8,000,000,000 downloads over
Easter
One of the world's most visited BitTorrent sites, broke another
download record over the Easter break.
Mininova showed that it had
8,000,000,000 downloads, which is enough for every person in the world to have
one. Normally Mininova's visitors have been downloading well over 10 million
torrents a day and performing an equal number of searches on the site.
The
site might even be expanding as India starts to warm to torrents as broadband
becomes more widespread. Traffic from India has doubled, and with 1.1 billion
people and only a couple million broadband subscribers to date, there is a huge
amount of untapped potential.
The Dutch based outfit is awaiting a trial
which is likely to decide its future.