Andrej Preston (born c. 1986), also known under the

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(meaning "little elephant" in Slovene), is the founder of the former BitTorrent site

Suprnova.org Suprnova.org was a Slovenia-based website that distributed BitTorrent trackers for various music and video files, computer programs and games. Started in late 2002 by Andrej Preston (known as Slonček, Slovenian for "little elephant") and for a whi ...

.Jani Sever
Slovenian Pirate
, ''Vest'', 25 August 2007. Accessed 2008-11-07. The Slovenian publication ''

Mladina ''Mladina'' (English: Youth) is a Slovenian weekly left-wing political and current affairs magazine. Since the 1920s, when it was first published, it has become a voice of protest against those in power. Today, ''Mladinas weekly issues are d ...

'' revealed in November 2004 that he was 18 years old and a student at the

Waldorf High School Waldorf can have the following meanings: People * William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor (1848–1919), financier and statesman * Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor (1879–1952), businessman and politician * Pappy Waldorf (1902–1981), 196 ...

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. 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 2008-11-07. In October 2005 the prosecutor announced that no charges would be filed and the computers were returned. Andrej Preston had given the

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suprnova.org to

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. The Pirate Bay had relaunched it as of August 21, 2007. On August 25, 2007, he moved to

San Francisco, California San Francisco (; Spanish for "Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

, where he is visiting

Academy of Art University The Academy of Art University (AAU or ART U), formerly Academy of Art College and Richard Stephens Academy of Art, is a private for-profit art school in San Francisco, California. It was founded as the Academy of Advertising Art by Richard S. ...

. 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.

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* – Andrej Preston's blog describing his experience after he moved to the United States Living people Waldorf school alumni 1986 births Slovenian Internet celebrities BitTorrent People from Ljubljana Academy of Art University alumni {{Slovenia-bio-stub