Mininova Gutted - and Another Chance to Monetize BitTorrent Blown

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> From: dewayne () warpspeed com (Dewayne Hendricks)
> Date: November 28, 2009 4:04:49 AM EST
> To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy () warpspeed com>
> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Mininova Gutted - and Another Chance to  
> Monetize BitTorrent Blown

> Written by Janko Roettgers
> Posted Saturday, November 28, 2009 at 12:01 AM PT
>
> Mininova Gutted — and Another Chance to Monetize BitTorrent Blown
> <http://newteevee.com/2009/11/28/mininova-gutted-and-another-chance-to-monetize-bittorrent-blown/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+newteevee+%28NewTeeVee%29 
> >
>
> The popular torrent-indexing site Mininova.org late yesterday took  
> the drastic step of removing all but a few torrents in response to a  
> copyright infringement lawsuit. Dutch rights group BREIN went to  
> court against Mininova in June, and later that summer, the site was  
> ordered to remove any links to infringing content and prevent any  
> further uploads of such content. Mininova is still considering  
> appealing the ruling, according to a blog postpublished yesterday,  
> but it decided to take down millions of links in the meantime.
>
> The end of Mininova as we know it comes just a few days after The  
> Pirate Bay announced the closure of its tracker. It also marks yet  
> another wasted opportunity to monetize BitTorrrent.
>
> Mininova was by any measure one of the most popular — if not the mos 
> t popular — torrent sites on the web, clocking 633 million page view 
> s in August and serving more than 10 billion torrents since being la 
> unched in early 2005. Mininova functioned as a search engine, meanin 
> g that it didn’t actually run its own tracker, but instead indexed t 
> orrent files tracked by The Pirate Bay and other tracker servers. In 
>  fact, The Pirate Bay and Mininova were in many ways a sort of duopo 
> ly ruling the BitTorrent world. The Pirate Bay’s tracker servers mad 
> e it possible to swap files, and Mininova’s search engine made them  
> discoverable.
>
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