Are Demonoid Users at Risk?

Ernesto
August 8, 2012
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The raid on Demonoid’s servers and the reports that a criminal investigation has been started against the site is causing some panic among the site’s users. Was the user data encrypted? Can the authorities see what people have downloaded? Without official comment from Demonoid’s admin these questions are hard to answer, but a massive legal operation aimed at the site’s users seems highly unlikely.

Earlier this week the news broke that after the popular BitTorrent tracker Demonoid suffered a DDoS and hacker attack, it had also been raided by the Ukrainian authorities.

Roughly a week ago government investigators arrived at Demonoid’s hosting provider ColoCall to pull the site offline. According to Sergei Burlakov of Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs the authorities acted on a request from Interpol.

“The Division of Economic Crimes [DEC] received an international request from Interpol to send a request to the company ColoCall. DEC sent the request to the provider, after which the ISP decided to stop working with Demonoid,” he said.

The request related to a criminal investigation in Mexico, where one person was arrested for his connection to the BitTorrent tracker last fall.

Judging by the strain on the TorrentFreak mailbox the raids have caused some of Demonoid’s users considerable panic, probably due to them having shared copyrighted material via the site. Now that the Ukrainian police have access to Demonoid’s data, they are naturally wondering to what extent they are exposed.

TorrentFreak posed this question to the sole tech admin of the site, but since the raids we haven’t had a response. This means that we can’t report whether some, all, or none of the user data was encrypted. What we do know is that Demonoid was prone to collecting erroneous stats, often counting uploads and downloads against users who never carried them out.

However, looking at similar raids in the past it seems highly unlikely that the authorities will go after large groups of individual users. Even if they do plan to target members (there is no indication at the moment) the most likely scenario is that they would single out a few of the top uploaders, or those who were the first to upload prominent movies, particularly if they did so in bulk.

The only thing we know for certain at this point is that there’s an investigation against Demonoid in Mexico. A source inside ColoCall (Demonoid’s former host) confirmed the Mexican connection when speaking to reporter Maria Popova of Ukrainian news site Kommersant.ua on August 6. Then working back, the MPAA reported the arrest of the site’s admin to the USTR October 26, 2011 (see page 4 of this report), and the IFPI congratulated the Mexican Attorney General’s office on the raid in this official government document from October 6, 2011.

While we always strive to publish sincere and detailed articles on cases like these, it appears that one alleged and presumably now ex-moderator of Demonoid felt the need to tell Vice our reporting is “as reliable as Fox News” and that “anything from TorrentFreak should be taken with a kilo of salt.”

This attack appears to be based on one single mention where we quoted the ColoCall source who said that the site’s administration was based in Mexico. While we never gave any credence to the quote, in light of the previous documented arrest in Mexico, the MPAA’s statement to the USTR and IFPI’s congratulations to the Mexican government, we thought it was worth mentioning.

Of course this is not the first time that Demonoid “staff” have lashed out against TorrentFreak. In 2007 we were called out as liars by Demonoid’s IRC and forum moderators when we reported that the CRIA was behind’s Demonoid’s downtime. A week later Demonoid confirmed our report.

But back to the key point in hand – if we hear anything at all about the fate of user data on Demonoid, who has access to it and/or to what level it was encrypted, we’ll be sure to report back.

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sooty

Well with the amount of members demonoid had, if they do get any data 7 start going after uploader(myself included, lol) they will have a full time job for the next couple of year, I don’t think I will lose too much sleep over it….
- http://profile.yahoo.com/JZX5KMK4QUZYFUSZ3A4S33REJA Good
  
  Really, the predominant question here is… are private trackers really safer than public? This would be a good, non-shit filled article that someone could possibly bang out in a day.
  - Meef Churrito
    
    Demonoid wasn’t a private tracker, not by any stretch of the imagination.
    - http://profile.yahoo.com/JZX5KMK4QUZYFUSZ3A4S33REJA Good
      
      Then my mistake. I went there about 10 times, ove the course of a year, and was never allowed in. Maybe it’s my own ineptitude. My own blundering stupidity. Anyways, seems ‘private’ to me. And…my point still stands:
      Are private trackers safer than public?
    - Trespass
      
      At Good
      Private trackers, contrary to popular belief, are not any safer than public. OINK was a prime example. If I can get in, so can a MAFIAA troll. Personally, I felt safer being in the middle of a swarm with 10K or more downloaders. Needle in the haystack mentality.
      
      Private trackers have fewer fake torrents, spam, and other malicious stuff, but I have found they oftentimes they did not have what I wanted. Always found everything on BT Junkie and Demonoid.
      
      That said, Demonoid is/was not a private tracker. It was billed as a semi-privater tracker for awhile, but then opened pretty much to everyone. You used to need an invite, but that eventually stopped.
      
      I really hope they return…
    - chronoss chiron
      
      tresspass ”
      Needle in the haystack mentality.”
      no that creates the lets sue 10K people in mass lawsuits
    - Guest321
      
      Any tracker with closed registration and an invite system is technically a private tracker and Demonoid falls in that category. Only reason it was called “semi-private” was because it was so easy to get into. Members could generate unlimited invite codes and give em away and registrations were also opened every now and again discreetly.
      
      Back to the topic again. No, I don’t think private trackers are any safer. The only possible reason why they may be deemed safer than public trackers is because no private site is as big as the popular public sites and hence are less likely to be taken down because the government is always looking to go after the big fish. Other than that, there is no other safety blanket. If you can get in, so can the MAFIAA.
    - http://pulse.yahoo.com/_H6CRJQGO7L62MCVEMI6EV2JL2A cliffa
      
      You’re correct, it wasn’t. FTWR.n WAS a private tracker but like all TRULY private trackers they demanded a certain seed-back ratio be maintained or your account was suspended. This during the height of the ISP throttling effort. Needless to say my account was dropped. They wound up going under because they alienated the people.
    - Skeet
      
      Lots of ignorant replies to Meef here. Demonoid’s interface was private, but it’s tracker was open. If you put a demonoid torrent up on Torrentz.com anyone could download it, and anyone could announce to the tracker. That means anyone could get into a Demonoid swarm and it was not private.
    - Guest321
      
      In that case IPT’s tracker must be public too because if I download a torrent from there and give it to my friend who has no account there, he can download it without any problem.
    - Asashii
      
      i would say by the hard to get in, not so many users, private trackers are safer !!!
  - Jasonz
    
    I really don’t understand what the issue is. I really hate the promotion of sites but you have sites like torlock.com and 1337x.org that only lists verified torrents with no fakes whatsoever and they don’t get any exposure but sites like demonoid that makes MILLIONS of USD in adverts etc are praised as awesome sites. How does this happen?
    - http://profile.yahoo.com/JZX5KMK4QUZYFUSZ3A4S33REJA Good
      
      Maybe, and Im not trying to put a bee in anyone bonnet here, but maybe recommending services online is not all innocent grass roots users ….?
    - theydontcareaboutu
      
      Easy answer. The trackers with the most exposure get busted and taken offline. No exposure=less danger of getting caught.
    - Trespass
      
      Jasonz
      
      Never ran into a bad torrent or link with Demonoid. I’ve used 1337x as well with no bad links. Some of Demonoids popularity came from the community itself. I met quite a few cool people there. Comments were kinder than TPB. I always read comments before downloading anything to verify that it is worth my time.
      
      It was a fun site to explore the forums, had many more offerings than the other sites, and had a positive feel to it. Not to mention it’s been around longer than most.
      
      Damn, didn’t mean to write a eulogy…
    - Beaner
      
      When I couldn’t find something, Denonoid usually has it with better quality. Demonoid had a search bar anyone can use, and if you used up your quota as a non member. just search for the torrent on google, it’s mirrored somewhere.
    - Strazdas
      
      Probably because Demonoid had the best archive of RARE movies/music/books in the world.
    - Robert
      
      How do you know they made millions of dollars?
    - http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LOF2ZENNNLHAIREPFPSZTB36M4 lordkoos
      
      Demonoid had a lot of rare stuff (especially music) that was really hard to find elsewhere, and the users were a nice community of people, mostly. I miss it.
  - Lakisha
    
    simple answer, no this has been answered many times already… I should have not fed the troll
  - Strazdas
    
    For some reason i cant reply to your other comment.
    Demonoid was a semi-private tracker. anyone could download the “hot” stuff, but to get to archives you had to register. in order to register you had to be invited, but everoyne had unlimited invites and you coudl get one by simply, say, leaving a reply in youtube comment. anyone that wanted in got in.
    difference with actually private servers (limited small group of invited people, say a 100.000 users tracker) is that to register there is much harder, their policy waves any law problems away at least theorically and you must accept them registering, its not possible to donwload from them without registration so the cops have to “break the law” to get in. also small private trackers are way less likely to get hit for two simple reasons – their smaller, and not many people know about them (especially not the peopel trying to bust them). the downside is, they are sometimes hosted locally. in the end, it all depends on how bad they want them, but as far as trackers themselves are considered, private ones are safer (not to mention they are often much better anyway)
- FrostyC
  
  Regardless, I’m super glad I never used my own internet connection with my IP address to download anything from there. Super glad I backtrack-hacked my neighbor’s wifi.
  - Legalization
    
    Don’t forget to spoof your logged mac address. Most people forget about this part.
  - Guest321
    
    Now why the hell would you hack your neighbor’s wifi? Can’t you respect people’s property and privacy? See this is why pirates are looked down upon. There are always a few bad apples who ruin it for everyone.
    - Guest
      
      This.
      Letting other people take the blame is really low and cowardly. There are other ways to hide your identity.
    - Guest
      
      Blame routers’ manufacturers for making unsecure wifi.
    - xpmule
      
      nope fuck em
      
      cry me a river
    - Abc
      
      HEHEHE
  - guest
    
    So you’re just downright thieving from your neighbor. i’m guessing you also let your dog shit on other people’s lawns and steal other people’s food from the fridge at work. not only that, but if you did get busted, are you saying that you would let your neighbor take the fall? be an adult, not a lying/narcing little bitch.
    - xpmule
      
      do consider not all shared use is unknown.
      I lived in a place about 2 years ago where the landlord
      provided wifi but would not acknowledge it because the isp
      had complained to to them previously that they are not allowed to share etc
      
      and everywhere i go there is also unlocked connections and a lot of OS’s will connect to these on start up so..
    - Anoynmousgoat
      
      thats like saying you can steal satellite or radio….you can’t.
  - xpmule
    
    yup me too
    
    and fuck em (come and arrest my neighbors)
    
    secure your shit ..educate yourself fools
    And lets not forget how cocky pc users are
    anyone i’ve ever told that WEP keys can be taken 100%
    argue with me about how much an expert they are and
    that there passwords were much too complicated for a hacker to steal.
    Puuuleeeese noobs lol
    - Skezza
      
      you’re a joke mate. If anything, your neighbors getting caught is a sign of YOUR ineptitude as much as it is there’s. Possibly more. They might not have the technical understanding to secure their network safely, but you claim to profess technical understanding, like some uber leet hacker. Hiding yourself isn’t hard, so if anything, they were nicked because you’re a complete retard. You’re probably some kid at college who know’s fuck all about computers really.
      
      So you’re the noob :) How’s it feel?
- Confused
  
  Your post is somewhat confusing, and it is amazing 20 people clicked Like.
- Flash1259
  
  Kickass torrents is next
  - http://profile.yahoo.com/JZX5KMK4QUZYFUSZ3A4S33REJA Good
    
    doesn’t really matter.
    there’s always alternatives.
    how much GD media does a person need, anyways?
- Concerned
  
  They will be sifting through that shit for years don’t sweat it. These governments are out of control
- Wolf
  
  Use TRIBLER its un-trackable so get that up you ya nazi Yanks
  - Random
    
    Its the government controlled by corporations, not all Yanks.
Asswik

I tried to delete my account there once. You couldn’t do it: “Just leave it and eventually it will become inactive” Fucking bullshit.

They lost my support at that moment – As bad as Facebook.
- Mastermikeywwt
  
  Actually no, demonoid is technically worse because you can deactivate a facebook account
  - qua
    
    but your information is still there and for always, if you ever re-activate it, all of your stuff is still there, so that’s not completely deactivating it.
- Dfsdfsdfsdfsdf
  
  Damn,,,,
BRiTiSHSM

needless to say – I hope – stop seeding any DEMONOID torrents XD
- Lol
  
  torrents are shared throughout the ecosystem, and as you sound like a mafiaa goon, this is exactly what they would say, kill site = torrents dead because they want u to stop seeding them.
- Strazdas
  
  If you s eed torrents without tracker up, you are sendin them to a IP swarn your torrent client remembers and sending NOTHING to server (and it wont count towards ratio either). infact, such seeding method is pretty much untracable unless they decide to raid every private PC.
- Ha
  
  No, just reupload to a new tracker or run the things on DHT.
Random

Well… The last time they were taken down nothing happened to the 100k users who were registered…
- FakeHeader
  
  The industry stopped going after individuals some time ago. Keep seeding, they all still work.
  - http://profile.yahoo.com/7SOODE6ARVQOKVW4MHQWIUWJ4U DandyLion
    
    “The industry” still files mass John Doe lawsuits monthly.
    
    Google: “John Doe Lawsuits July 2012″
    - Random
      
      I believe those are mostly cons to get money out of the timid. People believe anything that looks official.
IncarnadineKismet

http://goo.gl/wRn7n
hmm

do,nt sweat uless you signed with your real; e-mail address haa
- Strazdas
  
  Even if you did, who would be stupid enough to give real life info to email adress?
Mwhahaha

There’s a demonvoid in the torrent world now, that’s all I know.
- Dem-Fan
  
  I see what you did there. :)
- Lol
  
  its obv u didnt read the comments from the last several days, demenoid was backed up and torrents still up, there is dem2, and 3 hopefully comming to freenet
- Jing
  
  Me thinks Demonvoid won’t last very long
- Cleaver62
  
  Loved Demonoid. My favorite part was that I could just chose music and then all the newly added music links would come up. I haven’t found anywhere else that well organized.
http://www.facebook.com/Solara.Alpha Solara Alphafemale

Yeah, congratulations for getting that dangerous criminal mastermind off the street, Mr. Mexican Attorney General. It’s really too bad that you can’t do SHIT about the death, dismemberment and drug trade. But keep up the good work on nabbing those illegal downloads; the drug lords thank you profusely!
- Radiohead2005
  
  LOL
- Kchase
  
  Couldn’t have said it better myself!
- Legalization
  
  If drugs were controlled and legalized, there would be no foreign drug trade. Who wants to buy mexican dirt weed or crank when the corner store could have a cheaper and better version. What would America be like with no drug dealers?
  - None
    
    Like Big Pharma is now.
  - Lol
    
    yeah like they are getting rid of the legal w33ds in stores and in nz, and many states, because illigal = more profit for the dru_g running govt
- tavoher13
  
  exactly i was thinking the same sh*t dont they have bigger problems than copyright infringement
- FBI Agent Walter Rolston
  
  Um…and your point is?
  
  You do know that if all demonoid users were forced to pay large fines, that money could be used to help eradicate the crimes you speak of, right?
  
  So you’re actually contradicting yourself, because if they were somehow able to track downloads and fine people accordingly the government would have more money to spend on enforcement of drugs/murders.
  
  Why did 96 people click like to this stupid comment?
  - Guest
    
    Except they wouldn’t, because those fines will end up embezzled or fed off to some new bailout or other sinkhole never to be seen again. Regardless as a civil issue there’s no fine so a massive corporation is just sitting back raking in nearly unconstitutionally unreasonable “damages” with weak evidence that wouldn’t hold up if it weren’t for the fact most judges in **AA cases sit on pro-copyright boards (conflict of interests.)
    
    Talk about taking care of all enemies foreign and domestic.
  - Jon7272
    
    you continue to believe that and you have no likes what does that tell you lmfao
  - Bro
    
    fuck off you lying cockbreath the govt and fbi homos are the drug lords
  - chronoss chiron
    
    lol forced eh? how can you do that to a person whim has no money and is disabled LOL good luck with that
  - ICE Agent Walter Mitty
    
    “if all demonoid users were forced to pay large fines, that money could
    be used to help eradicate the crimes you speak of, right?”
    
    And who would those fines go to? The government? or the people that are suing them? The little money the court collects wouldn’t directly affect any of these crimes…
  - Bakunin
    
    there is no contradiction if you are anarchist like me and believe all drugs and piracy should be legal :) fuck all governments and corporations who try to stop it.
  - OccamsKatana
    
    Get your head out of your ass!
    - Guest
      
      and get his cock out of your mouth!
    - OccamsKatana
      
      @abb249055208c7af4d35568e422dfd63:disqus <—- Second class troll. First class idiot. Liking his own posts.
  - jesuschrist
    
    They’re making far more money by keeping drugs illegal than to go through the trouble of taxing people for ‘illegal’ downloads so they can eradicate the international drug trade which is making them billions per year mr Stupid FBI agent Walter Rolson.
  - Mich2k7
    
    Drug enforcement? You’d like that wouldn’t you? Less retailation from the crook. It’s easier to lock up people who are high than those who are armed and dangerous isn’t it? Viagra is a drug, Cialis is a drug, Vicodin is a drug, Weed is a plant. Fuck you haha.
  - FBI Counter-intel
    
    ”
    You do know that if all demonoid users were forced to pay large fines, that money could be used to help eradicate the crimes you speak of, right?”
    
    Except it wouldn’t. What would happen is that a large amount of money would have to be spent on legal fees. This means that the legal community would get enriched, at the expense of any other goods and services that could be bought, and, here’s the fun part IRONICALLY the entertainment industry especially.
    
    What most studies that have focused on torrent users have found is that most of them are hyper-media consumers, they buy the most books, most music, and most videos. This means if you hit them in the wallet, you lose their money in that industry. Remember this very important point, it’s going to come up again later.
    
    But let’s not stop our economic analysis there. You now have to go to court for copyright infringement. Who receives the money? The answer: The copyright holders. This means that you will not be paying large amounts of fees to the government, at all. This means that no matter how you slice this hypothetical scenario, there’s no way that large amounts of money to the entertainment industry would somehow enrich either local, state, or federal governments.
    
    What will happen next is that the case will be appealed by both parties, depending on which one wins. As has thus far happened, the courts have ruled that an ISP is not identical with a person, because of all the aforementioned problems about people able to hack wi-fis. Which means at some point, the case will get thrown out.
    
    So what really happened here? The movie industry and everyone else knows this won’t work, but that’s not the point. The point is to create a chilling effect so that people who would be encouraged to do would not do it. Except that’s not going to work.
    
    What will happen instead is that people will make an economic calculation. Is the amount of money spent on paying a service like BTGuard worth more or less than the amount it would cost them to buy those services legally, calculated against the risk of getting caught?
    
    What would happen then is this:
    
    1.) People who don’t use torrents a lot would figure there’s little to no chance of them getting caught.
    
    2.) People who use torrents a lot would figure that it’s worth it to start using a VPN and masking their traffic. Ergo, we now come back to economics and realize that if people start spending their money on VPNs, that’s less money available to spend on other goods and services, which means the entertainment industry would lose money on this transaction.
    - Blargheblargh
      
      Do you have any sources to go with this? Specifically the “ISP is not identical with a person” and ”
      most studies that have focused on torrent users have found is that most of them are hyper-media consumers, they buy the most books, most music, and most videos.” parts?
  - Special Agent Richard Gill
    
    I’m Special Agent Richard Gill and I order you to shut up!
  - qua
    
    why did 3 people like your stupid comment? Because if you actually think for a second that the government would spend that money on the drug war and homicide, you are severely ignorant. Not to mention, the fact that it is WRONG to fine people and waste time and money on a “crime” that literally hurts NO ONE and the people doing it are just average people who live fairly decent lives.
- TorrentPower
  
  No cograts to the fucking americans they are behind raid of demonoid
  DIE ALL FUCKERS
  - Guest
    
    US govt+US corporations =/= All Americans
    - Rodehawg
      
      US govt+US corporations = All Americans who matter to the US Govt
- Lol
  
  thats because they were funded by usa with the guns and dr*ugs aka fast and furious look it up, and the drug trade is ran by cia look it up
- meowmix
  
  i wish i could find the link to a page my brother sent me about a drug raid on a mexican cartel. it was most enlightening. the thing i most remember is this: there was so much cash, it would have comfortably paid for free healthcare for every american for 10 years.
  - Guest
    
    Annual health care costs in the US are more than 2 trillion dollars. So as a conservative estimate that is 20 trillion dollars. Mexican drug lords wish they had that much money. Grow a brain and think about what you read rather than blindly believing whatever reinforces your opinions.
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_H6CRJQGO7L62MCVEMI6EV2JL2A cliffa
  
  TESTIFY!
- Favela Alphadog
  
  Without the fucking users the mexican druglords were out of business…
inc

well lets be honest here there was no exclusive stuff uploaded there 1st..
http://profile.yahoo.com/JZX5KMK4QUZYFUSZ3A4S33REJA Good

”…it appears that one alleged and presumably now ex-moderator of Demonoid felt the need to tell Vice our reporting is “as reliable as Fox News” and that “anything from TorrentFreak should be taken with a kilo of salt.”
- – - – -

In fact, the title of the piece says, “TORRENTFREAK IS FULL OF SHIT, ACCORDING TO A DEMONOID ADMIN”

Sorry, but that’s damn funny stuff right there.
Got a few hearty chuckles out of this old dog.
- Guest
  
  are you on something?
  - http://profile.yahoo.com/JZX5KMK4QUZYFUSZ3A4S33REJA Good
    
    Is it that obvious?
    =[
- Kemahudson
  
  Yeah right… And Torrentfreak must have the Ukrainian media in their back pocket then. If you go off of what was printed in the Ukrainian newspapers, then the only way the vice article could be correct would be if Torrentfreak was an internet overlord that can force the Ukrainian Media, and their government to say whatever they tell them to say. :P
  
  http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kommersant.ua%2Fdoc%2F1996114
Avalidemail

Are people still using torrents without a VPN? I guess there is an idiot born every minute so it wouldn’t surprise me… I’ll sleep good tonight I don’t even care that my server is still seeding demonoid torrents…
- theydontcareaboutu
  
  cant use a VPN on most private trackers. At least the one’s i’ve been a member of for the past 8 years. Fact is i’ve uploaded and downloaded thousands of TB’s of content and Never even been throttled. I don’t know why people freak out. Government is concerned with the owners not the users.
  - Legalization
    
    ISP throttled some time ago. Use software that fakes the headers.
  - Jon7272
    
    im allowed to use a vpn on mine
- http://profile.yahoo.com/JZX5KMK4QUZYFUSZ3A4S33REJA Good
  
  Own interest in VPN? Getting any kickbacks here?
  Not saying you are…just curious.
  - Wombat
    
    VPN doesn’t mean what you think it means. There are a ton of VPNs out there, and theydontcareaboutu didn’t mention a specific VPN company. Seriously, take a moment to Google before unleashing lame theories.
- guest458
  
  Yes they are, a lot more than you think. I would never pay for VPN if I could pay for Usenet instead.
  - Legalization
    
    Most demonoid users know nothing of usenet, which is where everything used to come from and a lot still does.
    - http://profile.yahoo.com/JZX5KMK4QUZYFUSZ3A4S33REJA Good
      
      At a certain point it just gets ridiculous.
      Some people have other shit to do and
      don’t want this hobby to be a lifestyle.
    - meowmix
      
      i’ve been on usenet for long time, something like 17 years. it is still the first place i check for anything i want.
- UniversalSoldier
  
  Is all the world living in US / UK / France where downloading copyright material is illegal? I don’t think so. Many of us live in places where no one is concerned about what you download, so there is no need for a VPN.
  - Mastermikeywwt
    
    Tell that to Kim Dotcom and other such people that live in places that are apparently not concerned…
- xpmule
  
  idiot ?
  How much are you you paying smart ass ?
  
  People that pay money for piracy are the REAL idiots ;)
http://twitter.com/Jatthewmoly Matt

im happy i never used demonoid lets hope they dont raid 1337x or tpb any time soon
- Myse
  
  they’ve tried to take down tpb several times in the past and the site was up within a few days, and I think no user data was compromised (could be entirerly wrong, so tell me if I am :) )
  - Glib
    
    TPB has seemingly moved to a new level sometime in the last 3 years. It seems as though they’re either at the cusp of some epic pain, or have successfully shielded themselves from just about every reasonable venue of attack there is. Nobody seems to know who runs the site, where the servers are, or where any of the money goes. The level of anonymity that TPB seems to be effortlessly capable of is inspiring. I mean, come on; how much money has been thrown around to knock down such a tiny fucking site? It’s a beautiful thing, and must be endlessly frustrating to the MAFIAA who are quite used to throwing money at a problem to make it go away.
Trelew

If I ever get a call from some legal or governmental asshat about Demonoid, I’ll be sure to tell them to go frag themselves and take their greedy corporate bullsh!t somewhere else…probably won’t get me far but damn it will feel good to tell them off
- Chimchim420
  
  Sure you will, internet tough guy.
  - http://profile.yahoo.com/JZX5KMK4QUZYFUSZ3A4S33REJA Good
    
    he more i hear that phrase the more I like it.
    My next crust punk and ==> Internet Tough Guy.
    And they’ll actually murder people on stage. lol.
  - chronoss chiron
    
    poopy pants rimchim how is your pancakes
    - Guest
      
      Aren’t you old enough to not poop your pants?
  - Anoynmousgoat
    
    Don’t forget to tell Ricky and Jullian the good news, officer Jim Lahey is back on the job!.
    - qua
      
      Jim Lahey is a drunk fuck who doesn’t know his ass from Randy’s cock in his mouth o.O
  - Luckyshst
    
    Take that 420 out of your name, you’re not worthy.
Neil

Can someone tell me if the police arrived by helicopter, carried automatic weapons, with dogs? Just trying to compare the raid with what happened here in New Zealand with Kim Dotcom.
- Kropotkin
  
  No, they used destroyers and frigates this time. ^^
  - Owlguy223
    
    Thanks I liked that..
  - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=676827475 Luke Solis
    
    no, they didn’t bother sending people in. they just nuked the fucker and called it good.
- Trespass
  
  Better to compare Dotcoms raid to apprehending Bin Laden…
  - chronoss chiron
    
    bin laden was in a small villa hiding ina room
    they walked in took him , murdered em and tossed body of course it happened a long time ago and they made him do all these funky videos for ya all….
    - xpmule
      
      lol
      funny im the guy always saying that ;)
      
      just so people know i’m not the only one who noticed that.
      Criminal or not he should have been given a fair trial.
      And it was a tad un-needed to cap em point blank between the eyes
      when he was standing in his bdroom with his hands up unarmed.
      There’s your american hero’s !
    - Ben Brubaker
      
      Ciz like I wusz there and like he was totally unarmed and had his hands up.
      So easy, when other people do the dirty work. And get civies blown to Kingdom Come. Ta-terdHerdHerrr.
  - meowmix
    
    the difference is, they had hold of this guys body.
- xpmule
  
  prob happened like when sharereactor got hit..
SengaMooo

Just one more reason t always mask your real IP address in anything you do online.

Gettin-Private.tk
- Disease
  
  this site has not been updated since 2011.Question how’s it stand up to the mafiaas cronies they got working for them today?
  
  Are any of these anonymous sites actually full proof?
  - chronoss chiron
    
    does torrentfreak use https?
    - Lol
      
      yes
Dem-Fan

I think it would be better if sites did NOT require a login/password and were more like TPB in that regard. Why give out any more information than you have to? It just gives them something else to keep track of.

I’m really going to miss Demonoid. Their audiobook section was the best. Their interface was easy to use and their folks helpful any time I asked for such.

I wonder how much frenzy there would be if sites simply stopped carrying movies and music? Would there be such a well-paid group of lobbyists getting results?

Regardless – a sad day. Hope that somehow they can come back. If TPB can do it, maybe they can too
- Guest
  
  Yeah, I’ll miss the audio book section too, that was the only reason that I went to demonoid, myself.
http://profile.yahoo.com/JZX5KMK4QUZYFUSZ3A4S33REJA Good

So much chitter chatter. So little discussion of:

Are Demonoid Users at Risk?
- Asswik
  
  Porn is the most lawsuit happy genre and Demonoid didn’t do porn.
  
  Also, got a username? So what? Tens of thousands of lines of data… Surely it’s easier to harvest an active IP off an active torrent and fire off a legal letter to the ISP.
  
  Serial uploaders – possibly more at risk. But taking the site down and putting THE FEAR into other sites and new sites is a massive win on it’s own.
  - ulej
    
    An IP address is just a number.
    
    But with an email address, username and possible lasted IP used to log in, they may be able to track down some individuals and prosecute with much greater chances of winning
    - http://profile.yahoo.com/JZX5KMK4QUZYFUSZ3A4S33REJA Good
      
      Another downside to private trackers?
      Besides the ‘small fish/less attention paid to them’ thing?
- Dem-Fan
  
  I think if you uploaded content, particularly music and movies, you are going to be much more at risk than others.
  
  If you only downloaded, I would think that they would put you at the low-end of the importance ladder.
  
  But ALL users that had login accounts are probably at risk, when you get right down to it. If they kept track of all the uploads and downloads associated with those login accounts, then people could really, really be screwed. The entire court case could be outlined for them already. Hope that doesn’t happen.
  - ScrewEwe2
    
    Life’s a risk. Without uploaders there’s nothing to download. If people are losing sleep over their culpability in regards to their upstream or downstream Torrent activity they should restrict their computer activities to emailing, iTunes and Facebook. Large Seeders may have reasons to be more uneasy than small Seeders, but in the end, ya gots to take yer chances.
    
    I refuse to lose a second of sleep over things that are out of my control, and for now I’m gonna let the Torrents roll. I don’t have any money to pay fines so the worst that can happen is I get three Hot’s and a Cot and better Health and Dental care than I currently have.
    - Camanon7
      
      Whatever you do, DO NOT bend over in the showers!
- Trespass
  
  Definitely not if they used protection…
http://profile.yahoo.com/JZX5KMK4QUZYFUSZ3A4S33REJA Good

Well, if your job is in detecting filesharing abuse…I’m reminded of a quote from Mexico about the DEA down there. Goes a little suttin like thiiis:
“It’s like pest control companies, they only control,” Guillermo Terrazas Villanueva, the Chihuahua spokesman, told Al Jazeera last month at his office in Juarez. “If you finish off the pests, you are out of a job. If they finish the drug business, they finish their jobs.”
Guion3

If you look into how many Murders, Rapes, Robberies, and other crimes against humanity comited in Ukraine and Mexico. It is so stupid for law enforcement to be working on this at all. I read a story where 48 bodies were dumped outside of a mexican border town with the heads and hands cut off of them. The people who murdered the 48 spay painted what gang they were from above the bodies. You would think mexican law enforement would be looking to go after that gang than protecting the collective fat ass of hollywood. But theres not as much money in stoping murder as there is in bootlicking special interest group. Hypocrites, and Idiots the lot of them.
- Dem-Fan
  
  You may well be right about priorities, but to be blunt, they go after the types of people that big money PAYS them to go after.
  
  If the MPAA and RIAA give money to law enforcement groups to “assist” them in focusing on raids like this, why would they continue writing parking tickets or going after violent crimes?
  
  Lobbyists on Capital Hill get the attention they pay for. Regular people, the normal constituents who may actually need day to day help, seldom get it.
  
  Obama pass any of those hardcore wall-street reforms he promised? Nope. Why? Money. Don’t want to anger those donors.
  
  It’s frustrating, yes, but it’s reality. I don’t know how people can change the system when they have been trying for over 200 years in the US to do so. Freakin’ human nature…
- Guest
  
  Oh would you look at that
  
  Rape cases
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_statistics
  
  In 6th place per capita…USA
  In 53rd place…Ukraine
  
  Murder rates
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate
  
  USA in 14th place
  Ukraine in 37th place
  
  Robberies
  http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_rob-crime-robberies
  
  USA – 18th place
  Ukraine – 34th
  
  I’d lay all the cash I have on betting you’ve never been to Ukraine. What a colossally stupid take on the world you have.
  
  Are you American? Possibly you should read this – http://postmasculine.com/america
  Might open your eyes a bit.
  - adada
    
    Crime stats only tell you how well the police performs. The list you compiled only tells us that the US police does a better job at registering crimes than its Ukrainian counterpart, that’s all. I’d lay all the cash I have on betting that you’ve never thought about this ;-)
    - http://profile.yahoo.com/JZX5KMK4QUZYFUSZ3A4S33REJA Good
      
      Nonsense. In cases such as MURDER, where it’s near impossible for it to be covered up or recvlassified as something else, as the family will insist the culprit be found….it doesn’t matter about ‘how well the police performs’. In face, crime stats have nothing at all to do with ‘how well the police perform’ …just how many crimes are reported and how those crimes are classified by the police.
      
      P.S.
      Couldn’t care less whether you’ve thought about this or not.
    - Guest
      
      yeah. land of the free! lol
    - Ben Brubaker
      
      Freer than most.
  - HastaPronto
    
    In that case of comparing rates one should be much carefull.
    The rape victim in Ukraine is always advised to drop the charges, otherwise she would be charged of slandering the “respected people”.
    Police working very hard to conceal the crimes. This statistics is utterly wrong.
    The judges in Ukraine as well as in Russia are appointed persons, not elected by the people, so to seek the justice in courts is a loss of time.
    Putler assasines thousands people in Krymsk, and they insist upon 170 dead, when there are new bodies found every day.
    No law, no justice as in Ukraine as in Russia.
Fantastic

According to PC World article in another thread about the case in Mexico the company terminated the agreement with Demonoid but nothing was ever taken or copied by authorities according to a person that the hosting company.
- thegeek
  
  yes ,, I just mentioned that a few minutes ago but my post got deleted ,, hmmmmm……
  
  http://www.techworld.com.au/article/433018/demonoid_return_uncertain_after_law_enforcement_action_ukraine_mexico/
Uolop

This is pretty stupid. I’m just going to get a life and stop caring about this crap.
- http://profile.yahoo.com/JZX5KMK4QUZYFUSZ3A4S33REJA Good
  
  lol, good plan, mate. I could use the exercise. and have friend and a network of sneakernet media access that will last a lifetime.
Josh Belcher

Oh, you thought by all of America coming together to stop SOPA, all the songs, and melting of the phone switchboards, that we might have stopped this from happening. Nope, these disgusting fucks just do as they please, I say we not let them, I say we train ourselves, because there fucks aren’t our government, and they do not tell us what to do. WHO’S WITH ME?
- Guest
  
  you will do nothing. as usual.
- EvilPete
  
  To be fair, when we use torrents,etc. we are doing what we please regardless of laws or what others think.
Josh Belcher

The U.S ships guns into Mexico, but they worry about torrents? Fucking backwards dude.
Hmm

so whats the correct report The company denied that any data had been seized or that any of its
servers had been sealed. Demonoid’s owners can still access their data
hosted on ColoCall’s servers, the company said. However, it didn’t know
if the website’s administrators had already transferred the data to
another location. ??????
Greencat1

would someone please explain to me why this is a government issue at all?
- Zenamez
  
  They can’t get after the Drug lords so this is the next best thing. (Read: They’re lazy and want to show big daddy America how well it can lick boots).
- Bob
  
  Considering how much time and money politicians wasted on steroids in baseball, is this any surprise they got involved in this. Remember, these are the same clowns who want to tax soft drinks that are they already heavily subsidize through the corn used to sweeten it.
Thisvideowasgreat

If I used a VPN, is there less of a chance the authorities will be able to find me. I was a Demonoid downloader but only for the last nine months…I guess I got to taste that little devil before he perished…….I know that my VPN blocks my activity from my ISP, but how will having a VPN make difference as far as my Account with Demonoid and
the history of my activity on its servers, and the authorities interest in tracking a Demonoid member down if he/she had used a VPN???
- Zenamez
  
  They probably won’t be able to detect the VPN but they’ll have the data from the account (although knowing them, they’ll probably want to go after the source of the files (the frequent uploaders) than the people who download only (hell I only downloaded 2.3Gb of data from Demonoid. I’m probably at the very low end of the spectrum).
- Rekrul
  
  Did you register with your real name or your ISP provided email address? If you answered no to those questions, then they can’t track you.
  - Ktkwon00
    
    What about gmail address?
- Guest321
  
  Do they really have the time to build a case, prosecute and put a million users behind bars? If they do, then they need to build more prisons.
Thisvideowasgreat

If I used a VPN, is there less of a chance the authorities will be able
to find me. I was a Demonoid downloader but only for the last nine
months…I guess I got to taste that little devil before he
perished…….I know that my VPN blocks my activity from my ISP, but
how will having a VPN make difference as far as my Account with Demonoid
and

the history of my activity on its servers, and the authorities interest
in tracking a Demonoid member down if he/she had used a VPN?
- Camanon7
  
  As long as they don’t keep logs, there’s not a whole lot anyone can do. You should be fine. It’s doubtful they’ll go after anyone, even those without VPNs or Proxies.
  - Chilly Willy
    
    I agree because I don’t think the Mexican government is going to persue extradition of large numbers of users, simply becuase their justice system would not have the capacity to handle it.
Micimaos

Shit just got serious. :O
gremlin

http://www.zdnet.com/au/daily-cuppa-anonymous-attacks-ukraine-indian-datacentre-on-fire-7000002361/
- Stander
  
  The jedi have come!
  - Cujo
    
    anonymiss has come ;)
http://twitter.com/HoustonLawy3r Rob Cashman, Esq.

I don’t know why, but I’m not afraid of any criminal action coming to Demonoid’s users. Quite frankly, the only ones who want to sue for the download of their materials is the production company itself, and the authorities are unlikely to share or play “show and tell” with the user’s history.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Cris-Hendrix/100000110324970 Cris Hendrix
  
  Uh, what? The “production companies” are united together and represented by the MPAA, the main lobbyist that gets the government to do these raids.. simply handing over the user info would be probably the least effort out of the whole ordeal for the feds
donttrustem

Demonoid can tell how much you have downloaded but NOT what you have downloaded . There was a lot of freeware on demonoid
- Fantastic
  
  And a good amount of BBC Radio shows that are Free to Air but poorly seeded elsewhere which makes up most of my DL count on the ‘noid.
http://www.twitter.com/echoman74 echoman

I’ll say like this bring it on ;)
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=676827475 Luke Solis

IP addresses don’t equal a person.

as long as the users never filled out their profiles with location information, there is nothing to panic about.
Bill_Bates_40

I really liked Demonoid for the ability to search within genres of music (Classical specifically) but haven’t really seen any that even come close to that level of discrimination. Am I overlooking any that have that capability, even to a limited degree?
E-forwards

As a big serial uploader of Demoniod for the past 3 years over 6Tb of Data transferred on Demoniod alone/7.9Tb in my personal collection worries me a bit but depends on how deep the authorities take the investigation. Already pulled all drives and moved them to a alternate location just being safe.
- TrueCrypt to the rescue!
  
  You should also look into using TrueCrypt to do full-disk encryption. If you are in USA, the 11th Circuit ruled earlier this year that ” the 5th Amendment prevented the government from forcing a suspect in a
  child pornography investigation to decrypt the contents of several
  computers and drives seized by law enforcement.” And in that case, the Government admitted that it was unable to get past TrueCrypt’s powerful encryption. Here is the full text of the ruling:
  
  https://www.eff.org/sites/default/files/filenode/OpinionDoe22312.pdf
  
  TrueCrypt is available here (free): http://www.truecrypt.org/
  
  Note also that for maximum security, TrueCrypt provides three different high-powered encryption algorithms (AES-256, Serpent-256, Twofish-256) and you can use all three at the same time (“cascading encryption”) in whichever order you prefer. You also have a choice between three different hash algorithms (RIPEMD-160, SHA-512, Whirlpool). Read the documentation thoroughly!
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Anonymous

I wouldn’t be worried for non-uploaders. It will be your ISP taking a big hit for not doing something about it, not you.
And like many, I will miss Demonoid greatly. Such an amazing collection of old school jazz and blues records.
Anonymous

Does Demonoid have a twitter or any other kind of feed? It’d be nice to hear from someone in the company what exactly is going on, because I’m seeing conflicting reports all over.
http://www.loucomotion.tk brunomocsa

Comon FBI, sue me, LOL i can put my full name and my passport number if i want in the register because in my country i can buy Pirated CDs n DVDs in all corners of my city…
- GUEST
  
  Doesn’t mean it’s legal, and if you’re from India they will #buttrapeyou. Dipshit.
Outonexile

TorrentFreak Is Full of Shit, According to a Demonoid Admin

http://www.vice.com/read/a-chat-with-one-of-the-demonoid-admins-about-torrentfreak
- Dirty_Bear
  
  No surprises there.
- Eventide451
  
  IFPI has an article on their site about it, as well as a few Ukrainian newspapers. The Demonoid admin and/or Vice is who is full of shit. The raid happened.
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Poopadoop

uh… there will not be an investigation aimed at the users or the uploaders. period. it would be too costly, too time consuming, and too plain ridiculous to attempt it. all you people who think they will or are worried… are idiots. seriously. derp

and demonoid will be back. they did nothing wrong. and the site had posts all over relieving them of all responsibility. not to mention the basic “like it? buy it” bullshit.
Linux

Good luck with finding me. I had changed isp and where I live several times since registration and last visit on demonoid (I usually went there only when I couldn’t find thing I’ve looked for on TPB and that is pretty rare).
- krypz
  
  like tpb is safe???
Poopadoop’s friend

LOLOL
how stupid are you people?

-in the nerdiest voice ever. “oh my god, the government is gunna come after me…”

do you dipshits hear yourselves?
wow.
when was the last time someone got arrested for owning pirated software?
hmmm… never?

i bet 80% of you morons that are worried, are using a pirated copy of windows. whats the worst microsoft has done to an non genuine copy… “this version of windows is not genuine… but… enjoy it anyway” lol

idiots.

if you guys are that gullible, believe everything you read on the internet, or are just plain stupid, i feel bad for you. and these next statements are for you

-THE GOVERNMENT IS GOING TO START AN INVESTIGATION OF THE USERS AND THE UPLOADERS.
-THEY WILL FIND YOU REGARDLESS OF THE PRECAUTIONS YOU TOOK. BECAUSE, WELL… ITS THE GOVERNMENT.
-DELETE EVERYTHING.
-FORMAT YOUR DRIVES.
-EVEN YOUR FAMILY PHOTOS CONTAIN TRACES OF YOUR CONNECTION TO DEMONOID.

-SEND ME YOUR LIFE SAVINGS CAUSE I CAN SAVE YOU. AND CAUSE… WELL…IM AWESOME.
-TELL YOUR 18+ YEAR OLD DAUGHTERS TO SEXT ME.
-JUMP OFF A BRIDGE AFTER YOUR DAUGHTERS SEXT ME.
-EAT DOO DOO FOR BREAKFAST… IF YOU SURVIVED SAID BRIDGE.
-PUKE UP DOO DOO ON YOUR NEIGHBORS INFANT
-PUNCH PARENT OF SAID INFANT IN THE FACE FOR HAVING SUCH A REPULSIVE CHILD THAT IT MADE YOU PUKE… AND DOO DOO PUKE NO LESS.

okay… i could add soo much more, but im sure you get the picture.
stop being idiots.
GUEST

So now the ones who did upload are sh&tting their pants? Sharing is caring? Yes, you get taken cared of in the Penetentiary (jail).

This is why Cyberlockers existed. So users were protected to an extent.
dionemoD

Demonoid only tracked the AMOUNT you uploaded and downloaded, not WHAT you downloaded. Your ISP does that too, if for no other reason than to enforce bandwidth caps. The authorities have no way of proving you ever downloaded anything that constituted copyright infringement because there’s no specific records on what you downloaded. That’s the whole point of torrents, you’re not getting it from a site, the transfer is between people(peers).

The real actual risk (if you wanna call getting a letter a risk) is if you’re seeding a particular torrent, they can easily hop in the swarm and see your IP address. If you’re not currently actively downloading/uploading something and they didn’t log your IP address when you were, then for all intents and purposes it never happened.

Even if you seeded the crap out of all the newest movies, music, and books, if you didn’t get one of those DMCA letters a few days after you stopped seeding it, you never will. Again the only time they can “catch” you is when you are actively downloading/uploading.

Now for the VIP uploaders of music and movies there’s a little bit more of a paper trail. They can easily see that UserX has uploaded every Marvel comic book in the last 50 years, of every episode of Game of Thrones. They can see how many times it was successfully downloaded, and they can match a username to a real name (if a real name was even given) and have more evidence of copyright infringement. But it’s not as if demonoid did a background check to make sure people were using their real names, and especially in the wake of email hacks (that whole Yahoo! thing a while back) an email address isn’t a sufficient link to someone’s true identity.
ThumbsUpThumbsDown

Absolute saftey? That’s what you promise the reluctant girlfriend behind the OAK Tree on the hottest day in August…..

She didn’t get what was promised. Neither will you.

So, what makes Private Trackers safer?

Same thing as what makes Public Trackers Safer: First: Use a VPN. Strictly offshore. That means both managed and hosted abroad in credible safehaven jurisdictions. Second: Do NOT Pay via the Usual Famous Suspects. Do the work to learn about alternative security prioritizing payment processors. They exist, you just haven’t bothered to learn about them. They’re as easy to use as Paypal; and, history has shown, much more committed to your privacy. Nothing ties people to a forbidden act more reliably than money. Third: NEVER register anywhere for anything using your ISP Email. In it, the lord has given you an infinitely long Digital Umbilical Cord. It leads directly to all your vital signs. Of course, it’s work to find alternatives. Be glad they exist. Be glad they’re a relative bargain. Consider them indispensable under armour for between three and five bucks a month. Usually encryption. No ads. Multiple names and obfuscated server sourcing created instantaneously at will and dissolvable instantaneously at will. Sure as hell beats name and address directly to Mom and Dad’s upstairs line. Fourth: ruthlessly reject the invitation to provide your real name, address, telephone number, birthday, gender, sexual preferences, first school, name of first girlfried, boyfriend, pet, country of residence, country of origin, ethnic or professional affiliations….If you crave fame, crave it elsewhere.

Fifth: The absolutely best protection. Most people around you are not very wise. They might be brilliant, just not wise. They don’t give a rat’s ass about the above question……Of course, we all know, the Bear can only eat but so many brilliant fools.
- FBI
  
  I don’t think anything will come of this, but supposing it were, you’re a little overconfident. So what if your VPN is abroad? So were Demonoid’s servers.So what if you went out of your way to find payment methods and the like that were obscure and difficult to find? Fact is you found them, so what’s to stop a government official from finding them?
  
  Nothing will happen, but you sound ridiculous acting like the most untouchable person on the internet.
  - ThumbsUpThumbsDown
    
    I began my statement by denying outrignt the existence of such a thing as absolute security…..
    
    I then suggested a few helpful “best practices” that Most Brilliant People ignore….
    
    I concluded with the observation that the best protection lies in the fact that the Bear can only eat but so many overconfident “Smart” people who have chosen to ignore best practices…..
    
    I intended precisely to point out that excessive pride is a most self-destructive blind spot……I acknowledge that you understood fully this aspect of my post…..
- privatetorrent
  
  Yes You Are Right, Bad news for Demonoid Users. But you can find much safer private trackers if you join torrentinvites.orgAnd as we all know, private trackers are MUCH safer than the public trackers (like demonoid) !
Peter Quistgard

What do drug dealers/murderers/rapists have anything to do with this? What are you people talking about??? You’re upset they aren’t going after more dangerous violators of the law I guess???

I can’t believe I’m even humoring these comments…but supposing they could trace everyone’s copyright infringing activity and were intent on fining people (which they assuredly aren’t) that would in fact aid them in taking down drug networks/rapists/murderers.

More money from fines = more resources = better ability to investigate and prosecute other forms of crime.

So if you think that them busting people for downloading (which they won’t) is ignoring greater crimes, it’s not, fines would only increase their ability to deal with said criminals.
- Haithere
  
  Well, I’m not an expert, but if someone would actually sue the users, then the ones who would benefit from the suing would be the “industry” or “the industries”. The authorities are just helping their “American friends” from the MPAA/RIAA. So I think this is certainly not true, that they would get money to fight against greater crimes…
http://twitter.com/thesgc1 thesgc

Oh. So, basically, there are a million other things wrong in the world, like immigration, and poverty, and class warfare, and domestic/international terrorism, BUT WE HAVE TO TAKE OUT DEMONOID say the governments and companies, hurr hurr hurr.
Ah, the world we live in.
- http://twitter.com/16BitGenocide Adam
  
  The Government is rather large, I’m sure they can ineffectively try to take care of all those things at once.
FBI Agent Burt Macklin

Cease all seeding.
Thag

poor demonoid admin
say he got caught by police

police gave him to los zetas

now we going to chop his head
Truth

Well to be fair, the articles here are pretty bias and generally poorly written, so it is similar to fox news
- http://twitter.com/16BitGenocide Adam
  
  Oh nice, a dig at Fox News, while it’s the current administration doing this…
  
  THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES!
  - Guest
    
    And the right-wing a-holes in the US wouldn’t do this at all. Wake up you useless loser. God you’re beyond stupid.
  - Guest
    
    Plus, we know you love digging the sh/t out the the False Noise a-hole, but normal, decent people don’t swallow excrement like you.
please….

I USE FAKE INFO!!…OMG!! some use real info. hahahah!!!
- krypz
  
  if you don’t use vpn or proxies it doesn’t matter what name is on the account: the ip address will identify you. imho, an entity like the us government, with untold access to information, can prolly track you even through vpns and proxies, as your packets to the vpn/proxy and your downloads will match up… against “total information awareness” which the us gov’t seeks (or has already?), there is no safety anywhere–no where to hide! our protection is our numbers: they can’t prosecute all the millions of us!
Anonymous

the odds that demonoid will be back up are fairly good if your running a tracker you would be stupid to not have offsite backups and contingency plans especially with a site as big as demonoid there is probably a list of people willing to take it over and offsite additionally a report from the hosting provider said the site was taken down to pressure and that there was no raid on the premises
http://gene-poole.tumblr.com Gene Poole

Damn.

I was on my way to bed. I had stayed up too damn late playing Skyrim’s new DLC and was reading Torrentfreak off an RSS feed on my phone, then I read the comments section, and had to get up and come log in to respond.

Jesus, guys…

Stop buying into the hype that you’re doing anything wrong, that’s MAFIAA propaganda, that’s all it ever has been

If all of the users of Napster had simply stood up for what they were doing –sharing culture, as people have done for thousands of years — instead of running for the dark corners like so many cockroaches when the lights come on…things today would be entirely different.

Our strength is numbers, and there’s a very good reason that the sights have been turned from individual uploaders to those running the sites: two very good reasons, actually…one, we don’t have enough money individually, and two, you can’t fight the hoards.

Look, you’ve got nothing to worry about, none of you.

You want to feel safer about sharing culture, about caring via sharing? two things:

1) vote pirate party. Yeah they’re kind of a joke right now, but that’s only because they don’t have the support of all of us. Stop hiding behind a vpn and come forward to defend something you believe in. If you care enough about filesharing to follow the news about it, stick up for yours and everyone else’s rights.

and 2), if you are still scared, read this:

http://falkvinge.net/2012/07/11/what-to-do-if-prosecuted-for-sharing-culture-stfu/

If for some reason I’m wrong, and you suddenly find yourself at the wrong end of the police, remember that being charged for copyright infringement involves some deliberate acts of malice. The only way intent can be proven is via a confession. You’re your own worst enemy if that’s the case so just STFU.
ID

I wouldn’t worry about them going after users. Afterall, I don’t think the FBI went after Megaupload’s users, and that was the US Government that took them down, but I’m just disgusted at the Ukraine and Mexico. They are the two most corrupt countries on the planet. All the sex slaves of Europe come from the Ukraine and Mexico is a joke when it comes to corruption. Obviously Hollywood deposited some millions into some Ukrainian and Mexican’s Swiss bank accounts.
- Geography Lesson
  
  ”The Ukraine” no longer exists. It was “the Ukraine” when it was the Soviet Union’s bitch. Now it’s just “Ukraine” and it’s America’s bitch.
  - http://truth-and-opinion.dyndns-blog.com/ The Peripatetic Apostate
    
    That’s the worst of it: that it is the bitch of the USA. And there’s a great many more as well.
Guest

”
If I used a VPN, is there less of a chance the authorities will be able

to find me.”
It depends. If they are merely watching downloads and recording IP addresses via a BitTorrent client, a VPN would protect you. What is of concern here is if the authorities seized Demonoid records, and if there was anything in the membership records that would enable them to identify you in other ways. If that were the case, and particularly if you ever posted a torrent of your own where you could be identified by your username, VPNs wouldn’t do a damn bit of difference.
- http://truth-and-opinion.dyndns-blog.com/ The Peripatetic Apostate
  
  Seriously…the money behind the attack on Demonoid is only interested in getting it off the Internet wire and seeing it stays shut down.
  
  It’s not about expending considerable resources to go after a few uploaders nor going after thousands of downloaders. They might—only might—consider going after prolific uploaders (I can think of a few) who put HD quality rips and full DVDs, but they just want clamp down on the current streams out there.
randuio

Well, I asked some guy from a forum who is fro Mexico and from what I heard this news is still and enigma because checking the official document he says that it indeed speaks of a raid in a property but that it only mentions it disabled access to the site….but does not mention anyone getting arrested.

Second he tells its very unlikey that theres any copyright infirngement case going on becase this is unregulated soil so what would be the crime if its not really regulated by any law?

He say while piracy “offline” is regulated it is a joke because you can easily go to anywhere in town to buy pirated content…well. he says that you can take the metro and you have dozens of people sells you music and video in the confort of the metro while the police is also there witnessing th business lol.

He also tells me raids are very much a joke there, that the main black market called tepipo while is target of raids sometimes hw says that nonever has got arrested in any raid, and he says that quite literally never…

Soo, it sound to me like an enigma, checking that vice site with demoid people saying no admins staff is from Mexico, it maybe all a confusion with the supposed legal paper lkinked here, considering it apparenyly says the raid make it possible to disable access to demonoid but we know that is not true and it was running fine until recently…then there is the datacenter news saying there was no raid there at all acyually but a simple inquiry…

So whoe knows whats going on for real, lookles to me some conclusions are part of misinformation.
Meatball

They have computers in Mexico?!?!?! WHO KNEW??????????????
- Guest
  
  torrentfreak has mentally retarded users with penises on their foreheads probably from USA?!?!?! WHO KNEW??????????????
  - Peckerhead
    
    torrentfreak has unendowed users with
    forehead
    penis envy?!?!?! WHO KNEW??????????????
    (We all did, kiss me between the eyes.)
    - Guest
      
      Says the guy with an apparent fixation on using “balls”, that can’t spell, as a identity.
    - Peckerhead
      
      Yer maw luvzz mah spellin.
      (She says my forehead’s kind of cute too.)
  - ScrewEwe2
    
    You’re just jealous you don’t have a penis on your forehead. Loser!
    - Guest
      
      True everybody has yours instead, does it have “Made in USA” on it? All shriveled and tiny because of your high fat self.abusing culture? At least I won’t die from clogged arteries. Bigger better my (skinny) ass!
PRIVACY is priceless to me

The U$A seems to think that it’s more important to stop piracy than to stop acting like a fucking worse-than-nazi tyranny and THEY ARE THE TERRORISTS!
Terrorism has been invented by the State to get people to behave like good slaves the billionaires need.
Demonoid and TPB are guilty to make money with piracy alright but it’s no reason to treat everybody like Ben Laden!
- Blueballz
  
  Ben Laden?!? I ain’t Ben Laden over a month!
TorrentPower

Lets speak the truth all we here knew who is behind the raid of Demonoid=usa, ukraine and mexico are just rat traders tools in their hands, for that all 3 countries must be face against the international court in Haga and will be judged( never will be happens, or not in the nearly 1000 years)
DDoS attack is a pure cyber terrorism.
For the user data doubt it to go after for user.
police can suck my dick and for the others user too suck their dick too :D
albie fraser

A previous post here said,
Demonoid Busted As A Gift To The US. not true should read

Demonoid Busted As A Gift To The IOC
privatetorrent

Bad news for Demonoid Users.But Dont Worry.
You can find much safer private trackers
if you join torrentinvites.org
And as we all know, private trackers are MUCH safer than the public trackers (like demonoid) !
Play Safe

there are to many Demoniod users for them to target every single one of them, play it safe and go to torrentinvites.org for invites to private trackers
Gus

Interesting quote in the vice dot com article mentioned previously:

“There have been a number of studies that have shown that people who download music are also among the biggest buyers of music.”
Anon

Since when has Hollywood cared about ‘erroneous stats’ lol
- http://truth-and-opinion.dyndns-blog.com/ The Peripatetic Apostate
  
  Since they stopped making films that had any quality, which we would be before most of us were born.
http://modmyi.com/forums/iphone-4-new-skins-themes-launches/740147-neurotech-hd.html#post5637502 Jay

Of course some moron has to get their digs in on Fox News. Fox is very reliable – what a dickhead.
- Guest
  
  Obviously you are using the word reliable in some context that only makes sense to you. False Noise? Really? Pull hour head out of your ass, whiny wing-nut.
  - http://modmyi.com/forums/iphone-4-new-skins-themes-launches/740147-neurotech-hd.html#post5637502 Jay
    
    Whatever you just said doesn’t make any sense.
    - http://truth-and-opinion.dyndns-blog.com/ The Peripatetic Apostate
      
      What he said and you seem to be unable to understand—almost certainly because you are a right-wing asshole—is that viewers who watch Fox Noise Channel religiously are less informed than someone who never watches the news at all…basically someone who is in a coma.
      
      By the way, that is a fact that can be googled.
    - http://modmyi.com/forums/iphone-4-new-skins-themes-launches/740147-neurotech-hd.html#post5637502 Jay
      
      Haha, that is ridiculous. The left came up with that so idiots like you would repeat it as “fact”. How does it feel to be mind-fucked by a political party?
  - Zebra52
    
    No doubt that you are a fan of the Communist News Network…….otherwise known as CNN. I will say they are better than the morons on MSNBC.
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rummaging in a box

i pity all thoses who were 70% finished and wham, cut off. even if they are still running, people are now turning their seeds off, so the torrent files are dying. it is a shame to kill some of them, they were good.i was seeding one, but gradually, over these weeks it has eventually died a death and is now not active. i will have to learn uploading i suppose, as i like to share stuff. there is plenty of out of copyright material out there as well, and to penalise us law abiding seeders is a criminal act in itself. i rarely swear but i am now going to, thoses who are squeamish, please look away. you buqgers
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Guest

taught me the lesson that anonymity is more important than access to any site
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Tainted

Evey-one knows it was a DDoS attack so anything that was on Demonoid is now tainted..as far as any Info on its users lol

taint (tnt)v. taint·ed, taint·ing, taints
v.tr.1. To affect with or as if with a disease.2. To affect with decay or putrefaction; spoil. See Synonyms at contaminate.3. To corrupt morally.4. To affect with a tinge of something reprehensible.
v.intr. To become affected with decay or putrefaction; spoil.
n.
http://www.loucomotion.tk brunomocsa

LOL my comment was deleted, and guest that reply me, im not from India ROFLOL.
Noblydo

They’ll be replaced or will return. Freedom of information is such a big movement right now. Taking Dem down only serves to give money into the pockets of those who took them down. The movement to squash file sharing is like shoveling it against the tide, and I think they know it.
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ericore

Anyone who thinks they are invincible behind Demonoid’s private tracker whether or not they additional use a VPN…is an absolute fool. They will target music and video contributors; the biggest players. Everyone else is safe.
Stone

So if went through all the comments (out of fear) and I havent really found a clear answer. Are people registered with Demonoid at risk or not. And if they are at risk, which type of users? The heavy Uploaders/Downloaders? Or anyone registered with them, I know that I was only registered with them for about 2 weeks and only got one file from them within the time I was registered with them. The file was really small and was for a ebook, not a big deal really. Will I be included in any attack/lawsuit against the user just because I was registered?
- Anonymous
  
  I don’t know where the posts are, but as others have said, Demonoid doesn’t keep track of what you downloaded, just how much you downloaded. Now, of course, things you upload are tied to your account. But if you just downloaded stuff, all that will be seen is that you have downloaded (and seeded) information. That’s not enough to base a suit on. There was a case like this where Funimation basically copied all the IPs of people downloading a One Piece torrent and tried to sue on mass and the judge threw the case out, saying you can’t do that kind of blanketing suit.
  Don’t worry. If you weren’t reprimanded while downloading the torrent, you won’t be reprimanded after the fact.
TommyBoy

There seems to be some confusion over the public/private debate of Demonoid, here. For the record: You DID NOT have to be a member in order to download recent torrents from Demonoid. If I remember correctly, only torrents one year and older were limited to members only. Aside from that, the forums and member profiles were only accessible by members.

I visited the site numerous times on friend’s computers to download without logging into my account. I also joined the site in 2007. I can only hope Anonymous can save the site from annihilation. A full implementation of Demonoid Beta would have been the file sharers’ utopia.
Manicgeek

I’m afraid that given the behaviour of some site staff everyone is at risk at any time.

The filesharingtalk admin admins team leaked my personal details to their mates, and publicly, just because they took a personal dislike to me.

With sites like that operating in the filesharing community no one is safe.
mourning723

I don’t think I’ll ever find another site with as many books again. :(
- Me
  
  Ditto, that goes for audiobooks too.
- Ford_av
  
  i know,,. i miss digital librarian :(
Make_me

Demonoid was the only private site I bothered to use since there wasn’t anything you couldn’t find on there.

I agree with other’s comments here about not being able to delete your own account yourself within your profile/account settings. If and when Demonoid comes back, I hope they will implement this option.
Freeloaders

I’m actually glad you are all shitting yourselves.
Imagine if you had just paid for your shit in the first place instead of sneaking around stealing like a gang of fucking low life junkies.
The end to this bullshit of stealing is in hand and I am happy about that.
It is about time you freeloaders got a big boot up yer arse.
Oh, and by the way the files from demonoid have already been handed over and there will be prosecutions. How do I know….trust me. Your ass is grass.
- http://gene-poole.tumblr.com Gene Poole
  
  more lies and propaganda. Nobody stole a thing, the original copies were never removed by the uploaders. Your troll fails on its basic premise, sorry.
- Manicgeek
  
  You do know there are legitimate and legal uses for filesharing technology, don’t you?
  
  That there is an awful lot of free (and very good stuff) available perfectly legally using torrents?
  
  You’re aware that such resources are growing all the time? Lie say this one.
  http://www.itproportal.com/2012/08/09/one-million-internet-archive-files-available-to-download-through-bittorrent/
  
  You realise this means we freeloaders are going to be around for ever don’t you?
  
  Or are you being disappointed just like the scum who think they can intimidate people by releasing their personal details publicly?
- Inhwlggb
  
  ”is AT hand”.
  
  Trolling with typos retard?
  
  LMFAO
- ScrewEwe2
  
  I’m aghast that you would have the temerity to impugn the moral standing of the fine people that comprise this august body and falsely accuse us of moral turpitude.
  
  You sir, don’t know Jack Fucking Shit.
- sredaoleerF
  
  You do realize that the even the MAFIAA has moved away from calling pirating “theft” or “stealing” as it doesn’t remove the original.
  
  Still, try again.
- Zebra52
  
  You’re a douche bag.
yah yah

haa cock skin
Xixixixi

Anybody has backup copy of the crawled Demonoid (feed) data? If so, (and
if you live in a safe country without mad bureaucrazy) please share
your cloud’s link to us.

List of Title and its HASH code is enough for us to reconstruct torrent, so that we can continue to download them P2P via dht:// protocol (distributed hash table). Thanks.
Thag

LOL yea los zetas going to chop demonoids head off

that would be funny

new narco movie demonoid owner gets head chopped off by los zetas jajajaja
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Beduin024

“our reporting is as reliable as Fox News”

This is the worst insult for a reporter :( The Torrentfreak stuff certainly doesn’t deserve this.
- Asashii
  
  yeah right like CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, are so reliable, go on tell another one !!!
Fuckitsover

FUCK! it’s over….
g h

My data will read…

FUCK you Lars, lick my sweaty nuts..
Asashii

the first rule in fight club, and those are the safest ones, the ones not every mass idiot file sharer knows about, when everybody and their grandmother knows about something it cant be all that good, especially when you do torrents of copyright material or host files of that material, out of all the private sites i belong no one on those sites talks aboit ISP letters, etc… i love how private sites have that agreement , if you work for so and so and are doing this then this goes against the agreemnet of you joining this site. dont know how binding that agreement is but never have to say I AGREE on a public tracker. you just go to a public and download and etc…, and usually with public sites you get people asking such things as i started downloading torrents and it seems my ISP is lowering my bandwidth, and then you tell them to google encrypt your torrents so they just see traffic and not torrent traffic. basically public trackers are just full of too many Fledglings, what use to be so cool and underground has become a Main stream MESS, remember when there were no clients and you got a box download screen with like Bram Cohen sitting at a computer desk. SoRRy for the rant but those were the DAYZ !!!!!!!!
Demonoiduser

Don’t worry another one will born, They’ve try with Napster look what happened after…

the shit will always loossssseeee, sharing cannot be stoped.

this is just propaganda, Goverments are not able to show real value and deal with trivia.Don’t worry! another tracker and another another tons of tracker will born next.Sharing is the LAW!
Reizar

This is why i obtain my software from sites like mostiwant and giveawayoftheday instead of pirating it. I also use the usenet (free from xsusenet) when i absolutely require something. I got audials 9 free from mostiwant and i use that and spotify to populate my music library. So take it from me, there are much easier and safer alternatives to ‘piracy’. Although i don’t see how piracy hurts anything, i do attempt to ensure i don’t ruin my life over a little mp3 download recorded by the MAFIAA.
- Manicgeek
  
  Makes perfect sense to me, the alternative is to not only risk your private details being leaked, and plastered all over the web as mine were, but to be a member of a site which accepts the people who behave like that (as staff on one site) as members of their site.
Wollof

Oops.. I’ve uploaded like 8TB on demonoid and had a ratio of 40 or something.. Well, we’ll see what happens next.
- Meatball
  
  Chill out, dude. You have nothing to worry about. The US government is after the websites, not the people who use them.
  
  How many prosecutions of users have you heard about since the whole Napster thing over 10 years ago? Try NONE!
crypto

So, Chapo Guzman is allowed to kill hundreds and sell drugs, but I am not allowed to download a crappy mp3 from demonoid?
- Meatball
  
  Yes, because the MPAA and the RIAA don’t lose any money if Chapo Guzman kills hundreds and sells drugs.
http://profile.yahoo.com/7SOODE6ARVQOKVW4MHQWIUWJ4U DandyLion

Fuck…
http://profile.yahoo.com/7SOODE6ARVQOKVW4MHQWIUWJ4U DandyLion

Viva La Capitalisms!!
LockHood

I always buy anything I download . If I used the download that is . For eg , I get sick 5 mins into some games because of my 3D sickness . So of course I delete it and definitely don’t buy it . Then some books end up boring by the first chapter . So that too would go to the recycle bin .

                   Sometimes many people download books and games even if they had bought it ,either because they lost it , or because they forgot to take it with them when they go out of the country or some other such vacation . Happened to me .
I have a facebook friend in the Oman who has no choice but to download books and games as they don’t get released there . Amazon doesn’t even ship there . But she too buys stuff as and when they become available , or while visiting other countries .

                Thats one kind of downloaders . The entertainment industry doesn’t lose anything from them eventually.

                A classmate of mine can clearly demonstrate the other kind . He won’t spend a penny on entertainment . He’ll either download it , or borrow it from someone who has the original . Even if the net becomes devoid of downloads , he won’t buy anything . He’ll just borrow .

               So the entertainment industry gains nothing from this type of downloaders even if ‘piracy’ is stopped . But they do lose something . Prolific gamer that he is , I got to know about a lot of cool games through him . I and my friends have bought some of the games he recommended . So what the entertainment industry loses is added popularity . Even people who don’t buy help in spreading the news which would lead to more buyers .

              But there is a kind of piracy that has to be stopped . I once visited India. They had entire stores selling pirated games and movies . Sure they were cheap . But so was the quality . Ignorant kid that I was I bought a movie without taking a closer look at the package . When I watched the CD it was like trying to watch through a dense blue fog . I think this is real piracy – making profit out of downloads .
Klaive

Doesn’t these “law enforcers” have anything better to do?????? Look the world around you, there are things much worse than downloading free stuff. But, I guess these guys are part of the BAD, STUPID, IRONIC AND ABSURD things that are happening worldwide millenia ago.
Klaive

Remember the Inquisition? We never got out of the dark ages bros. Time to tell them to put all this crap up their asses again, DON’T FUCK WITH MY FREEDOM, DON’T TELL ME I NEED A FUCKING PAPER TO BE HAPPY. Stupid reptiles, look, most of your slaves are mediocre pieces of shit and you are coming to the wrong place if you want to fuck with us.
Klaive

Demonoid was one of the best tools for happy and free information expansion (i don’t care if you want money for what you make, I follow a path where I give everything of myself at no cost, so go fuck yourselves). You create people who can’t even have control of themselves, so you have to put a government and rules for them, because they are as stupid as your goals… WHY DON’T YOU TRY NOT TO KILL GAIA INSTEAD OF PUTING PHOTOS OF YOURSELVES NAKED DRESSED LIKE WHORES TO GET ENERGY FROM MASTURBATING MOTHERFUCKERS???? DAMNED REPTILES; GO BACK HOME. DONT FUCK WITH MY PLANET =)
Comics

Uploaded 2-3 TB and downloaded half at demonoid. Here in Denmark they have only busted a single person for piracy ever. He sold homeburned CD among friends and at work.
Got a big fine. I dont worry to much about this shit. Lets see whats happening . Maybe they pick out a couple of uploaders, as a warning for future torrent-users ?
http://twitter.com/huxleypig gary SB

I had a ratio of quite some size. I also use seedboxes and secure ftp ….but to really be safe ..I just use other peoples networks :-)
not-fit-state

how come thay shut down demonoid but never shut down porn or pedo sites i would rather see all the illegal porn/childporn/pedo sites shut down than a sharing site all the music i downloaded i delete after i go buy the cd if i don’t like the album i delete it and i will not buy the cd .. is it me or is the USA trying to own the world
- http://truth-and-opinion.dyndns-blog.com/ The Peripatetic Apostate
  
  Because this is about copyright crime, not pedo/porn crime.
  
  As with everything: Follow the money!
  
  The path from Ukraine to Mexico to goddam whatever place is on the planet…it all leads back to K Street in Washington, D.C. where all the lobbyists are and where the MPAA and RIAA are…the parasites who don’t themselves have the talent to produce the media we all see, but have the distribution networks.
  
  There are three ways to hurt these assholes:
  
  1. Learn all you can about info tech and the digital world, and use your knowledge to fuck up their use of it, as Anonymous does
  
  2. Stop buying music and going to the cinema. Most of what is coming out of Hollywood these days is pure mind-rotting horseshit anyway! Hurt them where it counts: the pocket book.
  
  3. Form user/listener/viewer groups that make a declaration to pay and to support artists for selling their content directly to you, at a per-person price you agree to pay and only if you view/listen/use that content. Negotiate your own deals with artists, and cut out copyright/patent holders who were not the true originators of the discovery/invention/product. But first make a charter by which you and the group agree to live by. It can get murky about who is the inventor or creator, and who isn’t.
Heybro

Demonoid was the best general tracker, I’m an orphan. This makes me sad and angry. We should back them up, these so-called authorities which are nothing but terrorists have to be hacked and leaked, they are criminals, Assange is a hero, and look at Manning. Fuck the USA government and all the sheep who obey them, their time is up

BTW Obama/US, you can send the DEA and the CIA over here, I don’t fear you hypocrite assholes. You’ll just have another and final 9/11 on your hands.

Fuck you.

Peace and Love to all
Banana

that’s really silly, now torrent is organized crime? wtf?
http://truth-and-opinion.dyndns-blog.com/ The Peripatetic Apostate

In the end, those who want bittorrent and who don’t want governments doing corporate bidding are going to have to form their own networks outside of government-controlled internet service providers.

A wireless technology with encryption and security breach detection in which peers are joined using PGP-style confirmation of friendship authorization must be set up. There may be such peer-only fuck-the-government networks already and on a global and not merely local and regional basis.

Of course, individuals will have to make sure their governments do not demand keys or backdoors for monitoring of the wireless network. If you don’t have such a government, you have more problems than getting caught pirating someone’s so-called intellectual property.
Doberman

Strange how these mass-murdering, lying, corrupt, criminal, politician scum have the audacity to do this, whilst their own hands are literally dripping with blood of innocents whose countries they have completely eradicated in their naked greed and lust. Downloading a torrent is so insignificant compared the the heinous crimes this filth get up too.

Fuck the EUSSR, Fuck Israel, fuck America and fuck the vermin banks, the real:
’Axis of Evil’.
- Chrisbutz
  
  Are you trying to equate what Nazi Germany did to Israel? Who won that war?
  Read a book, brain donor.
  - Bozs
    
    Parasite state Israel did not even exist then you scum, it was/is called Palestine before you Khazar invaders butchered all the Palestinians, on the back of your Holohoax Industry that needs laws to protect it.
    - Zebra52
      
      Really? You are a f*cking moron. The ancient land of Judea was called palestine?????? Go read a book before you make such stupid statements. It’s the damn arabs who are parasites. They want everything handed to them on a silver plater……god forbid they should have to work for it.
Blargheblargh

”
What we do know is that Demonoid was prone to collecting erroneous stats, often counting uploads and downloads against users who never carried them out.”

Proof, please?
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A A

time to start servers in nigeria
Miami Sunset

So are Demonoid users at risk? Their answer is “We don’t know.”

Chances are there won’t be any prosecution against the users. This was a bust in Mexico, so it’s unlikely that users in the US or other countries will get charged. If there is any prosecution, it will be against the major uploaders.

There have been plenty of announcements of copyright lawsuits but how many of them ever results in success? What are the percentages?
- seenbutnotobserved.
  
  Anyone noticed how the only information on this is coming from torrent freak. Secondary sources are all citing torrent freak. I find it odd that this is not splashed over FOX and CBN. Go to Fox and you can’t even find a reference to it.
  This strikes me as odd.
  - Ros Brad
    
    Why? You find out first who’s own Fox and CBN.
Storm

So did anything come out of this? Was the user data encrypted or what?
Klaive

There might be a way to create an internet island, with no laws, and where none of these assholes can get into. Like some FREE WIDE WEB NATION. We’ve got a lot of work to do brothers and sisters. Cyberpunk reality is knocking our doors.
Klaive

Time to connect everything and make us all the server. We are all one, the only way to do this is to stick together and make it clear to them that we don’t like them… do you realize that, for example, really good music isn’t even available at consumer stores?
ZERO

“THESE IDIOTZ ARE GETTING PWNED BY DA UNIVERZ, DIE MADAFAKA, DIE.”
That’s why they want money to live ;-)
Boblenton3

now the only reason WHY the officals won’t tell us for definate is because they want us on edge, they want us to fear them as they have something over us. I however find it a waste of time. Demonoids gone (to my dismay) but there are others/Will be others…so long as internet exists – piracy will contiue
xueli676

tinyurl.com/cyk9xz2
Timetomoveon

If the music industry would reproduce the un-remastered “silver discs” I would be first in line to buy them. The money from the cd’s that I buy go to the sellers on ebay or Amazon, not the artist. It’s hard to support the artists, when the music industry puts out the brick-walled remasters that sound like crap, make my head hurt and the dynamics are non-existant. Anything that I downloaded was LONG OUT OF PRINT. I will NEVER, EVER buy remastered cd’s. I will NEVER EVER download remastered cd’s. Sure, there might be copyright issues, but the cd’s haven’t been in production for over 20 years. I don’t see how that’s hurting the artists. Demonoid had a good run while it lasted. It’s time to move on. File sharing is just not worth the risk.
Guest

Usenet very rarely has what I want, I’ve used it off and on since 90′s.
And half the time it all gets mucked up and you have to start using a part repairer.Useless,just shows how old it is.
4saken

Boo hate to see you go.I’m not to worried my self about the users being targeted.will see i guess. Leave us alone.bunch of fuck-tards in washington!!

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