Mininova, one of the largest and oldest torrent sites on the internetnetwork, decided to stop its operation.
According to a statement published in the first σελίδα Mininova, the forum will be closed next week, while the rest of the site will be closed a month later.
“On April 4, 2017 Mininova.org will cease to function. After date this, there will be no seeders for torrents. Uploaders should make copies of their content,” the statement said.
Mininova was founded by five Dutch students shortly after Suprnova's closure. The torrent site from Slovenia started 2002 and closed at the end of 2004 after legal threats.
Suprnova was a huge torrent site and its closure left a big gap in the world of BitTorrent. Mininova played a little with its domain name and managed to become one of the most successful sites of the era, managing to completely replace Suprnova.
Certainly the glory did not last long.
Although initially started as a hobby by some students, it soon became a multi-million-dollar business. That's how the legal pressure began, as copyright owners continually complained of content that had to be removed.
In 2009, Mininova lost a treatment by BREIN, a local anti-piracy group. After complying with the court order, which wanted all torrents that violated the law to be removed, Mininova lost its luster and many of its supporters.
Eight years later, Mininova published the above-mentioned announcement stating the end of the page.
