The Truth About Suprnova Shutdown

Romeo E. Cabrera writes "You might remember it was exactly a year ago when Suprnova, once the most popular BitTorrent search engine went dark. Today, Suprnova's admin Sloncek, reveals the truth and details, about the events occurred then."

Comments

And where's all the donated legal aid money?

[Anonymous Coward]

There still has been no explanation on what Loki did with it.

Re:Slashdot

[Anonymous Coward]

Digg: It didn't work for Kuro5hin, but let's pretend we're better than Slashdot anyway!

Fuck off to Digg then. Or do you feel the need to come to Slashdot to comment because Diggs comment system is so fucking poor?

He's depressed. Good.

[tabbser]

Seriously, this site was a massive hub to pirated material.
I looked at it a year ago and thought to myself, wow, this should be should down.
I mean, links to torrent files of movies, music, software ...

This is clearly unethical at best and should be shut down.

Disclaimer : I'm a self employed software engineer and I defend my living vigorously. If you worked for yourself, sold your own software and someone pirated and made it availble on bittorrent, you'd see it the same way.

If it was me, I'd have sued this guy, fuck his christmas.

Re:welp

[gsslay]

there's still good people working behind the scenes who made it all possible

Interesting definitions of "good people" and "working". I'd term them more as "enablers of piracy" and "copying others' work".

Typical flaming slashdot. If this guy was linking to software that ignored open licencing he'd be getting hate email. But because he's helping rip off others' work outside the computing industry he's some kind of hero.

Re:One of the most idiotic stories on /. to date

[BarryNorton]

Thanks for your much more eloquent posting, but I was pleased to hear about this - whether or not Sloncek was very coherent, that he'd re-surfaced was news to me. I'm happy this is on Slashdot, whether you like the subsequent discussion or not. You clearly don't care enough to use your own username, anyway, so crawl back into your hole...

Re:From the article...

[dreamchaser]

Like it or not the word piracy has picked up the added meaning of copyright infringement. Get over it.

Re:So, to sum it up

[spiki]

Ahh... How did he got +5? Did he bribe some admin from Russia or what? :)

Slovenia isn't or has ever been in Eastern Europe :) Look some maps you filty yank. It's between Italy, Austria, Hungary and Croatia.

This is my tertiary acc so i don't mind burning carma

Step 1: Write some dumbass comment.
Step 2: Bribe admins to get modded up.
Step 3: Profit.