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发表于 2009-12-7 11:06:08| 字数 3,360| - 中国–四川–自贡 电信
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五年忠诚服务之后，mininova于上周关闭了网站部分内容，并删掉了超过一百万种子文件。现在仅存档几千个种子文件都是通过它的内容经销平台上传上去的，这些种子文件都是经过核准的用户上传的。
Mininova是在今夏与当地打击盗版者在法庭上通过的一个否决裁定后，强制采取的这个极端措施。种子文件索引发布者被法院告知从他的索引中删除所有侵权种子。这从技术上很难实现的，想通过mininova团队来打击盗版。尽管Mininova不得不删掉所以他的常客所上传的种子文件。
这项活动导致的结果是删掉了超过百万的种子文件，尽管很多种子文件还没有版权，更谈不上侵权。，对mininova采取的决定导致了像预期的那样的后果，和万次的搜索和下载一样，对这个网站的打击是灾难性的。
就在几天前，mininova的流量急剧下跌了66%,从先前没有删除种子前的每天超过5百万的访问下跌到昨天1百八十万的访问。如果按照这个下跌的趋势，这个网站将会在一周之后下跌到每天低于百万的访问量。从此将它挤出她用两年时间创下的种子文件下载网站top 10排行榜！
更加显著的可能是对下载和搜索服务的打击。就像从下表中看到的那样，下载量从每天一千万下降到每天 371,424.搜索量从每天的一千万下降到每天三万，比下载的下降稍微缓和一点，可能并不是每个人都注意到了这个网站的种子文件的减少数量。
毫无疑问荷兰打击盗版组织BREIN会为他们的成就感的自豪，但是除了摧毁mininova的事业之外，他们并不会对整体种子下载流量有任何重大的影响。像往常一样，不断有旧的被叫停的网站“改头换面”（换个名字）浮出水面并且用户很快适应新的网站。
一个澳大利亚ISP主要网络工程师已经申称mininova网站的部分业务关闭对整个（种子）流量不会有显著的影响“我并没有看到任何迹象表明【种子下载】流量的减少，在海盗湾被关闭之后，很难讲从mininova的撤退将会有多大对种子下载的影响。
那就是说，mininova的终结根本就没有给(网络)留下一个伤疤。几年以后，大量的种子索引发布者非常依赖于他们发布在mininova上的种子文件。拥有百万用户发布的种子文件，这个网站是毫无疑问的当之无愧的互联网上的主流种子文件提供商，尽管大部分种子还在其他网站上面做种，mininova作为种子文件内容商的角色必然要被其他网站所取代！
After nearly five years of loyal service, Mininova deleted over a million torrent files when it partly shut down its website a week ago. What remains are a few thousand torrents that were uploaded though its content distribution platform, which only lists uploads by approved users.
Mininova was forced to take such a drastic measure following a negative verdict in their court battle with the local anti-piracy outfit BREIN this summer. The torrent indexer was told by the court to remove all infringing torrent files from its index. This was technically unfeasible according to the Mininova team, who were left with no other choice than to remove all torrent files uploaded by regular users.
This move resulted in the deletion of more than a million torrents, many of which were not infringing any copyrights at all. As expected, the consequences of this decision for Mininova’s traffic, as well as the number of searches and downloads on the site, are disastrous.
In just a few days Mininova’s traffic plummeted by 66%, from well over 5 million visits the day before the torrents were removed, to just 1.8 million yesterday. If the downward trend continues at this rate, the site will have less than a million visits a day a week from now, throwing it out of the top 10 most visited torrent sites that it led for two years in a row.
Mininova’s visits per day
Even more striking perhaps is the drop in downloads and searches. As can be seen from the graph below, the number of downloads dropped from over 10 million a day to just 371,424. The number of searches went down from 10 to 3 million, a less steep drop than the downloads, probably indicating that not everyone is aware of the reduced number of torrents on the site.
Downloads and searches on Mininova
So what’s next?
There is no doubt that Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN will be proud of their accomplishment, but aside from ruining Mininova’s business it will not have a significant impact on the overall volume of BitTorrent traffic. As always, new sites emerge by the dozens as old ones are shut down and users quickly adapt to the new situation.
A network engineer at a major Aussie ISP has confirmed that Mininova’s partial shutdown has had no noticeable effect on traffic volumes. “I didn’t notice any reduction in [torrent] traffic when The Pirate Bay went down. It’s hard to see how there’d be any significant change from Mininova’s withdrawal.”
That said, the ‘end’ of Mininova does leave a scar behind. For years most torrent indexers heavily relied on torrents that were uploaded to Mininova. With over a million user-uploaded torrents, the site was without a doubt the main torrent provider on the Internet. Although most of the torrents are still mirrored on other sites, Mininova’s role as content provider has to be taken over by others.
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