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"suprnova.com closing down"

A sad sad day for all of us :(

Mourn with me

Just how little work do you have to do today Pan? Is it;

A: Absolutely dick all
B: As much as I'm doing today (see option A)
C: Tons, but it's Xmas, so I'm doing NOWT.

Light wrote:
> Just how little work do you have to do today Pan? Is it;
>
> A: Absolutely dick all
> B: As much as I'm doing today (see option A)
> C: Tons, but it's Xmas, so I'm doing NOWT.

Loads, but involves an XML build which takes time to generate.

Pandaemonium wrote:
> great quote off gaming news site:
>
> "A great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of pirates suddenly cried
> out "Arrrr..." in terror and were suddenly silenced"


:^D

I left a download running overnight, obtained via the mirror Damarus supplied. I checked it this morning and it was still running - at a phenominal speed! It's never downloaded so fast before - must be the big drop in traffic.

But, there's a niggling fear in the back of my head that I'm now more vulnerable to the Feds and their tracking down of illegal downloads.

Moving on...

I fully agree with Borat in that this move is stupid. Fair enough, it will have a positive effect on the major pirates, downloading masses of MP3s and movies/games each week, but the whole file-sharing scene has given me the opportunity to discover so much more new music and stuff.

I too am not going to fork out £15 for an album I don't know if I will like. I just want the one song I heard (and no, they're not always available on Napster/iTunes/other). 9 times out of 10 I'll buy the album eventually anyway, after a try-before-you-buy.

As for Movies, I only download the ones I've already seen in the Cinema. I'm not paying £5.50 each time I want to see it - I'll be buying the DVd for Christ's sake.

File-sharing has allowed me to re-enjoy films like Anchorman, Dodgeball, Shark Tale, Blade Trinity etc. while I wait for the DVD release. And they're not always atrocious quality - most of the ones I have got have been rather high quality Telesync versions, or even DVD Screeners. It's not like I'm genuinely killing the industry, since I paid to see the movies in the Cinema and I will be paying for the DVD's upon release (most probably the 'Special Edition' versions too).

As for games. I've only ever downloaded one. Doom 3. It's a good job too - it was awful.

ßulle†† wrote:
> I left a download running overnight, obtained via the mirror Damarus
> supplied. I checked it this morning and it was still running - at a
> phenominal speed! It's never downloaded so fast before - must be the
> big drop in traffic.
>
> But, there's a niggling fear in the back of my head that I'm now more
> vulnerable to the Feds and their tracking down of illegal downloads.

Peerguardian. Very useful program. [URL]http://www.methlabs.org/methlabs.htm[/URL]

[URL]www.torrentreactor.com[/URL]

Cheers Pand ;)

Dolores I wrote:
> [URL]www.torrentreactor.com[/URL]

That's beginning to play up too. Wouldn't be suprised if it's completely dead by now.

http://torrentreactor.to/

Note the ".to", not ".com"

ßulle†† wrote:
> Cheers Pand ;)

Nee bother. Check out how many it blocks in an hour. I don't do anything without it now.