Another one bites the dust. Seems like the MPAA went on a holiday rampage, destroying all of the large-scale Bittorrent websites, most notably Suprnova. Others like torrentbits.org and dvd-core.org also got hit.
I guess until we get a 100% decentralized version of Bittorrent (ie: no need for a website or servers to host the .torrent files) or a comparible alternative, we’re pretty much going to have to scrape around the Internet like rats. Rats who really like movies, but not paying for them. But we still like cheese, you know, because it’s delicious.
Hrmm…Isn’t shutting down sites for having .torrent files, kind of like arresting someone for posession with intent to distribute for having a PICTURE of marijuana in their pocket?Just seems that way to me…
AnalogyI think it’d be more like being arrested for possession for giving out the number of the guy to score the pot from, but since nobody’s being arrested, the analogy doesn’t really work. They’re just being asked to stop, by lawyers. Big, scary lawyers.
VacationUntil things settle down, using overseas servers seems to be the best bet.http://www.thepiratebay.org/ as a good example of a site that knows it isn’t bound by US copyright insanity and isn’t afraid to tell the lawyers so (multiple threats, zero file removals)(http://static.thepiratebay.org/legal/ and http://static.thepiratebay.org/ea_response.txt)
Another Torrent Aggregatorhttp://www.torrentreactor.to and http://www.torrentreactor.net. Apparently, they’re two different sites, one was \”hijacked\” from the other. Anyways, they have a good assortment and a nice search.
Leave it to the Swedes…… to have the balls to tell these asstards to fuck off.