One of the largest torrent site in the world has just been ordered to shutdown, well, kinda. Mininova has been recently ordered by a Dutch court to remove all copyright infringing materials from their site. Considering that millions of people visit the sites to download TV rips, dvd movies, music, games, software, etc., which are mostly copyrighted materials, will basically mean their going to have to loose almost all their content.
Although based on their blog they will continue to operate but only as a content distribution site, meaning… “start finding other torrent sites”.
Even with this giant being taken down, it will only be a matter of time that the torrents and their uploaders will find a new home soon. Below are a few alternatives to mininova that you can check out.
- The Pirate Bay
- isoHunt
- ExtraTorrent
- alivetorrents
- torrentzap
- kickasstorrents
- vertor
- torrentroot
- yourbittorrent
- 1337x
I have been a big fan of mininova and most of the time only download torrents from their site, i do not personally have a lot of experience with these other sites. Please tell us which torrent site you prefer as an alternative. If there is a site that i missed, please leave a comment so that we can update the list.
