Suprnova.org gone 4 good :-(

[808smokey]

It's gone........

all gone........

The below is from afterdawn.com

TRHR alerted us about Torrentbits closing down by using our news submission form. Aswell as Torrentbits, BitTorrent giant Suprnova.org has also decided to stop offering torrent files. The following is pasted from the Suprnova homepage.


Greetings everybody,

As you have probably noticed, we have often had downtimes. This was because it was so hard to keep this site up!
But now we are sorry to inform you all, that SuprNova is closing down for good in the way that we all know it.
We do not know if SuprNova is going to return, but it is certainly not going to be hosting any more torrent links.
We are very sorry for this, but there was no other way, we have tried everything.

Thank you all that helped us, by donating mirrors or something else, by uploading and seeding files, by helping people out on IRC and on forum, by spreading the word about SuprNova.org.
It is a sad day for all of us!

Please visit SuprNova.org every once in a while to get the latest news on what is happening and if there is anything new to report on.

As we wish to maintain the nice comunity that we created, we are kepping forums and irc servers open.

Thank you all and Goodbye!
sloncek & the rest of the SuprNova Team

And on the Torrentbits homepage


Thanks to all users, uploaders, mods and donors for helping create the best torrent site on the net, but this is where the road ends for us.

Suprnova was probably the most known Torrent site on the net, and Torrentbits had a reputation for getting files very early and having Seeders with very fast uploading speeds.

Thanks to TRHR for alerting us about this

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[bazooka]

Something better is around the corner.

[Capmaster]

Can't say I care one way or the other. Never used it myself.

A lot of warez downloaders seemed to like it

[bazooka]

Can't say I care one way or the other. Never used it myself.

A lot of warez downloaders seemed to like it

It has legit purposes cap.

[808smokey]

Something better is around the corner.

Hint please

[canadateck]

It's not gone...Just well hidden..

[Capmaster]

Can't say I care one way or the other. Never used it myself.

A lot of warez downloaders seemed to like it

It has legit purposes cap.

I never said it didn't. I was stating an observation I have made having issued 47 yellow cards ...mostly for warez. Supernova's name has come up several times.

[bazooka]

Something better is around the corner.

Hint please

Exeem

[richdvd]

Can't say I care one way or the other. Never used it myself.

A lot of warez downloaders seemed to like it

It has legit purposes cap.

My guess is that it has far more illegal purposes.
The name is so associated with movies, video games...etc.
I guess if you look at anything hard enough, you can find something "legit" about it.

[888888]

Something better is around the corner.

I sure hope so.

One day Bit Torrent is alive and thriving, the next day... it is all over. This is a very sad.

Hopefully, a torrent site will open in a country that is beyond the hands of the MPAA and RIAA. Even then, individual lawsuits are likely.

[richdvd]

Are they not just trying to shut down the illegal torrent sites? i can't see there being much legal stuff on any of the anyway. What exactly are people getting at by saying there is legal stuff on Suprnova? Just curious. No idea, I've never used it.

[canadateck]

I send my brother and Sister stuff, with .Torrent files.legal stuff.

[richdvd]

I send my brother and Sister stuff, with .Torrent files.legal stuff.

Ok...I totally understand that.
My question is about sites like Suprnova.
Legit purposes are? (besides Linux distros).

[canadateck]

NONE really.

[canadateck]

I put lots of my After Effects projects on the tracker,just to show some of my work,other then that its all for warez.

[DereX888]

These MPAA idiots haven't learned on RIAA'a mistakes.

When RIAA closed napster what has followed? A DECENTRALIZED peer to peer networks, like kazaa, grokster etc etc. Thanks to this RIAA don't even know what is being shared now among people, much less have any way of controlling it at all, while with 1 napster they had a chance (anyone remember when suddenly anything "metallica" was banned on napster? because the band demanded their music to be withdrew from napster's servers. Today they have no chance for such action, since there is no one central server...)

All they can do is pretend to be another p2p user in order to get IP addresses of those unlucky few who will have bad luck to connect to them (and later on RIAA will sue them in all the news highlights, so it looks like they do something against online piracy LOL!!

Shutting down major bittorrent tracker sites (thats why bittorrent was "centralized" - needed some server to connect peers to each othere - aka. "track") will push programmers to create again decentralized version of it. There will be no more websites (tracker servers) to come after, and MPAA can kiss all p2p users ass, very much same way as RIAA does now

[bazooka]

Are they not just trying to shut down the illegal torrent sites? i can't see there being much legal stuff on any of the anyway. What exactly are people getting at by saying there is legal stuff on Suprnova? Just curious. No idea, I've never used it.

Obviously you have never used linux.

That is legal and there are tons of linux torrents on it.


The betamax case said as long as a means has legitimate uses, it can not be banned.

[flaninacupboard]

They don't want to take down the "bit torrent network" as there is no such thing. they are trying to take down tracker servers which point to illegal files. if your tracker server points to legal torrents there's nothing they can do about you.

[lordsmurf]

One is enough:
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=249220

[Capmaster]

Places like Supernova had their legal purposes ...sure. Nobody's disputing that.

But it's like a gas station ....people go there to buy gas (petrol). They may also buy a tin of aspirin there, but it's not an "aspirin store", it's a gas station. That's why it exists.

Supernova was a bittorrent site that existed for the purpose of sharing files ...legal or illegal, but mostly illegal. One only needs to browse their titles to see this. Sure you can find Linux distros there, but it's not a Linux distro site ...it's a Warez site That's why it was shut down.

We tap-dance around this issue all the time here, with a wink and a nod. "Backup" ....sure Most people "back-up" here. No chance they rip Netflix rentals five at a time, or save themselves a few bucks by d/l'ing that copy of Office or Photoshop ...right? Or that movie that's in Divx format that someone in the Conversion forum wants to make a DVD out of ....that's a "family" Divx ....or a friend's car racing video he put in Divx format to share with his cousins. Suuuuuuuure it is

But unless specific instances are mentioned, like the title, we must assume the download is legal ....since it is possible. Much as a court would do ...the presumption of innocence.

But from my point of view as a mod ....I don't care whether it's illegal or not. I'm not passing judgment on anyone ...only pointing out what's really going on. You know it ...I know it. But that's not the point.

"Why don't you care, Cap?" you ask ...well, my concern here is this site and it remaining online and clean. If this site begins to give the impression that it condones, helps, assists ...etc. warez hounds, it'll end up on a hit list sooner or later. And then Videohelp would end up like Supernova or the first Napster.

The key is "perception". As long as we provide a unified front that discourages warez, we'll be fine. Warez hounds or spammers don't last long here, and the word is getting out ...."Don't spam or solicit warez at Videohelp"

[Faustus]

hahahaha cap posted in a locked thread!

CRAP now I'M doing it!

[Capmaster]

hahahaha cap posted in a locked thread!

CRAP now I'M doing it!

It's a great way for mods to post-whore without their threadjacks getting jacked again. Also, PW-ing in CLosed Topics and the Moderator Forum .... 8) Mods are the worst post whores