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The Pirate Bay About To Relaunch Suprnova.org

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the but-for-how-long dept.

kungfujesus writes "The Pirate Bay crew has been working on this secret project for quite some time now. Back in April they wrote a cryptic post on their blog announcing that something was coming. In a response to this announcement TPB admin Brokep told TorrentFreak: "The past, the present and the future. It's all the same, but one thing's for sure, we will radiate for weeks", today it became clear that he was referring to the resurrection of Suprnova."

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  1. Re:But with mininova by nlitement · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It holds a certain nostalgic value. I'm really happy to hear this.

  2. Re:But with mininova by genrader · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Mininova is nowhere near the traffic that Suprnova once was. I used to be able to find anything and everything on suprnova, almost always. Mininova feels lacking a lot of the time.

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  3. Not a bad idea by chebucto · · Score: 5, Interesting
    From the article it sounds like the main technical thing going on here is that the suprnova site will be relaunched as a torrent index, using the same design scheme as the original site. Ho-hum; there is no lack of options for torrent sites at the moment...

    ... but the symbolic meaning is, IMHO, actually important. From TFA:

    We also talked to Brokep, one of The Pirate Bay administrators and asked him why they decided to revive Suprnova. He told us: "We talked it over and decided it was something people would have use for, it would help the torrent community and it would also signal that if you shut one down it will get back up again."

    Not to be overly dramatic, but things like this show that injustices to the filesharing community (if you see them that way :) ) will, eventually, be overcome.

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  4. Who needs it by Kadin2048 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Mininova aside, why would they relaunch Suprnova, when TPB is already one of the biggest (if not the biggest) BT trackers around?

    Is there really a market for that many different tracker/aggregators? I guess I can understanding having different sites tailored to different purposes; a site that's designed expressly for tracking TV-episode .torrents is probably going to be designed differently than one built around general-purpose dvdimage/iso/rar torrents, but it seems like this is something where bigger is better. The more files that are tracked, the more useful a site is.

    Why create another one?

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    1. Re:Who needs it by montyzooooma · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Demonoid requires you to register if you want to access older torrents, whereas TPB, Mininova and the old Suprnova didn't. Registration in the world of bit-torrent seems somewhat counter-intuitive.

    2. Re:Who needs it by Das+Modell · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I tried a popular private torrent site when I managed to get an invite. It was, to paraphrase the Angry Video Game Nerd, fucking horrible!

      Private sites tend to enforce a ratio, so if you don't seed enough you're eventually banned, which is what happened to me. No matter how much I tried, I was never able to seed properly (about 800 mb at most, and I must have downloaded about 10 gb). I had my client set up exactly like the site instructed me to, and I've never had any issues seeding on public trackers. I tried seeding big torrents, I tried seeding small torrents, I tried seeding small chunks from a large, popular torrent, and I even downloaded a file just so I could try seeding it... nothing worked. To make things even more difficult, what little I managed to seed wasn't properly registered by the site. Another part of the problem was that new users couldn't access new torrents, so by the time the torrents became available to me there was nobody downloading them anymore, or there was such a ridiculous amount of seeders that I couldn't seed anything myself.

      Since then, I've had no desire to go anywhere near private torrent sites. And why would I? Public sites usually have anything you need, and if they don't then it's likely to be so rare that private sites don't have it either.

  5. Yeah, and... by NMerriam · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Am i the only person to notice that their big, uncensored image hosting site lasted about 2 days before they started removing images by the thousand with no explanation? Entire categories disappeared. I'd like to see slashdot or somebody ask them what the heck the point of the site is even supposed to be, since it certainly isn't a place to put things to link to, even generic LOL forum-type images. There's no indication on their FAQ or anywhere else why or how or who will just decide to remove stuff on a whim.

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  6. Re:isohunt anyone? by Antique+Geekmeister · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Well, let's see.

    * A search engine that actually uses booleans correctly.
    * A policy that labels for CD or DVD images match what's on them in some consistent format, such as name, author, publisher, comments, with a matching search engine.
    * Published checksums for the images: this could be used to reduce or elimiinate the duplicates.
    * Open source or creative commons links: Bittorrent is the fastest way to get Linux CD or DVD images, but they *must* be checksum verified for security reasons.
    * A policy of sending 3000 volts to the fingertips of the next idiot who uses yet another format for CD or DVD images, wasting my time with bittorrents for formats that no one but some teenager in Slovenia uses.

  7. Mere Conicidence? by Shinra · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The Featured Article on Wikipedia today is the Supernova: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernova Coincidence? Or a sneaky new method of marketing?

  8. Just happened to be browsing firehose... by distantbody · · Score: 4, Interesting
    ...and saw this claim:

    Pirate Bay earns 20,000 Euros a day

    controverisal pro-piracy website the piratebay likes to portray itself as an innocent hobby site that provides a free index without censorship, but recent facts show that the site is earning up to 20,000 Euros per day from its advertising. Taking in money on this scale puts a different slant on the motives behind the Swedish filesharing site, and could open up the runners of the site to prosecution for profiting from copyright infringement.

    I wonder if that's true? The "from its advertising" part makes it sound like a load of bs fud.
    1. Re:Just happened to be browsing firehose... by gaspyy · · Score: 4, Interesting

      it is very heroic to stand up for your ideals and risk your life for what you believe. Just like in US when guys fed up with england fought for independence, etc


      I may be jaded and plain cynical, but yes, I do think Pirate Bay and all other sites are in for the money. Risking lives and comparing them to those who really fought in the the US War of Independence is not only an overstatement, it's borderline troll (I'm not even an American).

      I somehow fail to see this as a giant resistance and war against an oppressive Big Brother. Fact is, the torrent sites are used to distribute copyrighted materials. I don't agree with RIAA/MPAA/BSA tactics, but we are not ENTITLED to get anything for free - movies, songs or anything else. When you download Bourne Ultimatum, you're doing it because you're too lazy to go to a theater and feel better because you've spared 20 bucks - you're not fighting for freedom.

      I've spent my childhood under communism and I'm kinda fed up with this attitude - oh they're so evil we can't get Evanescence for free. Where I come from, people were arrested for listening to Rolling Stones.

      As a part-time photographer, I've had my work used without permission and let me tell you - it pisses me off. Making photos costs me money, even if it's only paying the model. I don't agree with copyrights for 70 years - 10 years would be enough for anything - but I have a hard time believing that those who took my photos did that to fight the system - they did that so they don't have to spend a dollar at iStockPhoto.

      You can mod me down now.
  9. Re:*sigh* by Paradise+Pete · · Score: 2, Interesting
    While I agree that the big content holders don't deserve any sympathy, there are artists out there that actually ARE hurting from piracy.

    Yet another reason for reformation of copyright law. As "clever" as Disney et. al. think they were, there are repercussions and eventual consequences to shoving through self-serving laws. One of those is that people stop respecting the law.

  10. Re:YouTube competitor by zis000 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Here's the link to the story http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-to-launch-y outube-competitor/