RIP Mininova

Once again, I am late to the news. I only came to know about it when I visited mininova yesterday.

However, whether mininova is (or was) any good does not really matter. The more pressing issue at hand is whether other torrent sites will succumb to the same fate. Perhaps I am being overly worried, but the possibility that the relevant authorities will try to impose some restrictions on other sites still exists.

http://btjunkie.org/

very good site

Not too sure why we're all hating on mininova, but I found the site to be very helpful in terms of categorizing and resorting torrents. I usually went to mininova for my movie and gaming needs.

This is an annoying trend. Demonoid needs to hurry up and get working, TPB can't service my needs forever.

@Krystel
This will work if you're ok with DDLs

Oh well, I only really torrent japanese music and anime so its rare for me to torrent anything else.

http://fc06.deviantart.com/fs32/f/2008/192/d/1/Noooo_by_themoononna.jpg
aww man I used to get my movies over there.

Mininova was alright for like tv and anime torrents, but their selection was pretty crappy for everything else. But now it's absolutely worthless because of the change.

The pirate bay has some torrents around, but it is such a TRAP with 90% of them.

Download something like a pc game or anything similar with a ipfilter/peer guardian going. You'll see that most torrents on their are nothing but anti piracy companies on top of people complaining about their isp warning them.


I miss demonoid so much..

Anyone else notice that all the new private trackers are crap with the same exact stuff also?

Hah, so true for me also.

This comp can only run games from around when I got it, early 2006. Really limits the hell out of what can play.

No point upgrading anything either. At this point upgrading the power supply and video card to something modern would cost close to a bargain 300 dollar computer that would be much better then my current one even.

Find myself just DL'ing anime and nothing else really.

aww i swear they are after my sources of downloading.

First it was esnips,then it was torrentspy and now its mininova.

Will there come a day,where such a site no longer exist and pirates become urban legends,where gamers tell stories of the olden golden days where a poor dude could play CS for free and otakus curse at anti-piracy laws as they are unable to watch new anime releases with fan subs at their own time.

Aye,such a time would be a trying time lol

Well, the best torrent sites for anime have become "semi-private" like bakabt and a few other ones. They're private, but easy to sign up to currently.

Of course for new episodes you're best off with baka-updates and animesuki like it has been for years. But since they both have problems you pretty much have to use both, maybe even a lesser 3rd one.

Stuff like games you can get anywhere, but you really shouldn't touch anything hosted on a public tracker, and it's questionable if sites like MU actually keep track of what's dl'ed and provide the information to anti-p2p or not.

But there's to many that are opening/closing constantly to stay updated with all of the private trackers for stuff like games. That monthly list of new private trackers filesharefreak puts out usually only has 1-2 that pan out.


Deep down I'm kind of glad about some of it though. In the same fashion I wish everyone of the millions of people with modified xbox360's would have to pay a fine rather then just being banned.

Starts to get hypocritical for MESSES of reasons, hah...

I remember I used mininova a little bit, and it worked pretty well. Right now I am on a university campus so I cannot download anything without them knowing, they even send me an e-mail if I start a torrent application. No more torrents for me.

There's a way to get past the safeguards if I use an encrypted VPN, but then I am downloading from the Netherlands with speeds maxing at 150kb/sec.

RIP MININOVA!