Supernova.org – we are back in business!
The legendary BitTorrent site – supernova.org – will be back online, back in business, and back in action, thanks to those kind folk over at Pirate Bay. Sloneck, the former owner of the site and current owner of the domain, decided to donate it in the interests of nostalgia and its loyal customer base. On his motives for the donation, Sloneck had this to say:
“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.â€
He went on to explain that the site would look the same as before and, further, that this was part of the agreement with The Pirate Bay: “They can upgrade it, but they cannot change the appearance completelyâ€.
Supernova will be a torrent index and will not use its own tracker. There will also be a fresh new forum launched that will work with both Supernova and The Pirate Bay. This forum – ‘the community’ – will be moderated in some way by Supernova’s former owner. The forums will be sited at SuprBay.org and, by all accounts, are already up and running.
Pirate Bay administrator Brokep cited the reason for their decision to rekindle the Supernova fire as being a signal to the P2P community and to the those that would have it shut down:
“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.â€.
There can be no disagreement that this resurrection will be welcome news to the P2P file sharing community. It also presents something of a kick in the teeth to the Big Four music cartel – along with their supporting government and legal aides – who are trying to ensure such organisations are shut down, not relaunching like a Phoenix from the flames.
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Supernova is a rip off 04Oct07
Don’t waste you time paying any money to supernova.org for any service. They don’t provide anything that you could not get for free anywhere else. There site does not work at all other then to take your money. This is a rip off. Stay away don’t be fooled, sadly enough I was!!!!
rubic 03Dec07
ye thats cause the site is suprnova.org, not supernova…
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