Its Mininova now... - Console Spot Forums

**Feinicks** · 05-21-2008, 05:54 PM

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Even though Mininova currently is the most popular BitTorrent site with over 30 million unique monthly visitors, they somehow have managed to elude legal action while all the pressure has focused on sites such as The Pirate Bay and TorrentSpy instead. That’s about to change, however, with the site soon to be the target of a lawsuit at the hands of Dutch anti-piracy organization BREIN.

The lawsuit will focus on the question whether Mininova has to filter copyrighted media from their search results or not. According to BREIN, because over 90% of files tracked on Mininova are illegal they should start filtering search results, or face legal action. Mininova, for its part, maintains they have a notice and take down-policy just like YouTube and if a copyright holder asks the site to remove a file, they will simply comply. It’ll be interesting to see what the outcome of the case will be and just what implications it could have on the future of other BitTorrent sites.

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that leave isohunt if I am not mistaken.. almost all other real big sites have been targeted, but I don't see this stopping BT.. it just too vast now!

Sbarkeri · 05-21-2008, 05:57 PM

IMO torrents suck anyway, can find much faster speeds elsewhere. Has demonoid had a lawsuit filed against it yet, suppose it is harder as users have to register to find results.

**Gman17** · 05-21-2008, 06:00 PM

You guys and your torrents.

**Feinicks** · 05-21-2008, 06:06 PM

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Originally Posted by sbarkeri

IMO torrents suck anyway, can find much faster speeds elsewhere. Has demonoid had a lawsuit filed against it yet, suppose it is harder as users have to register to find results.

are you joking? demonoid was down for six months! they jst moved to a new server. I find torrents are very convinient as I do not like the split RARs and all. I can't be bothered to wait patiently to wait to download them all. If you know how to tweak your router and some settings, you will get unbelievable speed even in torrents.

**Transpire** · 05-21-2008, 06:07 PM

I never liked Mininova. Demonoid is the best:up:

**Feinicks** · 05-21-2008, 06:10 PM

imo, both are pretty good! Demonoid is really good to its members and non-members (for new torrents) while Mininova is VAST!!

squ34k · 05-21-2008, 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Feinicks

are you joking? demonoid was down for six months! they jst moved to a new server. I find torrents are very convinient as I do not like the split RARs and all. I can't be bothered to wait patiently to wait to download them all. If you know how to tweak your router and some settings, you will get unbelievable speed even in torrents.

Actually I read somewhere that they were down because the owner had some personal issues and couldn't keep up with the site and the payments. They had to change ownership and a bunch of other drama. I personally like prefer my private sites. :P

stuart93 · 05-21-2008, 06:17 PM

I like isoHunt. It searches for all the torrents, its pretty awesome.

1bundy1 · 05-21-2008, 06:19 PM

ive never really used public sites, demonoid is probably the slowest private site in existence lol does ratio even matter on demonoid?

torrent damage, revtt , torrentleach, bitgamer, bithdtv are among the fastest i use

i can download a film in less than 10 minutes if its well seeded

Sbarkeri · 05-21-2008, 06:53 PM

Torrents are usually determined by the speed of which it is seeded at, however file sharing sites the speed is determined by your own internet connection, with rapidshare I get my full bandwidth of 1600/kbs 1.6MB per second.