Well, yes I noticed it went down when my torrent stopped at 5am on Saturday morning. It really sucks, because Suprnova had the biggest database, and also there are a couple of other sites down too. It isn't the end of Bittorent, but the next few months will be the deciding factor, since bandwith will be strained and all other torrent sites will crawl. A few other good ones are Lokitorrent, Filelist.org, and bi-torrent, but none really compare to Suprnova.

You don't really believe that, do you ?

Damn... Bit Torrent was (and is still is) the best file sharing system in the world. I would have tought that since the BT sites aren't actually distributing any actual files rather than the tracker files, they would not be technically illegal.

On the other hand, it is easier to host a tracker server on foreign soil because of the small bandwidth usage, the lawsuits in the end will not do the RIAA and MPAA any good in the long run when all of the operators shifted their servers elsewhere.

For the time being, servers that only host p0rn trackers are relatively safe from harassments for now.

[ 12-21-2004, 10:28 AM: Message edited by: Paladin2000 ]

Ah good...my mom will be pleased to hear that. :D

No wonder BitTorent can't seem to work. it has been shut down pulak.

Suprnova.org has done it purpose. Time to move on.

That's pretty much what the internet is used for. Let's just outlaw that.

Because they keep a database on the files that are shared they know and sort of agree with what users are doing with it. So they are sort of promoting illegal sharing. Simple as that. If they had done it as kazaa did, just distribute the program and then keep your hands of what users do with it, they would have been fine.

You don't really believe that, do you ? </font>[/QUOTE]Well....there's a small chance ...? [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Because they keep a database on the files that are shared they know and sort of agree with what users are doing with it. So they are sort of promoting illegal sharing. Simple as that. If they had done it as kazaa did, just distribute the program and then keep your hands of what users do with it, they would have been fine. </font>[/QUOTE]<span style="color: lightblue">As I said, Bittorrent cannot be shut down, purely because of its architecture. Servers maintain file databases, yes. But these servers aren't affiliated with each other or with Bittorrent. Those servers which carry illegal things can be shut down, but those which carry files they are allowed to redistribute have no reason to fear. Meaning that Bittorrent is here to stay.

Couldn't they just stop distributing movies instead of closing for good?