I am posting this more for future reference, because if you use SuprNova or any of the other BitTorrent sites, you probably already know that they are now offline. Although the SuprNova site doesn’t give an explicit reason for why they are offline, it is likely because of the recent lawsuits launched by the MPAA:
“We do not know if SuprNova is going to return, but it is certainly not going to be hosting any more torrent links” to content, said a message posted over the weekend to the SuprNova site, which was no longer available Monday morning. “We are very sorry for this, but there was no other way, we have tried everything.”
When I first heard the news, I almost had a heart attack. SuprNova has become one of my favorite websites, but I guess that’s why they have been shut down – it was a favorite for too many people! Fortunately, it was not the only aggregator of BitTorrent files, and there are still many sites up and running. It’s also good to know that BitTorrent itself is just the plumbing, and will live on:
None of this means that BitTorrent is going away. The technology is already widely used in legal ways, such as to distribute games and versions of the Linux operating system. It saves the content publishers considerable money in bandwidth by deputizing their own customers to help in the distribution process.
I don’t know why the music and movie industries are attacking their users. If anyone at those two organizations had a brain they’d figure out a way to harness the file sharing technologies so that they can make some money off of it. Shutting down one or two or even three torrent file sites isn’t going to stop file sharing. What happened after they shut down Napster? Better technologies were created to take its place. Maybe the same will happen because of this attack:
SuprNova organizers have been working on a more decentralized version of BitTorrent called Exeem, according to peer-to-peer news site Slyck.com. No word on that project was available after the site’s closure.
Read: CNET News.com
so, where do i go now to download files???
I think MPAA is doing stupid thing again. They think that if they shut down those bit torrent sites, they can get money easily. But as you know whenever they shut down the site, new sites keep coming up with new technologies. I want MPAA to reduced the price of DVD and music CD, rather than suing bit torrent users.