Continuing our series of articles on the most pivotal BitTorrent sites of the last decade, our focus turns to the most dramatic site shutdowns. Without doubt, 2005 proved a momentous year, marked by the introduction to the war of a new anti-piracy force to be reckoned with – the FBI.
The year 2005 started without Suprnova.org. Suprnova was taken offline by it’s admin on 19 december 2004, which left a huge gap that was initially filled by Lokitorrent. It did’t take very long though. Nearly a month after Suprnova died, Lokitorrent was being sued by the MPAA.
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