http://blog.mininova.org The admins speak... Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:37:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hi everyone! We would like to update you about the following matters. Lawsuit First of all, the Dutch anti-piracy organization BREIN has announced to begin a full proceedings lawsuit (Dutch terminology: 'bodemprocedure') against Mininova. BREIN demands that we implement a filter on Mininova and take responsibility to prevent possible copyright infringements being taken ... http://blog.mininova.org/articles/2008/05/28/lawsuit-5-billion-downloads/ Hi all, As many of you noticed, Mininova experienced a massive blackout this week. The problems begun when the hard disk of our load-balancer (running LVS) started having issues (random freezes and crashes). When attempting to fix these issues, our hosting company found some other problems and were unable to start ... http://blog.mininova.org/articles/2008/04/30/mininova-downtime/ Hi all! Good news: Canada's public broadcaster CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) joined Mininova's recently launched Content Distribution service in order to distribute the new TV Show Canada's Next Great Prime Minister. The show, which premiered last Sunday, will be published annualy on Mininova one day after the TV airtime. The copies are ... http://blog.mininova.org/articles/2008/03/27/cbc-joins-mininova-distributing-tv-show-for-free/ Hi all, Here's a small blog post to keep you all up to date on our latest developments: Video streaming The coming weeks Mininova together with The Tribler team will be starting a closed beta for Tribler's new video streaming software. The software is developed by the The Tribler team at the Technical ... http://blog.mininova.org/articles/2008/03/19/video-streaming-upcoming-changes/ 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 ... http://blog.mininova.org/articles/2008/02/18/4-billion-downloads/ Hi all, We're excited to announce several new (and in our opinion, very cool) features! Let's kick off: Streaming of distributed music torrents In close cooperation with the guys from BitLet, we added a "stream this music" button to torrents containing music (MP3/OGG Vorbis) files (example). This feature allows you to play the ... http://blog.mininova.org/articles/2008/02/09/cool-new-features-toolbar/ Hi there! It's January 14, and that means the anniversary of Mininova! Today we celebrate that Mininova is 3 years old. :) It's been a very interesting time, especially the past year. Mininova showed a tremendous growth, we're happy to see that we're nowadays the most visited torrent site. In April last year ... http://blog.mininova.org/articles/2008/01/14/mininovas-third-birthday/ 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 ... http://blog.mininova.org/articles/2007/12/31/steal-this-film-2/ 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 ... http://blog.mininova.org/articles/2007/12/21/content-distribution-site-enhancements/ We are pleased to announce that Mininova reached the milestone of 3 billion (3.000.000.000) torrent downloads today! In January this year, Mininova reached 1 billion downloads and in June 2 billion downloads. This means we probably won't reach the 4 billion downloads before the end of this year (as we hoped), ... http://blog.mininova.org/articles/2007/11/01/more-than-3-billion-downloads/