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The Truth About Suprnova Shutdown

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the sites-speaking-from-beyond-the-grave dept.

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."

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  1. One of the most idiotic stories on /. to date by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    To quote from the fucking article:

    It was from the prosecutor, saying by the law blah blah and blah blah?. the denunciation against Andrej Preston has been dropped. And I received all the CD's and computers that they took from me. This happened on 18th October 2005.

    An article giving a link as to why suprnova shut down and the exact legal reasons behind are written as blah blah and blah blah. I guess this story was just for people to go into a big RIAA circle jerk again?

    This isn't news, it's fucking entertainment. Neil Postman was right, public discourse is at the level of MTV-drones.

    1. Re:One of the most idiotic stories on /. to date by BarryNorton · · Score: 1, Flamebait

      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...

  2. Next time, try... by Atario · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ...some offshore hosting.

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  3. And where's all the donated legal aid money? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

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

  4. Re:Slashdot by tehwebguy · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    i was thinking the same thing

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  5. Re:Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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?

  6. He's depressed. Good. by tabbser · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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.

  7. Re:welp by gsslay · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    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.

  8. Re:From the article... by dreamchaser · · Score: 0, Flamebait

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

  9. Re:So, to sum it up by spiki · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    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.

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