4 billion downloads!

We’ve got great and exciting news! Mininova passed the 4 billion (4.000.000.000) torrent downloads mark today :)

It’s nice to see that the download counter continues to speed up: after reaching 3 billion downloads back in November 2007, we expected to reach the current number only in March or April.

For the sake of clarity: our download counter represents the number of times a .torrent file is downloaded from Mininova, this is not identical to the number of times a peer completes the download.

Some additional statistics for those who’re interested: our Alexa rank is currently 54, and Google Analytics shows that more than 32 million unique visitors used Mininova last month. These people together generate more than 510 million pageviews per month, which causes quite some pressure on our servers. We do whatever we can to minimize downtime and add extra servers when necessary.

Thanks to everyone who helped us to accomplish this! Special thanks go to our moderating team, who did and do a marvelous job.

As always: stay tuned, more big news is coming up very soon.

Press coverage: Slyck, ZeroPaid, AfterDawn, TechRadar, TechDigest, ITavisen (Norwegian), TorrentFreak, DSLreports

170 Responses to “4 billion downloads!”


  1. 1 Xardas06 AKA Xardas08

    Yeah!!! keep the good work
    mininova rules!

  2. 2 Fletch

    Wow!! Keep up the hadr and great work :P

    Your better than all the other sites

  3. 3 Stix

    Thats incredible…..

  4. 4 Jaz

    Awesome. You guys ROCK

  5. 5 garfield

    You’re awesome! Keep rockin’ !!!
    Mininova rulz!

  6. 6 torrent01uk

    A Big up and Congratulations to Mininova with the launch of qtrax the time is comming that the industrie will have to legalize P2P and torrent sites such as mininova especialy with over 4 Billion downloads in 3 years that just show how big free downloading really its time they sat up and listerned to people keep up the good works this only just the start of big things to come

  7. 7 twocarlo

    i wish you all the best and more power to mininova for helping my IT profession updated

  8. 8 ibz

    WOOHOOO!! go MININOVA!

    my day feels empty if i dont visit mininova at least once a day

  9. 9 torrent01uk

    You guys are in my book the world’s NO.1 public torrent site

  10. 10 fslhero

    True about that, Mininova is one of those family friendly sites which dont feature excessive flashing porn ads all over the screen, and has a very clean and slick interface for faster loading too. All the new torrents for the day are easily seen on the front page, which definitely makes it the best torrent site there is.

    Keep it up MININOVA :)

  11. 11 sush2142

    best torrent site
    can be seen in front of the family

  12. 12 Carlito

    Best Site for torrents :)

  13. 13 Rebecca

    You Guys are the BEST EVER

    Keep up the GREAT WORK

    Wish you all the BEST

  14. 14 Monis

    Hey guys, you guys are doing wonders!
    Be careful though, you’re going to strart attracting attention soon!!

  15. 15 DJB

    Not a good thing… Being big means that very soon the movie companies or music companies will get pissed and target you next.

  16. 16 ven

    we owe it “all” to all the free publicity pirate bay has brought to torrents. every where you see pirate bay mininova etc etc. i couldnt be more greatful to the riaa or whoever is trying to to take down piratebay for giving torrents SO much free publicity….

    p.s. i know its not ALL thanks to that.. but i belive this last months because of the media attention to torrents, torrents have grown.

  17. 17 Tzib

    Congratulations !!!
    And thanks from FRANCE !
    Keep rockin’ !!!

  18. 18 forgeuk

    Just got to ask, what is the point of the “featured torrents” section, its just basically “even more anime torrents”, its not a problem, just means I have to scroll down further to get past all the anime cr*p…yes, not everyone likes anime :-)

  19. 19 clubberlang

    i love mininova :D

  20. 20 kyle

    woooooooooooooo yeah
    i avent been on mininova for long and some of the stuff i dont understand but o well thats a diferent story

    well done wish u all the best and keep up the good work!

  21. 21 roshan

    Its a cool site. Hope to see mininova reaching more milestones

  22. 22 Daniel Vermeer

    Woooohoooooo!!!!! Mininova rocks!!!!!

  23. 23 jay

    very nice

  24. 24 makis

    gooooooooddddddd

  25. 25 GEO

    Great News, Hope p2p lives on forever, cos it beats anything - - and its free, thankyou god!

    I told a mate about MiniNova, and he said “whats the catch”. LOL

  26. 26 super seeder

    this is not a good thing as someone pointed out miniova R.I.P i love this site so much as well :(

  27. 27 Anonymous

    Mininova aint going anywhere so dont worry about it. Even if it did then it will just rebirth as a new site like the suprnova conversion.

  28. 28 Yufei Z

    you guys are the best, i dont know what im gonna do without you guys.

  29. 29 Dan

    Yeahhhh! aha .. oh wait what?

  30. 30 Romeo

    Do you realize that if you divide it all up two hundred pageviews are occurring every second… 1,2,3,4,5 1000 individual pages were just loaded… with that said I feel the website still loads the pages pretty quickly and I am also glad that for the most part the pages are fairly simple which also helps keep the site moving along

  31. 31 Whatever

    Mininova 4 life… Ya gotta love free stuff, I don’t know why people choose to give us such awesome free stuff but us downloaders admire you for it…

  32. 32 Oh, hai

    BIGINT here we come.

  33. 33 vj

    nice nice very nice site to download the torrent .thanks to all team for making my work little easy

  34. 34 Kazo

    Thats awesome. My fav torrent site an it’ll be that way. Hats off to you guys and thanks for keeping the dirt off.

  35. 35 torrent01uk

    to all the above people don’t panic anyone mininova isnt going anywhere as someone as pointed out already, the main reason for this is because of what happend when Maa and swedish poice shut down pirate bay last year hackers took there revenage by shutting down Swedens poice offical web site and aload of other enforcement web sites which not alony cost them alot of money but embarresemnet and not only that protestors took to the streets in protest which was unwated publilicty for sweden so if they take down mininova chances are Hackers will hit them hard mucher harder than when pirate bay went down and copywrite agencies will not take that chance mininova are too big and by closing them down would course them massive problems with what happend to pirate bay who knows what will happen one way or another mininova is here to stay

  36. 36 torrent01uk

    P.s Someone somewhere is making too much money out minivova to let tham be shut down esp when so many companys advertising there brands on mininova and as everyone knows adverstising is big revenue for companys so theres that reason minivoa will be around for along time yet anyway folks watch this space as p2p will become legalized with the launch of qtrax if they ever get the rudder server running properly but when they finaly go live it will change free p2p and torrent sites forever it will be a victory for us Pirates Ha Ha me yardys sailing the seven torrent seas!!!!!

  37. 37 Einbui75

    Congrats whit the big 4 m and keep up the good work

  38. 38 Vasanth

    Thats a great number….Keep going. I am a very new user and now an addict to mininova… ;)

    Keep going ur hard work. Hats off to u!!!

  39. 39 Y2Jacky

    Onward, Mininova!

    Cheers.

  40. 40 hardr12

    cooooooooooooooooooooll
    nice nice!! ^^

  41. 41 pieere

    From little acorns,big oaks grow.

  42. 42 Trevor

    I love this site!! There is not one bit of software or a single video that I cannot find on this site.

  43. 43 nate

    cool site

  44. 44 Cerise

    Great.
    4 billion downloads and only 46 comments here ^^

  45. 45 vaibhav

    i heart mininova

  46. 46 adi

    Mininova Rocks

  47. 47 Mojo

    Sweet who woulda though after rising from the ashes of supernova you would surpass your name-sake :D Good job and keep up the hardwork, if you ever do make it big you will all be millionaires :D (assuming google or microsoft want’s a piece of you).

  48. 48 carlos anchondo

    mininova the biggest page of downloads

  49. 49 JaD

    great and amazing !!! you have been wonderfull during the last year… best of wishes !!!

  50. 50 make sense

    you dont have to “add servers” to lower pressure
    you should consider using “hosting cloud” liki mosso (www.mosso.com) or amazon’s (www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=201590011)

    enjoy. and keep giving us great stuff!!

  51. 51 Exploiter

    Thats really nice i think the secret behind this huge success is physiological effect of peoples because they want to download every thing .They want best in fair and good looking enviroment .Mininova is the providing them wat peoples want keep it up :)

  52. 52 fdg

    good work

  53. 53 Gratz

    Congratulations and keep up the good work

    MiniNova ROX !

  54. 54 منتديات

    Congratulations mininova team

  55. 55 mat

    mininova ftw!!!

    nice 1 ppl

  56. 56 :-)

    Keep up the GOOD WORK!!!
    You are better than some out there private trackers(private :pif).
    Best Wishes to Reach 1.000.000.000.000 :)

    KEEP IT UP!!!!

  57. 57 Anonymous

    yiiihaaaa !!!

  58. 58 o0fiGment0o

    Way 2 go mininova. You rock ! !
    0
    \___/

  59. 59 Fer

    Awesome! Congratulations… How much money do you earn??

  60. 60 That's the way!

    Keep moving forward.

  61. 61 sky

    WELL WELL YOU HAVE DONE IT AGAIN, TANKS MININOVA ONCE MORE, YOU ARE THE BEST SITE EVER. YOU ARE THE BBBBBBEEEEESSSSSTTTTTTTTT…….I VISIT 2 TIMES A DAY SO YOU CAN SEE THAT I AM YOUR BIGEST FAN. THANKS ALL THE BEST KEEP ON AS GOOD AS YOU ARE. KISSESSSSSSSS SKY

  62. 62 Jakserf

    Nice Mininova.

  63. 63 Sanjey

    Thanks a lot for this site creator

  64. 64 Regis

    sush2142
    Feb 18th, 2008 at 7:20 pm

    best torrent site
    can be seen in front of the family

    -> the most important thing said.

  65. 65 andy

    can someone tell me is this illegal to download off this site? as the uk goverment is going to get our isp’s to bar us from downloading illegal content. please help

  66. 66 Rob

    I love this site I used to use Limewire but theres too many viruses.

    I can’t believe its at 4b it was announcing 3b when I first joined roll on 5b :))) keep up t good work, you’ve saved me about £1000 probly lol

  67. 67 torrent01uk

    Hi Andy mininova admin wont reply to you however I can tell you that while mininova is illegal there are currently fewer laws against torrent sites than p2p such as limewire,kazza and iMesh extra the reason for this,is that when you use torrent sites they only download torrent files which leads to copyrighted material however your not directly downloading it of the web site they are purley a go between you and the seeder and most torrent sites such as mininova now operate in Canda,Norway or Sweden where there are less copyright laws against torrent sites and what you have to bare in mind is with over 4 billion users to mininova getting your Ip address would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.BPI and Maa Dont have the resourses and finances to prosecute everyone that userse the site can you imagine how much time and money it would cost and when qtrax finaly!!! goes live being the first ever legal free to download P2P it will change laws against free downloading probly with some restrictions as DRM

  68. 68 Fox

    you guys rule, keep up the good work

  69. 69 kafil10

    BEST WEBSITE EVER EVER

  70. 70 Oh, hai

    To the guy who said “you’ve saved me about £1000 probly lol”, I hope you’re kidding. Mininova saved me £0 because I only download stuff that I wouldn’t buy anyway. The argument is as flawed as big majors’ claim that P2P _costs_ them money.

    The only people saving money here are those using Mininova as CDN, eg the Featured torrents.

  71. 71 JonWilkinson

    An easy, legal way to search mininova and pirate bay - http://www.PiraBoogle.com

  72. 72 _di@blo_7

    Keep it up…Mininova is the best!!!

  73. 73 me

    mininova is the best gggg

  74. 74 torrent01uk

    Lets not forget the reason for mininova and other torrent sites success is down to the industrie being vain and too gready if they had listen to consumers in the first place and slash there prices then they wouldnt be losing so much money they have done it to them selfs and all they want to do now is push the blame on to downloaders instead of just accepting there own downfall people such ourslefs are only human and just dont want to be told what we should have to pay for music movies ect and untill they finaly take there head out of there own backsides they will continue to lose revenue and untill that day comes we should all carrying on using mininova and other torrent sites and cream it as much as we can
    Keep up the good work mininova !!!!

  75. 75 yay

    yay

  76. 76 shahryar (JEAK)

    MININOVA RULESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!! THIS SITE HAS GOT EVERY THING I HAVE BEEN ON THIS SIT FOR 2 YEARS……….. it fuckn rules

  77. 77 Anonymous

    no1

  78. 78 rudcidunabia

    we salute you….

  79. 79 pink

    hi i m interested

  80. 80 Emoxchick

    Yeah goodjob! Pirate bay and mininova are on my torrent list! I always have to download something, lol. Rock on!!

  81. 81 sravan kumar reddy

    verry nice

  82. 82 JonBishop

    Imagine if everyone donated $1 for every torrent they downloaded.

  83. 83 Bpills

    well. The only torrent site I trust (the rest are full of fake shit)

  84. 84 jae

    well done…

    thank you

  85. 85 will

    Oh yeah! Alright! Way to go!!!

  86. 86 aliaaa333

    Mininova

    You Guys are the BEST EVER

    Keep up the GREAT WORK

    Wish you all the BEST

    Keep up

  87. 87 Ry

    heres to 4 billion more!

  88. 88 Juggernaut42

    Mininova forever…

  89. 89 xmassteps

    the best torrent site, thanks for the fantastic work, cheers

  90. 90 pilotvtm
  91. 91 Mr^Bullet

    Keep up the good work mininova (not so small anymore hé mini).

  92. 92 nevets

    to Torrent01uk, they found my needle in a haystack, i just got a letter from my isp with a complaint from NBC Universal for downloading The Bourne Ultimatum from here. they had all the timestamps and my ip address. a bit worrying imo

  93. 93 Spitfire

    Brill

  94. 94 iSnake

    Mininova RULZ

  95. 95 Jake

    I love everything about MININOVA =) thanks for making torrents better and better everyday!

  96. 96 lenin

    thank u very for the fantastic stuffs provided by u..and congrats for this landmark achievement

  97. 97 musicguycool

    Hi… its really so nice that u have reached such an awesome figure in such a small time.. i wish mininova all the best.. have been with u guys since a year now and never been let down.. and i do root for u all the way.. especially for some one from a place full of proxies and blocks, u r the saviour… thanks again. but i would really really like to request you to see if u can control the number of torrents containing virusus and adwares.. coz this would really be the downfall of mininova in the near future. files with passwords and viruses will only make the people wary of downloading stuffs… the number of infected files has been steadily growing and its better to nip it in the bud.. just a thought… do keep up the great work… cheer!!!!

  98. 98 http://guitarebooksforall.blogspot.com/

    Go mininova

  99. 99 musicguycool

    @ torrent01uk … u r absolutly right mate!! if only the big guys at the movie and music studios realized its better to sell 1000 @ $1 than sell 1 @ $100…… also they SHOULD realize that consumer only pays for good stuff… most of the music and vids nowadays are crap… y would anyone pay to get the crap… start doing quality stuff and price it right and people will SURELY BUY…. these guys want to sell shit at the price of gold, no wonder people dont want to buy… even now, when we download, if its good, most including me buy it. its just a matter of how good a thing is and if its worth the cover price… the sooner the “great” ones realise this the better for the entire industy….

  100. 100 Maximous

    Keep on Rocking you Guys are Doing a great Job

  101. 101 COREL J.JOHN

    thank u very for the fantastic stuffs provided by u

  102. 102 andy

    thanks torrent01uk, thats a big help, but they are not looking for our ip address they are banking on our isp to help them out as they no what we are doing from usage etc.

  103. 103 torrent01uk

    to Andy I don’t know if you have been follow media web sites but there was a blog on one that BPI as Ask tiscali to impose a 3 stike ban initialy Tiscali was happy to do that but when Tiscali told BPI they want to be refunded for kicking customers of for downloading illegaly and for sending out notices they had refuse to pay them so in return Tiscali have told them no they wont give up Ip address without recieving money back and im willing to guess that most ISPs will feel the same so unless copyright agencies start paying them it will be a while before they give out your details out

  104. 104 Fightere

    Mininova owns soooooooo much !!! Keep up the excellent work guys !!! Thanks a lot from france !!

  105. 105 Amaël

    Hey!!!
    Super, 4 milliards de truc à DL
    .torent!!!!!!

  106. 106 Anonymous

    One up for the Pirates… ahaa me harties

  107. 107 OuSs

    Keep rockin’ mininova!

  108. 108 cyberknight

    Mininova…a 4 billion thanks…were always on your side to pull others here…:)

  109. 109 Qris

    Mininova FTW! We love you

  110. 110 ZoneRanger

    Mininova is the only public BT site I use. Love it!

  111. 111 vinny

    Congratulation MININOVA! We all love you!

  112. 112 Pedro

    Ganda Ze

  113. 113 Luckydragon

    Since Demonoid is dead , Mininova is the BEST

    Stay Strong !!!!!!!!!

  114. 114 Adam UK

    Piracy RULES! NOT.

  115. 115 memo

    كيفكم

  116. 116 Jarek

    COOL Gr8 place for torrentersssss…

  117. 117 › viinh O's «¬

    i always download off mininova .. never downloaded torrents anywhere else ^^ keep up good work guys !

  118. 118 JH

    Ya mininova is great. But reasonly I don’t know why Mininova took so long i mean very long to load =.=

  119. 119 pilotvtm
  120. 120 Nick

    You are the BESTTT FREEEEE TORRRRRRRENT Tracker in the Universeee…
    THKS…

  121. 121 mrunpc

    I’m trying to find the best way to avoid viruses embedded in software. Can programs be downloaded to a disc and scanned first, then loaded onto computer?

    Thanks

  122. 122 StoneCold420

    I HATE TO TELL YOU LOSERS THIS BUT THE PIRATE BAY PWNS THIS DUMP AND WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO BECAUSE MININOVA KISSES HOLLYWOOD’S ASS, THE MPAA’S ASS, AND THE RIAA’S ASS DAILY AND LOVES IT UNLIKE THE PIRATE BAY WHO BELIEVE IN FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND NO CENSORSHIP UNLIKE THIS DUMP THAT HAS MODERATORS BAN PEOPLE FOR EXERCISING THEIR GOD GIVEN RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH BY CRITICISING MININOVA.ORG FOR BEING CENSORSHIP NAZI’S AND MPAA ASS KISSERS SAD BUT TRUE. NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU CENSORSHIP NAZI’S TRY TO SILENCE ME THE MORE I WILL GO OUT OF MY WAY TO TO GET UNDER YOUR SKIN BECAUSE YOU DESERVE IT LOSERS!!!

  123. 123 mylafea

    mylafea@mininova.org

    hehehe, mininova is the best…
    FXG still the great dvdripper! :)

  124. 124 mutaman

    you are the best ,keep it up.