File-sharing’s bad boy is back in town
August 17th, 2007 • Music, Social, Video
It goes up, it goes down. Earlier this week, one of the web’s original file-sharing baddies, LimeWire, announced that it was going legit - tracks would be for sale, and deals were being struck with labels left, right and centre.
But for every white hat, there has to be a black. One of the other P2P originals, Supernova, has been chased from the scene by the copyright lobby. Everyone assumed that it had gone forever. Wrong. It’s back - the all-new Supernova.org launched today, with support from the people behind Bittorent giant The Pirate Bay.
Has Supernova cleaned up its act? Doubtful, judging by a two-second delve into its main channels. And when one of your first forum posts is a 600-word instructional guide entitled How to lie to people: achieving anonymity through disinformation and data poisoning, you begin to build a picture of the intended audience.
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