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The original Suprnova.org was reincarnated on newnova.org using a slightly modified version of the Suprnova.org codebase. In early 2005, Mininova was created as an alternative to the dying Suprnova. On 2 August 2007, TorrentFreak announced that Suprnova's former owner had donated the domain to The Pirate Bay , which had plans to relaunch the site.
In October 2008 through to March 2011, TorrentFreak ran a short lived video news service titled 'torrentfreak.tv', directed by Andrej Preston, founder of torrent site Suprnova made available for streaming and download on Mininova. [18] [19] On 21 August 2013, Comcast threatened TorrentFreak for writing about publicly available court documents.
In December 2004, Suprnova.org, a popular early BitTorrent site, closed purportedly due to the pressure felt by Andre Preston, aka Sloncek, the site's founder and administrator. In December 2005, Sloncek revealed that the Suprnova computer servers had been confiscated by Slovenian authorities.
Mininova was a website offering BitTorrent downloads. Mininova was once one of the largest sites offering torrents of copyrighted material, but in November 2009, following legal action in the Dutch courts, the site operators deleted all torrent files uploaded by regular users [3] including torrents that enabled users to download copyrighted material.
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August 21 – Suprnova.org is relaunched by The Pirate Bay. [94] [95] September – Amazon.com begins selling mp3's free of digital rights management. [96] October 12 – RIAA files a lawsuit against Usenet.com, accusing it of being an illicit peer-to-peer file sharing site. [97] [98]
Andrej Preston (born c. 1986), also known under the pseudonym Slonček (meaning "little elephant" in Slovene), is the founder of the former BitTorrent site Suprnova.org. [1] [2] The Slovenian publication Mladina revealed in November 2004 that he was 18 years old and a student at the Waldorf High School in Ljubljana, Slovenia. [3]
A study by the Tribler P2P research team at the Delft University of Technology.To generate this data, samples were taken from a number of swarms of users which were then used to identify which BitTorrent client each user was using, this data was used by TorrentFreak in the table below: