MiniNova Introduces Server Content Distribution

posted by DrewWilson in bittorrent // 220 days 20 hours 47 minutes ago

While LimeWire is rolling out a social networking site, MiniNova, one of the internet's most popular public BitTorrent websites, is rolling out a free server content distribution service.

"We at Mininova are also seeding the torrents with our new servers which are also used for Mininova Content Distribution." Erik wrote in the official MiniNova blog. As an example, they started seeding Steal This Film 2. They offered a graph and said that it "clearly shows at which point we started seeding (around 15:00) and how popular this movie is so far."

The service comes at no charge and is intended for authorized content. "Over the past years, Mininova has grown to the number one torrent indexing website. Now we are re-defining content delivery by introducing free Content Distribution." They explain.

A similar service was launched by the staff at eMule known as the eMule Content Database - though a key difference is that the database merely links to the content on the eDonkey2000 network, not actually hosting it.

LimeWire also launched a DRM-free music store which the content is re-distributed over the Gnutella network - thus making payment optional.

While this is, by far, not the first service offering to host legitimate content over a file-sharing network, the popularity of MiniNova coupled with the popularity of BitTorrent will no doubt help propel MiniNova's new feature into a major contender.

The content will be hosted on MiniNova's servers, boosting download speeds on the already efficient network.

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#1 I tried this, got a music video from their content distribution, and it worked well. seedbox.mininova gave me about 3/4 of the file, and a few other seeders that were on there gave the rest. I could see this getting really big with independent artists, then I'll bet that the big names will want in too.

posted by Boomer The Dog 219 days 20 hours 42 minutes ago
#2 ok so they have a seedbox, nothing 'too good' about it. if you think a little more that poor server is going to be flooded and if you're lucky you might get 20kb/s from it. maybe im wrong but its just a hypothesis as in PT people rarely seed.

posted by colombianino 219 days 38 minutes ago
#3 There must be enough seeders out there, I seem to be able to get most of what I want. I see the balance happening, like on a popular torrent, there will be 297 seeds and 39 downloaders. I think it's okay for someone to hit it and quit it, because if you stay on, seeding is so slow anyway. On an old torrent with just a couple of seeds and downloads, it will be slow, but lots of times you end up seeding more than you've downloaded when you complete, because you've been there long enough, and your upload is needed.

You might be just getting on a bad file. I don't know why, but sometimes there are 20 posts of the same file, and only one that works, woof.

I guess if Mininova keeps the number of files low enough on their seedbox, it won't go slow. Bit Torrent is supposed to take the load off of the server the more popular a file is, so it shouldn't hurt them if they manage it right. I think the program they are using is LibTorrent, just to throw that in.

posted by Boomer The Dog 218 days 14 hours 47 minutes ago
#4 Well.. I for one don't see the point in it. The whole idea surrounding Bittorrent is something like "techno-darwinism." Basically, any content that is good enough to put on such a server will already have enough peers willing to seed it, which defeats the purpose. The only advantage I can see is that a server with high bandwidth would be able to send out a complete copy a little bit quicker, but that's not going to make much of a difference after a few other complete copies are out there.

posted by Sköll86 217 days 21 hours 48 minutes ago