Monthly Archive for December, 2007

Steal This Film 2

The Mininova team wishes everyone a happy new year.

At the start of this new year we would like to bring something to everyones attention. Steal This Film 2 has finally been released. This part has some very interesting views on file sharing and is much more from a neutral point of view. On the website you can check the League of Noble Peers’s Next Project and even help them by donating.

The movie can be downloaded in a couple of different formats:

StealThisFilmII Xvid
StealThisFilmII 720p
StealThisFilmII DVD
StealThisFilmII iPod

We at Mininova are also seeding the torrents with our new servers which are also used for Mininova Content Distribution. The following image clearly shows at which point we started seeding (around 15:00) and how popular this movie is so far.

Seeding

Content Distribution + site enhancements

Hi there,

We’re very excited to announce the immediate availability of a new service on Mininova: Content Distribution (CD). In the past months, we developed a distribution service which we think will rock the world :D

The reason we developed this service is that we’re used getting quite some emails from (mainly indie) content producers. Many of those are interested in publishing their content on Mininova, but that’s not an easy job. Most content producers have no technical knowledge of P2P and BitTorrent at all. We’re changing this with the introduction of CD.

Using Mininova CD, producers can upload their content once to Mininova with literally a single click. We convert their uploads to dot-torrent files and seed the content from our seed servers. This content will be shown as “Featured torrents” on the front-page. The best part: the service is 100% free :)

To give you a better idea of the process, here are some screenshots showing the service:

Step 1: select the files and enter informationStep 2: upload the files

Finished: Mininova distributes the content

Quite some content producers already applied for CD, among others Red Band, Wil Deynes and Cruxy. BitTorrent Inc. also joined the party, they will distribute free games (and later movies) on Mininova.

Content producers reading this are invited to apply for an account at http://www.mininova.org/distribution.

But CD is not the only thing we worked on the past months. We’re also introducing some new features and enhancements on the website:

  • For uploaders, it’s now possible to edit their torrents up to 24 hours after the upload time.
  • We added a “thanks” button to the comment page, along of a country flag. Please use this button instead of posting a “thank you” comment.

The new

  • Personalized front-page. Under My settings, there’s now the option to shuffle (and disable) the categories at the front-page.

Personalized front-page

  • Also several layout changes in order to make the site more usable.

And last but not least: we gave our logo some nice Christmas attributes. Merry Christmas everyone and a happy new year!