Andrej Preston

Template:Use mdy dates Template:Short description Andrej Preston (born Template:Circa 1986), also known under the pseudonym {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (meaning "little elephant" in Slovene), is the founder of the former BitTorrent site Suprnova.org.<ref>Michael Ingram, Interview with Sloncek of SuprNova Template:Webarchive, Slyck News, May 11, 2004. Accessed November 7, 2008.</ref><ref name=vest>Jani Sever, Slovenian Pirate Template:Webarchive, Vest, August 25, 2007. Accessed November 7, 2008.</ref>

The Slovenian publication Mladina revealed in November 2004 that he was 18 years old and a student at the Waldorf High School in Ljubljana, Slovenia.<ref>Hunting Slovenia's Little Elephant Template:Webarchive, Mladina. Accessed November 7, 2008.</ref> 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.<ref name=vest/><ref>Thomas Mennecke, Suprnova.org Closes, Slyck News, December 19, 2004. Accessed November 7, 2008.</ref><ref name=ingram>Michael Ingram, SuprNova.org: The Story of a Legend Template:Webarchive, Slyck News, May 7, 2006. Accessed November 7, 2008.</ref> In October 2005, the prosecutor announced that no charges would be filed and the computers were returned.<ref name=ingram/>

Andrej Preston had given the domain name suprnova.org to The Pirate Bay. The Pirate Bay had relaunched it as of August 21, 2007.<ref name=vest/>

On August 25, 2007, he moved to San Francisco, California,<ref name=vest/> where he is visiting Academy of Art University.Template:Update inline

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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Update inline

From 2011 onwards, he produces videos for his United States–based YouTube channel The Infographics Show, where he discusses about history and current events.<ref name="Hoffman">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

External links

• Template:Webarchive – Andrej Preston's blog describing his experience after he moved to the United States