I predicted last week that Suprnova would be one of the first targets of the MPAA’s legal challenges, and indeed, the venerable torrent site (along with another heavy, Torrentbits.org) has closed down indefinitely as of yesterday.
Says Suprnova admin sloncek:
We do not know if SuprNova is going to return, but it is certainly not going to be hosting any more torrent links. We are very sorry for this, but there was no other way, we have tried everything. Thank you all that helped us, by donating mirrors or something else, by uploading and seeding files, by helping people out on IRC and on forum, by spreading the word about SuprNova.org. It is a sad day for all of us!
I have a loose list of other smaller torrent sites that I go to when Suprnova is clogged, but sooner or later they’re going to shut down too, if not from legal pressure, then from the sudden rush of visitors. I’m not sure what the rest of the P2P community is banking on to continue their file-swapping addictions, but I’ve seen Freenet mentioned a couple of times, and of course, there’s always Gnutella2.