Vijay For Victory

Peer-to-peer file sharing is a famous way of sharing large files over internet. BitTorrent is a protocol designed by Bram Cohen.

Here is an informative video that explains BitTorrent in plain English.

Mininova was one of the popular torrent giants which was in top 100 ranks in Alexa.com.

On 26 Nov 2009, Mininova had made an announcement to reduce its services to content distribution. Due to these limitations, users are not able share the files across web as before. Hence the number of visits to Mininova site has gone down.

The website’s popularity has gone down dramatically on Nov 26/27 in Alexa.com. This is clearly visible on Alexa rankings. Check out the below picture for Mininova’s rank in Alexa.com in past three months.

If this trend continues, then Mininova will soon be disappeared from the web.