For those who utilize BitTorrent sites such as Torrents.us.to to access SuprNova.org's database, as of today this will no longer be possible. After selecting a torrent link, you will notice an advisory page stating that SuprNova no longer allows third party access. In addition, third party clients such as GoSuprNova will also no longer function.

When clicking on a torrent link from Torrent.us.to or Bitoogle, SuprNova.org displays the follow:

"We're sorry, but this download request cannot be authorized. There could be several reasons for this:

1) You clicked on a link on an *unofficial* SuprNova.org mirror. We do not allow that kind of external hotlinking. This site creates a great deal of traffic and it's hard to find a good hosting. We will not provide the bandwidth for other sites. Please visit SuprNova.org and you can download all the torrents you want...."

When using GoSuprnova, the client still downloads the database, however if you click on a torrent link the connection will simply fail, without exception. In addition, the old Azureus SuprNova plugin will also no longer function.

The reason? SuprNova.org made an official statement on their site today explaining the situation. It is a story we have heard many times in the P2P community, a story where official developers face potentially devastating problems from third party's accessing their network (or in this circumstance, database.) While some developers are concerned about cash flow, others have pursued third parties for the health of their network.

"As some of you might have noticed, SuprNova.org had some problems recently regarding its servers and .torrent download. It turned out that some of the (unauthorized) third party programs and/or sites that are hotlinking to our torrent database was poorly designed/configured, and that almost killed SuprNova servers. So we had no choice but to enable .torrent access only to users coming from our official mirrors. This policy will not change, so don't ask. :) In case you have misconfigured browser, you'll get (instead of .torrent) .html file with instructions how to configure your computer to access our .torrents.

I hope you understand our position and we ask you again, not to use third party applications / sites to access SuprNova.org!
Thanks"

SuprNova.org does not claim financial reasons for shutting out third party access, however popular "unofficial" resources never contained any kind of advertising, hence their popularity. SuprNova uses and extraordinary amount of bandwidth; to have hordes of individuals accessing their servers improperly, or not giving an advertisement an impression, would eventually lead to dire consequences.

Thanks to DaBlade who brought this story to our attention.

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