[Infowarrior] - 10 Alternatives To Mininova

[Richard Forno]

10 Alternatives To Mininova Written by TorrentWatcher on November 26,  
2009

http://torrentfreak.com/10-alternatives-to-mininova-091126/
After nearly five years of loyal service, Mininova disabled access to  
over a million torrent files when it partly shut down its website.  
Starting today, only approved publishers are able to upload files to  
the site, but luckily there are plenty of alternatives and potential  
replacements BitTorrent users can flock to.

With an impressive 175,820,430 visits and close to a billion page  
views in the last 30 days, Mininova set a record that they will be  
unable to break in the near future. Last August a Dutch court ruled  
that Mininova had to remove all links to ‘infringing’ torrent files,  
with disastrous consequences.

Since it is technically unfeasible to pre-approve or filter every  
potentially infringing torrent file, the Mininova team decided to  
throw in the towel and only allow torrents to be submitted by approved  
uploaders. This move resulted in the deletion of more than a million  
torrents, many of which were not infringing any copyrights at all.

Thankfully, there are still plenty of alternatives for those  
BitTorrent users who are looking for the latest Ubuntu, OpenSUSE or  
Fedora release.

Below we provide a random list of public torrent sites that are still  
open, but there are of course hundreds more sites we could have  
included. If your personal favorite is missing, feel free to post it  
in the comments below – preferably with your reasons why it should be  
included in any upcoming lists.


1. Torrentzap

2. Fenopy

3. ExtraTorrent

4. KickassTorrents

5. BTjunkie

5. Monova

7. isoHunt

8. yourBitTorrent

9. The Pirate Bay

10. ShareReactor

Update: The owner of Monova, told TorrentFreak that he has reserved  
all Mininova usernames for people who want to make the switch to his  
site. The account names can be claimed here. Also, we replaced some  
sites in the original top 10 because they went down or started to  
serve trojans,or viruses.

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