File-Sharing Website Ceases Operations

From Associated Press

One of the Web's most popular file-sharing sites has shut down less than a week after Hollywood announced a flurry of lawsuits against operators of such Internet servers.

A note posted Monday on Suprnova.org, which facilitated sharing among users of the BitTorrent program, said the site was "closing down for good." The collection of links to downloadable files, including music, movies and books, was taken down.

"We are very sorry for this, but there was no other way, we have tried everything," the statement said.

Reached via Suprnova.org's chat room, the site's anonymous operator refused to comment on why it had shut down.

Last week, movie studios sued more than 100 operators of U.S. and European sites that host BitTorrent links but did not name the defendants.

Suprnova.org was the most popular repository for links to files that could be downloaded using the BitTorrent program.

Another site that carried BitTorrent links, N4p.com, said it had shut down because of a civil complaint that cited the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Torrentbits.org and Phoenix-torrents.com also shut down.

BitTorrent has grown quickly in popularity this year, and now accounts for more than a third of all traffic on the Internet, according to the research company Cachelogic.

The Motion Picture Assn. of America last week said it was planning similar action against operators of servers that direct data for the DirectConnect and EDonkey file-swapping services.

well I guess I'm not getting those episodes of Lost now...

i already posted this on sunday. theres still other places to get bit torrents. if you want, i could give you a list of some.

Sorry, didn't see that post.

Well, bittorrent will always be around, as it was developed and is used plenty for nice legal purposes.

You can still get Lost (and plenty of more shows) on bi-torrent or on eMule.