Demonoid Operators Face Criminal Investigation in Mexico

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August 7, 2012
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Following the news yesterday that Demonoid had been shut down by Ukrainian police, today brings further woes for the site. According to a source at the site’s former webhost, the owners of Demonoid are now the subject of a criminal investigation and prosecution in Mexico after one of the site’s admins was arrested there last year.

Confirmation came out of Ukraine yesterday that not only had Demonoid suffered a DDoS and hacker attack, it had also been raided by the authorities.

In the middle of last week government investigators arrived at ColoCall, Demonoid’s webhost, to shut Demonoid down.

“Investigators have copied all the information from the servers Demonoid and sealed them,” an anonymous ColoCall source confirmed to local news site Kommersant.

With the dust settling today, the sequence of events is becoming a little more clear.

ColoCall Commercial Director Peter Vlasenko has now confirmed that his company had repeatedly warned Demonoid of complaints being made against it. He added that the company had also cautioned Demonoid’s operators that problems could lead to the ISP severing its relationship with the site. Last week, that’s exactly what happened.

“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,” said Sergei Burlakov of Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs.

But the bad news for Demonoid doesn’t end there. The Interpol request that finally forced the closure of the site was the result of call from thousands of miles away in North America.

“In Mexico a criminal case against the owners of Demonoid has been initiated and the tracker is charged with intellectual property rights violations,” Burlakov confirmed.

Demonoid’s links to Mexico have been rumored for some time, but it was action taken last year that finally gave them credibility.

TorrentFreak learned that in October 2011, Mexican authorities carried out a raid in Monterrey, the capital city of the northeastern Mexican state of Nuevo León. The prime target was one of Demonoid’s staff. Following the action the authorities completely blocked access to the site in Mexico.

Movie industry sources confirmed to TorrentFreak that the raids had indeed resulted in the arrest of one of Demonoid’s administrators. It remains unclear whether the current investigation centers around the same individual.

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Anony

Good news all around it seems.
- Abc
  
  F your stupid sarcasm.
  If not, FU.
  - ErnestoTF
    
    probably best to ignore “trolls”
    - Anonymous
      
      The first comment by Guest only said, “Good news all around”. While it may not be to the liking of the TF readers, it certainly was nothing offensive that needed to be removed.
      
      Censorship at its finest eh Ernesto? Frankly I am a little disappointed that a site which has been campaigning so heavily against censorship by the US government is doing exactly the same thing. It completely undermines what we are trying to achieve.
    - Guest
      
      @Anonymous:twitter
      
      Give me one good reason why obvious troll posts shouldn’t be removed.
    - Wallace
      
      ”The first comment by Guest only said, “Good news all around”. While it
      may not be to the liking of the TF readers, it certainly was nothing
      offensive that needed to be removed.”
      
      Nice try. It’s a troll post that adds nothing new and is intended to insult. Every good moderator removes these, and such moderation is not censorship in any way.
    - Membrose2013
      
      This thread exposes what I think is the real issue here: people who understand the computers and the Internet vs people who don’t.
      
      it’s not a coincidence that an anti-Demonoid commenter has also never heard of moderating comments, to the degree he thinks that pointing it out is a “burn.”
    - Anonymous
      
      Let me get something clear. When TF removes an anti-Demonoid message, it is called “moderation” but when the government tries to suppress your voice, it is called censorship? I hear file sharers talk loud about “double standards” all the time. Then what do you call this?
      
      How exactly do you define a “troll post”? Anything that goes against your opinion is a troll post? Mr.Guest here happens to think Demonoid going down is good news. So you telling me he is not allowed to post his perfectly legitimate opinion here? He didn’t insult or attack anybody.
      
      I am sorry but as much as I love what TF is campaigning for – our rights as file sharers, I cannot support this as its nothing but censorship, the very same thing we are trying to stamp out.
    - anon
      
      @ Anonymousit is quite simple – it is private site and owner can decide about it contentgovernment from other side SHOULD care about citizens, listen to all comments and act when MAJORITY of them decide, it should be not in liberty to decide itself what people can or can’t say – it is simply not up them to decide unless it is explicitly stated in law that they should obeyif they start to interpret law any way they want (vide Dotcom case) we are in deep sh*t as there is literally no one to stop them until they piss most of their citizens, and that is not easy thing to do – they know about it and they will act so most people will stay quiet
    - Weej
      
      This is just going from Bad to Worse…It’s not enough to let sleeping dogs lie…no, let start kicking them and breaking their bones one by one too. Seriously WTF is going on? I honestly felt that I’d lost a best friend when Demonoid shutdown – now this.
    - IO Failure
      
      The sarcastic comment itself wasn’t the issue here. It’s the reason the comment was made that’s the problem. It’s clear they succeeded too and are probably laughing at everyone who is replying right now. People who make those kinds of posts want one thing and it’s not to have an enlightened debate using reason and logic. It’s hard to see the deleting of a post which simply stated “Good news all around.” as censorship, but then everyone has their own opinion as to what qualifies as such. If they had given a reason why they believe it was good news and backed it up with evidence, then I’d be more inclined to see it’s deletion as censorship. It’s deletion would have also been much less likely has that been the case though.
      
      Put another way, would this have been a good article if it simply said “Demonoid down, bad news all around.”? If not, then why does a comment merit any better? If you don’t have anything nice to say (or in this case useful), don’t say anything at all. It’s that simple. If you’re angry and bitter and can’t resist what you perceive as an opportunity to piss people off just so you feel better about yourself, expect your comment to be deleted (or flagged in this case).
      
      Speaking of flagging, that’s self expression too. Taking this ability away could also be seen as an attempt at censorship. In any case, most file sharers are reasonable, every day people who don’t click the flag link simply because they disagree with someone or don’t like them and there are tons of comments by pro-copyright folks here on TF which prove it. The troll posts get flagged, the well written thoughtful ones get discussed. Techdirt, which has a report button, is another place to see this example in action. True honest debate between both sides always makes for good reading IMHO.
    - Mwhahaha
      
      the mpaa would call you a troll. no censorship on TF please. (cept spam urls)
    - clposter handler
      
      like this one, who uses a picture of a mass murderer as his avatar.
      
      do you even know what that tard stood for?
      
      idiot.
    - Guest
      
      The problem with removing a silly but innocuous comment is that everyone else sees “comment removed” and immediately wonders was it spam, abuse, or did the moderator just not like what they had to say? Censorship and secrecy breed suspicion. This is the internet, I’ve had my posts altered in the past and words put in my mouth simply because a moderator didn’t like what I had to say, so to me saying “I don’t trust anyone on the internet especially those with power” is a perfectly reasonable thing to say. In fact it is the attitude I expect everyone should have, and look down upon those who do not. This is a private site and your free to act suspiciously if you like, but no-one should expect it to breed respect.
  - ScrewEwe2
    
    Like Ernesto said, best to ignore the trolls.
    - djnforce9
      
      Too late. Given the number of responses, this troll already succeeded. Some trolls are just hard to ignore especially on a touchy subject like this. This is good news to the MAFIAA but not to any of the readers here.
    - clposter handler
      
      agreed. ignore ernesto, who has no idea what the mass murderer he’s using for his avatar stands for
  - r of l at o u t look
    
    #OpDemonoid https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23OpDemonoid?q=%23OpDemonoid #OpDemonoid
Noid user

Gutted! , I hope there is some way the site can be saved or put back online but everyday now more bad news makes the hope fade.
- Lol
  
  its obvious you did not read yesterdays comments
- Freeloaders
  
  ha ha ha ha you tight fisted cunt.
a,b,a,b,a,b,c

kim dot com all over again. Yikes.

Why do I get this feeling it’s not over yet and the worst is yet to come…
- Fantastic
  
  admins, then biggest uploaders working down and then the dls if they can. This is going to be dicey especially since the US doesn’t really have to follow the rules of law procedure if they don’t want to.
  - Strider
    
    Luckily, who knows if they will actually try prosecution with anyone other than just the admins, especially if one looks back on the whole OiNK thing years ago.
  - Guest
    
    We are talking torrents here. A torrent is a list of files, their details, a tracker address and that’s pretty much it. These are illegal? If not that, then it’s the tracker. Directing connections for people to share files. This is illegal? If not that, then it’s the posting and descriptions of torrents. Sharing file descriptions and a torrent description is illigal? If not that, then what? If I left a forum running with no looking after and came back 5 years later to find it had turned in to a torrent forum. Would I be responsible for all that. Fuck off!
    - Jesus
      
      You’re right. A list of files isn’t illegal. Telling people that so-and-so is sending file blah.exe isn’t illegal. Posting and describing files isn’t illegal. What the fuck is the problem? The site admins aren’t committing any type of copyright infringement. Wow. Fuck these Interpol pigs, fuck the cowards at Colocall, and fuck this Division of Economic Crimes straight up their assholes.
      
      I didn’t even think about this, but yeah, you’re fucking right. These people suck. If colocall wants to be a bunch of little bitches, fine, they can do that, and Deimos (or whoever) can find a hosting site with integrity. The idea that the pigs ‘busted’ a legal site … I mean, fuck them.
      
      These pigs need to be busted. What they’re doing is the crime. This is grand theft, criminal mischief, kidnapping and fraud on their part. These pigs at Interpol and the DoEC need to be locked up, so they don’t hurt anyone else.
Lulz

who still uses/used this shit demoniod??
- TorrentPower
  
  I used and many others too, if you have problem go die somewhere
- Rlijhwl
  
  Shut the fuck up.
- Concerned Citizen
  
  Um, everyone uses/used Demonoid. It was the best index of content anywhere on the Internet. Whether you wanted obscure 60 year old comic books or emulators, or films banned in your country demonoid has it all. Plainly, it was the best site on the Internet and has been for 10 years now.
  - sharing is caring
    
    but registrations were closed and I didn’t know how to get an invitation.
    - John Spartan
      
      You havnt needed to login for awhile.
    - Zenamez
      
      There were periods where you could register and invite people (mainly during holidays such as Christmas) that’s how I got an account anyway.
    - Europeyeah
      
      All you had to do was go somewhere on the internet and ask, those invites were shared more than content copyrighted by the MAFIAA
    - possibly a anon
      
      if demonoid goes back up email me 1141514y13152119 at gmail.com i’ll give you an invite
    - Josefene
      
      You didn’t need invitations, he was open for registration once a month, it was the other idiots that tried to make money out of his good name that spoiled everything. When he found out he banned them. Not that it matters anymore, to me my world has just been torn apart. Long live DEMONOID, Where ever you are wish you luck
  - Guest
    
    I never used demonoid, they blocked my country and require invite only accounts.
    And although I dislike the way it’s being brought down, I’m happy it’s gone, if it was as used as you claim then there will be many new users coming back to the cozy arms of the public trackers.
    - FakeElections
      
      Ever seen a torrent saying… “Torrent downloaded from http://www.Demonoid.com”
      I bet you have used their services indirectly, you just don’t know it…
    - Josefene
      
      No public trackers thanks.
  - Alucard817
    
    Not like they won’t come back up again. It might take some time, but they will be back.
- Moonlightlurker
  
  I use Demonoid mainly for digital comics and ebooks. It is the best when it comes to that and I have found no other that has the same material.
  - Paty
    
    there is superiorz.org
    u can go there and download a lot of ebooks!!
    - 1Maenad
      
      Thanks. This site looks interesting; I’ll check it out.
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MaxxOri

Like a bully who can’t take down the bigger targets (the pirate bay) they take their annoyance out on the little guys like Demonoid and Mega.

The hydra will win. Resistance is futile.
- TorrentPower
  
  Mega was not small it has a lot of thins, demonoid too a lot of things rare that you can’t find anywhere even on tpb and others.
  Hope will come back soon!
  - MaxxOri
    
    Compared to TPB, the one they really want gone, both of those are small fish.
    - John Spartan
      
      you havnt needed one for awhile.
    - John Spartan
      
      oops clicked wrong reply lol
  - Guest
    
    Whats worse is that alot of the rare things are no longer being legitimately offered by copy right holders, so why take it down? A sad event for culture and history, sadder still that it was ever made illegal to share these things no longer for sale.
- Freeloaders
  
  Then we all pinch each other and wake up…ha ha it’s going down big time.
  HA HA HA
  - josefene
    
    If you have nothing worthwile to say except laugh, then get of this site and leave it to people that really care
BSOD

dunno if anyone else caught this but mexico is in north america, not south america
- ErnestoTF
  
  yeah, it’s fixed now :)
- Onsitemassage
  
  no its not mr retardo
  - Dwillingham13
    
    Er, yes, it is.
  - Guest
    
    Pig.
    - guest
      
      Tool Belt
- Yesyourmom
  
  lol. central america. :P
Anonymous

isn’t it strange? every law enforcement agency, even Interpol, can find the time and the resources to go after websites and people operating those websites for copyright infringement or for linking to other websites that have alleged copyright protected files on them. every supposed democratic nation seems to have some sort of extradition treaty in force that enables citizens to be transported, usually to the US, for doing something that is not illegal in their own country but isn’t liked by the US authorities and, in particular, the US entertainment industries. all over file sharing. giving a copy of something on a little plastic disc that one person has legally bought to another person or persons for free. can someone please tell me the last time there was this amount of collusion, this amount of cooperation between Nations, under threat of sanctions by the US against any non-complying nation, over something of real importance, like terrorism, mass murder, child pornography? anything? they cant even agree on the correct steps to take to preserve the planet!! jesus, have things gotten way out of hand here? its digital images of plastic discs for god’s sake!!
- Fantastic
  
  bet Mexico can’t wait to ship the dude out once they catch him unlike with murders who they drag their feet when extraditing them. Wonder if they’ll attempt to tie him into the Mega Conspiracy
- Anonymous
  
  forgot to add that i am unaware of anything that is produced in Mexico that would be copyrighted or really wanted, apart from the tequila, cocaine and other drugs. the authorities would have been better carrying on the fight against an industry that literally kills people but i suppose it is far easier and more profitable to go after unarmed website operators for sharing non-lethal information. at the same time they are appeasing the US, given the opposition to ACTA even though it was signed against the wishes of the Mexican government.
  - Anonymous
    
    Those drug dealers have guns, a site administrator doesn’t! Easy logic: who would chase a poorly paid mexican cop? A guy that will kill his family and pays him more than his yearly income to stay away or a guy that it’s pretty much harmless, can’t pay and can’t defend himself?!
    - Guest
      
      ”Justifying a salary by fighting a boogeyman and claiming fake results”
      
      “Look, Mexico is still unsafe, but we did stop piracy”
  - Guest
    
    Mexico produced lots of movies. Maybe they still do. Long ago I worked as a projectionist in a Spanish movie theater. Although I couldn’t understand most of what I saw I was really surprised at how much American music was ripped off and used on the movie soundtracks. Major well-known artists were unknowingly backing the main titles of some of Aztecas biggest titles. I doubt if any of them were dubbed to English for American release.
    - Techanon
      
      I dont know about mexican movies, but I do know that they have a lot of dubbing companies (I have yet to hear of a movie or documental dubbed to latin american spanish that wasn’t dubbed in mexico).
- Abc
  
  And they can’t figure out how to identify the people that call me every day or so to lower my credit card rate. Or shut them down. Or haul their arses to USA and prosecute them.
  - http://profile.yahoo.com/6QO6MSZT7EYQLUT4TCXAZSEHSY Cinnamint
    
    lol, do you donate millions to the powers that be? No? well, that’s why.
    
    Squeaky wheel gets the grease…
    - http://www.facebook.com/people/Don-Ball/587689795 Don Ball
      
      We are talking Double Standard here, are we not? What’s good for the Goose and to hell with the Gander…
    - Jesus
      
      No, the squeaky wheel gets replaced.
- Fuckzion
  
  If you research zion, crown of england and vatican, also do a research on egypt mythology then you will understand what will happend in a very near feauture,
  - Dwillingham13
    
    What?
  - SmellTheGlove
    
    FTW?
- OneofMany
  
  Because, just like the war on drugs and the war on terror, this is just another part of the global ‘free’market agenda, one of total control of the market and opening up that market globally. The reason for war in muslim countries is simple, they don’t consume enough starbucks and pizza hut, ‘they’ need new consumers to feed the dinosaur.
Shadow

The world of file sharing has lost a dear friend. Demonoid was one of the few places that you could literally find almost anything. Also, due to it being semi private, there were few to zero fake torrents, passworded rars, etc. People who dis Demonoid do so only because they never got an invitation. Good luck to you guys. Keep your guards up.
Breno Seifert

So it seems the demon is as good as dead.
- Ophelia Millais
  
  I don’t know, the raid was last year, and the site kept on trucking until just now…
  - Guest
    
    Arn’t we talking about a raid that happened AFTER the recent DDoS attack??
    - Ophelia Millais
      
      Hm, yeah, but the article says there were 2 raids: the one last year against suspected admins in Mexico, and the recent one at the hosting facility in the Ukraine. The Mexico raid was ineffective, and the Ukraine raid resulted in the hosting facility pulling the plug. It remains to be seen whether a new host will be found. I wouldn’t give up hope just yet.
Maybe

Any chance Demonoid put out a backup of the site like TPB did?
- http://twitter.com/DM_CO Daniel
  
  THIS
ToomuchTorrent

How bad is Sharing? Tsk tsk
Dense

Bye Demonoid.
Who is next.
- TorrentPower
  
  Shame on you, nothing good to do? Why are you saying such terrible things?
- http://profile.yahoo.com/JZX5KMK4QUZYFUSZ3A4S33REJA Good
  
  See? Allowing an idiot’s comment to stand…and make the idiot appear to be exactly what he is… works. Censoring it just makes the powers that be, here, look heavy handed. Let a fool expose his own ignorance. No need to even argue about it, in my mind. All censorship is bad.
  - Guest
    
    TF isn’t the government so this is not about censorship. Throwing somebody out of your house isn’t deportation.
    - http://profile.yahoo.com/7SOODE6ARVQOKVW4MHQWIUWJ4U DandyLion
      
      I agree with Good.
      Justify it however you want but when you silence relatively harmless trolls, as opposed to just ignoring them, you come off as brutes and lose popular support. Barring an infusion of a few billion dollars, popular support is all we have to fight the beast that is RIAA. Just sayin’.
    - Guest
      
      This server may be privately owned but it’s content is in the public domain, free to anyone, with anonymous posting. Removing comments IS censorship, isn’t just not state sponsored censorship.
Hogspace

It’s a bit of a shame the Admins in Mexico hadn’t buddied up to one of the big drug cartels. Both for local protection/immunity and also the ability to contract out some of the key copyright industry execs in the USA. As in slotted, with extreme prejudice.
- Ophelia Millais
  
  You really wouldn’t want supporting a torrent site to mean you were also supporting Mexican drug cartels. Come on.
  - chronoss chiron
    
    why not at least then it takes a real army to “take the site down”
    and might as well , i mean come one the govt’s of the world are acting far worse then drug lords in some ways when it comes to your freedom….
    
    y
    - Ophelia Millais
      
      So as long as it ensures access to your favorite torrent site, you would support violent, drug-running gangs who terrorize citizens, bribe and blackmail public officials, and torture and murder anyone who they think is opposed to them? It’s bad enough that the MPAA/RIAA/etc. have legislators and the general public believing that piracy and torrent sites are wantonly disseminating child porn and computer viruses; must we really give the anti-P2P crowd ammunition to say that Demonoid’s existence also supports all the horrible things that the drug cartels do, or that pirates have an attitude of entitlement at any cost, even murder?
      
      And yes, governments are worse than drug lords in some ways, but two wrongs don’t make a right. Torrent sites deserve to exist on moral, intellectual, and practical grounds. Armed thugs needn’t enter into the argument.
- FakeElections
  
  You know you can’t trust a drug cartel right?
  - chronoss chiron
    
    like you cant trust a govt right?
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D3vill0ck

I’m sick of this shit. Why don’t they just remove the torrent files, remove the avatars and all that shit and host it on a darknet?
Guest

So I get it straight, Mexico’s kidnappings are at an all time high, criminals control the streets, people ain’t safe and they decide to bust up some file sharing site.

I guess it’s the easiest way to justify their salaries.

Who put chief Wiggumn in charge of Mexico’s police?

Oh Mexico, you’ve joined the dark side.

You know this means war!
- theonlyone
  
  You forgot to mention that the US government backs the Mexican government with $$. They are like peas in a pod, the same, corrupt and dirty as hell.
  - http://profile.yahoo.com/JZX5KMK4QUZYFUSZ3A4S33REJA Good
    
    As opposed to China, Cuba, Iran, the Mexican Drug Cartels, etc that some here are advocating for…the US gov’t appears clean. Too bad they’re still on this macho, militaristic death trip. With great power comes great responsibility.
    
    The US as a world power is aging and crumbling before our eyes.
    Maybe. Everyone clear away from the death throws of this beast.
    
    It’s too bad…
    who will protect us from China and Russia now?
    - http://profile.yahoo.com/JZX5KMK4QUZYFUSZ3A4S33REJA Good
      
      throes*
      (for some reason cannot edit post)
  - skopas
    
    Everyone kiss’s ass to the US…..!! THey want big brother support. Hogwash….
    Hope alien invaders come one day come and tell the USA…hands up.! or suffer vanquish..
boeder

I don’t understand why these countries willingly bend over for the US govt! Do they not know the US has no friends, just “interests”?
- jOHN rYDER
  
  thats why half this planet isnt speaking german or russian
  - You
    
    Typical Americ-fag, with his head up his Ameri-fag ass.
    - SmellTheGlove
      
      Esse, looks like you’re carrying a full diaper there.
  - boeder
    
    but we speak AMERICAN?
    - Guest
      
      we dont speak american ask the indians
    - http://profile.yahoo.com/JZX5KMK4QUZYFUSZ3A4S33REJA Good
      
      We’re speaking English, right now, aren’t we?
    - Anon
      
      English… England… English… England…
      
      HMM I WONDER WHY THEY SOUND SO SIMILAR?
    - http://profile.yahoo.com/7SOODE6ARVQOKVW4MHQWIUWJ4U DandyLion
      
      @290396916ac50a2e68a663f6250bffcc:disqus
      
      Because you’re a simple minded boob?
    - Anon
      
      DandyLion:
      
      Sarcasm
      1. harsh or bitter derision or irony.
      2. a sharply ironical taunt; sneering or cutting remark: a review full of sarcasms.
      - Dictionary.com
      
      English
      “English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in England…”- WikipediaSince you didn’t seem to understand.
  - Guest
    
    So what is it, do the world a favour once and you’re entitled to stepping over every country, every sovereignty, everyone’s rights and acting like a rogue empire or are you implying that the world needs the US to be a crazy manipulative warmonger to protect it from russia and germany in this day and age?
    Because I see no reason why the world allows the US to act the way it does.
    It’s like if every country was a second rate country and the US was in its high pedestal like an all mighty god that can impose its will onto others shamelessly.
    - http://profile.yahoo.com/JZX5KMK4QUZYFUSZ3A4S33REJA Good
      
      Why do all these comment sections always turn into
      50 Cent Party circle jerks eventually?
  - IDIOCRACY
    
    No that is why there are more spanish speaking people than English…… do you get it ?? And what about chinese?? there are a lot of those too.
    - Bonjour
      
      as long as we’re not speaking french, who gives a fuck?
    - http://profile.yahoo.com/JZX5KMK4QUZYFUSZ3A4S33REJA Good
      
      …or German or Russian, which was the OP’s point, uh, I think…
  - WasterOfTime
    
    Good point.
    
    If America truly supports Free Speech like we’ve been told for ages, then everyone will still be speaking in their natural national tongue (1st language, in layman’s terms), regardless of nation of origin. And as a support of freedom of choice, every nation is entitled to not learn our language, which seems mandatory. I mean, we’re too lazy to learn other languages and are entitled to not learn them. Why aren’t other countries entitled to the same right to such laziness?
    
    If every nation is forced to learn English for the good ol’ USA’s sake, then we as Americans must be forced to learn to use the gorram Metric System. It’s only fair.
    
    We can use translators when we talk to each other with this mysterious force called the Internet; but it’s more flattering to take the time to learn someone else’s language in order to communicate to them verbally, analogically, or digitally, rather than depend on a carry-on translator, or hiring someone else to do the hard work for us.
    
    Only this trope comes to mind why half the planet isn’t speaking their languages: Screw the Rules, I Have Money/Power/(other tropes establishing unfair authority).
    - WasterOfTime
      
      Whether I was missing the point of the comment or not; my message still stands. America needs to pay it’s dues. At least by converting to metric, as a start.
    - Joe Schmoe
      
      Why are you writing your sanctimonious nonsense in English then? Ever tried speaking anything but French in France? Good luck with that. Countries are all alike.
    - http://www.facebook.com/people/Don-Ball/587689795 Don Ball
      
      Converting to Metric? The US was thinking of it about three decades ago, but never followed through.
  - http://twitter.com/huxleypig gary SB
    
    You are aware that the majority of Americans actually supported the idea of letting Germany well alone to conquer Europe, as long as they stopped there prior to the Japanese attacking Pearl Harbour yes ?
    
    If not then get yourself a real education.
- http://profile.yahoo.com/JZX5KMK4QUZYFUSZ3A4S33REJA Good
  
  Countries are not people.
  None of them have ‘friends’. Only interests.
  
  *shrug*
  
  So, that’s exactly why other countries ‘bend over’ to the US.
  To protect their interests. ==> Common sense.
  - http://profile.yahoo.com/7SOODE6ARVQOKVW4MHQWIUWJ4U DandyLion
    
    Well, Sweden seems to have the right idea.
    Make sure gov’t understands where their ‘interests’ should be!
    WITH THE PEOPLE THEY SUPPOSEDLY REPRESENT!
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Sweden)
    - chronoss chiron
      
      i should be you shou.d be but aren’t see the differance
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Don-Ball/587689795 Don Ball
  
  It’s all about big $. The more money the US throws around the world the more people they have in their back pocket. New World Order here we come.
http://twitter.com/happyizpunjai happy

NO I didn’t even finish searching for my favorite movie. Does anyone know any other private tracker like Demiond… help a bro out by sending an invite to happysingh9292@gmail.com … seeded a few stuff like dbz series.
Florin_mol

Fight The Power !!!
Lddd

take it some ones dishing out alot of money to take down the torrent sites.
Gear Mentation

Really, all this agitation on the web points in only one direction: we need an anonymous P2P internet which is so easy to use it will be attractive to everyone. Just as the MAFIAA was called by circumstances to innovate, so we are called by circumstance to innovate.
- VRCT
  
  There are those kinds of things – they’re called I2P and Freenet. Look them up.
  - Gear Mentation
    
    Ick. I’ve used Freenet, in fact I was using Freenet many years ago when it first started up. It barely works. Sorry, but it’s where Linux was 10 years ago, and that is somewhere that the general user just won’t go for it. I’m talking about P2P which is anonymous and fast and extremely easy to use.
  - Anon
    
    Tried quite a few of those things–slow as hell and no content unless all you want is CP or terrorist wannabe manuals. If popular websites started to migrate over, or at least operate some sort of mirror on one of these services, then it might be worth it.
anon

They were in deep shit already and apparently didnt do shit to save their asses.
Well, now, let’s see if the websiote will be back like it did the last time it lost it’s home. I hope the admin arent that stupid and will hand over the administration of the website to someone else, elsewere….
- http://profile.yahoo.com/JZX5KMK4QUZYFUSZ3A4S33REJA Good
  
  Let’s hope the remaining p2p super powers are taking notes and preparing for the worst. Paranoia and fear is sometimes an appropriate response…
Snet Eric

Man, now where am I going to get those dts surround encoded albums?
- http://profile.yahoo.com/JZX5KMK4QUZYFUSZ3A4S33REJA Good
  
  rutracker.org
  +
  google chrome page translate add on
  =
  NOT WHAT YOU’RE LOOKING FOR!
  FORGET WE EVER HAD THIS CONVERSATION.
Ishigidydigidy

Is it just me, or am I seeing a world police force being formed to fight COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT? Seriously, we can’t stop the drugs, we can’t stop human trafficking, we can’t stop the sexual abuse of CHILDREN, and we can’t stop mass murder… but we damn sure can all come together, spend hundreds of millions of dollars, spend thousands of hours of government time, spend days in legislature and fight tooth and nail to stop these guys from sharing music, games, books and TV shows.

This makes me absolutely sick. SICK. SICK. SICK. I hope this MU case finally blows up in their face and they’re forces to stop all this bullshit. Since when do US police have the fucking right to go overseas and arrest someone for something that’s illegal in the fucking US, but not in their home country? What’s next, are we going to start fucking arresting people in third world fucking countries for not paying property tax on their mudhut?
- jOHN rYDER
  
  Mexico is NOT the U.S.
  - Timswow
    
    But they are the U.S’s bitch as you can see.
  - Ishigidydigidy
    
    Because the US had /nothing/ to do with this, right?
  - http://www.facebook.com/people/Don-Dilly/1624894683 Don Dilly
    
    No iMexico isnt the U.S but neither does it really have a media industry to speak of.
    
    What you have to remember is Mexico’s current relationship with the U.S. Traditionally their biggest exports to the U.S have been illegal immigrants annd drugs either produced in Mexico or in transit from elsewhere in S America.
    
    Like in other S American countries the U.S is funding (and in many cases staffing) that country’s anti drug efforts in a futile attempt to continue the drug prohibition they lost years ago.
    
    To offset that, trade deals, free trade deals have been set up between the US and ,Mexico. This has been done at high cost to the American people as while unskilled jobs in the states are still taken by illegal mexican immigrants paid below minimum wage, semi skilled work in manufacturing such as cars is being exported to mexico.
    
    In a nutshell Mexico is suckling at the teet of the US and will in turn do such favours as chase copyright infringement to keep their US paymasters happy. Not having any media industry of their own (that generates exports) it is no loss to them unlike the narcotics industry which is one of their biggest exports.
    - John Spartan
      
      havn’t you heard?
      US is going to shit, so the illegal Mexicans have been moving back to Mexico.
      
      http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57419334/illegal-mexican-immigrant-numbers-down-as-more-migrate-back-to-mexico/
    - http://profile.yahoo.com/JZX5KMK4QUZYFUSZ3A4S33REJA Good
      
      Mexico has a huge media industry, to speak of.
      The richest man in the world right now lives in Mexico.
      Guess what pie his fingers are in…
    - tonyj
      
      I must have seen the same talking points in different forums more than a 100 times in the last month. But it’s true, Mexicans are taking jobs Americans don’t want to do, and Canadians are taking American jobs Americans are not qualified to do.
  - Dwillingham13
    
    That was his whole point
- Anon
  
  You must understand that drugs, human trafficking, sexual abuse of children and mass murder are all profit making centres (for the relatives of the same group as the MAFIAA group) and as such there is no economic justification to remove the cash flow to these embedded criminal interests.
  
  On the other hand, copyright infringement takes money away from these embedded criminal interests and THAT my friend is the biggest no-no in this world.
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0omg

just do like tpb and put a rar file of the site online ….
jOHN rYDER

Public sites are slowing dying, it will get worse before it gets better, smaller private, dont tell all the idiots trackers are so much safer, never once have i got a letter about anything from a private site in the mail or from ISP, oh well
- http://profile.yahoo.com/JZX5KMK4QUZYFUSZ3A4S33REJA Good
  
  The whole thing is dying.
  Why would anyone download anything, unless they had in the back of their mind, a time when it wouldn’t be freely available? That one day, they’d be unable to freely access any song of any album imaginable? That’s why you download to begin with! As a back up. Back up your back ups and quit yer cryin’. We all knew this day was gonna come. Fuck.
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Amazed!

So the Mexican Police aren’t investigating drug crimes so they can investigate Demonoid instead? I know Joseph Biden takes political donations from the RIAA, but I really think their priorities are whacked.
- lavishretouch
  
  anyone know of any other private sites like demonoid and could you please invite me thanks lavishlines@gmail.com
  - John Spartan
    
    I know one…. No invite needed.
    google this phrase “inurl:torrent Get The Gringo”
    - Jing
      
      Very nice, with a side of BTGuard.
    - r of l at o u t look
      
      #OpDemonoid https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23OpDemonoid?q=%23OpDemonoid #OpDemonoid
  - John Spartan
    
    I misread your post, your looking for ‘private sites’.
    I just read “anyone know…. sites like demonoid…”
    
    Demonoid was not private or has ever been, its just newbs that like to think that.
  - GeorgeDWarren
    
    can you maintain a ratio? do you have good upload? will you seed till you bleed?
    unless you can prove to me all the above, i cant invite you, sorry
John Spartan

Hosting a torrent website should involve atleast 2 servers.
One server should be enabled as a tor hidden service.
The second server should mirror the contents from the first, using the tor service, storing this info in RAM, so it has to re-mirror on resets.

This way when people visit the website they will just be visiting the mirror, and wont be experiencing the slowness that comes with using tor.
- lee
  
  Tor won’t allow it to be used for p2p.A few months ago paypal ect blocked tor,only lifted block when tor guaranteed it’ll block p2p.
  - John Spartan
    
    Ohh come one… That is completly bogus, unless you can provide a source, which I was unable to find.
    The reason I think it is bogus, is that there are many other sites on the dark web that a would imagine they would be more concerned about, rather than a little p2p site.
    - http://twitter.com/ElsiecmqCahill ElsiecmqCahill
      
      ….
      goo.gl/uIACr
  - Anonymous
    
    That’s kind of silly since Tor can only really link to P2P resources anyway. You can’t _actually_ P2P over Tor because it puts far too much strain on the network. Well, you could, I guess, but you’d be fucking things up for everyone else (which, according to the RIAA, is what we do anyway!)
  - http://twitter.com/ElsiecmqCahill ElsiecmqCahill
    
    Irene answered I’m surprised that a single mom can get paid $4371 in a few weeks on the network. have you seen this(Click on menu Home)
- holland666
  
  Tor and all the other darknets are way too slow! It will cripple all the darknets.
theJ3STeR

If you can’t find it anywhere, well now it’s no where to found #ByeDemonoid
Shit a Bullet

These are dark times.
http://profile.yahoo.com/5S4KAUZRIYXKA7YDYEDVV7KG4A Stewart

Demonoid was the best torrent site for me, wonderful for ebooks. To be able to search by category: fiction. non-fiction, mystery, horror. etc. was great. Posted my out-of-print book scans there and was amazed by all the kind comments by other members. So sad:(
- Guest
  
  Demonoid still exists in Google’s cache.
  
  You can search it by going to Google and entering:
  site:demonoid.ph KEYWORD(S)
  
  Somebody needs to make a Demonoid backup ASAP before Google de-caches it…
Andrew me

I am really glad to see that people are not mentioning other sites that are out there. It is a little time consuming to search Google but there are a lot and there is always a chance you will find one of the many that have content you could not find elsewhere.
- http://www.facebook.com/kate.neville.39 Kate Neville
  
  Believe it or not, I’m GLAD you posted this…It never would’ve occurred to me that posting sites in these comments could wreak havoc on those sites as well!
  
  I’m a Demonoid Refugee myself and am also looking for a new home, but will follow your advice rather than asking others to do my work for me.
  
  Thanks Again!
- Aletheus
  
  google has agreed to take down search results to torrent sites… tpb still shows up for me tho. linux os is the only way to safely operate on the net.
- Dwillingham13
  
  While there are other sites, there are many things I’ve found on demonoid that aren’t anywhere else, including TPB
Reader

In the name of cyber crime every government is trying to infringe on rights of the people…..The matter of intellectual property is very much in grey but what stands
out is one shld not make profit from work of others so Demanoid site is
not doing that, tell me if one rents a video he have never made copies
or if one buy a book he never lend it to any one else so what do u
condone as a crime….Then if all this leads to percussion then where
does it end…That is something to think about isn’t it.

If u don’t misuse what you get from others that is not a crime. In the end it all depends on the each Countries govt and what will they are capable of doing in the name of “LAW”.
tmc8080

I don’t get it.. we know it’s not safe to do “torrent” business in Mexico, why would Demonoid try to setup shop there? Or do anything illegal there. Makes no sense.
- GUEST
  
  DIDN’T YOU READ THE ARTICLE OR ARE YOU ILLITERATE?!
  
  AS A RESIDENT OF THIS WORLD, YOU HAVE TO RESIDE IN A COUNTRY. THE ADMINISTRATOR WAS RESIDING IN MEXICO! HIS SERVERS/DC & SITE WAS HOSTED IN UKRAINE.
Maggie

Kick Ass Torrents http://kat.ph is welcoming Demonoid Refugees with open arms. It’s not the Noid, but it’s better than some of the alternatives.
- Lee
  
  maybe torrenzap too
GUEST

The US is focusing so much on IP-issues that they forgot their own population is actually dying of hunger and living in tents out in the forrest.

GG Obama you fucking Hollywood-Muppet.
- Fantastic
  
  they set themselves on this path long ago when they decided that they could make a “thriving” economy on Support Services and IP. Now that Support Services have been shipped out they now only have one thing left to support their lifestyle and they are going to get more aggressive before things blow up in their faces.
  - http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
    
    True. Support services just are not enough for an economy to survive on, you HAVE to have production and creation abilities for actual physical items.
lee1001

I wasn’t going to but I think I’ll start uploading to torrentzap next week,it seems that with all the troubles Demonoid may be down for a while.
- lee
  
  as lee1001
  - Privacy Is A Basic Human Right
    
    Hi Lee!
    
    I have been a follower of your work for ages.
    
    I really do appreciate you.
    
    Thank you so much.
Tickdoff

I think you all have forgotten that this is a voting year politicians are going to try and take down whatever they can to gain momentum and YES that means going after the nerd whose running a website rather than the Cartel who kidnaps and kills random people or producing drugs that make it into the USA. Its pretty classic 1 vs. 100,000. Its sad but USA is exactly like this all of our freedoms that were guaranteed to us by the constitution are all being taken away by stupid things like the Patriot act…
- Fantastic
  
  They get more money from Hollywood than the rest of the country hence were their loyalties lie. Way too many articles of this current president being chummy with Hollywood and crowing about their “influence” for my liking.
- VictorianFlowerChild
  
  Point well taken–I was married to a (well-intentioned) lawyer/politician, and the fact of the matter is, they go after people they can actually catch rather than those who truly need catching. It diverts attention from the many wars we are not winning. And no matter who they are and how dedicated to public service they might be, all elected officials end up selling their soul to somebody. And the higher up you go, the more you end up selling out. It’s easy to be true to your principles in theory, but trying to win an election at the same time–well, not in this world. And don’t even get me started about fund-raising…
  - WasterOfTime
    
    I wonder if we can get any private investigators to collect evidence to see if any of them purchase any contraband from the rogues they’re apparently supporting in the background (drugs, child sex slaves, etc.), but have bought out every avenue to expose them?
    
    Won’t that open up a can of worms if we even find one of the elites delving in that filth. The higher up, the more enraged the world gets, at least. I’m on the fence about how the “legal” system would handle it.
    
    They knock out the more legal semi-legal consumers (DRM for legal, BS like MU and Demonoid for semi-legal) like us, we’ll return the favor and knock out their absolutely illegal consumers who are justifiably corrupt beyond reason. We file share, we don’t buy children and etc. for our own sick perverted pleasures, and then act like a nice guy (and even with a religious agenda) to win a comfy chair where I can order people around to do my bidding.
    
    We need a way to fight back, using their own weapons against them; or forcing them to make a wrong move that would undo them by their own hands. Every beast has a weakness. There has to be a way to use their lack of innovation, greed, and self-destructive nature against them; and most practically, cause enough infighting so that they destroy each other, with minimal effort and effect delivered onto us.
    
    One idea: Think like Hollywood against Hollywood? Think like a government hive-mind against the government hive-mind? Think like you own the world?
    
    I’m just tossing ideas here. But at least those should be a start. We need to use their weight and clout against them, instead of just standing still, and then deny we had done anything at all. Like they do.
    - Fredburns9
      
      Sell dollars! Boycott Hollywood.
ZionistWatcher

We can’t let the Hollywood jews win.
GAS KIKES, RACE WAR NOW!
- Anonymous
  
  A highly logical argument.
- VictorianFlowerChild
  
  I shouldn’t even respond to a piece-of-shit racist, but… I find it hysterically funny that you want to “gas all of the kikes” who presumably create the intellectual property you so covet. Yes, let’s turn Hollywood over to the rednecks like you so the only entertainment left is Hee-Haw and country music. No wonder y’all hide under those white sheets. Go back under the rock from whence you came!
  - Anonymous
    
    Not to mention the fact that the man who invented the BitTorrent protocol that we all love so much is a Jew.
    
    Obvious troll is obvious, do not feed.
  - VictorianFlowerChild
    
    Point well taken–I should not rise to the bait! Sometimes it’s just hard to resist pointing out the irony (not that their tiny troll brains can appreciate such things…)
Helper

Bad news for Demonoid. But 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) !
- Wilfred Geen
  
  Thanks for the tip, got a couple other trackers now!
ericore

The only chances Demonoid has is if admins gave the code away.
Which would allow Demonoid to bounce; assuming they have the cash to build/rent the needed infrastructure. Otherwise, demonoid is dead. Good move on UK’s part. Not so good for file sharers who depended on it. Won’t be missed on my end.
Camanon7

The need is now arising for some sort of decentralized, distributed torrent tracker, so the admins can’t be hunted like animals. I just have no idea how it would work or if it’s even possible.
- Koncopd
  
  It exists. Google Tribler.
Foshizol

How is it that these countries allow the RIAA and the MPAA make policy in their countries? There’s a lot of problems in the Ukraine and especially Mexico. Why should they care if Hollywood makes a few less dollars.
http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell

In Mexico? If the site was based in the Ukraine, how the FUCK can these guys be facing charges in Mexico for things done in the Ukraine? Something doesn’t comport here and I wouldn’t be surprised if this doesn’t turn out to be another “MegaUpload” incident.
- Az
  
  interpol got involved. they live in mexico, servers out of ukraine, breaking american copyright laws. do the math. lucky they’re only facing charges in mexico. crossing any borders during any sort of crime upgrades the hell out of the penalties. sucks demonoid is gone but lucky them livng in mexico
- Geography Lesson
  
  “The Ukraine” no longer exists. It was “The Ukraine” when it was Russia’s bitch. Now it’s just “Ukraine” and it’s America’s bitch.
https://rainmaker.myopenid.com/ rainmaker

Harvey Weinstein said at his fundraiser for Obama Monday Night:

“We can depend on President Obama to continue the
good fight against the nation’s demons and demonoids.”

Demonoids? More than a coincidence I’m afraid.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_H6CRJQGO7L62MCVEMI6EV2JL2A cliffa

First my Supranova account, then FTWR.n, then they got my retrovision.org account and now Demonoid? It’s getting so the only account I WILL have access to is TPB!
Just Curious

Mexico? This explains why these guys have had so much downtime over the last few years… lazy, lazy,lazy… zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
foff

Most criminal cases in mexico don’t amount to anything. It is unlikely this story means much but It seems the US government was involved. A sophisticated ddos attack then handing over info to the US is not something Mexico is involved in. No one needs to worry the federal Government is not going to spend a lot of resources on someone who uploaded and seeded a few torrents unless it was child porn. But it does remain to be seen how resilient the site is. Look at the pirate bay, I am sure they have mirrors ready to go on a moments notice. I hope that since the famous tbp backup other site admins have been more diligent.

We still need some torrent sites as some things are not suitable to be uploaded to cyber lockers. For example who would want to spend the time to upload a 30 gig set of dvd’s to a cyber locker only to have them deleted in a few days. Also files die when the owners premium account dies. I have not found a good private tracker that rivals Demonoid. However other sites live super nova died and it was not the end of the world or sharing. The us election is only just over two months away so the war on copyright is likely to lose a lot of steam soon,
icerob

“Following the action the authorities completely blocked access to the site in Mexico.”

Hilarious. Demonoid has been blocked in Mexico for years. Just google “Demonoid Mexico” and you’ll see how far back the posts go.

Which now makes sense. The admin was living here and probably didn’t want to make any trouble. But we always thought it was our IPs that were doing the blocking. As a matter of fact, that’s what the mods said in the Demonoid forums.
ofProto

We’ll miss you Demonoid
Fredburns9

American Banks help falsify Greek government spending. Rating agencies give triple A ratings to junk derivatives, banks sell junk they are taking positions against, and who do we hunt down? Demonoid! If it wasn’t so serious it would be funny.

The scale of the frauds that some financial institutions are involved in makes all file sharing look like peanuts. Just today a news story about a bank helping to get round sanctions, not so long ago another was helping drug dealers. Why on earth are we not hunting these fraudsters down and ceasing their assets? Why are they being bailed out with tax payers money?

Time those at the top lead by example.
Guest

Unlike dogs, we humans DO shite in our own beds. Consider all the really useful things we developed and then trashed; AM radio, FM radio, television, cable tv, wired telephones, mobile telephones, all really useful technologies which could still be improved upon and used today, yet we’ve made a sorry mess of them all. Radio is ads, ads, ads and an occaisional song or a guy yelling about Jesus. Tv is 33% ads with pop-overs on the entertainment part and getting worse. And, sadly, it really looks like the web is about to join the list. Caps, ads, more ads, blacklists, packet inspection, lawsuits and so forth make using the internet less and less desirable. It seems the future for the web is billpaying, buying junk, seeing endless ads, toolbars, pop-ups and rubbish with all the cool stuff ruled illegal. Well, it was a sweet ride. We’ll tell our kids how much fun it was. They probably won’t believe us.
- strangely_strange
  
  No ads on the BBC except for their own shows.
Guest

I sincerely hope this is not a stupid question BUT if the authorities really want to bust TPB but can’t then why didn’t Demonoid copy what the TPB was doing to protect themselves? I mean if I’m doing something that I could get in trouble for but see someone else doing it and getting away with it time and time again then I would research what that person is doing and do it myself. SO…why didn’t Demonoid? Honestly want to know.
Deville

Well, fuck. :)
Luckily I found out that Kickass Torrents is actually a really nice site with some awesome features like an IMDB ID search function and the speeds aren’t worse than on Torrents tracked by Demonoid.
Gino

Nothing is lost, USA sucks in freedom of Internet and F… all the RIAA and other CR_AP interest… Let free Internet!!!! GO ANONYMOUS!!!!
Guest

Also, this might just be because of what I used Demonoid for but if TPB is so much bigger than Demonoid why did Demonoid always have much more of what I was looking for? I don’t DL music and maybe music is why TPB is so much bigger? I would think with all the banners and pop ups that Demonoid would have quite a fund to defend themselves in court unless they weren’t getting paid that much for them.

You would think that when the Ukraine raided their establishment in the Ukraine the admins would have taken off until the heat cooled down. I guarantee you I’d rather face charges in America than rot in a Mexican prison. Plus, I doubt Mexico would have scoured the country looking for them. They would have raided the office not found anyone and gave up.
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dyneaus

I thought Deimos himself already left the building a few years ago.
Asked him to reset my ratio , 5 years ago, when the first signs of the dark era appeared.
“Really?…..don’t worry, but if you want it, i’ll do it” was his reaction.
Wish he was right.
Adam

They always start with the most complicated cases (exotic territories, remote jurisdictions, registration in country A, hosting in country B, co-located hosts, IP spoofing and shady payment processors) so they can learn a lot from those cases. And then they move on to the easy targets. Torrentz, Kat and all the others will follow now…
Vkins

It’s funny that they want to charge them with “intellectual property rights violations” even though Demonoid didn’t host any actual data.
- http://nejtillpirater.wordpress.com/ Nejtillpirater
  
  They don’t need to host any data. It’s like being a pimp for copyrighted data. Conspiracy/accessory to copyright infringement.
  
  The persons behind The Pirate Bay got jail sentences for that crime, they didn’t host any files either.
  - JaPiratkopiering
    
    Nejtillpirater it is August, does your employer not give you some vacation time off?
    - http://nejtillpirater.wordpress.com/ Nejtillpirater
      
      Yes they did, that’s why I had the time to be active here, on my vacation.
- Guest
  
  “They don’t need to host any data. ”
  
  Yes they do. That’s how the law actually works. The copyright gangsters don’t care about the law, however.
  
  Well, unless you’re rich and powerful like Google is. Then the gangsters suddenly remember that indexing a link to copyright infringing materal doesn’t make the host liable for copyright infringement.
  
  But if you’re poor and defenseless? Then watch the fuck out. They’ll mysteriously forget you aren’t liable.
Robroteck

Demonoid-like entities represent alternative communication & delivery tools for individual citizens built & maintained by the community without the interference of government which are too swift & vast for government to successfully control or defeat.

This is an illegitimate government`s worst nightmare: Unadulterated exchange of tangible & intangible enlightenment between our planet’s citizens.

Its not about torrents. Protecting intellectual property is the “cover” story; controlling communication is the true story.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BOD6T46O6RYENKPKZKR5NRQS5I jvkla

Rats. Demonoid had very unique content that can’t be easily replaced. Historical audio material, long out-of-print material, archival material… These one-size-fits-all gestapo-like shutdowns are offensive on many levels, but in one way is how they utterly disregard the reality that some material *only* exists on tracker sites, and when it is gone, it is gone forever. The record companies don’t make any money that way.
- LETMEBECLEAR
  
  Old school funk jazz and soul there was no place better!!!!
  - http://profile.yahoo.com/JZX5KMK4QUZYFUSZ3A4S33REJA Good
    
    There’s better.
    Trust me. There’s much better.
    Seek and ye shall find.
    - GeorgeDWarren
      
      WHAT are you talking about good?
- GeorgeDWarren
  
  all torrents on demonoid were loaded and seeded on swan-feather2. thats a very secret, private, FTP site, it contains petabytes of data. unfortunately, it will never go public. those that have access can stream the data directly to their TV via apple tv or htpc, and soon android boxes running xbmc.
  its like a totally free itunes, with almost everything ever released.
harry krishna

this plot reads like something out of “the onion”. you’ve got a country controlled by organized crime and a country controlled by drug lords jumping on a torrent provider. this makes sense?
jesuschrist

Any links to the indictment? Failed to find anything online. Where did these news come from?
- JaPiratkopiering
  
  Ask your dad, he knows everything. Are you related to Jesus F. Christ? In high school he was in my woodworking class.
No

In a country where narcoterrorists behead anyone they choose and corruption is rampant, this is how they choose to use their resources. Christ.
- danielravennest
  
  Wouldn’t it be funny if narcoterrorists start hosting torrent sites? Like how much would it add to their rap sheet? Murder, money laundering, dealing drugs, oh, and sharing movies.
  - http://profile.yahoo.com/JZX5KMK4QUZYFUSZ3A4S33REJA Good
    
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvQFnSnhg7U&feature=relmfu
    
    “On a busy street teeming with sidewalk stalls, a young woman looks down at a stack of DVDs held in her hands. Beside her stands the vendor. As the vendor touches the money, we close in on the young woman’s eyes. Glimpses of the consequences flash before her. The PSA was conceived and filmed in partnership with MTV Networks and the CauseWay Agency.”
    
    LOL.
Madmac

http://anonpr.net/u-krainet-stop-it-2-887/#more-887

A brief paragraph use link to read in entirity

Ukranian Government, you have committed a crime against Humanity
& Freedom. We will not tolerate this. We will take direct actions
against you and your criminal friends until you realize the crimes
you’ve committed and restore our beloved Demonoid.
The history of Ukraine, former Soviet Union, has always been corrupted
and filled with fallacies. What brings you to the United States? Why is
this a gift? We weren’t aware we were exchanging gifts. You can already
Expect your gifts from us!

Operation Demonoid, Engaged.

We are Anonymous,
We are legion,
We do not forgive,
We do not forget,

Ukranian government, You should have expected us.
irc.anonops.pro 6667/SSL: +6697
#OpDemonoid
- ockie
  
  crap!
- tremor
  
  This was inevitable.
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Dr Seuss

It’s like “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas” … maybe sharing doesn’t come from a site.

It came without Demonoid! It came without Megaupload! It came without Napster! It came without Kazaa! They couldn’t stop sharing from coming … it came.
- WasterOfTime
  
  Expect to see the government’s heart shrink 3 more sizes.
Roswell 1701

BT Junkie, then Bittoxic, along with torrent-related news being banned from various tech sites, and now Demonoid… Demonoid, because of it’s diverse content, was my go-to site, and BT Junkie and The Pirate Bay were my backups. When BT Junkie folded under pressure, I feared Demonoid would be next; and I was right! If BT Junkie being defunked wasn’t enough of a swift boot to the ass, the demise of Demonoid is no less than a hard kick to the balls! The Pirate Bay will of course be next, probably hit by the end of the year. I guess the only thing left to do is check the mail and see if the first of my Six-Strikes letters has arrived… Touché, Little Man, victory is yours!
- jesuschrist
  
  Taking down TPB wont be as nearly as easy, they tried once, failed, now the pirate party in sweeden is giving them bandwidth and nobody really knows where the actual mothership server(s) is/are.
Bubble

Can anyone put together a short list of truly Demonoid like alternatives we can now migrate to please. Semi private or private, but with huge data bases etc. A proper short list if alternative sites must exist.
smartguy

i know a site where you can get all kind of shit…its called GOOGLE
- Me
  
  The operative word being shit.
max

The u.s. has to much power,
i’m gonna miss our beloved demon.
Emubemub

This is sad news, but people should remember regardless you’re views torrent sharing of movies etc is still illegal and stealing. Now shutting down that site won’t solve the problem it’s just a big game of cat and mouse. New sites will spring up and for sure if this trend continues of shutting down more sites, it will just push all torrent traffic underground, moving tomore VPN/Encrypted setups.
- TorrentPower
  
  And what the fuck i steal? Car, plain, space shuttle? Sharing is voluntary nobody is forced you to do. And Mr. big shot you buying of your stuff? Not only ever download something throw p2p (torrents,emule,hubs)?
  - Nemo_kj
    
    I guarantee he has never paid for copying TorrentFreak’s copyrighted articles.
- Fredburns9
  
  They will make the problem a lot worse and gain nothing. If someone has no money will they suddenly buy more movies. I doubt it. What will happen is moves to the likes of freenet and that could have very undesirable beneficiaries.
  
  This is what happens when politicians are in the pockets of dinosaurs.
- http://profile.yahoo.com/JZX5KMK4QUZYFUSZ3A4S33REJA Good
  
  Oh, sweet jesus, where do you even start with this stupid cow?
Wayne0192212

An angel host lost its wings.
PirateSoldier

Why don’t the U.S authorities go after real criminals like paedophiles and people that like to commit mass shootings?. Bought and paid for as usual
- mc007
  
  because there are just a few dozen of them but here in europe, they trying to make us believe, that are thousands.
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eltrkbrd

The global imperialist; these devout mammon worshipers, will stop at
nothing in their conquest of plundering the people and the planet all in
the name of almighty profits!

Let’s put a stop to digital fascism!

Cool video here on P2P and digital fascism:
http://youtu.be/dVxwfFdo81o
mc007

once again, thats good news in the way that such guys are bing stopped from making even money by re-directing innocent people directly to malware and other traps. there isn’t ANY excuse for that, and if tf is removing this comment : go on ! that really shows then your truth face.
https://openid.org/lulaladrao LulaLadrao

Oh boy, mexico must stop sucking USA ball’s
- tremor
  
  Mexico is USA’s ball sack.
  - http://profile.yahoo.com/JZX5KMK4QUZYFUSZ3A4S33REJA Good
    
    Lesse, that makes Canada the …
    - JaPiratkopiering
      
      that makes Canada the …Booger, Nose Turd, Näsa skit.
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Lisasolea

So let me get this striahgt, the authorities were planning to shut down demonoid, and coincidently right before they planned to demonoid was attacked by hackers? or they uses the hacker attack to siez the oppurtinity, seems too convienient?
anon

Demonoid were pretty good for old or rare films and music. Sometimes they kept things too tight in a way that a western european or USA user might find strange. I think one of the foundations of democracy is the right to dissent and oppose. In many respects the admin of Demonoid didn’t like that which for me personally (UK member) meant that I felt that I had no outlet for my views if they were in opposition to other Demonoid members or even Demonoid’s admin. Cyber-god syndrome crept in sometimes with the admin but on the whole loved the site and was very glad to have had a nice experience sharing on this Ukranian site.
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womble71

I love Demonoid for all of it’s great obscure files to the ease of use, and now i am so sad it appears to be dead. Don’t ya just hate dictatorships like the U.S. government!
1Maenad

May I give a word of warning about KAT, for some reason I’m getting pop-ups there, even though I’m using the latest versions of adblock plus and no script. Granted, I only tried using the site last week and it may be just a glitch, however I’m hesitant to use that site for this reason.
- http://profile.yahoo.com/JZX5KMK4QUZYFUSZ3A4S33REJA Good
  
  It’s a new development. Never fear. KAT is KAT.
  TPB is TPB. Proceed with caution…rutracker.org
  still beats them all.
Guest

What about the users of Demonoid – should we be worried? I’m afraid that they do have my real Email address – is that going to wind up in a government database somewhere that could be used against me any time?
- http://profile.yahoo.com/JZX5KMK4QUZYFUSZ3A4S33REJA Good
  
  Are you planning on running for public office?
  if so, nix that. otherwise, don’t get out the brown pants just yet.
  Say’s I. ===> Arghhh.
  - Fantastic
    
    wait till they make a big puff and walk about getting the database themselves, then get the thermite ready.
Concerned Audiobook Listener

The Audiobook section of Demonoid was about the best I’ve ever found. Primarily English titles broken down into categories that made finding what you want much easier than just about anywhere else. Where are people going to be able to go to find their Audiobooks now? Library wait lists are so long it takes months to get a title sometimes. Without the convenience of online Audiobooks via places like Demonoid, many readers / listeners will miss out. Very sad.
- http://profile.yahoo.com/JZX5KMK4QUZYFUSZ3A4S33REJA Good
  
  Hope you backed your shit up.
  if not, now’s a good time to start.
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skeptic

Is this for real, or just some made-up bs to further stir the pot?
- Guest
  
  You weren’t around when they were handing out brains were you?
  - skeptic
    
    No one else has corroborated this story about the arrest in Mexico. And I guess I’d rather be brainless than be born with one up my a**.
Obamaisintogays

Torrent sites are like a hydra, cut down one , a couple days later, 5 more spring up in its place ! SOPA, ACTA, PIPA and the MPAA and DMCA can bend down and suck their own cocks because THE PIRATE BAY will never be shut down and piracy will NEVER stop!!!! How’s that obama fucktardo?
- http://profile.yahoo.com/JZX5KMK4QUZYFUSZ3A4S33REJA Good
  
  I keep hearing that. But where are the 5 or 6 hydra heads promised when Btjunkie went under? Or, maybe, it’s like a hydra…just very, very slow growing hydra?
  - GUEST
    
    The traffic needs to be gained, the word needs to spread…All these people say hydra, hydra, hydra, but they don’t spread the word about new “carriers”, so yes – it must be a slow growing hydra.
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Puzzled

Sadly the cache feature isn’t working in google for demonoid:(
Shit

Shit happens.
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Jj2363

For those advocating rutracker, perhaps you can help me. I keep trying to register, but it keeps telling me to correctly enter the confirmation code (captcha). I have done so a dozen times but it never accepts its. I use FF w/adblock and noscript but have enabled the sites listed in the NS list. Any help appreciated.
- http://profile.yahoo.com/JZX5KMK4QUZYFUSZ3A4S33REJA Good
  
  I dunno, try another web browser?
  - Jj2363
    
    Same result on IE – all info properly filled out and code entered correctly and it keeps saying code not filled out right. If they don’t want to accept new signups right now they should say so.
    - http://profile.yahoo.com/7SOODE6ARVQOKVW4MHQWIUWJ4U DandyLion
      
      If you’re too stupid to figure it out, you shouldn’t be torrenting to begin with.
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Guest

“”Nice try. It’s a troll post that adds nothing new and is intended to insult. Every good moderator removes these, and such moderation is not censorship in any way.”"

What about second and third posts. They are the same. but were not removed.

It is selective deleting of posts that don’t agree with the “Party Line”. a.k.a Censorship.
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Bp86corollasr5

So why Demonoid? There is more to the story. Id figure ThePirateBay would be the first to go down. ThePirateBay is like 1st graders torrents, where they learn what is what and get virus, Go ahead Demonoid Owner Send all your stuff to me Ill put this sh*t back online, find some kind of servers
Anon_ArcAiN6

Anonymous has taken an interest in this.

http://anonpr.net/u-krainet-stop-it-2-887/
- r of l at o u t look
  
  #OpDemonoid https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23OpDemonoid?q=%23OpDemonoid #OpDemonoid
- Guest
  
  Read Madmac’s post below…. link already posted.
- SmellTheGlove
  
  Ooooo I’m shakin’ in ma boots… NOT.
Herblet

#opdemonoid https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23OpDemonoid?q=%23OpDemonoid
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Anon_ArcAiN6

looks like they’ve started already:
https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23TangoDown?q=%23TangoDown
- ScrewEwe2
  
  Everytime I hear “Tango Down” the imaginary green Parot on my shoulder sez “Stay Frosty Stay Frosty”.
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WCKicksAss

No image on demonoid.com? Whats that about, still down for DDoS??
- ScrewEwe2
  
  No, they just put the site in sleep mode so they could run to the store to get a pack of cigarettes and some Doritos. I’m sure everything will be cool when they get back.
  - Anon_ArcAiN6
    
    no… Demonoid was taken down by the Ukrainian government as a gift to the US government. Don’t you people read?
    - ScrewEwe2
      
      Was your reply meant for me or WCKicksAss? just wonderin’. I informed Ernesto about 12 hours after the DDOS started that something was up.
Fake

Trans national prosecution?

So when is Mexico going to surrender all their Catholic priests for prosecution & execution in Iran?
MGD

Okay, Mexico has a ridiculously high poverty level, corrupt cops, a corrupt government, and drug gangs kidnap and behead citizens and tourists, but the Admin of demonoid is the problem? In what universe does that make any sense?
- tonyj
  
  Well, in the corrupt cop and government universe.
- Drevil
  
  On this tiny dust ball where humanoids live curious things happen…
Ghostdown

Holysh****t !!!
Is it now too late to send the backup data to Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez ???
DiscoZombie

I still use 56K and live in Mommy and Daddys basement. I love the Internet, bow to me assholes!
Mmcgu1966

Yea, the Robin Hood of the Digital Age will take our revenge.

http://anonpr.net/u-krainet-stop-it-2-887/#more-887
http://www.facebook.com/maryykelbell Mary Yancey Kelbell

So, if the trackers have been seized, and all the information copied, does that mean that anyone using demonoid.me is no vulnerable. Can we expect one of those nasty letters? Or worse? Not saying that I ever used bittorrent sites — that would be illegal.
- http://profile.yahoo.com/JZX5KMK4QUZYFUSZ3A4S33REJA Good
  
  My understanding is the information isn’t torrent specific.
  So, they can’t do much just knowing this many GBs on info was shared.
  Anyways, I guess that’s a downside of private trackers???
  
  Still a newb, personally.
  - Cutlass12
    
    Does anyone actually use their “real” email address for something like signing up for a torrent site? Sure, they could eventually track down the IPs used to set up old hotmail accounts, but that unlikely.
    
    On the other hand, anyone who used a credit card or paypal to donate to the site over the years could be a target. Still, my guess is they’d see killing off Demonoid as victory enough.
Booger

Why don’t peeps startign using Oneswarm and dropping torrents all together? I’ve slowly been creating a Swarm of about 230 peeps, Combine this with a Decentralized DNS and their only alternative is to outlaw encryption and anything that decentralizes communucations. I’m sure Sisco would like this and their Cisco Connect Cloud.
http://profile.yahoo.com/6QO6MSZT7EYQLUT4TCXAZSEHSY Cinnamint

Well,
that sucks.
http://profile.yahoo.com/6QO6MSZT7EYQLUT4TCXAZSEHSY Cinnamint

So far KAT, TPB, and rutracker.org…in that order, are the best alternatives.
There’s one or two others that are decent but those are the biggies. And, as such, should be prepared for the worst. Winter is coming.
http://profile.yahoo.com/6QO6MSZT7EYQLUT4TCXAZSEHSY Cinnamint

Buck Owens, of Hee-Haw fame, was actually quite a musician.
- http://profile.yahoo.com/L2FW55JCG4NNVE2CCP5336XJRE Cheese!
  
  ok
Neil

This may sound totally naff to you experts posting here – but is this like what happened to Megaupload? These guys sound like they were providing a similar file hosting and sharing service, not just or solely for “illegal” music and movies – i.e. another good source of large file transferring and storing gone.
- Tronix-man1
  
  no megauploads actually did host illegal content posted by the users… where demon had no illegal stuff,, its just a community
  and hub to allow sharing of content.. however megauploads is in the clear as they have a removal of content procedure if hollywood found a pub link to something.. but they never used it apparently.. megauploads will win and nz people will be sued for usa stupidity for invading there
http://profile.yahoo.com/7SOODE6ARVQOKVW4MHQWIUWJ4U DandyLion

Well, at this rate…they’ll be taking down ONE of the other big sites in…oh…another 2 years? As long as we get a site or two every few months, and those sites have lots of uploaded material, we’re good.
http://twitter.com/hassnawi0022 Hassan Ali

The world of hackers should be united against those monopulators and blood suckers. If one site is down, more than one should rise.
- http://twitter.com/16BitGenocide Adam
  
  Yeah, then ‘more than one’ can go to prison.
- chronoss chiron
  
  trust me it is united….i spoke on it earlier publically….
  and as mentors last words say
  you can get this kid but you can’t get us all….
http://twitter.com/thesgc1 thesgc

What’s alarming is that the DDoS attack was a contracted hit. The governments are getting their hands dirty.
- ScrewEwe2
  
  I would bet that the redirect to the malware and ad sites last week was a Ukrainian government sponsored hack to use as a reason to shut down Demonoid for the publics safety. They couldn’t easily take em down for tracking or copyright reasons, so they turn off the lights because Demonoid was linking to malware.
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Cat

I’m so glad the Mexican authorities aren’t wasting their time with something stupid like the Canadian journalists who were murdered by gangs to send a message, and instead are making the world a better place by arresting website administrators.
- Meatball
  
  Mexico doesn’t give a fuck about Demonoid, but the US does.
  
  When the US coughs, the rest of the world catches cold.
Meatball

I thought the admins of these illegal torrent sites were experts at concealing their identity. Why was it so easy for the police to find that guy in Mexico?
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ScrewEwe2

I’ve decided to change my avatar to the Demon for the time being as a symbol of solidarity with Demonoid. It would be cool if as many people as possible do the same to show that in the long run the MAFIAA and their government stooges attempts to censor the freedom and free exchange of ideas on the interwebz will fail.
- CapnAmerica
  
  u could do this on fb, heck we all could do this as a sign that we love demonoid
  
  just change ur fb profile pick to demonoid
  
  i’ll do n i know ull do it too if u love demonoid
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CapnAmerica

when demonoid comes back up im gonna declare a free demonoid invites giveaway war to surpass this loss of demonoid not being online now.
party any1 ?
Anonymous

It’s simple what we should do, strike the problem at the root. We need to take out the MPAA and the RIAA, remove the current heads from power and their allies in Congress, and make sure this time we get some bureaucrats that are not corrupt. Unless we do that, this war will never end.
Upriser

What is it with the US!! What makes them so much better than any other country? They bend the rules all the time to suit them!!! The world is going mad and at some stage I hope we all unite and create an uprising before it is too late.

Too much power this people have got and they are letting it go to their heads.
That really sums up US government – it is all about POWER & MONEY!!!!!
Anime620

the world sux ass period,ppl who shut down torrent sites are douche bags
Happy Anonymous

Looks like Christmas came earlier. I want to congratulate Mr. President Obama and Mr. President Mykola Azarov, also I would like to congratulate MPAA and RIAA.

In the end I would like to say, I hope Demonoid doesn’t comes back ever and all other torrent sites suffer the same fate.

Thank you very much.
- GUEST
  
  Congratulate Obama when he doesn’t win the majority vote. Fuckin Black Fail.
  - Guest
    
    Like a right-wing President will be ever-so lenient. Bigoted Dumbass.
- Guest
  
  @Happy Anonymous….YOU are the biggest part of the problem….being an ignorant sheep.
albie fraser

You’re all panicking for nothing,the most probable reason for Demonoid being down is that this time round the Olympics are doing their best to stop P2P uploads.They may have decided to DDOS demonoid as the only sure way of doing it,other sites like EZTV has stopped all Olympic torrents.Only TPB is still doing it bigtime,but at a price,Sweden will not be hosting the winter Olympics till they’re history.
http://www.facebook.com/JeremiahJJDaniels Jeremiah Daniels

I am not to worried about Demonoid being down for good. I can never understand why torrenting is so illegal. If I bought a CD and let a friend burn it, should I be put in jail for that? It’s such a joke. Yes I agree if you are caught distributing the burned copy and sell it for profits you should pay a penalty.

Demonoid changed my life that’s for sure. But that guy probably has some good lawyers. They have been after TPB for song long and still can’t take it down. What makes anyone think they can bring this one down also?
privatetorrent

Demonoid was the best torrent site for me,But 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) !so…
“Join http://torrentinvites.org to find the best torrent trackers in the world !”
- Ejirtkor
  
  ”As we all know”?
  
  “As all the sheep know”.
  
  There, fixed it for ya, fool.
Beckett

corporations are the world’s number 1 party poopers. we need a revolution.
PRIVACY is priceless to me

Mexico is not a real country, it’s part an U$ colony and parts are completely independant and free but military harrassed by worse-than-nazi psychopaths like the richest man in the world.
Javi

More and more sharing sites will be created and adjusted to resist the copyright BS using the previous cases as background… With big respect for the pioneers, good times ahead for the internet
Mwhahaha

This whole saga has been terrible. Demonoid was one of the greatest sites, focused on sharing rather than making money.
http://www.lunmarboatlifts.com/ Clare Edmondson

. He added that the company had also cautioned Demonoid’s operators that
problems could lead to the ISP severing its relationship with the site.
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Jobberpau

So these idiots busted Demonoid in order to kiss USA ass.
After 1 week searching for an alternative i realized that there are many more trackers to join. I found a forum called torrentinvites.org with hundreds of private trackers.
I also read there, that private trackers are much safer than the public. Give it a shot guys ;)
- http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
  
  Not quite. They are no more ‘safe’ than public trackers when it comes down to brass tacks AND have a habit of being run by the internet’s equivalent of tin-hat dictators.
http://www.facebook.com/ibra.brhom.5 Ibra Brhom

is gone ?
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hmmm

only few of those private trackers have rare stuff 3-5max iam a member of 2 the rest just have lastest music movies etc and seed ratio madness
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zox61265

who?
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Drevil

I hope the admin can keep out of the hands of the ‘law’. He’ll be put on the market square and executed (long term jail time in one pf those 5-star hotels in Mexico) as an example. With the corrupt juridical system in Mexico this will inevitably happen. This would be really really bad for him personally and I hope this will not happen.

Elbitz also seems to be down since yeterday. I wonder if the admin is feeling the heat after reading this and has ‘left the building’. The server seems still to be up though. Have no clue what’s happening there.
Trelew

It’s a sad day when copyright laws will trump crimes against humanity or even mass murder. Maybe we should rip away the facade and admit the world is being run not by governments but by corporate elite.
- DeyRail
  
  Very nicely put. And while they’re at it, if they dislike the ‘problem’ of copyright infringement so much, they ought to go after the source of the problem rather than the result. People turn to downloading for a plethora of reasons, the majority of those indeed caused by the very same corporate elite whining behind the scenes.
  
  Items are severely overpriced, don’t properly function, don’t contain the features/items as promised, blatant false advertising, their initial refusal to modernize and late response to the public desire to buy and share online files and so on.
  
  Funny how they never breathe a word as to why the so-called problem came into existence to begin with. Yet they expect people to simply buy everything tossed in their direction without voicing a single complaint.
  
  Meanwhile they put themselves in the position of the innocent victims while trampling on human rights across the globe. Perhaps someone ought to turn this nonsense into a movie, it’d beat the a-typical Hollywood plot any day…
chronoss chiron

Another one got caught today, it’s all over the papers. “Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal”, “Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering”… Damn kids. They’re all alike.

But did you, in your three- piece psychology and 1950′s technobrain, ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker? Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him?

I am a hacker, enter my world… Mine is a world that begins with school…
I’m smarter than most of the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me… Damn underachiever. They’re all alike.

I’m in junior high or high school. I’ve listened to teachers explain for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. I understand it. “No, Ms. Smith, I didn’t show my work. I did it in my head…” Damn kid. Probably copied it. They’re all alike.

I made a discovery today. I found a computer. Wait a second, this is cool. It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake, it’s because I screwed it up. Not because it doesn’t like me… Or feels threatened by me.. Or thinks I’m a smart ass.. Or doesn’t like teaching and shouldn’t be here… Damn kid. All he does is play games. They’re all alike.

And then it happened… a door opened to a world… rushing through the phone line like heroin through an addict’s veins, an electronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetencies is sought… a board is found. “This is it… this is where I belong…” I know everyone here… even if I’ve never met them, never talked to them, may never hear from them again… I know you all… Damn kid. Tying up the phone line again. They’re all alike…

You bet your ass we’re all alike… we’ve been spoon-fed baby food at school when we hungered for steak… the bits of meat that you did let slip through were pre-chewed and tasteless.

We’ve been dominated by sadists, or ignored by the apathetic. The few that had something to teach found us willing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in the desert. This is our world now… the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn’t run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals.

We explore… and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge… and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias… and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it’s for our own good, yet we’re the criminals.

Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for.

I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual,but you can’t stop us all… after all, we’re all alike.
+++The Mentor+++
Guest

Interesting article….

http://www.vice.com/read/a-chat-with-one-of-the-demonoid-admins-about-torrentfreak
- Guest
  
  Huh. Maybe the facts aren’t what we think they are (or as bad). Here’s another:
  
  http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/260573/demonoids_return_uncertain_after_law_enforcement_action_in_ukraine_and_mexico.html
  - Fantastic
    
    So according to that there isn’t any seizure just a take down due to political pressure (which does sound more in line with these types of gestures to the US)
    - Guest
      
      Yep. That’s good news. The entire site appears to still be in the hands of the staff of Demonoid, ready to be moved to another server. It’s just a matter of if any of the staff or admins are not in a Mexican jail.
- Drevil
  
  This torrenfreak article doen’t mention the demonoid admin IS in Mexico, only that there is a case against him in Mexico. And would the admin say he IS in Mexico when there’s a case against him there? He’s probably not that stupid, so he may be not telling the truth to Mr. McGuire of Vice either. And how can we trust that guy he even spoke with the admin? Still he may be in Mexico, but we can only guess. Let’s keep it that way, nobody of us torrent users would like to see him go to jail. We wish him the best and a life in freedom and that he will be able to continue with his project.
http://profiles.google.com/joint.striker joint striker

Please, do leak a Demonoid backup so that it can be spawn.
Something like “Portable The Pirate Bay” :D
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Nodes

There was a really good series of torrents at Demonoid by user “joel1847″ of the “AT Library Disk” series.
They are microfiche pdf files of Agriculture, Off-Grid living,
Mechanics, Building, Water, and so much more. 35 Disks in total.

Have been searching extensively and can’t find them anywhere else. At
myanonamouse, nothing. Kat.ph, nothing. Etc. There was one 30GB torrent
at torrentz.com but only 1 seed. Anyone have any ideas? That was a lot
of valuable info and would be a shame to go down with this takedown.
Thanks.
Frank

After all these years, why now? I think the benefactors have threatened to cut the election year purse strings if the politicians don’t deliver results.
http://anonpr.net/ Anon

#OpDemonoid http://anonpr.net/demonoid-900/
http://twitter.com/AndreaJClunesV Andrea C. Velásquez

This is just so sad and depressing! D: I’m so sick of seeing good websites being persecuted and shut down like there’s not tomorrow, like the web, the user and even the content creators haven’t evolved! T_T
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guest

I think mexico should take care of all the retarded narcs ruining their country instead of worrying about copyright violations
- http://twitter.com/pvused Pacific Vacuum
  
  When the cartel leaders get busted all I see is room after room after room filled with American’s cash. Try keeping your nose clean.
Guest

“Any people that would give up
liberty for a little temporary safety deserves neither liberty nor
safety.” Benjamin Franklin
The Constitution is not an
instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument
for the people to restrain the government.”

Patrick Henry
“Government is not reason; it is
not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant
and a fearful master.” George Washington”Necessity is the plea for every
infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants. It is the creed
of slaves.” William Pitt in the House of Commons
November 18, 1783
- Guest
  
  Sorry about the formatting.”Any people that would give up liberty for a little temporary safety deserves neither liberty nor safety.” Benjamin Franklin
  The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.”
  Patrick Henry”Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” George Washington”Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves.” William Pitt in the House of Commons
  November 18, 1783
Ihatehulkhogan

I admit it. I run demonoid. Take me to jail.
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Thag

los zetas go to chop his head hehehe
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/file 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 mexico got up in dat
Hackslide

Really? Investigation in México? my country has no legislation over this so called “crimes”, jugdes are incredibly stupid and highly corrupt, they’ll face a year of prision time, MAYBE
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http://twitter.com/huxleypig gary SB

Pretty impressive for a country who’s police officers can’t find their own asses when it comes to real crime like the hundred or so murders a day committed there
Sr_chino13

Since Mexican authorities cant handle the war on drugs, then they go for the USA’s number one priority “copy right infringement”
Truth Teller

Oh yeah … It really worked to get rid of drugs when they tried to connect it too 911 etc … Those mexican drug cartels are NOT going anywhere …Yes i would support the cartels if it would guarantee access to my favorite torrent sites like the great cocaine we get in ANY city in the US and europe after 30 years of a so called drug war
Strajar

Moderators are like DJs – they think they are something they’re not!
Readme

Melancholy Elephants

by Spider Robinson
Dioblo de Dioblo

Mexico needs to investigate the widespread illegal activity within its own government before appointing a corrupt agency within its government to investigate anyone or anything.

A Mexican investigation… Tell me another one.
Anonymous

Meanwhile in reality: OPEN REGS:UNKNOWN; SITE: DOWN; FORUM: DOWN; TRACKER: DOWN;| Welcome to #demonoid. | http://i.imgur.com/VCAhj.png | http://imgur.com/P3lCh | http://i50.tinypic.com/29ghqoh.png | http://i.imgur.com/4jlq9.png

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