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Pirate Bay Buyer Also Offered Over $US27 Million To Mininova

3:20AM March 4, 2010 | Adam Frucci

Global Gaming Factory’s purchase of The Pirate Bay was surprising. But even more surprising is that they offered an even bigger sum to Mininova, one of the other huge public BitTorrent trackers. More »


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Mininova Goes Legit, Saddens Everyone

5:48AM November 27, 2009 | Jason Chen

Mininova, the other popular BitTorrent tracker, just went legal-only. No more downloading episodes of Dexter or Mad Men off of it, but there plenty of other trackers out there still. [Mininova Blog]


Mininova Ordered To Remove The Only Torrents People Use

3:21AM August 27, 2009 | John Herrman

Hugely popular torrent indexer Mininova has been slapped with a debilitating ruling, in the Netherlands: Within the next three months, the site has to remove all links to infringing torrents, after which it’ll be fined 1000 Euros for each one. This means that Mininova will either a) become the premier torrent indexer for Linux ISOs and public domain FLAC music, or b) die.* More »


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Five Pirate Bay BitTorrent Alternatives

5:20AM August 22, 2009 | Matt Buchanan

The Pirate Bay we know and love, though still harbouring torrents for now, is going away. But that doesn’t mean BitTorrent is dead. Far from it. Here are five places to get your torrent on after it closes for good.

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