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Hairbautt
08-03-2007, 04:44 AM
http://torrentfreak.com//images/suprnova-new.gif"The legendary BitTorrent site Suprnova.org will be back in action soon. Sloncek, the former owner of suprnova.org decided to donate the domain to The Pirate Bay lads, who will relaunch the site in a few days, staying true to its original design. The return of a Legend."

"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.

In a response to this breaking news, the former owner of Suprnova told TorrentFreak why he decided to donate the domain: "The domain was doing nothing. I know that domain has some nostalgic value and some people would be more then happy to see it back online. I don’t use it, and TPB is the only team that I know will use it correctly."

"I will be involved in the community [Forums] on a separated domain", Sloncek said and added, "The site has to look almost exactly like it looked before. They can upgrade it, but they cannot change it appearance completely. We further agreed that the site has to be community orientated (not private)."

Together with the relaunch of Suprnova, which will be a torrent indexer and not have it’s own tracker, a new community will be launched that will be linked to both Suprnova and The Pirate Bay. The forums will be hosted on SuprBay.org and are already up and running (more or less).

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."

Here’s a preview of the updated Suprnova logo. The new site is scheduled to go live this week!"

:source: Source: TorrentFreak (http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-about-to-relaunch-suprnovaorg/)
:view: TorrentFreak: Suprnova: What Will Change and What Will Remain The Same?

(http://torrentfreak.com/suprnova-what-will-change-and-what-will-remain-the-same/)

RainRoofer
08-03-2007, 08:40 AM
I've read it this morning, really a surprise.

S!X
08-03-2007, 08:51 AM
Good ol suprnova eh, Right o'

JamesBlunt
08-03-2007, 02:47 PM
The legendary BitTorrent site Suprnova.org will be back in action soon. Sloncek, the former owner of suprnova.org (http://suprnova.org/) decided to donate the domain to The Pirate Bay lads, who will relaunch the site in a few days, staying true to its original design. The return of a Legend.

http://torrentfreak.com//images/suprnova-new.gifThe Pirate Bay (http://thepiratebay.org/) crew has been working on this secret project for quite some time now. Back in April they wrote a cryptic post (http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-its-coming/) 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.
In a response to this breaking news, the former owner of Suprnova told TorrentFreak why he decided to donate the domain: “The domain was doing nothing. I know that domain has some nostalgic value and some people would be more then happy to see it back online. I don’t use it, and TPB is the only team that I know will use it correctly.”
“I will be involved in the community [Forums] on a separated domain”, Sloncek said and added, “The site has to look almost exactly like it looked before. They can upgrade it, but they cannot change it appearance completely. We further agreed that the site has to be community orientated (not private).”
Together with the relaunch of Suprnova, which will be a torrent indexer and not have it’s own tracker, a new community will be launched that will be linked to both Suprnova and The Pirate Bay. The forums will be hosted on SuprBay.org (http://suprbay.org/) and are already up and running (more or less).
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.”
Here’s a preview of the updated Suprnova logo. The new site is scheduled to go live this week!
http://torrentfreak.com//images/suprnova-new-logo.jpg
For the people who are relatively new to BitTorrent, here’s a brief history of Suprnova (previously posted here (http://torrentfreak.com/suprnovaorg-two-years-since-the-shutdown/)).
The Rise of Suprnova.

Suprnova.org launched in the fall of 2002. At that time it was one of the few BitTorrent sites on the Internet. Suprnova was founded by Andrej Preston, a Slovenian teenager better known as Sloncek. Initially he wanted to name the site Supernova, but that name was already taken.
Suprnova.org started as a fun project, with a very primitive setup. In fact, it was hosted on a linux box at Sloncek’s home in the early days. As soon as Suprnova was ready to go public, he started to advertise the site among friends and on IRC, and it slowly started to attract more and more visitors.
The word about the “universal BitTorrent source” spread like wildfire. It was no surprise that it didn’t take long before the traffic generated by Suprnova was maxing out the meager 16kb/s upload capacity.
The increased popularity of Suprnova came around the same time when other torrent sites like donkax.com, bytemonsoon.com and torrentse.cx, decided to quit. These sites were more or less forced to go offline, either due to bandwidth constraints, or cease and desist letters. But Suprnova made it very clear that it wasn’t going anywhere.
Suprnova continued to grow, and Sloncek spent most of the time looking for mirrors, to guarantee that the site stayed in the air. At it’s top it indexed almost 60.000 torrents and about 1.5 million visitors per day. Suprnova had a very active community, and its forum was among the biggest on the Internet.
The fall of Suprnova.

In November 2004 Suprnova’s ISP told Sloncek that the servers were taken into custody by the Slovenian police. The raid was initiated by the French anti-piracy lobby RetSpan. The police never contacted Sloncek about this personally, but is was a sign that things were about to change.
Around the same time Reuters wrote about Sloncek (http://in.tech.yahoo.com/041103/137/2ho4i.html) in one of their articles, which soon after spread out to the Slovenian press. This was the turning point for Sloncek. He later said (http://torrentfreak.com/sloncek-uncovers-the-truth-about-suprnovaorg/): “So I ended up reading about myself in Slovenian newspapers. And right about that time, I had a feeling something was wrong. I do not really know what the feeling was or where it was coming from, but I decided it was time to take SuprNova.org offline.”
Sloncek eventually pulled the plug December 19, 2004, which marked the end of an era.
October 18, 2005, almost a year after the servers were raided, Sloncek received a letter form the prosecutor stating that the charges against him were dropped. This was a great relief, and he later said (http://torrentfreak.com/sloncek-uncovers-the-truth-about-suprnovaorg/): “This has been a huge pressure on me and I think it left some permanent marks on me. I hope none of you will ever have to go through something like this.”
Early 2006 Suprnova.org shortly resurrected as a P2P news site, but that project ended after a couple of months.


source : TorrentFreak
i'm happy for this great news :naughty:

darkseekers
08-03-2007, 02:50 PM
dupe
http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/f-news-section-95/t-the-pirate-bay-relaunch-suprnovaorg-214394

:P:P

JamesBlunt
08-03-2007, 02:53 PM
dupe
http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/f-news-section-95/t-the-pirate-bay-relaunch-suprnovaorg-214394

:P:P
sry but i think not so many members will notice it there at least people like me :lol:

PoOki
08-03-2007, 03:01 PM
I think Il'e stick with my private sites :)

The only thing I've downloaded from suprnova when it was alive was FIFA2005 :lol:

Patriot foreve
08-03-2007, 03:35 PM
awesome news ,glad to hear that the gigantic public tarcker will be back ,missed it alot

xbawksz
08-03-2007, 03:38 PM
woo hoo. i liked suprnova back in the days when i didnt know about private trackers. probably still gonna stick with the private sites but i may check it out once or twice if i need something non scene related.

vGa
08-03-2007, 05:27 PM
wooow this is amazing....Sloncek is amazing.

PS: BTW Sloncek means Elephent

killuminati96
08-03-2007, 06:07 PM
cool..i used to love that site

MaaxHimself
08-03-2007, 06:20 PM
Sweet...I never got a chance to experience SuperNova the first time around.

beat
08-03-2007, 06:50 PM
Me neither although I guess I'll just stick with the private ones :whistling

Hairbautt
08-03-2007, 07:34 PM
dupe
http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/f-news-section-95/t-the-pirate-bay-relaunch-suprnovaorg-214394

:P:P
sry but i think not so many members will notice it there at least people like me :lol:
Yeah it doesn't surprise me.

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Jerk.

Windy72
08-03-2007, 08:18 PM
Why bother resurrecting the dead. Times change move on that what I say.:frusty:

silent h3ro
08-03-2007, 09:21 PM
Cool, I remember suprnova.

4play
08-03-2007, 10:11 PM
does any one else think Sloncek is starting to think the suprnova name is about to be die so a link up with the pirate bay is his last desperate attempt to stay relevant.

suprnova was never a tracker, it was an aggregator that cached torrents off other trackers and listed them all together. who the hell cares if its coming back. its only gonna end up listing all torrents that are already available through other sites like torrentspy and tpb.

SaveFerris
08-04-2007, 12:52 AM
It's not about what it did, it's about what it stood for. :P

Hairbautt
08-04-2007, 01:18 AM
:ermm: That's the spirit.

SaveFerris
08-04-2007, 10:27 AM
:ermm: That's the spirit.

Damn straight!

evacide
08-04-2007, 07:56 PM
I remember my cousin doing lots of illegal downloading on IRC/Suprnova and teaching me when I was only like 10 or 11. Anything you needed you could just go there; the whole site will be different of course since it's under different management now but it'll be a slap in the face to the MPAA/RIAA lol.

Emad1129
08-04-2007, 08:03 PM
good news it will be back for free or for paying???

evacide
08-04-2007, 08:16 PM
good news it will be back for free or for paying???
Knowing the Pirate Bay, probably free.

Hairbautt
08-13-2007, 12:29 AM
/added TorrentFreak link to Suprnova: What Will Change and What Will Remain The Same?