Mininova was one of the largest BitTorrent index sites. It is a directory and search engine for many kinds of torrent files. It does not, however, host its own tracker. In November 2009, the site operators deleted all torrents that enabled users to download copyright-protected material, i.e. most of the torrents.
The site is based in the Netherlands and started in January 2005 as a successor to the (at that time very popular) Suprnova.org, which ...
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Mininova was one of the largest BitTorrent index sites. It is a directory and search engine for many kinds of torrent files. It does not, however, host its own tracker. In November 2009, the site operators deleted all torrents that enabled users to download copyright-protected material, i.e. most of the torrents.
The site is based in the Netherlands and started in January 2005 as a successor to the (at that time very popular) Suprnova.org, which went offline at the end of 2004 due to legality issues.
Visitors of Mininova can anonymously upload torrents to this site, tracked by any BitTorrent tracker. Mininova does not allow pornographic submissions nor do they log the IP addresses of visitors. In April 2007, Mininova B.V. (the company running Mininova.org) won a domain dispute about the domain mininova.com, which had been exploited by a phisher.
The word ‘mininova’ ranked 9 on Google’s list of most queried terms in 2006. On May 28, 2008, Mininova indicated that there have been over 5...
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