Farewell, SuprNova.org and TorrentBits.org

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2004-12-19 03:08pm

They're gone, and they won't be coming back. Looks like the MPAA sent some cease and desist letters their way.

Rightous Fist Of Heaven · Post by **Rightous Fist Of Heaven** » 2004-12-19 03:19pm

Suprnova worked fine earlier today and yesterday night, I wouldnt write them off just yet, especially looking at how they IIRC have something in the order of a dozen servers all over the world, all outside the US and some in places where the sharing of information on where to obtain copyrighted material isnt illegal. The word I heard about why Suprnova was down lately was because of server change issues, nothing related to the MPAA stuff. So, maintain faith my brethren BitTorrent user, I think they wont be going anywhere.

Julhelm · Post by **Julhelm** » 2004-12-19 04:01pm

Gone huh?

Rightous Fist Of Heaven · Post by **Rightous Fist Of Heaven** » 2004-12-19 04:09pm

Julhelm wrote:Gone huh?

I never thought I would thank a Swedish for anything, but thanks man for shedding some light on the matter. Now, I just hope that this place stays up.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-12-19 04:32pm

That's a mirror of SN not SN itself.

Rightous Fist Of Heaven · Post by **Rightous Fist Of Heaven** » 2004-12-19 04:44pm

phongn wrote:That's a mirror of SN not SN itself.

It works fine though, just DL:ing an episode of Nikita from there.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-12-19 06:47pm

Yes, but it will cease to be updated and the torrent links will go stale.

Rightous Fist Of Heaven · Post by **Rightous Fist Of Heaven** » 2004-12-19 06:59pm

phongn wrote:Yes, but it will cease to be updated and the torrent links will go stale.

Yep, seems like it is like that allready. Nothing new for hours. And if Im not completely inane, I dont even see any way to add new torrents there. *Shrug* well, there will be new places to fill the void. Suprnova though was so insanely huge that I doubt any place will have the sheer amount of content that was available there.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2004-12-19 08:51pm

Isn't Suprnova based in Russia or somewhere? How would the MPAA be able to do anything to them?

The explanation offered on SN was bandwidth problems, and I hear people have been talking of SN having those kinds of problems.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-12-20 02:23pm

well . . . .this fucking sucks. thankfully there's a handful of alternatives out there, but shite.

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2004-12-20 04:11pm

If there was a way to torrent stuff through IRC, it would rock.

Imagine someone hosting a minimalist tracker on their bot. You go into IRC channel, do a !tracker or whatever to get a list of what's available and who is seeding what, then you can have the bot dcc you the .torrent which is only 30k max. This could work for broadband users who host only a few torrents, and people with fat pipes supporting the current BT sites could still manage huge trackers.

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2004-12-22 05:26am

Damnit none of my torrents are connecting to their trackers anymore.

Oh well, back to DC I guess.

The Duchess of Zeon · Post by **The Duchess of Zeon** » 2004-12-22 11:08am

Shinova wrote:Isn't Suprnova based in Russia or somewhere? How would the MPAA be able to do anything to them?

/Raving MPAA execs to Putin, begging, sobbing, pleading, and foaming at the mouth: "WE CONTROL CONGRESS! WE WILL GIVE YOU ANYTHING! JUST SHUT DOWN BIT TORRENT!"

/Tsar Putin: "Agreed."

/Raving MPAA execs now acting dogs which have just fed: "Oh, thank you! America is forever in your debt! What do you wish in return for this wonderful act of conformity!?"

/Tsar Putin: "The Ukraine."

/Raving MPAA execs: "Oh shit."

Post by **NecronLord** » 2004-12-22 11:30am

Rightous Fist Of Heaven wrote:It works fine though, just DL:ing an episode of Nikita from there.

Woah, I never knew they had LFN. I love you man. *Goes off to fuel his crack... err... Nikita... habit.*

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2004-12-22 12:33pm

The Duchess of Zeon wrote:
Shinova wrote:Isn't Suprnova based in Russia or somewhere? How would the MPAA be able to do anything to them?

/Raving MPAA execs to Putin, begging, sobbing, pleading, and foaming at the mouth: "WE CONTROL CONGRESS! WE WILL GIVE YOU ANYTHING! JUST SHUT DOWN BIT TORRENT!"

/Tsar Putin: "Agreed."

/Raving MPAA execs now acting dogs which have just fed: "Oh, thank you! America is forever in your debt! What do you wish in return for this wonderful act of conformity!?"

/Tsar Putin: "The Ukraine."

/Raving MPAA execs: "Oh shit."

/Raving MPAA execs: "How about just a free copy of Crossroads? It stars Britney Spears!"

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-12-22 04:00pm

Spyder wrote:Damnit none of my torrents are connecting to their trackers anymore.

Oh well, back to DC I guess.

this is why you always hunt down alternative sites. in case the one you use most goes belly up.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2004-12-22 05:42pm

I ended up signing on LokiTorrent (because lots of suprnova torrents were from there, and they required authentication), and it has a lot of stuff.

DocHorror · Post by **DocHorror** » 2004-12-22 08:52pm

indeed, plus there partner mufftorrent has lots of good porn.

Rightous Fist Of Heaven · Post by **Rightous Fist Of Heaven** » 2004-12-23 05:18am

NecronLord wrote:
Rightous Fist Of Heaven wrote:It works fine though, just DL:ing an episode of Nikita from there.
Woah, I never knew they had LFN. I love you man. *Goes off to fuel his crack... err... Nikita... habit.*

Yeah, they are on Bi-Torrent, the entirety of the first and second season. You should grab them fast though, since Bi-Torrent will be dying pretty soon. Though, when it does, you can atleast find some of the 2nd Season Eps of Nikita from Filesoup. Loki-Torrent also has some Nikita eps.

NIkita and Jeremiah are both series that are a real bitch to find anywhere. Which is a real shame since they are both so kick-ass series.

Mlenk · Post by **Mlenk** » 2004-12-23 05:24am

NecronLord wrote: Woah, I never knew they had LFN. I love you man. *Goes off to fuel his crack... err... Nikita... habit.*

EDIT: Nevermind

Post by **NecronLord** » 2004-12-23 12:17pm

Mlenk wrote:EDIT: Nevermind

Bah. I'm curious now...

Icehawk · Post by **Icehawk** » 2004-12-23 03:22pm

Im curious, we can have a thread that talks about downloading and has links to sites that have live action series like Nikita but we are not allowed talking about downloading or linking to Anime fansubs???

Post by **RogueIce** » 2004-12-23 03:43pm

Durandal wrote:
The Duchess of Zeon wrote:/Raving MPAA execs to Putin, begging, sobbing, pleading, and foaming at the mouth: "WE CONTROL CONGRESS! WE WILL GIVE YOU ANYTHING! JUST SHUT DOWN BIT TORRENT!"

/Tsar Putin: "Agreed."

/Raving MPAA execs now acting dogs which have just fed: "Oh, thank you! America is forever in your debt! What do you wish in return for this wonderful act of conformity!?"

/Tsar Putin: "The Ukraine."

/Raving MPAA execs: "Oh shit."
/Raving MPAA execs: "How about just a free copy of Crossroads? It stars Britney Spears!"

Couldn't that be considered an act of war?

Post by **NecronLord** » 2004-12-23 03:53pm

Icehawk wrote:Im curious, we can have a thread that talks about downloading and has links to sites that have live action series like Nikita but we are not allowed talking about downloading or linking to Anime fansubs???

No. Technically we shouldn't have been talking about downloading Nikita.