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- joltjake, on 02/09/2008, -2/+44I miss Demonoid.
- akh4x0r, on 02/09/2008, -0/+35Did you hear that?
Oh, just the RIAA executives having a heart attack.. - inactive, on 02/09/2008, -5/+27Mininova is my favourite Bittorrent site
- iisonly, on 02/09/2008, -1/+12Sweet, haven´t used it from/on bitlet much but still. Way to go Daniele :)
- inactive, on 02/09/2008, -2/+12Mininova, will you be my valentine?
- ScreamTherapy, on 02/09/2008, -0/+9Awesome to see the sites continually developing new features. Keep up the good work!
- wafflez, on 02/09/2008, -0/+80_0 forget the article! You can hear heart attacks!?!
- ThePerkins, on 02/09/2008, -1/+8yes! now i don't have to wait for these michael bolton albums to finish.
- casta, on 02/09/2008, -0/+7http://d-e-f-i-n-i-t-e-l-y.com/
- spyrochaete, on 02/10/2008, -0/+6RIAA executives don't have hearts.
- casta, on 02/09/2008, -0/+6I think the streaming feature is only enabled with the content distribution torrents, and they should be completely legal.
- shark72, on 02/09/2008, -2/+8I like last.fm's streaming, as well as nutsie.com (where I can listen to anybody's iTunes playlist). Both of these sites compensate the artists from ad revenues. The great thing about this form of payment is that the artists get a much bigger chunk than they would from record sales, and it's also an easy way for unsigned artists to get their music discovered and keep all of the money! I've found lots of unsigned indie music this way. I think it represents the future of the music industry, where artists can make money without having to sell tracks, and record companies get cut out of the picture.
By comparison, mininova and bitlet keep all of the advertising revenues for themselves, rather than sharing it with the artists. I guess the rationalization here is that they need to keep the money to pay for the servers that help us get all that great content for free, or maybe they feel that the artists already make enough money. But I'd like to see them do the right thing and share the revenues with the artists, like last.fm and nutsie.com do. - MrSunshine, on 02/09/2008, -1/+6Ah yes, Mininova. The family-friendly Torrent site that doesn't allow porn content, but the most brutal splatter movies.
- jls33fsls, on 02/09/2008, -2/+6Oh, and now I see that I am an idiot and it uses Bitlet. Its early, give me a break..
- ktetch, on 02/09/2008, -0/+4Just something to note - paying collection agencies is NOT the same as paying artists.
Who do you want to get paid? If I put a single track there, do I get paid the same share as aerosmith? Thats the problem with these centralised payment systems, the big artsists (or their record companies) get het money, not the artists - certainly not the small indie artists.
Here's a little usefull fact, If I release a song, but do not belong to any music label, and it turns into a huge worldwide smash - I still don't get a lot of the royalties for it, for thigns like radioplay. the collections agencies collect the money 'on my behalf' and it will end up going to the big companies, not me. I know some artists have ended up putting their works in the public domain, because they don't want people profiting from their work. They don't get any less money than they are anyway, - pukiman, on 02/09/2008, -2/+6Didn't do what you not asked me to do.
- Scroogl, on 02/09/2008, -0/+3Heh, I was just looking through music on mininova and saw the new green sign. I didn't even know this was possible.
Good work. - inactive, on 02/09/2008, -1/+4I've always found mininova to be the most reliable torrent site in terms of quality and quantity of torrents. This affirms that quite nicely.
- redsoxmb545, on 02/09/2008, -0/+3I don't care too much about the music streaming, but video streaming on the other hand, that would be awesome.
- shawnanigans, on 02/09/2008, -0/+2How about Mininova and all BT sites have the bit rate of the mp3s in the title or at least in the description? That would be great.
- jadenar, on 02/09/2008, -1/+3copyright infringement != theft
- Petrii, on 02/09/2008, -0/+2This looks like it would create more reasons for the RIAA and MPAA to go after them. It would definitely be cool if we could get some kind of plug-in for XBMC or any other media centers, so we can stream videos and music using mininova alleviating any need to download any more evidence.
- Snpbond, on 02/09/2008, -0/+1This is really cool, and you can use it on any music torrent (play with the url, edit the ?torrent= to the url of another music torrent).
- inactive, on 02/09/2008, -1/+2What?
- marcomc2, on 02/10/2008, -0/+1YES, thank you! College port blocking is ***** ridiculous, so I thank you for another alternative. Great work, though Im not sure quite how hard it was to do this.
- reinfected, on 02/09/2008, -1/+2Dugg but I have this feeling like this is an easy way for the RIAA to track me if I do torrent streaming. Is it just me?
- sarixe, on 02/09/2008, -0/+1i wonder if this'll apply to other formats in the future
- Melindhra, on 02/10/2008, -0/+1Milli Vanilli, here I come!
- funknjunk, on 02/10/2008, -0/+1I miss Oink
- moolcool, on 03/20/2008, -0/+1"No, Michael Bolton should change HIS stupid name, I had it first"
- SuperHyperKid, on 02/09/2008, -1/+2You defiantly are not the only one.
- Marijuana, on 02/09/2008, -0/+1Mininova is my novia, sorry.
- michaelfitz, on 02/10/2008, -0/+1defiantly? XD XD XD
- Sabretou, on 02/10/2008, -1/+1I am SHARING this game from a FRIEND - it's like borrowing a disk from a friend, except it's on the Internet. It is NOT THEFT.
- inactive, on 02/09/2008, -2/+2Now if they used licensed music ... it would be legit.
- murdocx, on 02/09/2008, -2/+2We are quite much who love Mininova.
- Sabretou, on 02/10/2008, -1/+1Again, I don't see the point here, other than previewing music. If you can listen to it streaming online, you'd might as well download it completely and then take/remove as you please.
- NseaK, on 02/12/2008, -0/+0This is quite nice! At torrstream.com is something similiar for movies. It doesn't download movies from a public tracker - but it will get a movie via its own private tracker from your PC (or even yours and your friends PCs). It will convert the movie on-the-fly to a nice Flash stream and thus allows you to watch your downloaded movies/series/whatever in a nice little browser window at work :) Pretty cool, I think :) All you need is a decent upload or some friends that seed the file with you, trailers will be shown while buffering.
- inactive, on 02/09/2008, -1/+0Now if only the iPhone had java built in... That would be sweet.
- gudiablo, on 02/09/2008, -4/+2woot..mininova ftw
- ryuujin, on 02/09/2008, -2/+0Tried it, didn't work for me, gave me "metadata not found" error.
That said, I like the idea of an album 'preview' feature so I can listen to smaller bands before I download. They might have something here. - paul7986, on 02/10/2008, -3/+0Cool.... I just use my saved YouTube playlists on my desktop and iPhone to listen to tunes.
- Taikun, on 02/09/2008, -4/+1MininOWNED.
- jls33fsls, on 02/09/2008, -5/+2If it works anything like the one at Bitlet then it is pretty useless for now until the technology can be improved furthur. I applaud the steps toward innovation though.
- inactive, on 02/09/2008, -6/+1Oh what a surprise, a new day and a new story from TorrentFreak on the Digg homepage.
- TuxedosRevenge, on 02/09/2008, -10/+5I have a reeeeaally bad feeling about this...
- Whadabala, on 02/09/2008, -27/+3DON'T NEVER NOT DIGG ME DOWN EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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