December 30, 2004
A chat
with Sloncek of the infamous suprnova bittorent tracker farm.
He gave an interview to the folks from Nova Stream. I missed a couple of seconds when I got disconnected but the rest is encoded pretty decently. Yay! My first post!
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oh, and can someone pass this on to metafilter? I haven't got an account on there
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They'll find it. Eventually ... (insert evil laughter)
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There's also this mp3 of the interview from the original site you linked to above. Thanks for the post. I don't dare brave the waters of posting to Metafilter, even though I bought an account a couple weeks ago
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Suprnova made it sound as if the announcement would be a little more than "wait a couple weeks", or am I missing something here? pantsrobot?
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Not sure about the tme period. The forums seems to indicate that it should be available in a couple of weeks. However the real question is whether Windows-only binary-only adware is better than Bittorrent...
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It most definitely isn't. Suprnova was never really all that legitimate either. Bittorrent qua bittorrent is safe and immune to thse fly-by-night torrent aggregating sites and snake-oil extensions to the protocol. Even the MPAA really seem to get it these days that the sites, not p2p software in general, are the culprits.
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Oops, yeah, didn't mean to denigrate bittorrent there. Just had a feeling that this looks like another kazaa, i.e. something where the legitimate justification is faaaar outweighed by the potential for piracy