[Pepper]

Popular File-Sharing Site Shuts Down

By Peter Svensson
The Associated Press
Monday, December 20, 2004; 9:12 PM


NEW YORK - One of the Web's most popular file-sharing sites has shut down less than a week after Hollywood announced a flurry of lawsuits against operators of such Internet servers.

A note posted on Suprnova.org, which facilitated sharing among users of the BitTorrent program, said the site was "closing down for good." The collection of links to downloadable files, including music, movies and books, was taken down....

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Reached via Suprnova.org's chat room, the site's anonymous operator refused to comment on why it had shut down.

Last week, movie studios sued more than 100 operators of U.S. and European sites that host BitTorrent links but did not name the defendants.

Suprnova.org was the most popular repository for links to files that could be downloaded using the BitTorrent program....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14916-20...

[pentachris]

The link is stale. Searching the Post for "BitTorrent" doesn't find the article...

[pentachris]

Google News (http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=bittorrent&btnG=Search+News) led me to this article (http://digital-lifestyles.info/display_page.asp?section=business&id=1833).

[Larred]

Hollywood will shut some of the sites down, the rest will go underground. File sharing is here to stay, especially with more and more people getting broadband. The sad thing is that these sites are just trackers, they're not actually hosting the file, as in the old days. If you do a little research on torrenting you'll find it's actually very interesting technology.

[pave_spectre]

Legitimate torrents are great. But even I have found half a dozen or more that are clearly sharing pirated material, and it's not like they try to hide, using lame disclaimers lalong the lines that you should only download them if you own the original. As though that were going to work.

The pirate stuff getting taken down doesn't bother me even slightly since it has absolutely no impact on any of the legitimate stuff.

[Gothminister]

:mad: and that was one of my fave sites too :mad:

[Pepper]

Thank you pentachris.

[Libertarian]

I used that site too. Oh well. There is also E-tree.org (http://wiki.etree.org/index.php?page=BitTorrentDownloads)

[Larred]

Linky no workie for me... :)

[Libertarian]

try http://etree.org/

[Larred]

Cool, looks like a decent music site, all they do is music?