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[ria_oaks]

*gapes* Well, fuck. Suprnova.org just shut down. They don't give much of a reason - I can't tell if it's because of money or because they were told to shut down. Either way, fuck. Can anyone let me know of any other good general torrent sites for TV shows/movies/music/etc? Cause... this sucks. A lot.

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[bk635.livejournal.com]

Hahaha.. I bet they shut down for two reasons. One, being that the MPAA and Hollywood have been on the move lately (according to the article below, and various other articles), and secondly, the creators of Suprnova are working on a decentralized BitTorrent Tracker. Think of it as being a mix of Kazaa and BitTorrent. You open a program, search for a torrent, and start downloading; the person who created the torrent is the tracker. It is called Exeem, although I wouldn't go out searching for it yet, though.



Anyway, my advice is if you still have some torrents lying around that you were using to follow a particular series with, open those torrents in, say, Azureus. Look in the 'General' tab for that torrent, and you should see the name and URL of the actual tracker at the bottom left hand corner of the screen. So just go to that tracker to get new torrents; Suprnova was just a listing, after all.

Ummmm.. If you're really desperate you could try http://www.lokitorrent.com/. I don't use this site, but you need to register for an account (I think) and keep your ratio up. There's no specific 'share or be banned' policy but if your ratio is abysmal then you could stand a chance of being banned if an admin sees you :-/ I'm sure another site like Suprnova will be up soon..

[ria-oaks.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I remember you mentioning Exeem awhile back. It's in the works right now, then, right?

I'll check out lokitorrent, thanks. Suprnova was useful just because it was a centralized location with a lot of stuff, and it was good if I needed some random show and wanted to find it quickly. I guess it was just a matter of time before it got shut down, though. But as you said, no doubt something new will come take its place. ^^ It's always the way...

[bk635.livejournal.com]

I never mentioned Exeem before; hell, I only found out about it a few weeks ago.

Did you see my funny in my last post? ;_;

[ria-oaks.livejournal.com]

You didn't? I thought you did... or you mentioned something similar.

I saw the 'blocked' flash vid (v. amusing); haven't watched the other movie yet. I'll do so soon.

[bk635.livejournal.com]

The other one leads to US bashing. ;p

[ria-oaks.livejournal.com]

Heh. I'll watch it later tonight.

[bk635.livejournal.com]

"'BitTorrent' Gives Hollywood a Headache

Sat Dec 11, 9:41 PM

By ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writer

LOS ANGELES - Bram Cohen didn't set out to upset Hollywood movie studios. But his innovative online file-sharing software, BitTorrent, has grown into a piracy problem the film industry is struggling to handle.

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Because of its speed and effectiveness, BitTorrent steadily gained in popularity after the recording industry began cracking down last year on users of Kazaa, Morpheus, Grokster and other established file-sharing software.

The program now accounts for as much as half of all online file-sharing activity, says Andrew Parker, chief technology officer of Britain-based CacheLogic, which monitors such traffic.

"BitTorrent is more of a threat because it is probably the latest and best technological tool for transferring large files like movies," said John Malcolm, senior vice president of anti-piracy operations for the Motion Picture Association of America. "It is unusual, perhaps unique, in that the moment you start downloading you are also uploading," he added. "It's what makes it so efficient."

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"It seems pretty clear that a lot of people are actively interested in engaging in wanton piracy," said Cohen, 29, of Bellevue, Wash. "As far as I'm concerned, they're just pushing around bits, and what bits it is they're pushing around is not really a concern of mine. There's not much I can do about it."

BitTorrent has proven to be resistant to some of the countermeasures the entertainment industry has taken to sabotage file-sharing, including a process known as file-spoofing in which incomplete or decoy versions of songs or other material are uploaded to discourage piracy.

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"It's very difficult for an interdiction company to get in the middle of that system," said Ishikawa, whose company combs file-sharing networks on behalf of Hollywood studios and alerts clients when their movies turn up on the Internet.

Some of the BitTorrent host sites, like SuprNova.org, generate a daily list of new seed files added by users. The site recently had listings for movies such as "Van Helsing" and "Wimbledon," which is not scheduled for release on DVD for another three weeks.

Some sites offer digitized broadcasts of "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart," computer games like "Star Trek: Klingon Academy" and "Half Life 2," e-books on the physics behind an atomic bomb, even footage of kidnap victims in the Middle East.

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Downhill Battle, a Worcester, Mass.-based independent music group that has developed its own BitTorrent-based software called Blog Torrent, says the technology is much more than a tool for swapping copyright movies and software (a blog is a Web journal).

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While some of the BitTorrent sites that host seed files have been forced to shut down, many others escape scrutiny because they're only hosting marker files, not copyrighted material.

Malcolm of the MPAA says his organization is not focusing any more or less on BitTorrent than other file-sharing system. He declined to say whether the trade group intends to sue Cohen and wouldn't name any BitTorrent users who may have been included in the entertainment industry's latest wave of lawsuits. (lies)

"Anyone who uses BitTorrent and is under the illusion that they are anonymous are sorely mistaken," Malcolm said. "There is no reason why those lawsuits wouldn't include BitTorrent" users. (Idiot; we know)

So far, Cohen said, he has not become a target of the entertainment industry, which has aggressively pursued litigation against other file-sharing software distributors, with mixed success. On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal by movie studios and music labels of a ruling that found Grokster Ltd. and StreamCast Networks Inc., the firm behind the Morpheus software, to not be responsible for their customers' online swapping of copyright songs and movies.

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"Someone else was doing something with BitTorrent that I had no knowledge of," Cohen said. "It's not being done on any machines I have any control over ... what do you want me to do?""