Mininova from Top Torrent Sites
Launching in 2005, it grew so fast that soon the author’s bandwidth could not handle all the traffic as a huge number of torrents was placed and downloaded. It was quick to reach the milestone of 5 billion file downloads but faced a lawsuit from Dutch authorities in 2008. The shutdown followed 9 years later on April 4th, 2017.
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Wow... I normally used Mininova. Guess that shows how torrent-savvy I am... :-)