Suprnova, reloaded
p2pnet.net News:- Suprnova’s demise will have far-reaching, and highly negative, effects on the entertainment industry which killed it.
The Big Seven major movie studios and Big Four record labels are engaged in an on-going, but completely futile, effort to crush any kind of p2p activity it doesn’t control, and to terrorize people into buying ‘product’.
Suprnova was a victim because the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) chose to launch its hate p2p campaign with Bram Cohen’s BitTorrent as the focus.
Did the studios, the prime movers in this example, expect the shut-down to go unnoticed, other than by the members of p2p file-sharing community whom it’s been trying, in vain, to subjugate? If so, it was a failure to go alongside the RIAA’s (Recording Industry Association of America) in its bid to frighten online music lovers into buying cookie-cutter ‘product’ from one or other of the plastic music sites such as iTunes that it supplies and supports.
All Big Music achieved, however, was to tell increasing numbers of people that there’s a ton of excellent music out there which, by dint of the record label cartel’s refusal to use p2p as the 21st century sales, pr and marekting tool, is completely free.
And the same thing is happening with this MPAA attempt stomp BitTorrent out of existence.
But there’s worse (from Hollywood’s perspective) to come.
A critical mass is building and when it reaches its optimal point, product sales – especially where music is concerned – really will plummet, turning entertainment industry lies into reality.
Nice going, guys. p2p couldn’t have better ’spread-the-word’ agents than you ; p
In the meanwhile, suprnova featured in the Yahoo! Buzz Index.
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Torrents of Search Activity
Monday December 20, 2004 1:00PM PT - Digital Crackdown
The shutdown of suprnova.org rocked the file-sharing universe this weekend. The now-dead site posted links to various BitTorrent files, placing it directly in the crosshairs of the entertainment industry. Searches on “suprnova” jumped 311% as file swappers tried to reach the vanished site. As news spread throughout the file-sharing community that suprnova was no more, traders searched furiously for alternatives to get their fix of illicit downloads. A sampling of the spikes we saw included:
Torrent Sites (+459%)
BitTorrent Sites (+304%)
Torrents (+290%)
Torrent Files (+285%)
BitTorrent Downloads (+281%)
Torrent Download (+256%)
Bit Torrents (+255%)
Torrent Reactor (+229%)
Torrent Search (+216%)
BitTorrent Files (+171%)
Lokitorrent (+280%)
Judging by this weekend’s searches, the demand for another torrent directory is intense. But with the MPAA on the hunt, will another site owner brave the specter of lawsuits? To find out who steps into the void of torrent aggregation, we only have to keep a close eye on searches.
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See:-
critical mass – April 24, 2005: Boycott week!, p2pnet, December 20, 2004
increasing numbers - P2p file sharing increases, p2pnet, December 9, 2004
December 22nd, 2004 at 5:50 pm
ahhh dammit….my other mainstay after Youceff – Loki, will prob be next to die if those search numbers mean anything
TT
December 23rd, 2004 at 5:54 am
Torrentspy.com is a very good replacement, I like it just as much if not more than suprnova
December 23rd, 2004 at 2:45 pm
One alternative may be to find torrent files through a “true” P2P network instead? Enter a couple of keywords, including “torrent”. That’s how I’ve been getting most of my torrent files.
If the suprnova IRC chatrooms are to remain, surely torrents can be transferred directly, too? In fact, there must be plenty of other IRC channels where you can get torrents from.