truth about suprnova

[4273stuart]

Taken from http://www.suprnova.org/?op=showLong&aID=80

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.

[Kevxx]

i wondered what happened, and i aint checked the site in a while, i miss it was the best in my view.

[pixelsink]

fuck knows how he was able to have arelaxed holiday! I'd have been shitting myself.

[Darkyin]

fuck knows how he was able to have arelaxed holiday! I'd have been shitting myself.

I remember when the police took my pooter and stuff for like 7 months, you forget about it.
Occasionaly you are reminded but you forget. The human mind is a wonderful thing.

Anyway sorry to hear all that shit man! I now how crap like that can feel...except i didn't get a calm ending.
So you have my fullest sympathys (even i have no idea what supernova was)

[pixelsink]

suprnova was GREAT!

[kj]

i'm assuming it was a file sharing network? was he just providing a way of exchanging files or were the files stored on his servers?

[pixelsink]

Originally Posted by kj

i'm assuming it was a file sharing network? was he just providing a way of exchanging files or were the files stored on his servers?

Suprnova was a website which distributed descriptor files for various music and video files, computer programs and games. It did not host any of the shared files, nor did it operate any BitTorrent trackers. It offered the ".torrent" meta files which would tell a BitTorrent client where it could find the BitTorrent tracker.

Suprnova would connect to the tracker periodically to obtain statistics for display on its web pages, so visitors could determine how popular a file was, and how likely it was that they could obtain a complete copy of it. The two important statistics were "seeds" and "peers". "Peers" was the number of participants currently uploading and downloading the file. "Seeds" was the number of participants who had the complete file available for download.

It was a great system* and becuase of it duff files were few and far between, unlike things like kazaa, limewire, shareaza etc etc.

Col

*if you were into downloading copyrighted stuff that is, which I don't and never have done!

[pixelsink]

PS.

For anyone not in the know, Suprnova was re-incarnated as www.newnova.org

now ye know.

Col

[Rich]

www.mininova.org

an example.