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- Search engine and directory of BitTorrent files
- BitTorrent is a peer-to-per file sharing protocol
- Launched: January 2005
- Founders: Founders Erik Dubbelboer and Niek van der MaasPC Authority: Mininova: We're 100% legal, pay tax and generate millions... (March 17, 2009)
- Claims to be the biggest search engine and directory on the InternetOfficial Site: Mininova
- Successor of SuprNova, which went offline in 2004 due to legal issuesOfficial Site: Mininova
- 2007: Entered into a domain dispute with mininova.com, which it won
- "Adult submissions" are not allowedOfficial Site: Mininova
- Revenue in euro: 600,000 in 2006, 1,000,000 in 2007Ars Technica: Torrent search engine Mininova earning 1 million euro a year (March 11, 2009)
- Most revenue is from advertisingArs Technica: Torrent search engine Mininova earning 1 million euro a year (March 11, 2009)
- It is anonymous to upload content to MininovaOfficial Site: Mininova
- Estimated visitors: About 1.6 million unique visitors a monthTom's Guide: Torrent Directory Mininova Made $1.3M in '07 (March 12, 2009)
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Mininova is a search engine and directory with BitTorrent files, a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol. Users can download and upload music, video and other media files to the site. Mininova is the successor to Supernova.org. The site is based in Netherlands. The site says it complies with the law and that they remove files when they get appropriate requests to do so. Representatives from the site will be in court in May 2009 after the local anti-piracy agency BREIN requested that it filter its search results so that unauthorized content is removed.TorrentFreak: Mininova Trial Due in Two Months (March 16, 2009)
Copyrights
To download or upload material from or to the site might be illegal, depending on the location of the user and if the material is copyrighted. In countries where it's illegal download or upload copyrighted material, the site recommends that users only download or upload unlicensed content. Mininova says it has a system in place for removing copyright-protected material and complies with all requests to remove such material. The site has a page for such requests.Official Site: Mininova




