Reading at rlslog I found good news, they inform an old friend BitTorrent index site was return. SuprNova.org is a domain name that has a special place in many a BitTorrent users heart. It was a place where young and naive Internet users (me for one) got their first taste of the wonders Peer 2 Peer file sharing could offer. If you are new to BitTorrent than you may not be familiar with SuprNova but when the site was running there was no Mininova, no Pirate Bay, ISOHunt and TorrentSpy were only just starting so at that time SuprNova was the one stop shop for all your torrenting needs.

Originally it was started in late 2002 by a Slovenian teenager known as Slonček, soon SuprNova grew into what can only be described as a BitTorrent Lengend, but even Legends are not invulnerable and the site was taken down two years after its birth on December 2004 when legal threats were sent to Slonček and he decided to take the site down before it was forcibly removed. It came as a surprise to many BitTorrent users when the front page of the ‘biggest’ BitTorrent site adorned the ’site down’ message that we all dread to see. A sad and scary time for all P2P users.

After more than two years the legendary site has returned. Slonček decided to donate the domain name to the people who run The Pirate Bay (no more legal threats!) and they got straight to work on relaunching the site… And today they finished. That’s right if you point your browser towards SuprNova.org you will be once again surfing on one the most important BitTorrent sites ever to have graced this virtual world we call the Internet.

If you go to the site now it might not look exactly how it was originally, it include a few new features and improvements over the old design such as a much needed search funtion and the ability to download torrents without the need for a dedicated BitTorrent client. Even though the initial few weeks of the rebirth of SuprNova is to be considered public BETA testing the website is already tracking an impressive 1,046,851 torrents on 26,871 trackers, making it one of the biggest BitTorrent indexing site available (e.g. tracks more torrents than Mininova and only slightly less than TorrentSpy). Since the website is now under Pirate Bay control, Brokep an admin at TPB has wrote a very nice welcome message along with something that they are (in)famous for, a defiant message to all “non-internet loving companies”:

“This is how it works. Whatever you sink, we build back up. Whomever you sue, ten new pirates are recruited. Wherever you go, we are already ahead of you. You are the past and the forgotten, we are the internet and the future.”

Go and visit SuprNova.org