Popular BitTorrent File-Sharing Site Pulled

20 Dec, 2004 at 10:33pm ET Article published in Tech

One of the Internet’s most popular file-sharing websites has suddenly closed up shop, likely a high profile victim of the lawsuits launched last week against those operating servers using the BitTorrent network.

In a message posted on SuprNova.org Sunday, the site operators said they were “closing down for good in the way that we all know it.”

Source: Tom’s Hardware Guide

Comments

20 Dec 2004 ~ 11:24pm entropy :shakehead

There's only two, maybe three (Isohunt never works right...), good torrent sites active yet... and they'll probably be gone pretty soon.
21 Dec 2004 ~ 12:13am Thrax May I be the first to say..

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO :bawling:
21 Dec 2004 ~ 12:21am MountainDew Anyone else catch the MySpleen hoax? had me goin...
21 Dec 2004 ~ 12:25am entropy MySpleen hoax? What do you mean?
21 Dec 2004 ~ 12:27am Komete Besides suprnova I didn't think there were any real good ones.
21 Dec 2004 ~ 12:30am entropy There aren't

Torrentspy is pretty damn close, though. Used to have a great IRC index, too, but it sorta deteriorated. Demonoid is alright. Isohunt just blows... there's never anything working.
21 Dec 2004 ~ 12:42am MountainDew when you went to www.MySpleen.com (homepage), there was a message saying "its been fun, sorry guys", see for yourself: http://www.myspleen.net/haha.php
as for torrent sites, i always liked demonoid, and i dabbled with torrentbox for a while. theres more sites out there, just gotta look in the right places...
21 Dec 2004 ~ 12:46am Garg Can't let the MPAA see me cry...
21 Dec 2004 ~ 1:09am BlackHawk R.I.P. Suprnova :shakehead
21 Dec 2004 ~ 2:48am EMT My 3 favorite torrent forums (they were quite good) have also closed or stopped doing torrents. What an incredible shift that's going on here.

I did stumble upon some kind of suprnova mirror still operating, although I oughtn't post it here. Not sure if it'll get anything new now.
21 Dec 2004 ~ 12:08pm mmonnin Ive still got 2 things downloading from there yet, NOOO. Good thing I belong to a better site.
21 Dec 2004 ~ 1:24pm Justin You get your torrent' from there, not the actual downloads, right??? Anyway, I stopped that stuff a while ago but, when I discovered suprnova, I was litterally like a kid in a candy store. Thank You Suprnova for all that you were, and all the hours of fun you provided me. R.I.P.
21 Dec 2004 ~ 3:39pm Thrax I found a site carrying 101k torrents. AIM me if you care.
21 Dec 2004 ~ 4:06pm BuddyJ Garg won't let the MPAA see him cry, but I have. It's funny to see a grown nerd cry.
21 Dec 2004 ~ 4:36pm Dfour Suprnova going offline blows!! We need a new version of bittorrent needs to be written with all the IP addresses encrypted. I got served with a prove it get copyright or stop seeding order:( I knew it was to good to last
21 Dec 2004 ~ 5:33pm shwaip at least the MPAA isn't suing random people. Their approach is way smarter than that of the RIAA.
22 Dec 2004 ~ 9:39pm diminion i feel like they ripped out all my insides and somehow left me alive. Without suprnova i kinda feel empty. Yeah sure, there are other sites beside suprnova but i have only d/l two torrents from them. They just dont have the variety or reliability of suprnova (RIP). I think ill join Gargoyle and cry now.