The Suprnova community, Suprnova Forums, shocked the peer-to-peer world with their announcement of a new Bittorent site, named SNARF-IT, in the vein of the original Suprnova.org today. The original website, which purported to have been shut down as a victim of Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) lawsuits, got involved with the spyware company Cydoor, when it released eXeem, a new peer-to-peer application based upon Bittorrent.
This move angered many within the p2p community, and lead to a number of “flamewars” among members of the Suprnova Forums. The original Bittorrent application was released as Open Source software, meaning that it was a non-commercial product and could be freely distributed and modified. For many users, eXeem was against the “spirit” of p2p networks.
Some, such as myself, ranted on forums and news websites. Others cracked eXeem to remove the spyware. The Suprnova community, however, simply decided that enough was enough, and less than a month ago broke off relations with eXeem.
In a very democratic official announcement, the owner of the forums, who goes by the pseudonym “FD” said that the eXeem application would allow the community to be “be destroyed by infighting.”
“This forum is no longer affiliated with eXeem in any way shape or form,” he continued “forget that and move on.”
Although FD and fellow administrators denied adamantly that they would try to rebuild Suprnova, about a week ago work on a new Bittorrent site was started in private by community leaders. Many members of the website were supporters of the original Suprnova, so we can see much of what made Suprnova popular in this new website.
The website is a simple Bittorrent “dump” site, a website of links to torrents that can be found across the web. The idea is that only “good” torrents are kept on these sites, and the website can be come a “trusted” resource for torrent downloads. This helps to prevent the distribution of fake or low quality files.
Yes, what about the website? It could be described as “Suprnova Reborn”, but is it any good?
We decided to tak a look at what was in store for SNARF-IT users. The website is currently incomplete, so not everything is going to stay like this
Read the complete story @ methlabs
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