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Mininova is one of the largest BitTorrent index sites. It is a directory and search engine for many kinds of torrent files. It does not, however, host its own tracker.
[edit] FeaturesThe site is based in the Netherlands and started in January 2005 as a successor to the (at that time very popular) Suprnova.org, which went offline at the end of 2004 due to legality issues. Visitors of Mininova can anonymously upload torrents to this site, tracked by any BitTorrent tracker. Mininova does not allow pornographic submissions nor do they log the IP addresses of visitors. In April 2007, Mininova B.V. (the company running Mininova.org) won a domain dispute about the domain mininova.com, which had been exploited by a phisher.[3] [edit] HistoryThe word ‘mininova’ ranked 9 on Google’s list of most queried terms in 2006.[4][5] On May 28, 2008, Mininova indicated that there have been over 5 billion downloads and a lawsuit.[6] The Mininova team also runs a recently created video sharing site, called Snotr.[7] They also started to offer a content distribution service, targeted for independent content producers.[8] As of May 6, 2009, the Mininova team began trial of a content recognition system, which will result in the removal of any torrents that are flagged as infringing upon copyright laws.[9] In May 2009 the Dutch copyright enforcement organization BREIN started a civil procedure against Mininova demanding that Mininova starts filtering torrent files pointing to copyright protected works from its platform. During the trial Mininova stated that it was not feasible for them to identify such files by itself, but indicated that they would remove torrent files in case BREIN identified those files it considered to be pointing to copyright protected material. On August 26 the Utrecht court ruled[10] that Mininova needs to remove all torrent files pointing to copyright protected material from the platform within 3 months or face damages of up to €5 million. [edit] Technical detailsStatistics as of 19 November 2009:[11]
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