The truth about SuprNova.org shutdown

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In late 2004, the world’s largest bittorrent site was shut down permanently. Nobody knows why and how...here's the whole story behind the shutdown right from the horses' mouth err...i mean the the owner of Suprnova.org

For a year now, there have been many rumors why SuprNova.org was taken offline. Some have said that it was because of legal issues, some said it was because I sold out to eXeem project, or because I became a millionaire and did not want to bother with the site anymore, and the rumors go on.

Today, on the exact day, when SuprNova.org went offline, I decided that it is time for everybody to know the truth and that it is time for me to stop pretending like nothing ever happened.

On November 2004, I received a call from my ISP saying that all of my servers had been raided by the police. I received nothing from the police before or after the raid, nobody told me what was going on.

In early December, Reuters did an article on me, and many Slovenian newspapers jumped on the story. 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.

About a month later, after SuprNova.org had been taken offline, there was a door bell at 6:30 in the morning, saying it's the police. Actually I was not expecting anything anymore, since SuprNova.org had been taken offline long before that. They showed me a court order to search my place and they did so. They took as far as I remember, two of my computers and lots of documents.

About a month or so later, I was called to the police, so that we or actually they, did a list of all the files that were on all of the computers that they took from my home and from the ISP.

Another month later, I was called to the police for my hearing. I and my lawyer decided, we wouldnt answer any questions. After this was over, the police told us they will give this to the prosecutor and he will continue the procedure. My lawyer told me, that I should expect a letter from the prosecutor after the summer holidays.

And that was true, nothing happened during the summer holidays and I had quite a wonderful time. Very relaxed.

And just when I was hoping that the prosecutor would forget about my case I received another letter. When I received the paper, that I had to go pick up the envelope at the post, I became completely depressed and sad. But anyway, I went to the post and picked up the document. 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.

Since then nothing happened, and I hope it stays that way. 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.

What is written above is just a short story of everything that went on during last year. I also do not want to give out too much information, since it wouldn't be wise.

Thanks to all of the friends that knew about this and supported me as much as they could! Its been a hard year for all of us.

Attached the last letter received by him though its not worth a look if u dunno the language. :P

Source: SuprNova.org
 

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No, he gave the source HTML script to a friend of his, and suprnova is unofficialy back online, with *exactly* the same looks as the suprnova.
Though i understand the pressure, and that had no choice but to take it off.

But i think he's making up...if it was the case he could've told us before, instead he was being hated upon by all the BT users, the stroy before was that he shut down suprnova to work on a program development, which failed upon entering the market and had bundled adware.

But, anyone read the FBI/Microsoft warnings that the piratebay has got! Its still running strong :rofl:
 
I just got a warning from Warner Bros. that I had been downloading(they traced my Ip despite safepeer..the buggers!)....its getting very hard in the US with big brother always watching,the fact that I downloaded 120gigs+ last month didn't help matters either,so enjoy it while it lasts and it should last for quite sometime in India!

AFAIK movie studios should release the HDTV versions of all movies for free b4 the theatrical release....LOL..just a thought...
 
And you need a paid for service to really tap into their potential,good ones start at $14/month plus $2/month for newzbin.com,about the same as a Netflix subscription.
 
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