check out suprnova.org tommorow for an important announcement, they are gonna unveil their new BT client that screws the MPAA and RIAA. The new system turns all users into trackers, meaning that there will be no need for a central site to contain the hash files (i think thats what they keep >&lt and the all the users will have them. Therefore, to shut the piracy down, the MPAA/RIAA would have to go to EVERY USER to stop it.

Um, does anyone here think the RIAA wouldn't actually do that? After all there's only a few billion people in the world and not all of them have internet access. To them it probably seems a completely reasonable task.

But is it financially worth it to shut to attempt to track down millions of people? Seriously, everyone uses bt. My drawing prof this semester used it...the guy was in his 60s

See, Mardoc, what you've done there is use logic. That's not really something the RIAA is concerned with.

you don't need a central site for torrents , you need some people with the full file and a .torrent file that lead the others to them

everyone is a seeder in BT , but most people do not seed

i still had some files from suprnova when it went down ( 2 GB files ) and it countined untill it finished , of course there wasn't any new people joining to connect since they can't file the .torrent files to connect , but every one finished the file

resistance is futile

thank you exploding dog?

"It's not illegal because I don't want it to be illegal!"

That is indeed the basis for changing the law; if enough people want it to be legal, it can be made legal. That is, that's how the system is supposed to work. What with the practically ubiquitous corruption in our modern iteration, the one with the most money wins. While the idea was that anyone could make a law, say, protecting downloading these sorts of things, and if enough voters agreed it would pass, the reality is that the guy with the most money gets his way.

Actually the framers made a pretty big effort to prevent the masses from making laws with majority. That's why everything gets tied up in courts... forever. Especially if it's something that might actually benefit people, you better believe that they sent that legislation to a special place to die.

Everybody knows that fighting music piracy is a uphill struggle, and it's only going to become more difficult to the RIAA as they drive the fight more and more underground. I honestly hope it gets so bad that it bankrupts the big labels and scatters away the power.

Actually SuprNova was never completely shut down, one of its mirrors still works as of yesterday.

edit: sig nerf.

So, what's the big announcement?

Exeem.

Their new de-centralized tracker program. Currently in closed beta.

Ad-ware supported too. It's just another P2P program. Woopty do.

With the BT-mechanic, it will be a unique P2P program, though. I don't think it can dethrone DC, but it will be one of the large ones.

It's Kazaa 2.0, with a BitTorrent back end. That's not a bad business model, together those two programs account for nearly 70% of all Internet traffic, but it's still not going on my system, for all the same reasons Kazaa isn't either.

The illegality and inherent moral quagmire?

Or the adware?

/me waits for Exeem-lite....

Their new website updates tell a very different story.

MPAA / RIAA > SuprNova.org

Which new website update? The latest update only has the interview about Exeem on it.

So, you're waiting for the cure to the Exeem?

I know, I know, I know, but someone had to say it!