Tag: MININOVA

The Pirate Bay, one of the web's most well-known torrent trackers, may have been sailing into choppier waters than anyone realized when its owners agreed to sell to games company GGF and its eccentric CEO, Hans Pandeya. The deal eventually collapsed, but it turns out that The Pirate Bay wasn't the only major torrent site GGF wanted to buy. Today, TorrentFreak is reporting that knowledgeable ...

Mininova, once the most popular torrent site on the web, has seen a monumental drop in traffic since it went legal last week. Without the lure of pirated movies, albums and software, folks are turning elsewhere for their torrent fix. (Hint, hint: not that we're condoning piracy, but feel free to use Download Squad's list of Mininova alternatives within the laws of your local jurisdiction.) ...

Just one week ago, The Pirate Bay permanently shut down its BitTorrent tracker. Now, in the wake of a civil dispute in the Netherlands, Mininova has removed all of the 'useful' torrents from its search listings. Just like that -- no more films, anime or TV for you! For five years, since the demise of Suprnova, Mininova has ruled the P2P roost. While Mininova itself didn't track torrents it did ...

digg_url = 'http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2009/08/26/its-not-a-good-week-to-be-a-bittorrent-tracker//'; A few days ago Swedish authorities shut down popular BitTorent tracker The Pirate Bay. It wasn't long before the site was up and running again in true Pirate fashion. But it's not just The Pirate Bay that's in trouble these days. A site called BTArena popped up recently, offering a ...

Things in the P2P world continue to change in the wake of the Pirate Bay trial. Today, Mininova announced a new feature designed to make the removal of copyright-infringing works easier for users of their content distribution service. Mininova's content checker utilizes a third-party recognition system, and the crew hopes that it will allow artists and producers to better control their own ...

A new trojan once again underscores the importance of exercising caution when downloading. Disguised as a keygen, Troj/Qhost-AC is one of the strangest pieces of malware I've seen. The trojan doesn't appear to be particularly malicious. Its mission: to prevent you from downloading torrents from PirateBay and Mininova, keep you from reading the forums at SuprBay, and the remind you that you ...

There are pretty much two ways to distribute video on the internet. You can provide files that users can download and then play, or files that are streamed over the internet which can be watched pretty much immediately. Videos distributed over BitTorrent tend to be of the former variety. But popular BitTorrent tracker Mininova is rolling out a test of a technology that lets you watch streaming ...

Tired of searching a dozen different BitTorrent trackers every time you're looking for your 100% legal downloads of open source software? (We're going to assume that's all you look for on BitTorrent sites). NowTorrents is a BitTorrent search engine that lets you search a dozen sites including Mininova and The Pirate Bay. While NowTorrents is hardly the only multi-site BitTorrent search tool, it ...

TorrentFreak is reporting that three top BitTorrent tracker sites--The Pirate Bay, mininova, and Torrentspy--have accomplished the inevitable and entered the Alexa 200, the top 200 most-trafficked sites on the web acccording to Alexa. Torrentspy has the highest rank at 153, followed by mininova at 165, and The Pirate Bay barely squeezing in at 198. While nobody argues that Alexa's rankings are ...