{"id":200518,"date":"2017-02-27T14:35:29","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T12:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=200518"},"modified":"2017-02-27T14:37:17","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T12:37:17","slug":"former-torrent-giant-mininova-is-shutting-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/200518-former-torrent-giant-mininova-is-shutting-down.html","title":{"rendered":"Former torrent giant Mininova is shutting down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mininova &#8211; once the largest torrent site on\u00a0the web &#8211; will shut down on 4 April 2017, reported\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/torrent-legend-mininova-will-shut-down-for-good-170226\/\" target=\"_blank\">TorrentFreak<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Mininova was founded in the Netherlands in 2005. After losing a legal battle against\u00a0Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN in 2009, it opted to go legal rather than shut down.<\/p>\n<p>After it lost the BREIN case, Mininova removed all infringing torrents and switched to an &#8220;approved publishers&#8221; model for torrent submissions.<\/p>\n<p>Mininova revealed that since the switch, it has been running at a loss.<\/p>\n<p>The growth of legal streaming services such as Spotify and Netflix\u00a0could make torrent sites less relevant in the future, said Mininova.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/10636-mininova-removes-copyrighted-files.html\">Mininova removes copyrighted files<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mininova \u2013 once the largest torrent site on the web \u2013 will shut down on 4 April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":200520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[3536,35340,41608],"class_list":["post-200518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-bittorrent","tag-brein","tag-mininova"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200640,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200518\/revisions\/200640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}