'World's largest' BitTorrent tracker Mininova kneecapped

Popular BitTorrent site Mininova has been forced to delist virtually all its trackers, after a legal defeat by a Dutch rights holder organisation.

The move may signal the end for what billed itself as the world's largest BitTorrent site.

Mininova was sued by BREIN, a coalition of Dutch publishing, music film and software lobbies. In August the court ruled it must remove links copyright material or face a €5m fine.

Today it complied with the order. Torrents uploaded by copyright owners to Mininova's distribution network remain, but the vast majority were tracking illegally shared material.

According to Torrentfreak, the site generated millions of dollars for its owners. They are reportedly considering an appeal.

BREIN's victory is the latest in an international campaign against copyright-infringing BitTorrent trackers, spearheaded by the record industry.

By Chris Williams

Posted in Music and Media, 26th November 2009 16:57 GMT

'World's largest' BitTorrent tracker Mininova kneecapped ? The Register

dam always loved that one...is that the end then, shizzz, liked that site as well...

Gutted about that like, was an awesome site.....any one know of any others that are canny like that?

Originally Posted by Dibbers

dam always loved that one...is that the end then, shizzz, liked that site as well...

Gutted about that like, was an awesome site.....any one know of any others that are canny like that?

Personally Pirate Bay is better in my books. Ive been waiting for Demonoid to get back up,when it does join.

Its better than both the above. Fake shit is taken out before it reaches you.

i havent used torrents in along time use newsgroups
but they seem to all go down in 2s the old " supernova and lokitorrent " now mininova and the pirate bay, but as for alternatives torrentfreak had a post on
top 10 replacements

1. Vertor
2. SeedPeer
3. Torrentreactor
4. ExtraTorrent
5. KickassTorrents
6. BTjunkie
7. isoHunt
8. yourBitTorrent
9. The Pirate Bay
10. Fulldls

cheers will have a look at a few of them..shame about that though....(not that i downloaded any thing like)

Originally Posted by Dibbers

cheers will have a look at a few of them..shame about that though....(not that i downloaded any thing like)

i usually use " isohunt" its a pretty good site, gutted about mini nova tho.





"uk-wales"

Originally Posted by Nield5437

i havent used torrents in along time use newsgroups

Yes, all this recent BT whining sounds a lot like "oh no, I can't use my telegraph to contact my friends anymore"... "maybe I'll try smoke signals (rapidshare)"

THIS CANT BE TRUE, HAVE VISITED YOU EVERY DAY FOR YEARS, YOU HAVE TAUGHT ME EVERYTIHNG THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT COMPUTERS AND PROGRAMMES, YOU WILL BE VERY SADLY MISSED (EYES ARE FILLING UP)……….COME BACK……………………..PLZ

lol.

He learnt everything he knows about Computers and Programmes on Mininova?

Wot?

pmsl.