I just found out that a court closed down www.mininova.org. The powers that be are waging war on pirates, and winning, apparently, after a long time. A sad day indeed.

Here’s the official announcement.

According to that announcement, they haven’t been shut down, and have in fact just limited the torrents on the site to completely legal ones. I think everyone would agree that in the pirate world, that is the definition of “shut down”.

Thanks for the  ride though boys, it was fun while it lasted. Although I didn’t really use the site often, I do know that it was a clean site — no porn ads hitting you in the face when you visit it. Oh well, the good die young.