like supernova
good job guys, you’ve built this site so well! congrats
CONGRATULATIONS 2BILLION CRIKEY!!!
Congratulations
Keep up your great work!!!
Mininova is my ONE and ONLY torrent source!
This site kicks major ass!!! Cheers!!!!!1
great site could not do with out it keep up the good work
WAWAWUA IT NICE, I LIKE YOU !
congrutulations , mininova !!! this is the best site in the world
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!:)
Keep it up mininova you are the best.
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