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Torrent site is more popular than CNN
FROM TIME TO time, a lot of industry experts will start an argument how much Internet traffic comes from Spam e-mails and p2p protocols.
But it is not often that a torrent search engine can overtake prime sites covered with multibillion dollar news organizations, where a single staffer has higher salary than these guys have budget.
The honor of beating one of world's leading news sites goes to staffers from Mininova.org, who overtook CNN.com back in mid-October, but now it seems that ThePirateBay.org is also on the move. Lads from TPB.org just overtook News.com, and are on a way to overtake CNN.com as well.
In order to get the traffic back, Foxnews.com could consider
introducing torrent search on its site.
In a small and quick search, we took Mininova.org and ThePirateBay.org and compared them to cnn.com, foxnews.com and news.com, C'Net's very sneaky domain that targets ton of mainstream users and brings them to a ICT-laden website
Alexa.com can have difficulties counting visitors (some sites don't move at all, and yet their stats are up, sites with stats that are up are going down - at least according to the site stat engine), but it is still very interesting to see how a small site run by couple of enthusiasts can easily become a site in Top 50 most visited ones.
It is hardly credible that some corporation would come and buy the site like Mininova, IsoHunt or ThePirateBay.org, but we'll see how things will develop in this arena. ยต
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What does Fox News have to do with any of those on the chart? Sucky CNN has no relations to Fox.
Is that program available online somewhere to look up site traffic?
CNN is not a news outfit. 

It is a distributor of advertising. 
One of the big things with Alexa is that it has an enthusiast bias. I'd take the results with a pinch of salt.

Btw, all commercial news outfits are distributors of advertising, it's their business model. Still, we usually call google a search company.

And FOX News is solely an entertainment network. Long live the Internet. *In Gandalf voice* Your left/right-wing sorcery does nothing to us HERE! YOU.SHALL.NOT.PASS!
Deimos is very quiet at the moment and so seems to have his hands tied legally in Canada. That said, his no.2, whose name escapes me, has said he expects Demonoid to back at some point. There are too many domains in the world willing to take your money off you. 

All the MPAA & minions can do is win the odd battle now and again. The war has been unwinnable for them for some time. I don't think they even think it's worth going after "The Scene" anymore. Too expensive and pointless because people that technical will always find a way. They just take down a more public torrent site every now again and sue old women and children.
Great for mininova, but have anybody noticed what happened to demoniod??

When entering to their page you only get a blank page say this in plain text: "The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding."

I know this might not go here

I agree with Roger!