Mininova

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Mininova.org was an index page or search engine for torrents . It was one of the largest of its kind until the operators were forced to take action against copyright infringement. In 2006, "Mininova" was the ninth most searched term on Google . In January 2009, nine billion downloads had already been brokered. However, the site was discontinued on April 4, 2017.

History of origin

The website , based in the Netherlands , was launched in January 2005. Managing director is Niek van der Maas, President is Erik Dubbelboer. The site receives eight million searches a day. It is a follow-up project to the previously very successful Slovenian torrent site Suprnova.org . Suprnova was taken offline by the Slovenian authorities at the end of 2004. The site's users can anonymously upload torrents and make them available via any BitTorrent tracker . Unlike The Pirate Bay , Mininova never offered its own tracker. Mininova also does not allow pornographic torrents and does not log IP addresses .

Changes

On May 6th, 2009, the mini- novice operators introduced a content editing system that makes it possible to delete all torrents that are marked as copyright infringement . In September 2008, the operators had already presented a system for rights holders who want to make their works accessible to users free of charge.

Since November 26, 2009, the operators of the site have limited themselves to the aforementioned content distribution system. This is due to a court ruling dated August 26, 2008, which requires the operators to prevent the upload of torrent links to copyrighted material. At Mininova, just under 10,000 torrents are now available, while it used to be well over 1,000,000.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mininova the 9th Most Googled Word in 2006 on Torrentfreak (accessed on 1st uni 2009)
  2. ↑ Torrent search engine celebrates 4th birthday at Gulli (accessed on June 1, 2009)
  3. ↑ Mininova.org is not more. Retrieved August 23, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Interview with Gulli (accessed June 1, 2009)
  5. ↑ Mininova: “There will always be file sharing” at netzpolitik.org
  6. ↑ Mininova Tests Out "Content Recognition System" ( Memento from September 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on ZeroPaid (accessed on June 1, 2009)
  7. ↑ Free platform for rights holders presented at Gulli (accessed June 1, 2009)
  8. ↑ LJN: BJ6008, Rechtbank Utrecht, 250077 / HA ZA 08-1124 at de Rechtspraak (accessed on November 26, 2009)
  9. ↑ Mininova limits its activities to Content Distribution service ( Memento of November 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on Mininova (accessed on November 26, 2009)