Mininova reaches 2 billion mark

Mininova announces that it has achieved its second billionth torrent – that’s almost 7 torrents per person in the US. Even more impressive is the timescale in which the second million has been achieved: less than five months has elapsed since Mininova announced it’s first billionth torrent.

In a coy understatement, Mininova’s blog says: “this is very good news”.

It continues: “It means our site is growing exponentially: the amount of total downloads roughly doubles every half year. And more downloads means more exposure, so more content available on our website. … Of course this is not the end, if the growth keeps continuing we might be able to reach the 4 billion mark by the end of this year! Watch out, Apple iTunes …”.

The Mininova post also includes a breakdown breakdown numbers of downloads per category of content. This makes interesting reading: TV Shows take the number one spot at 40%, with music downloads only being half as popular, taking up 21%, and movies being a close third nearly 18% of the share. The table is reproduced below:

<!–[if !supportLists]–>• <!–[endif]–>TV Shows – 40.11%

<!–[if !supportLists]–>• <!–[endif]–>Music – 21.21%

<!–[if !supportLists]–>• <!–[endif]–>Movies – 17.89%

<!–[if !supportLists]–>• <!–[endif]–>Games – 6.59%

<!–[if !supportLists]–>• <!–[endif]–>Software – 5.61%

<!–[if !supportLists]–>• <!–[endif]–>Anime – 3.61%

<!–[if !supportLists]–>• <!–[endif]–>Books – 3.04%

<!–[if !supportLists]–>• <!–[endif]–>Pictures – 0.53%

This milestone announcement adds weight to the fact that the popularity in P2P file sharing – fuelled by sharing of Torrents by resources such as Mininova – is showing no signs of slowing. Whether the growth will eventually reach its critical mass and slow or stop remains to be seen, but with more and more households getting access to computers and the Internet (and there is plenty more growth potential in developing countries), it is unlikely to fizzle out any time soon.

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Posted on 28 February 2009 by Laura in Announcements