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suprnova gone for good?

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Phoenix

Phoenix

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torrentbits.org gone as well.

Personally I think this is a good thing. if the community has excercised some restraint and policed itself and stuck to those things 'not in circulation' and 'tv episodes' and similar, the networks would likely still be running and thriving.
 
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CloudNL

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You can't stop this.
When there's a torrent site closed, a new one will open.

We had the same thing with a Dutch subtitle site in Holland (ondertitels.nl). It was closed by some Dutch Media company (BREIN). They said that posting subtitles on your site was forbidden. Two weeks later: there was a whole new Dutch subtitle site on a server in a far far away country.
 
Phoenix

Phoenix

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CloudNL said:
You can't stop this.
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You 'can' stop it, just that it won't happen in more than a few countries. Several countries (like China) have walled off entire sections of the Internet altogether. So to say it can't be stopped would be incorrect.
 
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Suerte

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DarthWufei said:
:lol Seeing people cry is great, I could honestly care less about this.. the last time I used Suprnova.. I can't even remember the date.

Regardless the site was in horrible condition whenever I checked it, it was slow, buggy, etc. I'm glad to see it go, it was like Old Yeller, but I couldn't get the rifle. :\
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Oh DarthWufei... :(
 
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DJ Sl4m

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I don't understand why so many from here even use BT, why not use newsgroups which has an average speed of 500k ?

TV eps and all the porn you could ever imagine are on newsgroups.
 
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Wario64

works for Gamestop (lol)
If you guys really wanted to download movies, tv shows or whatever, you should have been able to find a dedicated tracker during the time Suprnova was up. Most of those torrents don't use the Supnorva tracker


DJ Sl4m said:
I don't understand why so many from here even use BT, why not use newsgroups which has an average speed of 500k ?

TV eps and all the porn you could ever imagine are on newsgroups.
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Not everyone has access to NG, but I agree NG >>>>>>>>> BT
 
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Jim Bowie

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pestul said:
I assume the torrentspy website would work fine on OSX. ;)
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I went to the first link, the one with the program. It looks nice, but it didn't have an OSX thing going on. Thanks d00d.
 
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dem

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DJ Sl4m said:
I don't understand why so many from here even use BT, why not use newsgroups which has an average speed of 500k ?

TV eps and all the porn you could ever imagine are on newsgroups.
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Because some people have shitty news servers... or none at all?
 
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Memles

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TVtorrents.com is gone as well...it seems like this is a widespread thing. Here's hoping someone on campus still has as site to go to, so the DC Hub will still be able to supply me with TV shows I could otherwise not get.
 
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DJ Sl4m

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Wario64 said:
If you guys really wanted to download movies, tv shows or whatever, you should have been able to find a dedicated tracker during the time Suprnova was up. Most of those torrents don't use the Supnorva tracker





Not everyone has access to NG, but I agree NG >>>>>>>>> BT
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Really, like who, the people in the eastern part of the world, or ones behind school firewalls or what, I really didn't know they wer'nt available to all.

I have access to free servers for Cox.net, but since the retention is just a few days I don't even use or access them.
I opted for the $15. unlimited package from newshosting.com

Sure I pay when I could get it free, but man it's so worth it, I'm sure you know what I mean considering you know how convenient newsgroups can be when retention is high.
 
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Wario64

works for Gamestop (lol)
Most newsgroup servers that ISPs provide are shit. Some dont allow access to binary stuff while others have terrible retention. And not everyone is willing to spend money for access either. But yeah, newsgroups are easy to use once you get it going and makes pir...downloading much easier :p
 
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DJ Sl4m

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Socreges said:
This is terrible news :(

-edit- I really need to learn how to use Newsgroups
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A good program like Newsbin Pro or Newsleecher to download the list of files available from each group is recomended.

It's simple I swear, the first time I tried it out I was up and running with a downloaded demo of Newsbin Pro and put the settings in that I have to use for my ISP email account (username/password) and input the news server info in less than 30 minutes.

It was easy enough to figure out how to use it pretty quickly, and VERY much worth the effort even if it wasn't.

If you have free news server access from your ISP, you really should go for it.

Newsbin Pro is the easier of the 2 and perfect for the first time setting it up to see what/why/how things work and how to properly use them, but once you become familiar with them Newsleecher is the caddilac of newsgroup programs.

FAST free porn, wallpapers, TV eps you name it it's available at superfast speeds.

http://www.newsbin.com/ISP.htm

That link will let you know if the ISP you are using has free news server access and gives you the info to log into them.
 
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sandman

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Suprnova is down, however, it is only the beginning of plenty of pirate sites. There will always be more. Just know where to look.
 
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Dilbert

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I've never used BitTorrent or Napster or any of that stuff, but it always cracks me up how people talk OPENLY about where they find their stuff. Hasn't it occured to anyone yet that reading all the replies that say, "well, now that suprnova.org is down, just go to newtorrentsite.domain.com" will tip off whoever is behind THIS shutdown about where to go next?
 
Phoenix

Phoenix

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-jinx- said:
I've never used BitTorrent or Napster or any of that stuff, but it always cracks me up how people talk OPENLY about where they find their stuff. Hasn't it occured to anyone yet that reading all the replies that say, "well, now that suprnova.org is down, just go to newtorrentsite.domain.com" will tip off whoever is behind THIS shutdown about where to go next?
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I doubt the MPAA and RIAA are looking at GAF to find the pirate sites are :)
 
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Dan

No longer boycotting the Wolfenstein franchise
-jinx- said:
I've never used BitTorrent or Napster or any of that stuff, but it always cracks me up how people talk OPENLY about where they find their stuff. Hasn't it occured to anyone yet that reading all the replies that say, "well, now that suprnova.org is down, just go to newtorrentsite.domain.com" will tip off whoever is behind THIS shutdown about where to go next?
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GAF + logic = first sign of the apocalypse
 
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OmniGamer

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What crappy timing...it was just today i realized I only had the first 4 parts out of 5 for Inspector Gadget and went to suprnova and got the "no mirror found" stuff, and now it's down for good. But anywho, thanks to a protip in this thread I now have it.
 
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Drozmight

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Just last night I d-loaded Eternal Sunshine. I own it, but I wanted a copy on my computer. I never did figure out how to rip them into those 700 meg avi's off the DVD.
 
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marsomega

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chimpychi said:
seems you have to download some agent and pay a fee....bye bye suprnova!
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You must of typed suprnova.com. Thats not the site, that is some internet company who bought the url and a trap to get you to sign up for their internet service.
 
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Pimpwerx

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These sites cultivate communities of file-sharers b/c of word of mouth. If people stopped name-dropping "openly" these things wouldn't get very far. Sharing's only worthwhile if you got a lot of people in on it. Sucks for Suprnova, but sucks even more for Torrentbits. That was my favorite. Luckily, there are a plethora of other sites, and torrents will just jump around until something better than BT comes along. You can already see the main sites where every has jumped ship to, b/c they're now getting hammered. PEACE.
 
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JoshuaJSlone

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Drozmight said:
Just last night I d-loaded Eternal Sunshine. I own it, but I wanted a copy on my computer. I never did figure out how to rip them into those 700 meg avi's off the DVD.
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Wow, that's taking the long way around the problem. :D Search for and downoad DVD Decrypter and Auto Gordian Knot. You can use the former program to choose what you want from the DVD (entire movie, certain chapters, which audio stream, things like that) and decrypt it onto your hard drive. Then give those files to Auto Gordian Knot, tell it what file size you want it to end up, and it takes it from there.
 
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Drozmight

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JoshuaJSlone said:
Wow, that's taking the long way around the problem. :D Search for and downoad DVD Decrypter and Auto Gordian Knot. You can use the former program to choose what you want from the DVD (entire movie, certain chapters, which audio stream, things like that) and decrypt it onto your hard drive. Then give those files to Auto Gordian Knot, tell it what file size you want it to end up, and it takes it from there.
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Thanks.
 
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Spiritreaver

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Suerte said:
Oh DarthWufei... :(
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Sorry. :( I hardly bother to pirate American made stuff, and when I do it's very rarely, usually to just catch up on a an episode of a TV program I've missed, nothing major. Movies I don't download because what interests me isn't on a torrent or even it is it has no seeds whatsoever. I like few TV shows and what I do like I just watch on TV, if I miss something I do as I stated above though. Music... I only like one band from here and I own their CDs :lol. So I kind of don't really care what happens to these kinds of torrent sites. :/ As long as the porn and anime stay up for awhile, I'll be alright.

The day we lose SC videos is the day I lose my sex drive. :lol
 
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Rlan

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This was about a week ago, but began the downfall.

Police in Finland have raided the operations of a popular BitTorrent file download site, seizing equipment and at the houses four people who ran the site. Police also raided the houses of 30 volunteers who helped moderate the site.

According to our early translation of a report of the raids, the 34 people had been arrested, but several readers from Finland have emailed us to say that this is incorrect.



Police say the site had 10,000 users, all Finnish, who downloaded illegally-copied content worth millions of euros. The site featured 6000 torrents, including film, videos, music and games.

If convicted, the site operators face jail of up to two years and are liable for claims for damages from content owners.

According to Finnish newspaper reports (English), the police liaised with Interpol and Elisa, a local ISP, in their investigations.

The Motion Picture Ass. of America (MPAA) today announced (PDF) that it is pursuing civil actions against hundreds of server operators of BitTorrent, eDonkey and DirectConnect P2P file-swapping networks, in its war on internet movie piracy.

In addition, the MPAA is co-operating in criminal investigations with police in Finland, the Netherlands and France, so it is reasonable to infer that reports of raids in more European countries are likely to surface shortly.

BitTorrent speeds file transfers by segmenting content and downloading parts from multiple users rather than a single server. As you receive a file, so other BitTorrent users are able to grab it from you in the same way. The idea is to ensure a more even sharing of bandwidth between participants. It's not a classic P2P application since it's about improving download performance rather than sharing files per se. Files are found not through the application itself but through links on websites, and it's these initial servers that the MPAA and co. are targeting. ®
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/14/finnish_police_raid_bittorrent_site/
 
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