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The hunt is on for SuprNova creator Slonček (little elephant)
One of the biggest web sites in Slovenia also happens to be one of the biggest in the world. Slovenia-based SuprNova.org distributes BitTorrent files to more than 400,000 visitors a day. If you don’t know what a torrent is, then this article: File Sharing’s New Face in The New York Times should bring you up to speed. If you do know what a BitTorrent file is, then you already know SuprNova. In fact, you’re probably downloading something from them right now. (It’s okay, I won’t tell anyone.)
What some people don’t know, though, is that SuprNova was founded and is maintained by a Slovene who goes by the nickname Slonček, literally "little elephant." You also may not know that torrents currently account for more than one-third of all Internet traffic. These are big numbers; certainly enough to rouse the attention of you-know-who with their you-know-what.
A reporter recently asked the global director of the MPAA’s anti-piracy operations if SuprNova was illegal. He replied:
"That’s still an issue we’re studying, that reasonable minds can disagree on."
In the meantime, rumors are circulating that the authorities are hunting for Slonček. The fact that he continues to remain anonymous in a country that has only two million people, and where everybody knows everybody, tells you that either: a) he’s better than Bruce Wayne at hiding his identity, or b) the authorities aren’t particularly motivated in finding him. The magazine Mladina recently did some digging and then announced that he was an 18-year-old student at the Waldorf High School in Ljubljana, with the initials A.P. The only thing missing from their story was a map to his house. A day of reckoning between Slonček and the MPAA appears to be inevitable; and seems to be getting closer every day.
When Slyck News asked Slonček about his future in a recent interview, Slonček had this to say:
"We have no idea what will happen in the future, {neither do} we wish to, hehe, but we are still {the} site with longest online reputation
and that’s the biggest guarantee that you can get, although like I said before, nothing is 100%, not even SuprNova ;)"
You can read their complete interview here: Interview with Sloncek of SuprNova.
UPDATE: They got him.
