Pirates shed tears of illegal grief as Mininova goes legit and deletes infringing torrents

Filed under: Internet, P2P

Just one week ago, The Pirate Bay permanently shut down its BitTorrent tracker. Now, in the wake of a civil dispute in the Netherlands, Mininova has removed all of the 'useful' torrents from its search listings. Just like that -- no more films, anime or TV for you!

For five years, since the demise of Suprnova, Mininova has ruled the P2P roost. While Mininova itself didn't track torrents it did act as a great 'middle man', with links to almost every torrent out there. But as usual with such 'hiccups', all is not lost: with Mininova gone we will simply head to other torrent search sites for our illegal and grey-market fix. God bless the many-headed hydra that is peer-to-peer!

What this may represent is the beginning of the end for the humble Torrent -- if not, it is at least a strong shift towards decentralized 'magnet link' channels of distribution such as DHT and PEX.

[via TorrentFreak]

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