Mininova Hits 10 Billion Torrent Downloads Milestone

While The Pirate Bay tracker has recently announced its permanent retirement, Mininova made a different announcement yesterday saying that it has passed another milestone by serving (and this is indeed an impressive number) 10 billion torrent downloads!

After 5 years of existence Mininova has established itself as the world’s largest BitTorrent indexer: “We never really expected anything. We don’t really tend to focus on these numbers, we are just trying to run the site the best way we can,” said the site’s co-founder Erik Dubbelboer in an interview to TorrentFreak.

Dubbelboer pointed that Mininova is not their main focus and that’s not a big surprise since a torrent site is not exactly the safest business you can rely on considering the legal issues surrounding any such site: “At the moment we are mainly focusing on other projects besides Mininova,” he said.

Earlier this year, Mininova lost the case against the Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN. The court ordered the site to remove all torrents that link to works protected by copyrights. So far Mininova hasn’t decided if they will push for an appeal.