On the 19th of December of 2004 the widely known and popular bittorrent portal/tracker was shutdown. Many speculated it was from pressure from recording labels and/or movie industry. Turns out it was none of that, and given the story explained by Andrej Preston I don’t think anyone would have done differently. One year after the shutdown of SuprNova, comes a detailed story of what exactly 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.
From there onwards things got worse and more complicated for him, and thankfully the story has a happy ending.
Even though he posted this last year, I don’t think it got enough spotlight, so I think it would be a good idea to bring this to a wider audience to prove to all those that gave bad speculations about him and his reasons.
man god bless everything turned allright in the end. There are those who aren’t as fortunate. Like poor mother’s of children who get their lives destroyed by the most money grubbing greedy *#$(@ on the planet.
Hey it’s traidtion now to blame file sharers for slumps in sales of music/movies. Nothing to do with crappy music and crappy movies at all of course :) Glad that at least Steve Jobs is taking the stance that the RIAA is being excessively greedy.
I thought they worked out that it was in fact Videogames that caused the decline in music/movie sales?
Videogames are now the largest earning part of the media (mainly because of the product’s prices I suppose).
“…and thankfully the story has a happy ending.”
So what exactly was the happy ending? He wasted money on lawyers, wasted time going to court, been stressed for most of the year and RIAA/MPAA effectively shut down the biggest and most influential torrent sites. I may call it ‘not the worst case’ but definately not ‘happy’.
He wasn’t jailed, and his life wasn’t ruined.
Sure his year wasn’t a great one. And no offence cliche, but that’s a happy ending from my point of view.