Popular BitTorrent File-Sharing Site Pulled

KingFishKingFish
edited December 2004 in Science & 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

  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited December 2004
    :shakehead

    There's only two, maybe three (Isohunt never works right...), good torrent sites active yet... and they'll probably be gone pretty soon.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2004
    May I be the first to say..

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO :bawling:
  • MountainDewMountainDew Kentwood, MI
    edited December 2004
    Anyone else catch the MySpleen hoax? had me goin...
  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited December 2004
    MySpleen hoax? What do you mean?
  • KometeKomete Member
    edited December 2004
    Besides suprnova I didn't think there were any real good ones.
  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited December 2004
    There aren't :p

    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.
  • MountainDewMountainDew Kentwood, MI
    edited December 2004
    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...
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited December 2004
    Can't let the MPAA see me cry...
  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited December 2004
    R.I.P. Suprnova :shakehead
  • EMTEMT Seattle, WA Icrontian
    edited December 2004
    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.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited December 2004
    Ive still got 2 things downloading from there yet, NOOO. Good thing I belong to a better site.
  • JustinJustin Atlanta
    edited December 2004
    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.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2004
    I found a site carrying 101k torrents. AIM me if you care.
  • BuddyJBuddyJ Dept. of Propaganda OKC Icrontian
    edited December 2004
    Garg won't let the MPAA see him cry, but I have. It's funny to see a grown nerd cry.
  • Dfour
    edited December 2004
    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 :(
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited December 2004
    at least the MPAA isn't suing random people. Their approach is way smarter than that of the RIAA.
  • diminiondiminion
    edited December 2004
    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.
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