So when is the mininova gravy train going to end?

[Thorgrim]

Mininova is simply amazing

It has everything you could ever want, i could retire right now and have every day filled with documentaries, films, video games, miniseries, philosophical tv series (star trek)...FOR FREE

While me nor anyone else on this forum ever uses illegal downloads

I know of a friend who is questioning just how much he should download, because maybe tommorow it will all be shutdown...and it will be like when napster went down...tons of music to no music to a little music

Should one load up while they can...or will this be there forever? (in some form or another)



I remember one thing, they used to do online casino promotions, and this one site gave you all like 50 casinos that gave you $10 dollars, but you had to "bet" at least $50 to withdraw any...I must have won over a thousand dollars, and I risked nothing, and i never even got any junk mail

I just would bet $10 on the first hand of blackjack, 1/2 of the time i lost and i quit the site, the other half, I would win and keep playing normal amounts (because $10 is way too small when the required bet is $2) so like 20 different companies sent me large checks of $50-200

Too bad that's all gone...it was literally free money

[WickedLou9]

i dont think it will ever go away completely. As long as there have been boom boxes with dual tape decks, people have been sharing thier music with thier friends. The internet has brought this to a new level. I just don't see how you can stop it. There will always be those underground networks of people sharing and trading music and files and such. That will never stop. These big sites like napster and such, those will come and go. But when one gets shut down, something else will arise to take it's place. It probably will get more difficult though as security gets built into operating systems.
Windows may actually refuse to play music one day unless it has some sort of license attached to it. Some sort of next generation DRM. Of course there will always be ways around that as well.

[motivez]

It'll never go away unless we start having "trusted" computer networks where companies like Microsoft can prevent you from accessing various websites in a trusted network if you have content they haven't authorized (through some form of key or license information on the file) .. if a lot of the sites on the internets sign up for something like that, it might make it harder for people to share files and still use the internets to its full potential.. that seems to be the way things are going, though I'm sure there will be big consumer backlash and probably some ways around it (hidden drives or some such maybe)

I don't like public torrent sites (or torrents at all, tbh), because you put yourself at risk every time you use them to download something.. your IP is there for everyone connected to the torrent to see, record, and potentially use against you.

When OiNK got shut down last year, it was only a matter of weeks before new communities popped up and started sharing the massive collection of music that had been accumulated on OiNK.. The same is true of old public torrent sites, long before mininova, there was Suprnova.org (where mininova got its name).. after that shut down, hundreds of others popped up.

So, like anything illegal or frowned upon by society, so long as there's a demand for it, there will be ways to get it. Whether or not they're palatable risks is another question.