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Beginnings of MPAA Bittorrent crackdown?

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On December 20, 2004, 1:28 PM EST

If you were the MPAA, which Bittorrent sites would you go after first? Well, it looks like SuprNova.org and TorrentBits.org may be the latest victims of the MPAA, as these sites are no longer reachable at this time. These sites have had erratic availability before, but there is something a little sinister about this latest outage.

Are these kinds of Bittorrent sites going to dry up? Well, if the MPAA have their way, then yes. They contain links to literally terabytes of data, the vast majority of it seemingly pirated material, including many new DVDs, video tapes, mp3s, games and books. There are even many "CAM" tapings of recent cinematic releases, where someone has posted an illegal copy of a film obtained by secret filming in the movie theatre. Surely, if these sites are not down now, it will not be long before they are completely gone…?

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Phantasm66
on December 21, 2004
1:10 PM
Its still down now, which is a worrying sign. I've seen suprnova go down for maybe 1 day, but this has been longer. I have a nasty feeling that we are not going to see it again.

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Ehrihk
on December 21, 2004
5:41 PM
SuprNova's gone for sure. I went to the site a while back and they had their Goodbye Message posted.[url]http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=626[/url]Tor
entBits also decided to shut down as well.

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