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The series has actually been airing in Europe for the past several months. For those Americans that were too impatient to wait, the episodes been available off your favourite torrent sites for some time now.

So far, 11 of the season's 13 episodes have aired and been made available online in TV, PDTV and HDTV formats.

As well as being in higher resolution/quality than your average TV broadcast, these online copies are commercial-free.

Personally, I recommend downloading them and watching them on your computer, but also tuning your television on to the sci-fi channel and muting the sound, so that Sci-Fi gets paid for these shows and they may be able to continue producing them.

It is true that the closing of Suprnova.org was a mighty blow to the availibility of torrents, but it changes nothing in the long run. In a few weeks there will be a new uber-big torrent directory. Actually, there already are a few.

In my opinion, BitTorrent is still a new and wandering technology. It is being employed in many different way and still has plenty of undiscovered potential. It is already an excellent way to cheaply distribute free software (i.e. linux distros). It is also a great way to distribute 0-day files with minimal liability and cost.

BitTorrent is still the best way to get less-than-legal new (...brand new) tv show episodes, movies and multi-platform games. There are many reasons for this. Namely, it spreads liability across hundreds or thousands of individuals, not a single server. Secondly, .torrent files are very small and easy to spread. Finally, even if every peer has a slow dialup connection, a broadband downloader can still reach some very respectable speeds. Not to mention that most of the clients preform superb error checking on each peice of data.

As a protocal, BT is perhaps the most promising for large file distribution. There are some faster, and some even less centralized protocals, but in the end BT beats them all.

If you are concerned about BT's future as a method of underground file distribution: worry not. The torrent underground has its roots firmly planted in IRC. In fact, some of the best sites for well seeded torrents are just web-front ends to IRC channels (i.e. tvtorrents). BT will exist until something better comes along. That is the way of things.

note: this is not directly in response to the articles, rather it is in response to some of the other /. posts.

Sign up for DSL. Download BitTorrent. Go to www.tvtorrents.tv. Watch TV.

That didn't cost billions of dollars or take until 2005.

Where can I download torrents from now?
http://www.tvtorrents.tv/
http://www.btefnet.net/
http://www.fulldls.com/
http://www.tv-swarm.com/
http://www.bi-torrent.com/
http://isohunt.com/
http://torrentspy.com/
http://thepiratebay.org/
http://uk-torrents.com/
http://torrentreactor.net/
http://filelist.org/
http://newtorrents.info/
http://demonoid.com/
http://elitetorrents.org/
http://lokitorrent.com/
http://www.lickmytaint.com/bt.html/
http://www.420joint.com/bt/
http://www.torrentsearch.com/
http://www.bitconsole.com/
http://www.uknova.com/
#BT-GM on EFnet

1. Has SuprNova.org really closed?
2. When will SuprNova.org be back?
3. What about the torrents I'm currently downloading/have queued, will they still download?
4. Will joining the IRC channel and spamming about some random nonsense and/or "BRING SUPRNOVA BACK UP" help at all or bring SuprNova.org back?
5. Where can I download torrents from now?
6. Who is the owner of SuprNova.org?
7. Is BitTorrent closing?
8. Does the current situation mean I can break the channel rules in #SuprNova.org and use "!list" and "@find"?
9. You know this HTML code is very sloppy, right?
10. Where do I send additions/corrections?
11. Why has SuprNova.org closed?
12. What's happening with eXeem?
13. How do I turn off the joins/parts/quits?
14. Are there any plans to release the SuprNova.org source code?
15. What does MPAA stand for?

1. Has SuprNova.org really closed? top Yes, it has. 2. When will SuprNova.org be back? top Never as it was. If it eventually does come back up, it won't feature ANY links to torrents at all. 3. What about the torrents I'm currently downloading/have queued, will they still download? top Maybe, probably. However if they don't, it has nothing to do with SuprNova.org's closure. If the tracker for that particular torrent is still online and there are seeds, your file will still download. 4. Will joining the IRC channel and spamming about some random nonsense and/or "BRING SUPRNOVA BACK UP" help at all or bring SuprNova.org back? top NO. So don't. Really, don't. 5. Where can I download torrents from now? top http://www.tvtorrents.tv
http://www.btefnet.net
http://www.fulldls.com
http://www.tv-swarm.com
http://www.bi-torrent.com
http://isohunt.com
http://torrentspy.com
http://thepiratebay.org
http://uk-torrents.com
http://torrentreactor.net
http://filelist.org
http://newtorrents.info
http://demonoid.com
http://elitetorrents.org
http://lokitorrent.com
http://www.lickmytaint.com/bt.html
http://www.420joint.com/bt/
http://www.torrentsearch.com
http://www.bitconsole.com/
http://www.uknova.com/
#BT-GM on EFnet
6. Who is the owner of SuprNova.org? top Sloncek is the owner. I advise you leave off mailing/PMing him for now, he will be flooded with t

They've moved to www.tvtorrents.tv. According to the site, there was apparently some sort of internal conflict with one of the former ops and they lost the domain name.

1. Has SuprNova.org really closed?
2. When will SuprNova.org be back?
3. What about the torrents I'm currently downloading/have queued, will they still download?
4. Will joining the IRC channel and spamming about some random nonsense and/or "BRING SUPRNOVA BACK UP" help at all or bring SuprNova.org back?
5. Where can I download torrents from now?
6. Who is the owner of SuprNova.org?
7. Is BitTorrent closing?
8. Does the current situation mean I can break the channel rules in #SuprNova.org and use "!list" and "@find"?
9. You know this HTML code is very sloppy, right?
10. Where do I send additions/corrections?
11. Why has SuprNova.org closed?
12. What's happening with eXeem?
13. How do I turn off the joins/parts/quits?
14. Are there any plans to release the SuprNova.org source code?
15. What does MPAA stand for?

1. Has SuprNova.org really closed? top Yes, it has. 2. When will SuprNova.org be back? top Never as it was. If it eventually does come back up, it won't feature ANY links to torrents at all. 3. What about the torrents I'm currently downloading/have queued, will they still download? top Maybe, probably. However if they don't, it has nothing to do with SuprNova.org's closure. If the tracker for that particular torrent is still online and there are seeds, your file will still download. 4. Will joining the IRC channel and spamming about some random nonsense and/or "BRING SUPRNOVA BACK UP" help at all or bring SuprNova.org back? top NO. So don't. Really, don't. 5. Where can I download torrents from now? top http://www.tvtorrents.tv
http://www.btefnet.net
http://www.fulldls.com
http://www.tv-swarm.com
http://www.bi-torrent.com
http://isohunt.com
http://torrentspy.com
http://thepiratebay.org
http://uk-torrents.com
http://torrentreactor.net
http://filelist.org
http://newtorrents.info
http://demonoid.com
http://elitetorrents.org
http://lokitorrent.com
http://www.lickmytaint.com/bt.html
http://www.420joint.com/bt/
http://www.torrentsearch.com
http://www.bitconsole.com/
http://www.uknova.com/
#BT-GM on EFnet 6. Who is the owner of SuprNova.org? top Sloncek is the owner. I advise you leave off mailing/PMing him for now, he will be flooded with them and this is likely to be a very emotional time for him. He has feelings too. G

5. Where can I download torrents from now?

http://www.tvtorrents.tv/
http://www.btefnet.net/
http://www.fulldls.com/
http://www.tv-swarm.com/
http://www.bi-torrent.com/
http://isohunt.com/
http://torrentspy.com/
http://thepiratebay.org/
http://uk-torrents.com/
http://torrentreactor.net/
http://filelist.org/
http://newtorrents.info/
http://demonoid.com/
http://elitetorrents.org/
http://lokitorrent.com/
http://www.lickmytaint.com/bt.html
http://www.420joint.com/bt/
http://www.torrentsearch.com/
http://www.bitconsole.com/
http://www.uknova.com/
#BT-GM on EFnet

So how long before we read about any of the above? Taking your bets right now....

They're now at http://www.tvtorrents.tv/

tvtorrents.net have a new url.. http://www.tvtorrents.tv/

We may have been down for a bit, and had an ex op who still had the domain under her control just deregister the domain, but we are back, and are releasing episodes as we speak. Check us out, same old site, new URL. Thanks to everyone who supports us, and sorry for any of the inconvenience! -Aurelius