RIP mininova.org - Good Things Come To An End

On 26 November 2009, the biggest public torrent site, Mininova was forced to delete all infringing torrents and goes 'legal'. According to the court order from the Dutch received by the admins, they need to take out all of the materials uploaded on the site or risked being shut down permanently and in addition they will have to pay 5 million euros should they fail to do so.

That's sad. I am really surprised to see Mininova torrents reduced to only a few insignificant stuff. At first I thought they had some kind of problems, or maybe going through maintenance as I am not aware of the issues Mininova had been facing. After a visit to the Mininova blog, only then that i found out about the news. It appears that they had been fighting the case in court since June this year and the final verdict was not on Mininova's side.

Well, after 5 years of service, home to thousands of uploaders and users, it's finally come to an end. The site is still there you can check it out(link), but you won't find anything except for the Content Distribution torrents. There is no news yet as to where Mininova will go from this point. Well, we're all going to miss you Mininova. It's been fun but I guess now all of us have to find a new home.

R.I.P.

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