Mininova Goes Legit

One of the first major BitTorrent trackers in Mininova has announced that it will no longer host torrents that are not uploaded by its approved media partners and as a response to a recent court order, has deleted nearly every torrent on its tracker page.

Since being launched in 2004 in the wake of the shutdown of progenitor BitTorrent tracker Suprnova, mininova became one of the most successful trackers next to Sweden’s The Pirate Bay, with its index being used by a massive network of smaller torrent trackers and also generated much of the initial BitTorrent traffic for digital fansubs before the rise of dedicated anime torrent indices.