What is mightynova?

Mightynova is the largest active BitTorrent search engine. We activly search other sites to create the world largest BitTorrent archive. Currently we pull torrents from 28 active sites. We started in March 2005 as an alternative to the (at that time very popular) SuprNova, which went offline at the end of 2004 due to legal issues.
Our goal is to provide an easy-to-use directory and search engine for all kind of torrent files. Visitors of mightynova can anonymously upload torrents to this site, tracked by any BitTorrent tracker. Scrape data (amount of seeds/peers) is collected every hour to ensure our BitTorrent stats are always up to date and dead torrent are removed quickly. Unlike some other sites we allow every type of BitTorrent content. In short you're welcome to upload anything you like, we just ask you to make sure to post only to the category that best matches your BitTorrent file.

Unlike other torrent sites we will make every step we can to give you a fast, updated, and good experience. Please enjoy our site as much as we do and tell a friend.

What is BitTorrent?

BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer (or P2P) protocol used for the distribution of large files.
More information:

Where can I get a BitTorrent client? Our software section

Why should I register at mightynova?

Other people can see which torrents you uploaded (can be turned off).
You can post comments on torrents.
You can get updates and news about this site.

I've got a suggestion, how can I reach you?

You can contact the administrators of this site at staff@mightynova.org. Suggestions, ideas and fixes are always welcome. Note that we cannot help you with problems regarding your downloaded files. Please visit our forum or IRC channel and ask advise from our great community.

What to do if I want you to remove certain copyrighted files from your site?

Please note that we do not host any illegal content on this site. The torrent (metadata) files do not contain data that might be copyrighted in any way.
However, we offer a service to remove torrents from our site if the copyright holder of the software requests so. These removal requests are only valid if:

You are, or your company is, the copyright holder of this software (no generic anti-piracy groups).
You provide the exact links to the torrents, no complete (sub)categories or search queries.
You provide the complete name(s) of the content in question.
You provide complete contact information (including the name and phone number of the contact person), not a general anti-piracy mail address.

If your request complies with all of these rules, send a mail to copyright@mightynova.org. Please keep the correspondence polite.
We remove postings as soon as we can, usually within 24 hours. Keep in mind that mails not applying to the above rules will be ignored.

What is a .torrent file?

This is a small metadata file. Metadata here means that the file contains information about the data you want to download, not the data itself.
Your BitTorrent client needs the .torrent file to connect to the tracker (see below) and download the data you want.

What are seeds?

A seed is a client that has a complete copy of the data of a certain torrent. Once your BitTorrent client finishes downloading, it will remain open until you click the Finish button (or otherwise close it). This is known as being a seed or seeding.

What are leechers?

A leecher is a client that is currently downloading a torrent. Generally a leecher does not have the complete file, otherwise it would be called a seed.

What is a tracker?

A server on the internet that acts to coordinate the actions of BitTorrent clients. When you open a torrent, your machine contacts the tracker and asks for a list of seeds and peers to connect to.

What is a private tracker? (icon: )

A private tracker is a tracker which requires registration before you can use this service. Such trackers usually have a high amount of seeds, because users get banned if their ratio is too low.

What are all those .rar, .r01, .r02 files?

These files are so-called RAR archives. You need to install WinRAR to extract the data of the files. WinRAR can be downloaded from this site.

What to do with password protected archives?

The password is most likely the URL that's in the name of the torrent (posibly even with [] if it's for example "Test torrent [www.test.com]"). If that is not the case try the URL of the tracker (see the details page of the torrent). If that isn't the password try to go to the tracker URL (without the scrape part!) and look for a password there. You can also take a look in our forum, where many passwords are posted.

How can I stay up-to-date with mightynova?

We offer an RSS feed to stay up-to-date with this site. You need an RSS reader to use this. In Mozilla Firefox, just click the RSS icon in the bottom right corner of your browser window. In Opera the newsfeeds will automatically be subscribed when you click this link, the feed will show up under "Newsfeeds" at the bottom of your "Mail" panel. Users with other browsers have to download a RSS reader, you can find a list here. The feed URL is http://www.mightynova.org/rss.xml

How can I customize the RSS feed?

It's very easy, the URL scheme is as following:

http://www.mightynova.org/rss/cat/1/50/rss.xml

Where "1" is the category number and "50" is the number of results you want. Instead of "cat" you can also use "sub" with a subcategory number. The default "num" is 20. In the example above, 50 results are shown for the category "Anime".

What is a magnet link?

Azureus magnet links are a new way of linking torrent files. Instead of downloading the torrent from a webserver, you get it directly from a seeder/leecher. The biggest advantage is that you might be able to download the content of the torrent, even if the tracker is down or closed for registration. You need the latest version of the Azureus client with DHT enabled (open your UDP port) to use this feature.

How do you protect the privacy of the visitors?

To protect the privacy of our visitors, we do not log IP adrresses or hostnames of our visitors. However, we may log some IP addresses of uploaders for administrational purposes (e.g., banning people who upload spam torrents several times). Remember that all torrent submissions are anonymous, no login is required for uploading. We will not distribute IP addresses or other information of visitors of this site to third parties.

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements on this site and other sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you.

In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique "cookie" on your browser.

How can I promote your site?

You can link to our site by embedding the following banner in your page:

Here's a example of the XHTML code you should put on your page:

You can also use the following (smaller) button:

In order to place this image on your site, use this XHTML code:

It is also possible to put a mightynova search form on your own site. See the example below:

You should add the following XHTML code to your site:

Some technical details

Mightynova is entirely written from scratch by the admins making it very lean and highly optimized. It doesn't use any template or other system because they are all too slow. Mightynova is running on 4 node webserver cluster and 1 database server. We use Apache HTTPD 2.0 as webserver with mod_cache with a highly modified configuration. Mightynova makes heavy use of Zend Optimizer to cache compiled PHP scripts. Some other caching times can be found on the stats page. For our database we use MySQL because it's free and fast.
If you have any questions or want to know more about the technical details just mail to staff@mightynova.org.