Andrej Preston (born 1986), also known under the pseudonym (meaning "little elephant" in Slovene language, Slovene), is the founder of the former BitTorrent (protocol), BitTorrent site Suprnova.org.
[Jani Sever]
Slovenian Pirate
, ''Vest'', August 25, 2007. Accessed November 7, 2008.
The Slovenian publication ''Mladina'' revealed in November 2004 that he was 18 years old and a student at the Waldorf education, Waldorf High School in Ljubljana, Slovenia. After having shut down Suprnova.org in December 2004, he became the target of a police investigation in early 2005, and his two computers were confiscated.
[Michael Ingram]
SuprNova.org: The Story of a Legend
, ''Slyck News'', May 7, 2006. Accessed November 7, 2008. In October 2005, the prosecutor announced that no charges would be filed and the computers were returned.[
Andrej Preston had given the domain name suprnova.org to The Pirate Bay. The Pirate Bay had relaunched it as of August 21, 2007.][
On August 25, 2007, he moved to San Francisco, California,][ where he is visiting Academy of Art University.
Three years after donating the suprnova.org domain to The Pirate Bay, Preston retrieved it, in order to make a new website, which should become an online video portal.
From 2011 onwards, he produces videos for his United States–based YouTube channel ''The Infographics Show'', where he discusses about history and current events.]
References
External links
* – Andrej Preston's blog describing his experience after he moved to the United States
1986 births
Living people
Waldorf school alumni
Slovenian Internet celebrities
Slovenian expatriates in the United States
BitTorrent
People from Ljubljana
People from San Francisco
Academy of Art University alumni
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