RSSP2P Still Lives: Mininova Passes 3 Billion Downloads
By the Betanews Staff | Published November 2, 2007, 4:21 PM
In a sign that peer-to-peer file sharing is still thriving in a post-Kazaa world, popular BitTorrent site Mininova has reached a milestone 3 billion downloads. With a reported 3 million daily visitors and almost 10 million torrents downloaded a day, the site has shown tremendous growth over the almost three years it has existed.
The site's blog says there were hopes of reaching 4 billion downloads this year, but that goal will take another few months to reach. Due to the loopholes that .torrent files fit through, sites like Mininova can thrive and actually become desirable locations for advertisers. Ask.com, eHarmony, and Howard Johnson hotels all currently have ads running on Mininova despite the obvious illegal filesharing that takes place around the site.
Weeeee \o/
I helped !
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|"Ask.com, eHarmony, and Howard Johnson hotels all currently have ads running on Mininova despite the obvious illegal filesharing that takes place around the site."
Next thing everyone hears is that the RIAA is suing all these guys along with Mininova for aiding in copyright infringement.
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|well....
if that happens then for once RIAA is suing(dunno if that typed correctly) who has resources(some at least) to fight back...
so I don't think they will be sued...
or maybe they wont fight back...who knows ?
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HA ! It would be nice seeing a banner/AD from microsoft on a torrent site... that would be fun...
or perhaps depressing since microsoft does have the habit of stealing other peeps inventions(instead of buying it like google does)
but thats off-topic XP
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|Invest big bucks in security and then go out and make a sieve of your system. Sorry, but that makes no sense to me. GetRight has a torrent component, but I've never used it. It's like saying "please crash my system".
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|File sharing will continue to thrive until the day the internet switches from being "the wild west" and changes to a "police state".
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|Even under a police state, p2p would still thrive.
Like c***roaches, but tastes better. :)
EDIT: The filter seriously edited "c***roaches"? Come on...
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|c***roach!...hehehe, sorry I had to see it for myself
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|Oh sh!+ IT DOES!!! =)
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|so no more c***adoodledoo?
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|Wow this is a perfect example of why p2p is so popular, free advertising like this. I mean I had no idea this site existed, (marked down for future reference)
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|Welcome to the club. I knew nothing of this site before reading this article.ah well, learn something new every day I guess.
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|Ramhound,
I sure hope you are not suggesting that everyone with p2p are stealing?
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|Stealing is bad.
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|Yes, the RIAA is evil.
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|i am pretty sure the riaa killed the dinosaurs.
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|Only when consumers steal. When businesses do it, it's creative marketing and revenue stream optimization.
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|No, they just sued them until it was no longer financially feasible for them to continue living.
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|All because some dinossaurs unknowingly downloaded some illegal music ^^
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|p2p 4 life
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|love live the P2P...
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