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Demonoid Returns, Forced to Block Canadian Traffic By the CRIA

The popular BitTorrent tracker Demonoid is back online after nearly a week of downtime. The website and the tracker are hosted on the same ISP, but Canadian traffic is blocked thanks to pressure from the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA).

On the Demonoid frontpage we now read:

We received a letter from a lawyer representing the CRIA, they were threatening with legal action and we need to start blocking Canadian traffic because of this. Thanks for your understanding, and sorry for any inconvenience.

Demonoid.com ReturnsThis confirms our earlier reports this week, and show that the CRIA was indeed responsible for the downtime. It’s been a controversial week and at times emotions were running really high. In the absence of any official announcement it was really hard to separate fact from fiction, with rumor and counter-rumor.

The bad news of course is that Demonoid is now unavailable to Canadians. Unfortunately it is not the fist time an anti-piracy organization effectively shuts down access to a part of the BitTorrent community. Earlier this week Isohunt had to ban US users from its trackers, and last month TorrentSpy blocked access to US users, both by pressure from the MPAA.

At the time we write this article, the forums are still offline, but it probably wont take long before these are back online too. The first sign of Demonoid’s return came yesterday when the trackers started responding again.

When an avalanche of upset Demonoid users came to TorrentFreak this week, the mood was grim when not only their site disappeared but also doubts were cast on our report. We aim to be a credible news source and understand the responsibility we have in the BitTorrent community. While understanding how Demonoid’s Canadian users must be feeling right now, it’s great that we now get the chance to share in the relief of the majority of Demonoid’s dedicated userbase.

The second most popular BitTorrent tracker on planet earth has returned, that’s the most important thing.

Update: Demonoid is having some problems again, this message now appears: “The latest changes to the site are giving us some problems – We’ll be back soon”

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  • Skeetz

    Once again, you got lucky with a hunch. However, there is a big difference between this and a raid.

  • Tprice

    Dam im in canada!!!

  • Anonymous

    Fuck yeah, Demonoid!

  • michelle

    First Comment! This is such a GREAT news to hear!!!!! :D:D

  • most_uniQue

    Thanks You for returning!

  • Silent3xecution

    God damn it ! Why the fuck doset someone bomb the cria offices already i want my torrents !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Find a way t get the canadians back ! we got the latest Movie Rips !

  • http://torrentfreak.com Ernesto

    [quote comment="177823"]Once again, you got lucky with a hunch. However, there is a big difference between this and a raid.[/quote]
    Glad you admit we were right. And read the original article, we never said anything bout a raid!

    Cheers, Ernesto

  • badenglishihave

    lol rumors ftw

  • Jancrow

    Get the fuck out of Canada.

  • rydogg1

    Think you guys owe Ernesto some apologies.

  • asharp

    Thank goodness for proxies? =D

  • Woof

    If it’s legal in Canada, how come they just roll over and play dead? We Canadians need to fight this!

  • Anthony

    fuck the cria, fuck the mpaa, fuck the riaa. Demonoid fight for us Canadians, don’t be pushed around by ass eating homo’s. They have no legal standing to sue you guys, you dont host the content, you merely provide a link to the content, please do something!.

  • Someonewhoisnotpresent

    Atleast the site’s back up :/

    @ Canadian ppl, i’m crying for you! (lol :P)

  • Angry

    Yeah, it’s just GREAT news that Demonoid has cavied into the CRIA, that Canadians now cannot access it, and that every asshat and their dog is completely dismissing that situation as irrelevant to the file sharing community. Effing wonderful.

  • Allen

    Tears of joy

  • Striker

    [quote comment="177824"]Dam im in canada!!![/quote]Grab your self a copy of hide ip or any proxy program . ;)

  • scmtr

    just use a web proxy..a slight hassle, but better than being blocked from demonoid for good :P

  • grapes

    wish i had a invite to the site :(

  • stonedslacker

    For anyone who can’t access Demonoid anymore, you can install the following Switchproxy addon for Firefox.
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/125
    Then google your way around for proxy lists and tutorials (if you haven’t used proxies before), and you’ll be back in business. I used to do this when my ISP was blocked by demonoid a few months ago. Browsing becomes a little slower but imo this is the best way for a workaround.
    If you can access the site using proxy but the tracker cannot be accessed by your torrent client, there are proxy workarounds for that too depending on the client you use.

  • Bob00100

    Awesome! Demonoid Rules!

  • blie dvd745

    isn’t this exactly what DHT IS MADE FOR.

    All this shows us that Demonoid can be imtimidate. Who cares if they got a letter from cira they have no real power Demonoid should have told the cira too fuck off

  • me

    some people own you an apology

  • ThisCan’tLast

    I suspect that Demonoid’s Canadian user-base may not take this lying down. A great number of members and prolific seeders of Demonoid reside in Canada. Remember that when your torrent takes 10x longer to complete.

  • fku

    thank god demon-oid is breathin again

  • Stephan Dion

    THIS IS UNFAIR!

  • TF blos

    [quote comment="177866"]I suspect that Demonoid’s Canadian user-base may not take this lying down.

    A great number of members and prolific seeders of Demonoid reside in Canada.

    Remember that when your torrent takes 10x longer to complete.[/quote]

    And YOU need to remember that this is not the fault of Demonoid or It’s owners/operators….

  • Anonymous

    While this sucks if anyone would like to shoot an invitation over to woomba at gmail.com it’d be really appreciated :)

  • woomba

    While this sucks if anyone would like to shoot an invitation over to woomba at gmail.com it’d be really appreciated :)

  • MattChazz

    I appreciate TorrentFraek’s news on this matter the whole past week. They were the ONLY ones who seemed to investigate this matter. Deimos the owner REFUSED — REFUSED — REFUSED to comment and no other staffers were allowed to.

    In spite of that blockage, TorrentFreak got it 95% right. It was the CRIA who was responsible for Demonoid shutting down. Demonoid staffers said this was not confirmed, but refused to confirm or deny it anything else. YET IS WAS TRUE. Bunch of liars. Again they had surrogates in IRC chat lie for them that it was “hardware problems”. Hardware problems don’t take a week to solve!

    We are not idiots and this is an age of global communications — blogs, cell phones, texting, email. A week of silence is unacceptable. And so is a week of lies by Demonoid. TorrentFreak got ti right. At least right enough.

    Demonoid is the #2 torrent site in the world and we are expected to be concerned when it goes down. How about “We’re having some issues we can’t talk about but we’ll be back.” SOMETHING.

  • someone else

    you’ve handled the assholes that called you a liar quite tactfully.

  • OTM

    For all the Canadian Brothers here, use a proxy that is based in another country(US or other). This was you’ll still be able to use Demonoid. ;)

  • Joe in Toronto

    All you need to do is to download Tor proxy and then you can download torrents from Demonoid.You won’t be able to sign into your account if you’re from Canada but you will be allowed to download a few torrents a week as a guest :-)

  • TFblos

    [quote comment="177875"]I appreciate TorrentFraek’s news on this matter the whole past week. They were the ONLY ones who seemed to investigate this matter. Deimos the owner REFUSED — REFUSED — REFUSED to comment and no other staffers were allowed to.

    In spite of that blockage, TorrentFreak got it 95% right. It was the CRIA who was responsible for Demonoid shutting down. Demonoid staffers said this was not confirmed, but refused to confirm or deny it anything else. YET IS WAS TRUE. Bunch of liars. Again they had surrogates in IRC chat lie for them that it was “hardware problems”. Hardware problems don’t take a week to solve!

    We are not idiots and this is an age of global communications — blogs, cell phones, texting, email. A week of silence is unacceptable. And so is a week of lies by Demonoid. TorrentFreak got ti right. At least right enough.

    Demonoid is the #2 torrent site in the world and we are expected to be concerned when it goes down. How about “We’re having some issues we can’t talk about but we’ll be back.” SOMETHING.[/quote]

    How about NOT tossing around rumors? How about NOT allowing posters to assume the identity of other posters? How about NOT posting things that you DON”T KNOW FOR SURE are true? Demonoid does not owe any of you anything. Do you pay for the service? NO….quit bitching….

  • Alessio

    If you live in Canada than maybe you can reach the site through an anonymous proxy !!!

    I’m so happy that Demonoid is still up :D

  • DemonoidIsBACK

    Back up and already one server busy message. Demonoid should *really* shut off their invite system. Especially since the CRIA notice turned out to be true, and the high levels of negativity towards Demonoid and its users.

    Amazingly, all the seeds to my torrents never left, they kept going even though the tracker was down.

  • Le Bishop

    Canadians could just use a socks proxy, or tor in utorrent or azureus.

  • ehmjay

    can anyone suggest some good proxies for us Canuks – although im concerned that they’ll block us in the tracker too so it wont matter.

    im glad to hear demonoids back (for everyone else) but crushed that we got screwed – which I dont quite understand… why just block us?

    if only they were like Piratebay and said “nananananana”

  • Anonymous

    haha, kiss ernesto’s ass you mouth breathers

  • Anonymous

    What does this mean for the price of maple syrup?

  • kornfan

    demonoid doesn’t seem to be back up at all…nor the forum

  • Bobs my uncle

    Does the CRIA even represent any Canadian music labels, I thought they all pulled out of the CRIA?

  • Bobs my uncle

    proxy.org has tonnes of proxies for Canadians. learn 2 google folks.

  • ScytheNoire

    i send there will be a movement away from using Demonoid. time for them to move, or die off.

  • Proxy

    Demonoid uses an antiquated system whereby the IP address you login with is the one the tracker records for ratio purposes. So unless you proxy your BT traffic, you’ll be dead soon.

    If they were smart they’d switch to a keybased system ala piggy site and many others.

  • Missy

    i feel sorry for the ppl that donated from canada.. i think demonoid should return there money .as they have rolled over and blocked canada from getting on there

  • Qwhacker

    that complete BS. There is no law being broken by demonoid, as there are no laws against demonoid. I’m wicked surprised/pissed they didn’t fight it

  • Marty

    Gah… That sucks… Oh well… At least we’re not getting our asses sued (i’m canadian)

  • sam

    I live in canada and i have proxyed into demonoid site and logged in and its just like the good old times.

    I used http://www.guardster.com/subscription/proxy_free.php

  • just me

    Thanks a lot to the torrent freak team for keeping us updated and informed while this matter unfolded. Thank you, also, for any future efforts to keep the community of users, and the supporters of bit-torrent and p2p in general informed as legal issues surrounding copyrights and distrobutin unfold and evolve.
    This is a difficult topic to get ballanced news on, certainly, and it is nice to have a voice on the side of the community/consumer.
    While I am glad Demonoid has returned, I was never truly concerned. If the bif “D” goes down, then something would have taken it’s place, it really is that simple. Time is the only thing needed for new evolutions to occure, it is the way of things.
    I think the community, tho, has a responsibility, clearly, to build.
    Build infastructure to support itself should this happen again to make painless transitions in the future. Be aware that headaches and battles are not over, and worse things could yet come our way. So prepare.
    We, as a community cannot bicker and whine while influential giants are steadfastly working hard to stop us. Net neutrality is a joke (for instance comcast users cannot seed outside of the comcast network…the protocal has been blocked, not the sharing of copyrighted material, why is this allowed?), and “they” won’t stop until they either loose their ass or we do. It is that simple.
    Regardless, having a few central sights that consume the majority of interest in the BT community is dangerous to the stability of that community.
    BUILD

  • #

    [quote]If they were smart they’d switch to a keybased system ala piggy site and many others.[/quote]

    But it’s a public tracker, key based ratio recording is only for private trackers.

  • m3

    all these articles relating to public trackers blocking certain countries from accessing them are so feckin dramatic.. guess it makes for good read… why arent u mentioning IN BIG BOLD CAPS TXT that all these trackers are still accessible from ANYWHERE via a proxy? then maybe drop a link or 2 to a proxy list.
    u give credibility to these fag corporate whores by not mentioning and providing links to SIMPLE workarounds.
    ;)

  • Black

    Proxy can make ur connection speed slow sometimes, get on a VPN guys, they’ll never be able to trace you.

    I’m on relakks.com, Swedish IP addresses

  • m3

    einstein.. proxy would be needed to just download the .torrent file

  • Bob

    This freaking sucks for me, as yet another Canadian. This was my number one site for non-current TV shows. Grrr.

    Not sure why the CRIA (music) can shutdown this site for all Canadians when many like me never bother downloading music from there in the first place.

  • Just A Stick Horsie

    [quote]This confirms our earlier reports this week, and show that the CRIA was indeed responsible for the downtime.[/quote]

    This confirms…. errr…. absolutely NOTHING. Unless you can explain why Demonoid had to shut down for a WHOLE week, just to block Canadian IPs.

  • anonymous

    There are ways of getting around the Canadian ban, email me at temp_demonoid_fix@yahoo.com if you would like info, or look it up yourself. Just google up on masking your IP and you’ll be able to find stuff easy

  • Pissed off Canadian

    Way to go Demonoid CRIA is a joke you fell for.

  • Anon

    Why do you nerds get so angry about this? You argue semantics whether he was right or not. This is a good site for torrent news and all you guys do is show how bitter and immature you’re all are.

    Fucking failures at life.

  • Anonymous

    Why don’t you just post the info here instead of answering emails?

  • ACE3602k

    BIG THANKS TO ALL @ DEMONOID
    LOVE IT

  • anonymous

    not sure on the legal stuff, if I can post websites etc

  • anonymous

    Not sure what this sites policies are for posting website links in forrum

  • Spiff

    Fuck, that’s so gay.

  • Anonymous

    sorry

  • 100101101

    [quote comment="177881"]All you need to do is to download Tor proxy and then you can download torrents from Demonoid.You won’t be able to sign into your account if you’re from Canada but you will be allowed to download a few torrents a week as a guest :-)[/quote]

    unless your exit node is canadian !!

  • TrogdorX

    Well, look at it from both sides of the debate that went on this week.

    Ernesto – Did what he thought was best and tried to find answers and reported something that couldn’t be factually confirmed at the time of reporting. To some Demonoid members this looked like he was FOR the site being taken down, or at worse reporting rumor as fact.

    Demonites – When you feel that someone is attacking something that you are passionate about, you generally try to defend it. Most of the Demonoid users just laughed off Ernesto as we didn’t know any more facts than he did, but some people chose to lash out…with Ernesto as the only sensible target within reach.

    So both sides did somethings right and somethings wrong. Ernesto did what he felt was his duty as a journalist, even if to some people it looked more like rumor-mongering than reporting. Demonoid fans were angry at their site being taken down, and since it was unknown who aim that anger at, Ernesto presented himself, albeit perhaps unjustified.

    While I could do without Ernesto’s brief “I told you so” in this report (see last paragraph), I can also see his need to perhaps feel vindicated. We should all just brief a sigh of relief that Demonoid is back on its way up, even if it is at the expense of some of the user bases access to it. As others have commented already, that is easy enough to get around.

    So lets all end the “nerd rage” and just go back to our normal routines of torrenting and chatting with our community…peacefully.

  • Anonymous

    Canadian users can use this proxy to enter demonoid.
    Type “demonoid.com” in the URL field and press Enter.

  • Damon

    Good to see TF is yet again on the mark. Great blog, love reading it.

  • Pissed Off Canadian

    It’s ass that a letter from a CRIA Lawyer would block Canadians. We pay a levy in Canada on all duplication media – CD’s DVD’s Cassttes ect. – and it is legal to share. This still doesn’t seem right… or maybe demonoid doesn’t get the shaky ground the CRIA is on…

  • Roscoteapot

    Fuck the CRIA.

  • wulfila

    This blog full of lies sucks!!

    Ernesto,
    No one will believe you anymore. You lost many readers with your rumour stealing from another website!!

    You didnT know anything till you read that at DEMONOID frontpage! You admited that.

    For this action you really suck!

    Fuck you – you belong to CRIA

  • Anonymous

    “This confirms our earlier reports this week, and show that the CRIA was indeed responsible for the downtime. It’s been a controversial week and at times emotions were running really high. In the absence of any official announcement it was really hard to separate fact from fiction, with rumor and counter-rumor.”

    That’s called bad journalism.

  • P@

    Why is everybody so Fucking upset? Demonoid is back! who cares about right or wrong in rumor land?

  • Grendel

    Dearest Ernesto, considering where the previous discussions on this subject have gone, do you really want to continue entertaining these ideas? ;)

  • ManofPeace

    I love how people bitch about Demonoid “caving” into the CRIA. Would *you* like to host a torrent tracker yourself and face legal actions? What’s that? No you say? Yeah, fuck off and stop bitching. I doubt any of the whiners actually donate and simply leech. What right do you have to complain?

  • Spudwiser

    As a Canadian, it sure does suck not being able to access the site. It also isn’t worth the headache to try and get around the block. I guess soon the trackers wont work and I will have no access at all.

    By the by it must have been a difficult decision. I would gladly sacrifice my account so that some people still have access to the site. There are other torrent sites, yes it might be harder to find what I am looking for but I’ll manage.

    They did take the easiest way out, but seeing how they are in Canada, it is a small wonder why they are still allowed to operate, even though they blocked Canadian traffic.

  • Anonymous

    ManofPeace go fuck yourself. It’s a discussion board If you want everyone to stop compaining, just stop reading you idiot. what are you doing here at all fool?

  • ijiot

    what headache you type two words into google, click on a site type in demonoid then you get access to a site that banned in a whole country, wow that sure is a headache…

  • http://torrentfreak.com Ernesto

    [quote comment="177950"]This blog full of lies sucks!!

    Ernesto,
    No one will believe you anymore. You lost many readers with your rumour stealing from another website!!

    You didnT know anything till you read that at DEMONOID frontpage! You admited that.

    For this action you really suck!

    Fuck you – you belong to CRIA[/quote]

    Dear “This blog full of lies sucks!!”

    I never claimed to know anything. Please read the original article again. I never wrote that demonoid was raided, I just wrote that a credible source reported that the CRIA was responsible for the downtime at Demonoid.

    This turned out to be true.

  • James

    [quote]But it’s a public tracker, key based ratio recording is only for private trackers.[/quote]

    Well, they don’t care about the IP when its used publicly without logging in.
    If a key is provided it goes towards that users ratio. When serving to non account holders just omit the key.

  • Ethan Fortes

    Uch, that SUCKS! Why the hell do i have to live in a place where no one cares about demonoid!?! I’m gonna have to use proxies now… Quick, demonoid, move your servers to Sweden!

  • Demonoid Lover

    I’m a new demonoid user but I was really upset when I saw it was down this week.

    For US users torrentspy.com blocked access. Easy way around is to use this nice website-proxy:

    http://anonymouse.org/

    Its german and it works great. Im in US and I still use torrentspy like before except I go through the proxy.
    Same think for canadians. Use this http://anonymouse.org/ to browse and login into your account and for the tracker most likely DHT will work. If DHT does not work use TOR to mask your real IP.

    And thanks torretfreak.com for the news. U guys are great !

  • Anonymous

    [quote comment="177965"]what headache you type two words into google, click on a site type in demonoid then you get access to a site that banned in a whole country, wow that sure is a headache…[/quote]

    ??? What?

  • Anonymous

    [quote comment="177883"][quote comment="177875"]I appreciate TorrentFraek’s news on this matter the whole past week. They were the ONLY ones who seemed to investigate this matter. Deimos the owner REFUSED — REFUSED — REFUSED to comment and no other staffers were allowed to.

    In spite of that blockage, TorrentFreak got it 95% right. It was the CRIA who was responsible for Demonoid shutting down. Demonoid staffers said this was not confirmed, but refused to confirm or deny it anything else. YET IS WAS TRUE. Bunch of liars. Again they had surrogates in IRC chat lie for them that it was “hardware problems”. Hardware problems don’t take a week to solve!

    We are not idiots and this is an age of global communications — blogs, cell phones, texting, email. A week of silence is unacceptable. And so is a week of lies by Demonoid. TorrentFreak got ti right. At least right enough.

    Demonoid is the #2 torrent site in the world and we are expected to be concerned when it goes down. How about “We’re having some issues we can’t talk about but we’ll be back.” SOMETHING.[/quote]

    [b]How about NOT tossing around rumors? [/b] …[/quote]

  • mytorrentnewschoice

    Sad to see that people can’t admit they were wrong by blaming Ernesto for the reporting and calling him a liar. TF is where I come to get the news because they are the most credible site I have known so far. Keep up the good work no matter how many idiots out there spew ignorance.

  • anonymous

    [quote comment="177966"][quote comment="177950"]This blog full of lies sucks!!

    Ernesto,
    No one will believe you anymore. You lost many readers with your rumour stealing from another website!!

    You didnT know anything till you read that at DEMONOID frontpage! You admited that.

    For this action you really suck!

    Fuck you – you belong to CRIA[/quote]

    Dear “This blog full of lies sucks!!”

    I never claimed to know anything. Please read the original article again. I never wrote that demonoid was raided, I just wrote that a credible source reported that the CRIA was responsible for the downtime at Demonoid.

    This turned out to be true.[/quote]

    Bullshit and lies. You can’t say that they were down for a week just because of the CRIA.

  • Blah

    As a Canadian I’m disappointed.

    But it’s easy to get around the “ban” so meh, big deal!

  • booboo

    [quote comment="177978"]Sad to see that people can’t admit they were wrong by blaming Ernesto for the reporting and calling him a liar. TF is where I come to get the news because they are the most credible site I have known so far. Keep up the good work no matter how many idiots out there spew ignorance.[/quote]

    great to see there are still people with a brain using this site, its like no one actually read the article mabe the first 2 lines then thought up the rest, there were no confirmation at all, ernesto tried to get some answers from either party but received no usefull information, which they made clear

    if people cant grasp that then im glad your never using the site again

  • Marc Savoy

    Hooray! and God Bless America! Canada’s anthem should be changed from O! Canada to Doh! Canada!
    eh?

  • 2Four

    [quote comment="177848"]Atleast the site’s back up :/

    @ Canadian ppl, i’m crying for you! (lol :P)[/quote]

    I applaud Anthoy’s statement.
    All these organisations; CRIa, MPAA, have had numerous oppertunities to form their own cheap money making networks, e.g. rememeber napster?
    But these guys are the greediest dirty mother-fuckers on the planet, hiring weasly little fuck lawyers who don’t know an honest days pay, to push scare tactics on the free communties.
    Demonoid, don’t let those weasly fuckers push you around.

  • bltz

    Ernesto thank you for the news, once again you are on top of the ball. :)

    big thank you to stonedslacker and his post #20 above – got it working in short order, thanks, brother. ;)

  • Noname

    Fuck.

    Oh wait, In less than 10 seconds, I got back on with a proxy.

    In case anyone’s curious:
    “We received a letter from a lawyer represeting the CRIA, they were threatening with legal action and We need to start blocking Canadian traffic because of this. If you reside in Canada, that is the reason you are being redirected to this message. Thanks for your understanding, and sorry for any inconvenience.”

  • Anonymous

    I’m a canadian and by using a few proxies I’m successfully downloading from demonoid again. It’s a real shame and I wish demonoid would man up and stand up to the CRIA, but I’m glad they’re back at all. Canadian users, hang in there!

  • booboo

    I am in Canada and used a proxy and was able to get in demonoid and even log in.

  • sparta

    damn i wish i could get on demonoid but my password isnt working, which is pretty worrying for a start but hopefully its just a mistake on my behalf

    on the other hand if there is anyone who has an account i can get a message up on the demonoid forum or a spare invite code then you would be doing me a favour

  • antaries

    If you are in Canada or any other country that has been blocked find a torrent site where you can download “Hide Ip” or do a search for free proxy services.

  • Demonioder

    Bravo TorrentFreak ,
    Humble pie for the bitches out there :)

  • Just A Stick Horsie

    [quote comment="177966"]I just wrote that a credible source reported that the CRIA was responsible for the downtime at Demonoid.

    This turned out to be true.[/quote]

    Only if the CRIA summons was issued before the downtime. If you haven’t seen the summons, there’s no way you can say for sure if it’s “true” or not.

    Knowing how organisations like CRIA, RIAA and BREIN work, I wouldn’t be surprised if they took advantage of the downtime to make it look like they actually *caused* it.

  • informer

    the fora(forum) is back up

  • woof

    Yep – the Tor proxy / Vidalia works jus fine! It slows down browsing a lot, but then it comes wit a button that installs into firefox to quickly enable / disable it. So u only need use it when yur going to demonoid.

  • Snapphane

    Glad to see Demonoid up and running again. But why this hatred against Torrentfreak??? Sure, basing information on rumours is a bad thing but sometimes that’s the best you can do.

    I think that the article clearly stated that no information was available, but an educated guess based on so-so information said that it might be CRIA.

    No matter if that was the truth or not, I still got the news that Demonoid was down. For me, that’s roughly all I need. The rest can be found by snooping around the net. Torrentfreak posted some info, as did other sites. On the whole it gave me a pretty good picture of what was happening.

    I never trust any source to 100% without checking the facts first. God could have a blog/newssite and I still wouldn’t believe the facts unless I could verify them. So stop blaming Ernesto for giving false/bad information. Be thankful for the good job he actually does.

    I for one find Torrentfreak one of the best and most reliable sites out here. So keep up the good job and don’t let a few brainless twits get to you. There are still quite a few of us who appreciate your site =)

  • Dave

    Are these Demonoid fanboys crazed 13 y.o. boys?

    Torrentspy said CRIA was responsible for the downtime, and it turns out they were. Torrentspy was right, fanboys were wrong. Get over it.

    All this ‘the admin is has a real life and is too busy to respond’ crap. How long does it take to write a response. About 5 mins? He wasn’t too busy to block off all of Canada.

  • Just A Stick Horsie

    [quote comment="178004"]
    Torrentspy said CRIA was responsible for the downtime, and it turns out they were. Torrentspy was right, fanboys were wrong. Get over it.[/quote]

    Do you know the date of the summons? No? Then it’s *still* conjecture.

  • Baldwookie

    “The second most popular BitTorrent tracker on planet earth has returned, that’s the most important thing.”

    It would be better if it returned to Canada as well. i do agree that this is just going to help with the promotion of DHT. I am sick, though, of these evil organizations crying foul just because nobody is buying from their brick and mortar outlets. If they had a decent online alternative, many wouldn’t go to the torrents in the first place. Oh, wait. The crap they produce is usually not being shared on bittorrent.

  • dripsta23

    thank god!!!!

  • dan

    YES!

    long live demonoid!!!

  • Jack daniel

    Demonoid rocks,also to a comment i seen,torrentspy for USA residents is http://www.torrentreactor.to. new site same stuff for us residents

  • Truthsayer

    I guess what this ultimately proves is that you can’t trust the word of the user on this site who goes by “Sabin1981″. At least Ruzteroid/Demonoiders made no speculation-as-fact statements. In their “Announcement” section anyways.

    And, Ernesto’s original source has been validated to some degree.

    Nice to see “The D” is back up.

  • Bobs my uncle

    I wonder why Demonoid is blocking Canadian IPs only? Could it be so that they won’t violate Canadian privacy laws when they provide logs to the record industry? Demonoid may have sold out. Watch your backs America.

  • Diki

    Well that sucks. Here I was laughing at my friend because he couldn’t use TorrentSpy any more.

    “Hooray! and God Bless America! Canada’s anthem should be changed from O! Canada to Doh! Canada!
    eh?”

    Canada is the reason you can even use Demonoid. And the CRIA is the association that represents your precious country in Canada.
    And where do you think all of your piracy comes from?

  • jewbuntu

    Well I live in Canada and I just checked the site and it gave me this:

    “The latest changes to the site are giving us some problems – We’ll be back soon”

    So it looks like demonoid will be back up for everyone :D

  • blah blah blah

    [quote comment="178023"]I wonder why Demonoid is blocking Canadian IPs only? Could it be so that they won’t violate Canadian privacy laws when they provide logs to the record industry? Demonoid may have sold out. Watch your backs America.[/quote]

    have you actually read the articles about this, it appears not

  • VileBillC

    One More Reason we should Invade Canada………..

  • MattChazz

    [quote comment="177883"][quote comment="177875"]I appreciate TorrentFraek’s news on this matter the whole past week. They were the ONLY ones who seemed to investigate this matter. Deimos the owner REFUSED — REFUSED — REFUSED to comment and no other staffers were allowed to.

    In spite of that blockage, TorrentFreak got it 95% right. It was the CRIA who was responsible for Demonoid shutting down. Demonoid staffers said this was not confirmed, but refused to confirm or deny it anything else. YET IS WAS TRUE. Bunch of liars. Again they had surrogates in IRC chat lie for them that it was “hardware problems”. Hardware problems don’t take a week to solve!

    We are not idiots and this is an age of global communications — blogs, cell phones, texting, email. A week of silence is unacceptable. And so is a week of lies by Demonoid. TorrentFreak got ti right. At least right enough.

    Demonoid is the #2 torrent site in the world and we are expected to be concerned when it goes down. How about “We’re having some issues we can’t talk about but we’ll be back.” SOMETHING.[/quote]

    How about NOT tossing around rumors? How about NOT allowing posters to assume the identity of other posters? How about NOT posting things that you DON”T KNOW FOR SURE are true? Demonoid does not owe any of you anything. Do you pay for the service? NO….quit bitching….[/quote]

    If you don’t want rumors tossed around, then COMMENT for the record. If you don’t, then don’t go crying when “rumors” — WHICH TURNED OUT TO BE ESSENTIALLY TRUE, make their way to the public.

    You have cell phones, e-mail, every form of communication known to man. Who was hurt by these rumors? Nobody — AND THEY WERE TRUE, if I didn’t mention it before.

  • teenaallen81

    @Truthsayer

    Be wary of passing judgement based on nasty comments by Sabin1981 — his name was getting stolen on here yesterday and people were pretending to be him

  • B-Ron

    Well, thank you torrentfreak, and fuck you Demonoid.

    I’m a little puzzled as to why the Demonoid would bow down and take it in the rectum from the CRIA. Compared to the US, the legalities of downloading are pretty slim here.

    “The latest changes to the site are giving us some problems – We’ll be back soon”

    Thanks for the explanation and shit-faced lies Demonoid. If they’re drinking the piss of the CRIA for gods sake, it’s only a matter of time before they’re down and out for good. Way to put up a fight.

  • atmrbt

    Ok, unfortunately I visited the site and saw the “We received a letter from a lawyer representing the CRIA…” message. But then refreshing it about 10 minutes after and no longer saw the canadian users blocked messge. I saw this message:

    “The latest changes to the site are giving us some problems – We’ll be back soon”

    I don’t know if this means that they are no longer going to block the canadian users or if they are just giving a new status to when demonoid will be back online.

    Either way, as a canadian demonoid user, this TOTALLY blows goats!! I am really pissed with the CRIA it’s a huge loss for demonoid!

  • MattChazz

    Please ignore my above statement.

    I Eat Cocks.

  • Sabin1981

    [quote comment="178022"]I guess what this ultimately proves is that you can’t trust the word of the user on this site who goes by “Sabin1981″. At least Ruzteroid/Demonoiders made no speculation-as-fact statements. In their “Announcement” section anyways.

    And, Ernesto’s original source has been validated to some degree.

    Nice to see “The D” is back up.[/quote]

    Excuse me? I stated, many times, that we would be back up. We WOULD be back online. That wasn’t speculation, it was the truth. Did we or did we not come back up?

    As for the LENGTH of downtime, I still stand by my original statement – hardware. Why? Because do you really think it takes FIVE DAYS to block IPs at the server-level? I think not.

    *shrugs*

    I was right, you people just don’t like that. What else is new? :P

  • teenaallen81

    I wish everyone would stop flaming Demonoid for blocking Canada. Nobody knows exactly what was in the legal notices so NO THEY MAY NOT HAVE HAD A CHOICE!!! And isn’t it better to cut off the foot to save the leg? If you live in Canada get a proxy work-around and be happy again!

  • Anonymous

    if the citizens of Canada are not good enough to use the site… then why should Demonoid still be allowed to host their site in our country!

    Used to have respect for the staff…. but now they need to grow some balls instead of screwing all the Canadian users who have stood by them for many a years.

  • Awesome.

    Unrelated question…

    Is utorrent 1.7.5 recording ip’s?
    If so, what torrent client do I use now?

    Thanks..

  • Sabin1981

    So, Ernesto has blocked me from posting in defense of our site — but allows people like the above to continue to flame and attack?

    I was right from the start. Ernesto, you’re nothing but a rumour-mongering, immature, waste-of-space child. This blog isn’t informative, it’s pathetic.

    My response is awaiting moderation, but I’ll bet it never gets it. Strangely enough.

  • lol

    limewire

  • MattChazz

    My previous post was all scrambled. Too many quotes within quotes. Here’s the simple version

    [quote]
    How about NOT tossing around rumors? How about NOT allowing posters to assume the identity of other posters? How about NOT posting things that you DON”T KNOW FOR SURE are true? Demonoid does not owe any of you anything. Do you pay for the service? NO….quit bitching….[/quote]

    If you don’t want rumors tossed around, then COMMENT for the record. If you don’t, then don’t go crying when “rumors” — WHICH TURNED OUT TO BE ESSENTIALLY TRUE, make their way to the public.

    You have cell phones, e-mail, every form of communication known to man. Who was hurt by these rumors? Nobody — AND THEY WERE TRUE, if I didn’t mention it before.

  • Awesome.

    Meh.
    Anything like Azureus or Bittorrent.

    So I take it the utorrent 1.7.5 thing is true.

  • PsiKnife

    Hurts to be Canadian lol

  • Canadian User

    I think the real situation here that everyone needs too look at is why the hell is Deimos still hosting in Canada anyways, personally I think all torrent trackers need to look at the situation their all falling victim to these days…you all need to pack up yer shit get in touch with Brokep and set up shop @ PRQ.se

  • TFblos

    [quote comment="178036"]Please ignore my above statement.

    I Eat Cocks.[/quote]

    Here we go…….This Is a fine example of how trustworthy this site & this “blog” are. Just pick anyone’s username & post away…..(& no, I didn’t do It. I would have come up with something MUCH more original)

  • EFF Canada Guy

    Can’t believe Demonoid not only rolled over, but took it up the ass to boot!

    Check canadian law and grow a set. unblock canada, the cria is about as powerful as a toothless poodle in a dog fight. Plenty of yip, but thats about it.

  • SurDt

    okay, here is my problem not that u rushed to stick up any old crap although u did lets be fair. The problem is that Ernesto clearly actually had no confidence in his own story. when it looked like he was wrong the article starts like this “The demonoid downtime caused quite some controversy, especially after the popular Dutch news site nu.nl reported that the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) was responsible for the downtime.” however when “he” has been proven right well look at how this article starts. Blog or not this is a bit of a courage over sight on his part don’t u think? Demonoid is a great site who have acted as alway very well would have been sad to lose them!

  • EFF Canada Guy

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_sharing_in_Canada

    http://www.michaelgeist.ca/resc/html_bkup/june62005.html

    CRIA has less power in canada than the local dog catcher….. shit, you duck and knuckle under because you got a letter from a lawyer? Oh no! Its paper! Run and hide! my word, wish i could represent you, you’d see how much power these clowns have in canada.

  • Anonymous

    [quote comment="178056"]I think the real situation here that everyone needs too look at is why the hell is Deimos still hosting in Canada anyways, personally I think all torrent trackers need to look at the situation their all falling victim to these days…you all need to pack up yer shit get in touch with Brokep and set up shop @ PRQ.se[/quote]

    Great Question and Agreed. I’ll quote this from you and post in their forum when they go back up.
    Because ultimately, no Canadians means far less torrents which hurts everyone.

    Deimos needs to stop handcuffing himself by setting up camp in gestapo territory.

    -

  • Jackson

    So Canadians use TPB. Everyone else can use Demonoid or TPG or Minnova or the zillion other trackers out there. Life goes on.

    CRIA you achieved nothing. You’ll pitch it to your members like you did, and maybe it’ll distract them for your own sex lobbyist scandal, but at the end of the day you achieved nothing.

  • blah blah blah

    [quote comment="178060"]okay, here is my problem not that u rushed to stick up any old crap although u did lets be fair. The problem is that Ernesto clearly actually had no confidence in his own

    story. when it looked like he was wrong the article starts like this “The demonoid downtime caused quite some controversy, especially after the popular Dutch news site nu.nl reported that the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) was responsible for the downtime.” however when “he” has been proven right well look at how this article starts. Blog or not this is a bit of a courage over sight on his part don’t u think? Demonoid is a great site who have acted as alway very well would have been sad to lose them![/quote]

    wtf are you talking about, ernesto simply quoted a story that suggested why demonoid may be down, he didnt that he thought it was the reason, he didnt say that was the reason all he said was that he contacted both parties and they refused to comment,

    the news does it all the time its called a rumour, dumass

  • T.

    @ TrogdorX *rolls eyes*

    @ Ernesto, so basically it took what, a week to put a IP blocking system in place?

    @ B-Ron, oh yeah so mature of you, its not like you paid for the service, and/or had a service contract or anything.

  • #

    [quote] Unrelated question…

    Is utorrent 1.7.5 recording ip’s?
    If so, what torrent client do I use now?

    Thanks..
    [/quote]

    No one has any reason to believe so.

    [quote]Thanks for the explanation and shit-faced lies Demonoid. If they’re drinking the piss of the CRIA for gods sake, it’s only a matter of time before they’re down and out for good. Way to put up a fight.[/quote]

    You’re an idiot, seriously.

    [quote] if the citizens of Canada are not good enough to use the site… then why should Demonoid still be allowed to host their site in our country!

    Used to have respect for the staff…. but now they need to grow some balls instead of screwing all the Canadian users who have stood by them for many a years.
    [/quote]

  • ManofPeace

    [quote comment="177964"]ManofPeace go fuck yourself. It’s a discussion board If you want everyone to stop compaining, just stop reading you idiot. what are you doing here at all fool?[/quote]

    Clearly, you’re a moron. I addressed the flawed bitching. “blah blah blah fuck Demonoid” when they don’t put themselves in the other person’s shoes.

  • TorrentFreak_Hater

    I’m baaaaaack!

    Well, isn’t this a turn up for the books? First Ernesto BANS the only person that had credible information (a Demonoid staff member) lol! Way to go Ernesto. You da man!

    Then he backpeddles faster than biker going downhill (come on, you were kids once. You know what that is :P) by bleating on and on about “We were right! We’re CREDIBLE!! Love us! We WERE right afterall!!” (sic)

    I love this site! I’ve grown to really enjoy it because it’s now my daily source of amusement!

    As for the rest of you, all crying and throwing tantrums about Demonoid blocking Canadian IPs.. here’s a hint; Grow up. Proxies allow unlimited access as well as keeping Demonoid off the legal radar.

    I do so love you guys! A special place in my heart exists only for you :)

  • Anonymous Canadian User

    The way Canadian courts have ruled on downloading cases, it’s very likely that Demonoid would have won a court case if it got that far. They probably just didn’t want to fight a battle that could have lasted years (and since Deimos doesn’t live in Canada, he’d have to fight it by proxy). We’re not even really sure how serious the threat was (The Pirate Bay gets threats like this all the time and just ignores them).

    It’s also possible that their ISP caved and threatened to cut off their service.

    There’s always the Pirate Bay, and I have access to a private tracker, so this isn’t a big deal for me directly. I just hate stuff like this on principle.

  • [01:08:24] Ethan sier : TorrentFreak_Hater

    I’m baaaaaack!

    Well, isn’t this a turn up for the books? First Ernesto BANS the only person that had credible information (a Demonoid staff member) lol! Way to go Ernesto. You da man!

    Then he backpeddles faster than biker going downhill (come on, you were kids once. You know what that is :P) by bleating on and on about “We were right! We’re CREDIBLE!! Love us! We WERE right afterall!!” (sic)

    I love this site! I’ve grown to really enjoy it because it’s now my daily source of amusement!

    As for the rest of you, all crying and throwing tantrums about Demonoid blocking Canadian IPs.. here’s a hint; Grow up. Proxies allow unlimited access as well as keeping Demonoid off the legal radar.

    I do so love you guys! A special place in my heart exists only for you :)

  • Anonymous

    I use utorrent 1.6.1

  • #

    [quote]The way Canadian courts have ruled on downloading cases, it’s very likely that Demonoid would have won a court case if it got that far. They probably just didn’t want to fight a battle that could have lasted years (and since Deimos doesn’t live in Canada, he’d have to fight it by proxy). We’re not even really sure how serious the threat was (The Pirate Bay gets threats like this all the time and just ignores them).

    It’s also possible that their ISP caved and threatened to cut off their service.[/quote]

    All posible events, we just don’t know what happened. Deimos does, so I judge that he is the only one who should make a decision like this.

  • Anonymous

    [quote comment="178076"]I use utorrent 1.6.1[/quote]
    yes[quote comment="178076"]I use utorrent 1.6.1[quote comment="178076"]I use utorrent 1.6.1[quote comment="178076"]I use utorrent 1.6.1[/quote]
    [/quote]
    [/quote]

  • Grendel

    Surprise! Another discussion gone downhill.

    Is it safe to assume that any negative depictions of Demonoid — the most sacred, fanboy-driven of all torrent trackers — are possibly doomed to degenerate into a kiddy bash of prose rhetoric and racial slurs?!

    *grabs some popcorn*

    I guess we’ll find out in… “Ernesto vs. the Foaming-at-the-Mouth Demonoid Digeratis: Round 3!”

    :D

  • TorrentFreak_Hater

    See, if I can access THIS site under a proxy — then YOU guys can access Demonoid under another proxy!

    It’s magic!

  • Pal

    WOW…..

    I want to thank everybody
    (even the haters) for the
    great entertainment it was quite a ride this week..!!

    It looks like demonoid is almost back and that’s all that really matters.. Rather amazing to see the huge support. The number of posts at torrentfreak and all those other sites was amazing and reminds one, ‘we are not alone….’

    Best wishes to everyone and Down with the CorpoRatz…!!!

  • this_site_is_crap

    do you guys honestly think demonoid id gonna permanantly ban canadian IPs?

    Come on, let Demious do his thang and get the hosting sorted properly

  • good job ernesto

    don’t take guff from these fools Ernesto, your story specifically stated what the information was based on. As for the headline get over it, Ernesto doesn’t sit around all day investigating the torrent news for nothing, he makes rev off this…Catchy headlines generate traffic and most in his position would do the same.

  • Marcel

    Canadian users could access the main site using a public proxy, but it’s a security risk to use your username and pass this way.

    Also I think your stats won’t update. I’m sorry for you.

  • TorrentFreak_Hater

    Fools? Ernesto’s word is “Gospel” according to Ernesto. If he can’t take criticism of his “work” then perhaps he shouldn’t be a “reporter”

    Yes, you love him. Most don’t. If he actually reported something that was ACCURATE and not just rumour-mill speculation (ahem, time for mine tinfoil hat!) then he could back up his claim of being CREDIBLE.

    He got lucky on ONE aspect, the CRIA had a hand in Demonoid’s downtime it appears – but to say it’s ONLY because of the CRIA? Proof please, not speculation.

  • potato

    annnnnnd, they’re down again, site maintenance….

  • me

    why do you guys care enough to have an argument that is essentially pointless, everyone knows what happened and can decide for themselves how to feel about it, if you dislike ernesto reporting, then don’t come here…
    kthxbye

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  • symbiote_venom

    I have a great solution to the problem.

    It will be a very affordable VPN solution, and it will give the freedom back to the bittorrent community! :)

    I am probably not supposed to advertise here, so please e-mail me at venom[at]darkwaternetworks[dot]net if you are interested in this.

  • symbiote_venom

    Correction to my last post, the e-mail address is venom[at]darkwaternetworks[dot]com.

  • mimir

    site is back online:

    “The latest changes to the site are giving us some problems – We’ll be back soon”

  • Anonymous

    I have belonged to Demoniod for years and have contributed to each every month. Its one of my favorite sites. However, they handled this very badly. The staff was uninformed and nasty to anyone asking questions. They kepts shrieking “we don’t owe you anything”! Well, sorry, you do. You owe me courtesy and a reasonable explanation of what is going on. I got neither.

    The namecalling continues. Ernesto was correct, however many seem to refuse to accept that fact and the fact that members were treated badly. All private trackers need donations…I, for one, won’t be making any more to Demonoid. I don’t give my money to those who insult me.

    Grow up idiots: you work for nothing and the owners of the site tell you nothing. You looked like total fools and acted like nasty 5 year olds.

  • TorrentFreak_Hater

    Aww diddums.

    Goodbye “Anonymous” (you coward. If you’re so cocksure of your intentions, why not show a bit of backbone by posting your REAL nick?)

    You can take your ball and go home, we don’t need you. Demonoid doesn’t need you. You can’t threaten Demonoid with removing your donations just because YOU didn’t get the answer you wanted. Nobody owes you a goddamned thing, nobody.

    Go home.

  • Awesome.

    So, using 1.7.5 with the regular ipfilters, and updaters, and using PG2 will be fine?

  • Anonymous

    so Lame-o-noid is back!?

  • OblivionMage

    For all in canada (Me included) wouldn’t Tor or JAP work?

  • Generalkhaos

    Damnit this sucks, no more demonoid for me :( stupid fucking CRIA im sure there were a lot of canadian artist releases on there -.-

  • omfg

    that Demonoid mob was almost as the WoW spam mob that happens on new mmorpg forums… :D

    TF brought out the giant Epeen of doom and pwnt them ;)

  • TorrentFreak_Hater

    @OblivionMage

    Don’t worry, you can use proxies to access the site and tracker :) That’s what most Canadian users are having to do right now (information can be found on Ruzsteroid/Demonoiders)

    Yes, I DO know it’s a pain in the ass and I DO sympathize with Canadian users. I’m not sitting here blindly masturbating all over Demonoid. I know it’s a bad situation, but all this anti-Demonoid speculation and hatred is doing nothing to HELP.

  • Anonymous

    Tor works for me. Just make sure you use Firefox and download the appropriate pluggin

  • h33t

    the problem for demonoid is the global moderator SELURNATAS aka Pete a well known anti-p2p agent who is informing on every move made by Demonoid

    how can Deimos keep ahead when he is inflitrated. everyone witness his strange leaps from host to host, country to country, while no other site has the same problem

    if you suck with him then you rest with him

  • rezo

    What gets me is who would wanna download any Canadian stuff anyhow. The government forces radio and tv stations to play Canadian stuff 35% of the time anyway no matter how lousy it is.(HMM, Don’t they do this sort of thing in Iran,China and Myanmar)
    If you’ve ever listened to Canadian radio, you’ll hear the guess who and tragically hip at once an hour.
    ARRGGHH!!!

  • Stan

    TorrentFreak_Hater:
    Well, isn’t this a turn up for the books? First Ernesto BANS the only person that had credible information (a Demonoid staff member) lol! Way to go Ernesto. You da man!

    Are you posting in the wrong topic? This story here concerns Demonoid staff members having no credible information for the past week, lying and badmouthing a report that turned out to be true.

    My 3yo niece appears to have much credible information as you do pal.

    Then he backpeddles faster than biker going downhill (come on, you were kids once.

    Except he hasn’t actually backpeddled once. He reported what he did and stuck by it here and on those IRC conversations as the only information available, while you were talking BS about hardware failures. So who’s backpeddling here ?

    You know what that is :P) by bleating on and on about “We were right! We’re CREDIBLE!! Love us! We WERE right afterall!!” (sic)

    Which he can, because his report was credible. Unlike you and yours, chump.

  • TorrentFreak_Hater

    @h33t

    LOL! More rumour-mongering? The one thing that always sets you people apart … is that you run your mouth at every opportunity, yet never provide any proof!

  • teenaallen81

    [quote comment="178124"]the problem for demonoid is the global moderator SELURNATAS aka Pete a well known anti-p2p agent who is informing on every move made by Demonoid

    how can Deimos keep ahead when he is inflitrated. everyone witness his strange leaps from host to host, country to country, while no other site has the same problem

    if you suck with him then you rest with him[/quote]

    shut-up ur full of crap & take off ur tinfoil hat!

  • TorrentFreak_Hater

    @Stan

    Give it up, troll. You’re wasting your time. Sabin1981 posted here, as a staff member of Demonoid, and he posted the same thing – repeatedly; Demonoid WILL be back online shortly.

    Who was right?

    Oh yes, Sabin was.

    Fuck you and your conspiracy theorist bullshit.

  • Stan

    12 Sep 30, 2007 at 19:15 by WoofQuote Woof
    If it’s legal in Canada, how come they just roll over and play dead?

    Perhaps because it’s NOT legal in Canada ?
    How sure are you that it is ?
    The only legal ruling I see cited when people make this claim is one that specifies that the levy paid by Canadians on blank discs exempts them where MUSIC is downloaded when it is BURNED to this media for personal use.

    That’s a long way from P2P for all copyrighted media being legal. It wouldn’t even be raised when the MPAA took you to court.

  • Kanuck

    Okay So Demonoid needs to block all canadians users in order to stay legal & torrentspy needs to block USA users in order to be operational
    Along with a few other tracker that needed to block different counties in order to remain in busy.

    Why is it that isohunt (which is canadian)blocking usa people & not canadians?

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  • The purveyor for truth

    Taken straight from the Demonoid Fora as the reason the site went down

    [quote]
    What no one wanted to admit to, was the fact that the hamster which powers Demonoid died, some people have claimed it was due to the hamster being over worked. Now before you get on your high horses, the results of the post mortem are not in yet, so speculating on the actual cause of death at the moment would be counter productive, however early results point to old age as the most likely cause of death.[/quote]

    Looks like a reasonable explanation to me, also show’s why the staff were reluctant to speak, they were in mourning and didn’t want any false accusations being made about animal cruelty until the post mortem results were in. Given the frenzy for info here as well as the mis info who can blame them

  • TorrentFreak_Hater

    HAHAHAHAHAHA!!

    And that, dear friends, is why I love Demonoid :) The nay-sayers on here may hate us, but that’s only because people like that aren’t welcome with us. As for the rest? Our community is strong, happy, helpful. Not vindictive and destructive.

  • Quinton

    I download a program called “Hide IP”. and i installed it and it block’s my IP, and gives me another one from another country and it works perfect. i can get into demonid. Perfect! if you need any help drop me a email.

    quintoncolbourne@hotmail.com

  • Yoda

    Phew…..hope Demonoid is back on line soon. I want my torrents.

  • TorrentFreak_Hater

    @Yoda

    Don’t forget; Demonoid is a tracker, but our torrents end up on almost ALL the normal “list sites” (aka, Isohunt or TorrentSpy and TPB)

    If there’s anything you need, you can still browse those sites and download the demonoid-tracked ones :)

  • 9

    [quote]the problem for demonoid is the global moderator SELURNATAS aka Pete a well known anti-p2p agent who is informing on every move made by Demonoid[/quote]

    Ha, now that’s funny XD

    I’m sorry to say (actually, I am not sorry :D) that you are a complete idiot.

    Sabin is a well known member of the Red Army and he is a world class figure skater, even competing in the 1492 olymics on the moon, though loosing to Fulgencio Batista in a well contested final round.

    See, I can make things up too :)

  • Quinton

    im canadian all you got to do is download the program called “Hide IP” and install it work’s great it hides your IP AND GIVES YOU ANOTHER IP from another country it works good for me. Email me if you need any help.
    quintoncolbourne@hotmail.com

  • Anonymous

    [quote comment="177832"]God damn it ! Why the fuck doset someone bomb the cria offices already i want my torrents !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Find a way t get the canadians back ! we got the latest Movie Rips ![/quote]

    yo i am Canadian to and went i tryed to go demonoid to day at first it said
    the Block Canadian Traffic By the CRIA
    and then i my block my ip address then
    i went to demonoid and i got this The latest changes to the site are giving us some problems – We’ll be back soon

  • JD

    [quote comment="177832"]God damn it ! Why the fuck doset someone bomb the cria offices already i want my torrents !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Find a way t get the canadians back ! we got the latest Movie Rips ![/quote]

    yo i am Canadian to and went i tryed to go demonoid to day at first it said
    the Block Canadian Traffic By the CRIA
    and then i my block my ip address then
    i went to demonoid and i got this The latest changes to the site are giving us some problems – We’ll be back soon

  • jewbuntu

    [quote comment="178027"]One More Reason we should Invade Canada………..[/quote]

    You’re a fucking idiot.

  • Oshala – Sri Lanka

    Thank Ernesto for keeping us Updated
    Long Live Demonoid
    Long Live Demios
    Long Live Demonoid Crew
    Long Live Demonoid Supporters
    Force Be with Demonoid
    Goto Hell Canadian Authorities

  • Rick Dickhard

    Heh, I see. All this cussing and namecalling, spewing of accusations and lies just because TF’s Ernesto reported something that turned out to be true?

    Way to go, Demonoiders!

    And, my dear TF-Hater, just for the record: Not the banned Staffer (whoever that may be) had the only credible information on the subject. I’m sure you won’t like to hear this, but as we all see by now, it turned out to be Ernesto instead. Funny enough, the real lies came from the so-called “official sources”, read: site staffers and long time members, who persistantly told everybody who asked that TF was “just lying” or “making things up” and that the downtime was due to some generic “hardware failure”.

    So, let me ask you, who’s the liar now?

    Though I gotta admit I’m most grateful for the site itself and Deimos’ great efforts to keep it running, I’m really disappointed by the way this whole dreary situation was handled. Not only were they denying the concerned users ANY kind of fact-based information about the real reasons of the downtime or the measures needed to get it back up (btw, best way to make sure the rumormill takes over for you), but also quite a bunch of them came over here and acted like aggrevated haters because somebody else had the guts to report about it, a fact which they obviously didn’t like.

    Least to say is, okay, their site got real big and IMO surely is the best torrent resource out there, but in this case, I smell the ugly stench of something that resembles the arrogance of power. That’s a thing I’m used to when it comes to Government shills or the MPAA, but not from the trusted staff of a community based filesharing site, and it really bothers me. I mean, c’mon, how hard could it possibly be to issue an official four sentence statement about legal issues to calm down the frightened users and end all the speculation at the same time? Huh?

    Yeah, exactly.

  • Joe Dirt

    BLAME CANADA! BLAME CANADA! BLAME CANADA!

  • TorrentFreak_Hater

    If you reallllly think issuing a statement about legal activities would “calm the populace” then you’re not as familiar with this as you so claim.

    Now that Demonoid is back online and Deimos has posted the newspost about what happened — has it stopped the paranoia and rumours? No it bloody well hasn’t! There’s posts on Demonoid about people complaining and speculating that the tracker AND the site is fake, that we’re harvesting IPs for the CRIA and that, even now, NATAS – a longtime, loyal, global moderator is being called a SPY?

    So don’t presume to lecture ME on lies and half-truths, sonny. You know nothing of what you’re spewing.

  • Nitrate Row

    [quote]I mean, c’mon, how hard could it possibly be to issue an official four sentence statement about legal issues to calm down the frightened users and end all the speculation at the same time? Huh?

    Yeah, exactly.[/quote]

    Deimos has his reasons and I trust those reasons.

  • TorrentFreak_Hater

    @Nitrate Row

    Of course you do! That’s because you, as well as the majority of others, realise that we DON’T own Demonoid. The only person that owns Demonoid is Deimos himself — and he answers to NOBODY. Why should he? Donations aren’t enough to keep a site as large, and as popular, as Demonoid alive. No, he does that out of his own pocket with HELP from donations.

    He does his best with the situations that occur. He doesn’t owe us anything, he doesn’t owe staff anything (except gratitude for helping keep the site running smoothly) but one thing is certain;

    He does NOT owe ANYBODY explanations for anything! We should all just be grateful for the amazing site and the fact that no matter what hardships come up, he always manages to find a way to keep Demonoid alive.

  • Solitaris

    It is official – Demonoid staff are stupid n00bs.

    Ernesto ban all stupids.

  • doncherry

    Just to let you know. Anyone using Demonoid trackers are now having their ip addresses recorded and released to authorities for future arrests in an attempt to curb piracy . Apparently the Citizen Rights in Canada protect citizens privacy on the internet and that by blocking Canadian ips,any ip addresses using Demonoid will be arrested. Beware.

  • TorrentFreak_Hater

    “Ban all stupids”? LOL!

    I guess you’d be the first to go then, Sir.

  • Solitaris

    “global moderator is being called a SPY?”
    it can be, very possibly. i using demonoid many years, and i see some things going totaly wrong on site.

  • Frank white

    dEMONOID FOR EVERYBODY

    except canada :)

  • TorrentFreak_Hater

    @Doncherry

    You’re the kind of person that everyone is hating against. I’ve decided to coin a phrase;

    When a person spreads lies, misinformation, baseless and groundless BULLSHIT — that person is said to “be doing an Ernesto”

    You’re the first candidate! Welcome!

    PROOF, ASSHOLE.

  • jewbuntu

    [quote comment="178180"]Just to let you know. Anyone using Demonoid trackers are now having their ip addresses recorded and released to authorities for future arrests in an attempt to curb piracy . Apparently the Citizen Rights in Canada protect citizens privacy on the internet and that by blocking Canadian ips,any ip addresses using Demonoid will be arrested. Beware.[/quote]

    And how can you back this up?

  • Rick Dickhard

    @TFH: Hehe, nah, I wouldn’t dare to lecture you on that matter, because you seem to be more familiar with lies and half-truths than I could ever be. And looking at your previous posts again, “spewing” pretty much nails it.

    Also, I wasn’t referring to the whims of paraniod 5 year olds (impossible to stop that, no matter what you do) but to legitimate concerns of well-reasoned long time users and donators like me.

    Oh, and btw, after you demanded the demonoid nick of another person with an opinion like mine before (so you and yours could possibly punish him by banning and stuff, after you insulted him over here), how about telling me yours – “sonny”?

  • JR

    [quote comment="178172"][quote]I [quote comment="178170"]Now that Demonoid is back online and Deimos has posted the newspost about what happened — has it stopped the paranoia and rumours? No it bloody well hasn’t!
    [/quote]

    Actually he hasn’t made a post about “what happened”. He has made a post saying that traffic from Canada is blocked, and this post said nothing about the downtime.

  • TorrentFreak_Hater

    Well Mr Dickhard, I think that if you haven’t guessed my nick by now … your powers of deduction are sorely lacking ;)

  • *

    [quote]Oh, and btw, after you demanded the demonoid nick of another person with an opinion like mine before (so you and yours could possibly punish him by banning and stuff, after you insulted him over here), how about telling me yours – “sonny”?[/quote]

    Everyone already knows who TFH is ;)

  • Rick Dickhard

    A dickhead? ;-)

  • Solitaris

    yeh we know he is supid moron

  • doncherry

    I would like to be wrong but back in 2005 the CRIA tried to get all ISPs in Canada to release customer persoanl information but the Supreme Court overturned this . quote May 2005 “Shaw Communications Inc.today welcomed last week’s Federal Court of Appeal decision that confirmed the right to privacy for Canada’s Internet users. The Court rejected the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) appeal of an earlier ruling that was seeking personal information about Internet Service Provider (ISP) customers allegedly sharing and swapping music over the Internet.
    “We’ve been consistent in our strong opposition to this court challenge and are pleased with the outcome of the appeal,” said Peter Bissonnette, President of Shaw Communications Inc. “We were the first ISP in Canada to stand up for customer privacy in this case and we will continue to protect and respect our customers’ fundamental right
    to privacy.”
    In March 2004, the Federal Court of Canada initial decision stated that Canadian ISPs like Shaw are not required to disclose personal information about their Internet customers to representatives of CRIA. The Court’s decision was a clear statement about the importance of online privacy for Canadian Internet users. CRIA was seeking to overturn that decision, but the appeal was denied.”

  • jewbuntu

    I agree :D

  • Anonymous

    [quote comment="178180"]Just to let you know. Anyone using Demonoid trackers are now having their ip addresses recorded and released to authorities for future arrests in an attempt to curb piracy . Apparently the Citizen Rights in Canada protect citizens privacy on the internet and that by blocking Canadian ips,any ip addresses using Demonoid will be arrested. Beware.[/quote]

    That’s one of the dumbest statement I’ve read in a long time.

  • Solitaris

    so Demonoid down again
    busy calculating colected IPs! :)

  • TorrentFreak_Hater

    I’m a dickhead for standing up for what I believe in? Funny .. in that case, am I allowed permission to state ALL of you as “dickheads” too? Surely you’re not saying that it’s one rule for me and one for everyone else?

    No equality? No playful bantering back and forth of differing opinions? No, just make a statement that I’m a “dickhead”

    That’s cool! I can dig it, daddyo.

  • TorrentFreak_Hater

    @Solitaris

    For someone that “has used demonoid many years donated” (sic) You sure seem to be taking a lot of pleasure in it’s downtime. Why is that, may I ask?

    Also, may I ask for your REAL Demonoid name? I mean, surely you don’t want to be on there anymore, right? Allow me to forward your name – and anyone elses that wishes to disassociate themselves – to the moderating team. I’m sure they’ll be glad to help you find the door :)

  • Trelew

    CRIA is nothing more than a lobby group for the American corporations (RIAA) trying to dictate terms to Canadians. CRIA has no legal jurisdiction or right to interfere with the way Canadians run their government. I’m personally go to spend the next couple of days drafting a letter to my MP and MPP complaining that a American lobby group is butting it’s arrogant nose where it has no right being in. Hell, CRIA is considering nothing more than a joke and an insult by the Canadian music industry.

  • your mom

    im fucking stoked demonoid is back up. sucks for the canadians but that doesnt apply to me. haha

  • doncherry

    Think about!! Why only block Canadian ips when they are protected under Canadian law to do what they want with their right to privacy on the internet. Why not just shut the site (Demonoid) down??

  • Solitaris

    my Demonoid nick is “smoothtony” , but i have many accounts :) so u can fcuk off

  • your mom

    [quote comment="178207"]Think about!! Why only block Canadian ips when they are protected under Canadian law to do what they want with their right to privacy on the internet. Why not just shut the site (Demonoid) down??[/quote]

    thats fucking retarted dude. you should shut the fuck up now.

  • TorrentFreak_Hater

    [quote]my Demonoid nick is “smoothtony” , but i have many accounts :) so u can fcuk off[/quote]

    *rolls my eyes*

    So, despite your NUMEROUS public outcries, you still cling tenaciously to your accounts? Sad.

    I thought you were a man of principle! A man of integ…….. ahahahahahaha! I’m kidding of course, I really didn’t think that ^_^

    *walks off chuckling to myself*

  • jewbuntu

    [quote comment="178210"][quote comment="178207"]Think about!! Why only block Canadian ips when they are protected under Canadian law to do what they want with their right to privacy on the internet. Why not just shut the site (Demonoid) down??[/quote]

    thats fucking retarted dude. you should shut the fuck up now.[/quote]

    Why should he shut the fuck up? Why wouldn’t they just stop all pirating from Demonoid? That would make the CRIA happy. I’m not saying I agree with shutting it down, but as I see it, everyone has their own opinion.

  • s0ftdIck

    MITTENS

  • your mom

    i guess what im saying is that dont spoil it for the rest of us thats still able to use it. demonoid is in canada and canadians cant use it. thats what it is. use thepiratebay or isohunt. there are other places to find torrents that are dependable.

  • jewbuntu

    Is IsoHunt still dependable? I thought something happened to it. Oh well..

  • Rick Dickhard

    Hehe, looks like TFH is displaying the typical delusion of self-absorbed neurotics here – They overestimate their own importance, think everybody should know them and feel the same things about them as they do and are truly surprised if somebody doesn’t give a toss. And, of course, they are always right.

    Well, this poor loser should probably consider seeing his therapist more often instead of spreading lies and insulting people on the net – or probably do it at Demonoid, where he has a whole squad of staffers to back him up. ;-)

    Hm, this reminds me of a really old quote I once read:

    “Arguing on the Internet is like competing in the Special Olympics. Even if you win, you’re still retarded.”

    And for closing, as I saw TFH’s own attitude rise to new heights amongst the Noid staffers during this downtime, I won’t donate anything anymore in future, because it was already told in the above comments that they don’t need my money or uploads. So I will leave here now, take the advice and bring my money somewhere else.

    Again, way to go Demonoiders!

    … and goodbye.

    P.S.: Oh, and one last word to TFH: Err, no, you’re a dickhead because of the arrogance, bullying, one-sided arguing and namecalling you seem to enjoy so much. So I don’t need to know which fantastic nickname you usually prefer, or in fact any deductive skills to realize that you, Sir, are an official numbskull.

    ’nuff said.

  • TorrentFreak_Hater

    *cries my little heart out*

    Oh me oh my.. the humanity!! the humanity!! Won’t someone please think of the children!?

    Oh me oh my…

  • jewbuntu

    [quote comment="178226"]Well, this poor loser should probably consider seeing his therapist more often instead of spreading lies and insulting people on the net – or probably do it at Demonoid, where he has a whole squad of staffers to back him up. ;-)[/quote]

    Wow, what a hypocrite. You just did what you told TFH to stop doing…
    “spreading lies and insulting people on the net”.
    I believe you just accused TFH that he goes to a therapist, and I doubt he does. That makes you someone who is spreading lies AND insulting people on the net. =\

  • TorrentFreak_Hater

    Ok ok.. I apologise to Ernesto for the disruption to his, ahem, “credible blog” So I’ll make this my last post UNLESS I’m specifically provoked by a response.

    I’m merely entertaining myself with the delusions and persecutions provided by the majority of posters on here. This has nothing against Ernesto, though I am annoyed at his purile attempt to block me from commenting, I’m willing to let that slide. ;)

    I good you all a bid evening!

    *dons my fedora and waltzes out of the room*

  • TorrentFreak_Hater

    Oopsie, silly me. Typo ;)

    I did, of course, mean to say “puerile” My apologies.

  • DngnRdr

    [quote comment="177864"]All this shows us that Demonoid can be imtimidate. Who cares if they got a letter from cira they have no real power Demonoid should have told the cira too fuck off[/quote]

    It’s more likely the pressure was on Demonoid’s host who would’ve refused to host them if they didn’t block Canadian users.
    And Demonoid aren’t necessarily intimidated, knowing full well that the Canadian users can use a proxy to bypass the blocks, they simply appear to give in and then go back to business as usual with some users slightly inconvenienced.

  • Another Canuck

    The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that P2P is LEGAL! We overtaxed Canadians got our revenge when the court ruled that the tax imposed by Parliament on blank media (cassette tapes, CDs) makes it legal to make copies on your own equipment ie. computer. Demonoid needs a Canadian lawyer who knows copyright laws. He could easily fight this and remain available to us Canucks.

  • Iono

    Ok here is my opinion as I have the right to post, right to self expression. So if you have a problem with me expressing myself, go fuck yourself.

    First of all, im Canadian(for your info)

    – Now if demonoid is in Canada, theres no reason we have to be blocked. The fact that being in Canada is a lot bigger than a Canadian using the site.If you get my point.

    – I think that its not fair that they are settled in Canada and we Canadians are blocked.

    – OK OK, alright, ill use a proxy or whatever but still were not being represented well.

    – I personnaly wont say”fuck Canadian authorities or whatever” because all this shit is from USauthorities. So ill blame the US.

    – CRIA dont represent any Canadian artist as I READ SOMEWHERE. So why the fuck they come into our country and threat us. I would have been more comprehensive if they represented 100% of canadian material. Its like the police from US entering our country to threat us, it doesnt make sense to me.

    A ot of things are just unfair I guess.Not being immature. I dont want demonoid to host their servers in Canada anymore(calm down, just an opinion)

  • Blondie

    How much time until randpeer releases its libraries? How much longer until they all realize torrent indexing isn’t illegal! It CAN’T be made a case against! Or you would have to shutdown Google.

    We have server-less anonymous peering, which is working like a charm already.
    You could also look at Stealthnet, which is also growing by the day. Make it so nobody understands what you’re doing with your connection!

  • Yatti

    My vote is to fight the CRIA.. Unblock Canada… As I don’t like being blocked … I thought this would NEVER happen here. I say move the servers elsewhere lol… Like Sweden.

  • ELCouz

    The problem is if EVERYONE who is blocked from demonoid is using a proxy for the public part of the tracker … remember that your are limited to 5 .torrent file download (near that dont remember the right amount but its less than 10 of course ! ) per week per IP !!!

  • ELCouz

    especially if everyone using all the same proxy script site ! you might have better chance if using a proxy list instead.

  • artey

    Internet 2 is on it’s way. P2P will be a thing of the past. Enjoy it while you can because it won’t be around much longer. Laws are slowly changing we are heading into the New World Order. You’ll be lucky if you even have the internet at home.

  • Artey

    What city in Canada is demonoid located in?

  • Marty

    Laval, Quebec

  • Jim Richards

    Your all a pack of ASSHOLES

  • grapes

    The latest changes to the site are giving us some problems – We’ll be back soon

    demonoid.com is temp ofline wonder whats going on :P

  • Travel McTravelson

    I’m moving to the US.

  • grapes

    for anyone saying the us sucks
    you think its my fault for all this riaa and every other aaa its not me, its not my next door neigbor its are goverment. not the people are goverment is so dame corrupt look at the facts about stuff before saying o the us sucks block us users this that. i personaly dont hate any country hell i give my house to move to another country. ((Im not proud living in the united states)) i just wished every amercian would just stick up for are rights, and canada i feel ya because torrenspy,isohunt is blocking us… well you have a good site good people keep pirating woohoo grapes out

  • Marty

    I do not understand grape’s post… Help me out anyone?

    Good news I guess is that Demonoid removed the “Canada is banned”..warning thing :P

    Hope?
    I hope so :)

  • grapes

    sorry marty just ticked cause everyone blames the us for stuff.. which most of the time its true. not my fault us sucks :(

  • Pal

    While I like Demonoid of it’s depth of content. It id painfully true they have no people skills. The Mods have a god complex…that SUX
    However like them or not….Demonoids importance to p2p community is demonstrated by our very presence…!!

  • Anonymous

    To access demonoid website from canada you need to set up a proxy in your browser.

    then in uTorrent you can set up a proxy to connect to the tracker too. then tracker connections go through the proxy but p2p (the actual downloading) goes directly from client to client, so download speed isn’t affected at all!

  • Wax Paper

    Yeah you guys need to start reporting more professionally, and with less editorializing.

    A reputable news source doesn’t need to come back and tell us that they were right (or in your case, lucky). They report the news, period. More hard facts and less posturing, please.

    And unless the story involves your news outlet personally (as was the case with the p2p.net domain forwarding to your site), it bugs the ever-living shit out of me when you write about your site in the first-person.

    But don’t take my word for it, I just have a journalism degree.

  • Stan

    TorrentFreak_Hater:
    @Stan

    Give it up, troll. You’re wasting your time. Sabin1981 posted here, as a staff member of Demonoid, and he posted the same thing – repeatedly; Demonoid WILL be back online shortly. Who was right?
    Oh yes, Sabin was.

    Fuck you and your conspiracy theorist bullshit.

    That’s terrific.
    I notice you didn’t dispute anything I wrote, nor defend the dubious and misleading claims you made, which I quoted.
    So you know, tell us some more about how credible you are. That’ll work.

    We’ve learned one thing here though
    Global moderator for a website = Some guy who has no idea about the state or even mere existance of that site nor is able to contact the owner at all.

    Aren’t we all global moderators for Demonoid then ?

    BTW if I were peddling conspiracy theories (was anything I wrote in dispute?) I wouldn’t be here merely pointing out that you don’t know shit.

    If I were, I would be here reminding people that perhaps it might be a great to jump straight back on Demonoid, considering that this isn’t the first time a major P2P site went offline for a period while they were holding discussions with an anti-piracy group, in secret, while lying to people about why they were offline.
    That didn’t turn out too well for people last time.

    Either that or it might be an idea for more than just Canadian users to start obfuscating their IP when dealing with Demonoid.

    It certainly is surprising to see so many people say “Yippee Demonoid is back from having secret discussions with an anti-piracy group about their users IPs for a week”.

    Now that’s a conspiracy theory chump.
    Not me saying that you don’t have any credible information when you clearly don’t.
    Glad you raised that topic are you ?

  • Earl

    lmfao of @ Canadians thats what you get for living next to the fucking world police but in all honesty I feel sort of sry for you guys.

    To all god damn US nerds get your moron heads out of your asses and tvs and do something! This is your government you voted for it! Well or not – that makes it your problem anyway. Even the goofy hippies had bigger balls than you guys have!

  • the noj

    GAH!! i live in canada, but luckily I use Tor… but now the whole site is down for maintanance. noooooooooo@@@

  • TorrentFreak_Hater

    Demonoid were having secret discussions with an anti-P2P group? Funny, I don’t remember any of that. Care to provide some evidence, or are you just trolling again?

    Ohhh!! You mean the CRIA, right? I guess it didn’t occur to you that it wasn’t THEM that made Demonoid block Canadian ISPs .. but Demonoid’s ISP? Hmm. I guess you haven’t really thought any of that through.

    Glad I raised the topic? Why, yes I am actually! I love seeing all the worms crawl out of the woodwork. It’s like reading a comic book, to be honest. Everyone secretly roots for the hero to fall – and people such as yourself are just doing the same thing :) You WANT Demonoid to fail, it gives small-minded scum like you a reason to cheer. Yanno, seeing the big players brought down?

    If that’s the best you can do, Sir, by spreading MORE rumours without a shred of evidence – then I guess I’m not needed here afterall. There’s nothing to debunk, you’re already doing it for me ^_^

    May I suggest a career with “The National Enquirer”? I’m sure you’d find it more to your liking than some faceless “blog”

    -=Newsflash!!!=-

    I saw Elvis on Demonoid!

    Bruce Lee is alive and well, moderating Demonoid!

    Demonoid came to me in a dream and said; “If you flame me, I will fall”

    …. *snicker*

  • Stan

    Demonoid were having secret discussions with an anti-P2P group? Funny, I don’t remember any of that.

    Why would you, we’ve already established that you aren’t privvy to anything that occurs and knew no more than anyone else on the internet.

    Are in denial or something? You seem to be having a lot of trouble acknowledging this fundamental aspect of this issue.

  • TorrentFreak_Hater

    I’m not in denial, I choose (Yes, believe it or not .. I’m a human being and free-will is my God-give right) to ignore and avoid these kinds of conspiracies. Show me some proof, Sir, and I will take up the banner at your side and we will fight to rid the world of the Tyranny of CRIA©

    … lol.

    You see my point? Or are YOU in denial about THAT? CAN an enemy concede a valid point, or are you blinded by your own sense of.. of… Jesus, what DO you call it? I fail to see your logical standpoint.

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  • Anonymous

    you can easily get past that blocking with a proxy

  • Jasper van Weerd

    [quote comment="177878"]For all the Canadian Brothers here, use a proxy that is based in another country(US or other). This was you’ll still be able to use Demonoid. ;)[/quote]

    For several reasons I would prefer any other country as the US… you don’t get happy from all the said news messaging involving torrents (in any way) in the us.

    About the demonoid fans, I agree that some of them surely need to apologize.

  • Jasper van Weerd

    [quote comment="177950"]This blog full of lies sucks!!

    Ernesto,
    No one will believe you anymore. You lost many readers with your rumour stealing from another website!!

    You didnT know anything till you read that at DEMONOID frontpage! You admited that.

    For this action you really suck!

    Fuck you – you belong to CRIA[/quote]

    Amazing… isn’t it possible to ban people without prosper reasoning… or people who use words above their age…?

  • Stew

    Nice to see all you high school kids can get back to your pathetic 90210 wannabe stealing and swearing and pretending you somehow have something to offer the world community.

  • foussais

    Are there are readers around the world who were aware that Canada had a recording industry – not exactly a super-power in world music!

    Good luck Demonoid – Good luck Ernesto

  • Jim

    @ # 250
    Well said!

  • toronto guy

    Canada has a relatively unique provision in the Copyright Act, at s. 80, which provides:

    80. (1) Subject to subsection (2), the act of reproducing all or any substantial part of
    (a) a musical work embodied in a sound recording,
    (b) a performer’s performance of a musical work embodied in a sound recording, or(br> (c) a sound recording in which a musical work, or a performer’s performance of a musical work, is embodied

    onto an audio recording medium for the private use of the person who makes the copy does not constitute an infringement of the copyright in the musical work, the performer’s performance or the sound recording.

    The key words here are “for the private use of the person who makes the copy”. This means that you may make a copy of any sound recording and use it yourself. You may copy a friend’s cd, or you may download music, and listen to it yourself. All of these activities are exempted from infringement.

    In contrast, the following activites are not exempted by s. 80. You may not copy a cd or rip an mp3 and give it to anyone else. You may not send an mp3 to a friend over the net, because a copy is made in that process. You may not file share (or upload) over the internet without infringing. This last infringement is due to the nature of p2p file-sharing.

    When a person requests a file over a p2p network, like Kazaa, the network sends out requests to the effect of, “Hey, Mr. X is looking for song Y, do you have a copy?” Your computer has results, and sends the information back through the network to Mr. X. Mr. X, seeing the result, decides to download it. He sends a request to your computer for the file. Here’s what’s key: he does not log onto your computer, make a copy of Song Y, and send it back. Your computer receives the request for Song Y, and then your computer makes the copy by reading the information off of your hard drive and transmits it to him. He now has a copy (which he downloaded, but most importantly, _you_ uploaded simultaneously), as do you.

    Thus, whenever someone downloads from your computer, your computer makes a copy for their use. This is infringement with no exemption, because you are entirely responsible for what your computer does. Some have argued that, at least while you are away from your computer, you are not responsible for someone downloading from it. This would only be valid if (a) that person had complete control over your computer and (b) it was private control, rather than public (because only private copying avoids infringement). Complete control would mean physical control, usually, but also might mean full remote access. However, access to some of your files through an application that you, yourself, chose to execute would fall far short of relinquishing control of your computer, even if you turned on the p2p app and left the room. In addition, even if someone had full remote access of your computer, if that access was from outside your “domestic setting” (as the Copyright Board defines it) it would fall under “public” rather than “private” copying. Strangers over a p2p network fall outside your domestic setting. Therefore, when it comes to p2p applications, you are considered responsible for your computer’s actions.

    One important point of all this is that so long as you use a p2p application with sharing turned off, you cannot infringe copyright with that application. That’s an imperfect solution, of course, because some of us need to share so that the system works. It’s also worth noting that the RIAA has chosen only to sue “supernode” users in the US. If you are not a supernode, and if you share small amounts of material, you probably won’t attract attention. It’s the big sharers who are on the hook.

    There are other reasons as well that file sharing is infringement, which I will canvas briefly: Offering your files on a p2p network is “public” rather than “private” copying, for two reasons. First, because sharing on a p2p network is allowing the public, in the common sense meaning of the word, to access your files. Second, because the Copyright Board has defined “to the public” as something intended to reach more than one person outside your domestic setting. Any public copying is of course not protected under the private copying provision in s. 80.

    In short, when we share our files, we infringe copyright each time someone downloads from us on a p2p app, and we can’t avail ourselves of the private copying provision in the Act. We are only safe in downloading. I hope that the Act is updated once again to give us some relief for sharing music through the medium of the internet (although full-on p2p file-sharing will probably always be considered infringment, it would be nice if at least ftp’ing music on a private scale would be legal).

  • toronto guy
  • Anonymous

    [quote comment="177832"]God damn it ! Why the fuck doset someone bomb the cria offices already i want my torrents !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Find a way t get the canadians back ! we got the latest Movie Rips ![/quote]

    Would be good a fast free proxy for torrents, then all Canadian users will be able to use demonoid again!!

  • Anonymous

    [quote comment="177832"]God damn it ! Why the fuck doset someone bomb the cria offices already i want my torrents !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Find a way t get the canadians back ! we got the latest Movie Rips ![/quote]

    Would be good a fast free proxy for torrents, then all Canadian users will be able to use demonoid again!!

    [quote comment="178247"]My vote is to fight the CRIA.. Unblock Canada… As I don’t like being blocked … I thought this would NEVER happen here. I say move the servers elsewhere lol… Like Sweden.[/quote]

    Need money to fight, everyone should donate to demonoid if you get something good, only needs to be a little bit 50cents from each person would give them some finance to get a good lawyer

  • Truthsayer

    I just want to ask those people who keep saying “Sabin Got It Right!” to go pack and read his posts. he kept insisting that demonoid was down due to “hard drive failure” because of “The new TV season”.

    Stop trying to paper over the truth. *some* people were spreading BS.

  • UKDave

    Demonoid is a great site and I’m happy to see it’s up again

  • TorrentFreak_Hater

    WHAT?!

    No Sabin did *not* say anything about “the new TV season” so if you’re just trying to badmouth him, give it up you fucking ass. Yes, Sabin said it was due to hardware and it WAS, in part. The other has obviously been shown, by DEIMOS and not some wannabe-reporter, that it was to enable the new IP block.

    Don’t start spreading lies, you ignorant little cockroach, because everything you say can easily be researched and proven as nothing more than the flighting fancy of a diseased child.

  • UKDave

    @ h33t (AKA lacadaemon (Admin at http://www.h33t.com)

    U really are a piece of work and, thanks to many others, u have been ridiculed and ur bollocks has been laughed at to the far reaches of the file sharing community thanks to this blog. I regularly read this sites news and as soon as I saw this I felt I had to debunk your lies. So heregoes

    I know NATAS personally and have been to his apartment, lent him some of my CD collection to rip on oink (the music torrent site) and seen him rip masses of copyrighted material and seed it on Demonoid and other torrent sites. And I’ve seen him seed it on h33t.com as well (was last year). Thats until u guys had a falling out about the graphics he did for ur site.
    Everyone can c this thread for info: http://h33tfr33sp33k.h33t.com/index.php/topic,16.0.html
    I know this well because I was with NATAS when he was doing the artwork and he often asked me for a second opinion on the logos he did.

    For those of u who want to laugh at h33t/lacadaemon’s crap then take a look at these: http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y188/pbkt01/h33t/SeedingLost01.png
    http://www.h33t.com/forum/index.php?topic=28.0

    NATAS seeded the whole season of Lost (more than 35GB) for h33t.com and thats just one example of the tons of stuff he contributes on bit torrent. Everyone knows him and knows your rant is full of dogshit, buddy!

    So people, the truth is that unfortunately h33t has tried to soil his name in an act of, how can i say “unspeakable internet treachery”. All because these two no longer get along. How sad it is and that people resort to so much slander and backstabbing online.
    NATAS introduced me to torrents and since I’ve moved back to the UK I’ve gotten my own friends into it. Its great!!

    So h33t, please go fuck yourself with a retractable batton cos no one with half a brain is going to believe u, lol

    Oh yeah, one more thing. After you two guys parted ways he backed up all the webpages on your site in case you try to change any content and slander him like you did about 6 months ago on your forums. Really, get a life matey!!!!!

  • TorrentFreak_Hater

    Oh and I see Sabin’s comment were finally met with “approval” and were allowed to be shown. It’s about time, since that’s the only guy here who is PART of Demonoid.

    Truthsayer, you seem to have a personal grudge against Sabin. Interesting, but what relevance does that have with any of this? Your quoting things that Sabin did NOT say – and what are you hoping to achieve by that? Worldwide hatred of the guy? HAH! In your dreams, sonny. The guy has far more respect from far more people on the “net” than you could ever hope to gain.

    He was doing his job by standing by Demonoid. I, for one, applaud him for that. You people just want to spread misinformation.

  • UKDave

    I also hope that Canadians can get back onto the site and that the CRIA rot in hell

  • TorrentFreak_Hater

    @UKDave

    Agreed, also :)

    Canadians have gotten a bad rap from all of this and it’s not their fault.

  • Jackson

    [quote]I mean, c’mon, how hard could it possibly be to issue an official four sentence statement about legal issues to calm down the frightened users and end all the speculation at the same time? Huh?[/quote]

    [quote]Deimos has his reasons and I trust those reasons.[/quote]

    Don’t buy it. He should have said something. Everyone was left scared and fearing the worst. In the news vacuum rumors started: the CRIA story (which was at best a rumor) and the story on Wiki that Deimos was killed in a car accident, and that the RIAA was now running the tracker. Deimos can say what happened now – he could have said it a week ago.

    Big fan of Demonoid and thankful to Deimos but this absolute silence thing creates far more problems than it solves.

  • UKDave
  • Stan

    He was doing his job by standing by Demonoid. I, for one, applaud him for that. You people just want to spread misinformation.

    If you have a problem with misinformation then why applaud him citing a cause that is contradicted by the site announcement ?

  • TorrentFreak_Hater

    Why? Because as has been said, by many people, that announcement ISN’T the whole reason.

    I see you’re still dodging the issue and the original question, so I see no further reason to sully myself by talking with you.

  • psrst143

    Canadian users go to this site if u need to access demonoid.

    http://www.vidalia-project.net/

  • pwned

    owned lying demonoid admins who said Ernesto was a liar and the servers were down because of hardware failure

    you lied lasttime demoinoid went down too when Ernesto was right again

    maybe you should show some integrity and apologise.

  • aphexacid

    Man dude. this is some serious shit. to all my Canadian brothers and sisters, i feel for you guys. But dont worry. we’ll figure something out. we always do.

    til then, smoke a joint!

  • RED DWARF POSSEY

    I live in the uk and it isnt back on here the tracker is working for my up/downloads but the site itself gives this message—The latest changes to the site are giving us some problems well be back soon—Could take another week?? who nows the info is crap.LONG LIVE DEMONOID!!

  • Stan

    Why? Because as has been said, by many people, that announcement ISN’T the whole reason.

    Yeah, it’s just the one that the site says is the reason it was down and that everyone was denying.

    Apparently though this isn’t the first time Demonoid staff have lied to their users and slandered this site for an accurate report about downtime.

    Way to confirm you have no credibility and aren’t trustworthy guys.

  • CRIA-TATTY

    This is not a CRIA or RIAA Troubel!

    I will post this Week the Top 100 Tracks from Canada.

    Everybody in US and Canada can download the Torrent File from
    the big Torrent Search Site’s.

    Cria-Tatty from
    torrent-tatty.IR

  • hoodlum

    Looks to me this TorrentFreak_Hater guy has the loveliest boy-crush on deimos/sabin..

    dude.. get a room and some kleenex.

  • Liquid Pie Chops

    282 is my lucky number how cool is that?

  • TorrentFreak_Hater

    Hoodlum, I love you :)

    I love you for the neanderthalic, immature, humour that is prevalent the world over — especially amongst children that have yet to enter puberty and engage their brains.

    God how I love you!

  • kashmirgrey

    [quote comment="177838"]Think you guys owe Ernesto some apologies.[/quote]

    Here is the deal regarding my frustration with Ernie’s initial article. It was unconfirmed. He spoke with both a Noid admin and the CRIA and received no confirmation regarding his suspicions. That’s not honest journalism and it caused quite an upset, both with folks frustrated about what I just described and those that saw their world coming crashing down on them (which folks, if you’re one of those people who were contemplating suicide over all this… two words… Get Help!

    Ernie had an alternative as to how to handle his lack of confirmation and still write an article. All he had to do was state something along the lines of, “due to recent events… blah blah blah, it is quite plausible that the blah blah blah might be responsible… blah blah blah. However, these are just suspicions and no explanation has been provided blah blah and nothing has been confirmed. At the current time, blah blah, only time will tell… blah.. blah.. blah..” If I had seen something along those lines, it would have been cool and I believe most others would agree. We have enough things to worry about w/o unconfirmed hunches broadcasted for shock value. but hey, that’s just my opinion. Ernesto, thanks for straightening it all out, and getting new confirmed info out. bottom line, The Noid will be back soon. Very supercool!

  • Hater_of_TorrentFreak_Hater

    OMG, torrent freak hater cunt, i don’t like you. How can u hate torrent freak when they were rite all along? Ur a bastard.

  • TorrentFreak_Hater

    *yawn*

    Do you have to use expletives to get your point across? Can’t you discuss things like a civilized human being?

  • Hater_of_TorrentFreak_Hater

    Your such a grammar nazi, can you have a conversation without being a dick head?

  • kashmirgrey

    ok, well that’s it for me. I sure hope the Noid is up soon cuz all the (melo) drama in here, who wet whose bed, who stole whose crayons, and who left the seat up is really pretty lame, folks. yeah, having demonoid down was a major drag, but newsflash, life goes on, at least the sun looks like its coming up again this morning where I am. Demonoid has pretty decent drama. For soap operas, well I don’t watch those, but besides the episodes going on in here, maybe tvtorrents… I dunno’. anyway, peace all, and to all a good… morning!

  • TorrentFreak_Hater

    In that context, you should be using; “You are” or “You’re” — not “Your”

    Fool.

    As a matter of fact, I have been having a conversation without being a dickhead. I hadn’t even said anything to you – you were the one that attacked me with no provocation. If you wish to hold a conversation with me, I’d be happy to oblige – just drop the attitude :)

  • TorrentFreak_Hater

    Peace to you too, Kashmirgrey :)

    Glad we could entertain you ^_^ Least we can do while Demonoid is out of action, eh? :D

  • Devil worshuper

    that’s funny,i have 2 canadians in the torrent i’m leaching.Must be a left over from DHT/”echange pear”.

    If you are canadian,try to connect anyway,you never know,maybe your client still has an IP from a current pear.I ‘m sure there are work around’s for the power users.

  • TorrentFreak_Hater

    @Devil

    Of course! You can proxy-access the site, Canadian or not, so connecting to the tracker is the same thing. It’s a pain, but easily remedied with any number of free tools :)

  • Hater_of_TorrentFreak_Hater

    [quote comment="178434"]In that context, you should be using; “You are” or “You’re” — not “Your”

    Fool.

    As a matter of fact, I have been having a conversation without being a dickhead. I hadn’t even said anything to you – you were the one that attacked me with no provocation. If you wish to hold a conversation with me, I’d be happy to oblige – just drop the attitude :)[/quote]
    Your the one with the attitude, PUNK!

  • TorrentFreak_Hater

    @HoTF_H

    I guess that means we won’t become friends. Shame.

  • kashmirgrey

    [quote comment="178435"]Peace to you too, Kashmirgrey :)

    Glad we could entertain you ^_^ Least we can do while Demonoid is out of action, eh? :D[/quote]

    right on, brother! you made some solid contris to the ongoing conversation. I think your name is a tad bit too harsh on Ernie, but hater of hater of torrentfreak hater? I mean, where will it end? i_too_am_a_hater_of_torrent_freak_hater? If you think about it, the possibilities are endless!!! you’re cool with me, man! look me up and we can swap some decent rips when all is back up :-)

  • TorrentFreak_Disliker

    Touché

    Rebuke accepted. I don’t hate this site, though I’m disillusioned with it. I’ll modify it, so as to stop causing grief to Ernesto.

  • kashmirgrey

    [quote comment="178443"]Touché

    Rebuke accepted. I don’t hate this site, though I’m disillusioned with it.

    I’ll modify it, so as to stop causing grief to Ernesto.[/quote]

    I have a feeling ol’ Ernie is and has been laughing his ass off at all this. If you stop and consider it all, it is kinds’ funny. However, I feel for my Canadian brothers and sisters. I was pretty bummed just by torrentspy kicking us folks from the US out. Where there is a PC there is hope!

    hey, btw, nice name change. Much more … diplomatic! btw, poor grammar (that is unintentionally bad) drives me fucking nuts too! always has, don’t know why…

  • TorrentFreak_Disliker

    I seem to be caught in limbo, between Demonoid and Isohunt/Torrentspy — I’m from the UK :)

    So far, so good – no despicable, illegal, practices to stop me from sharing my ill-gotten gains ^_^

  • FaeGiN

    The internet and it’s ilk make me more disillusioned every day.
    TorrentFreak_hater, you aren’t any better my friend. You have been unable to rise above so many puerile comments that you show yourself to be as childish as the more obvious morons.
    Threads like this almost bring vomit to my throat as I realise just how far down the evolutionary scale humans are pushing themselves by not educating their children!

  • Solitaris

    ONE thing to contemplate:

    Few weeks ago i posted in demonoid, post had link to Torrentfreek article and post was deleted + i got warning :D .
    haha link was about MediaDefenders leaked emails.
    So i noticed Demonoid filtering info about MediaDefender, very strange.

  • afrofur

    Ernesto … i enjoy the blog – fck the haters, keep up the good work.

    Demonoid … come on now!!!! find a way to get me back my direct access.

    cria … fck u. u can take away my fave site, but in the larger scheme of things it doesnt make one fcking bit of difference.

  • Yeww

    [quote comment="177832"]God damn it ! Why the fuck doset someone bomb the cria offices already i want my torrents !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Find a way t get the canadians back ! we got the latest Movie Rips ![/quote]

    wouldnt a proxy work?
    try http://www.weprox.com go go go
    ladys

  • atmrbt

    this has to be the longest list of comments of pointing fingers and bullshit that I’ve ever read. No offense Ernesto/Torrent-Freak, but news should be based on fact and not speculation. If you base it on speculation, you get hundreds of ppl here posting more bullshit. You post speculations, and then wait for all the bullshit to arrive. There is not one valid post in this list of comments and it doesn’t say much for this site. All the comments here are just more speculation because the original post had absolutely no fact (when it was originally written).

    I’ve never been on torrent freak until this whole demonoid fiasco started, but I can assure you I won’t be coming back, and I’m sure a lot of other ppl may agree with me. So you may have a nice burst of revenue right now because of all the crap you posted on this site about demonoid, but don’t hold your breath too long… better yet… go ahead and hold your breath, it will save a lot of ppl trouble in wasting their time reading your bullshit.

  • Yeww

    [quote comment="178467"][quote comment="177832"]God damn it ! Why the fuck doset someone bomb the cria offices already i want my torrents !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Find a way t get the canadians back ! we got the latest Movie Rips ![/quote]

    wouldnt a proxy work?
    try http://www.weprox.com go go go
    ladys[/quote]

    hahah man that was a stupid post dw bout that one guys hahah i only just realised how stupid it was…

  • sure!

    You have all given torrent freak more traffic then its ever seen, surely.

    You can dis, hate, declare your never revisiting TF again, all you want.

    You’re liars, and I bet you have all already revisited NUMEROUS times.

    Good work Ernesto, I do believe your articles have served more then their purpose. TRAFFIC = MONEY

  • Edmund Gerber

    Well – can’t wait to get back onto Demonoid…

    So I can delete my effing account! Demonoid – you are cowards and liars. Fool me once, etc…

  • ok

    Excuse me but why are you so mad that you can’t reach demonoid if you want the torrents you can find it everywhere all torrent indexers are full of demonoid torrents.Only if you are an active uploader its a problem but i think that this issue can be solved if they decide to coorporate with another site.
    Sorry for my bad english.

  • Neighbour

    Just use The Pirate Bay if you have to use a public tracker, at least they say f*ck you to everyone.

    Demonoid was already chased out of Holland and now they back down again…

  • Neighbour

    [quote comment="178484"]Well – can’t wait to get back onto Demonoid…

    So I can delete my effing account! Demonoid – you are cowards and liars. Fool me once, etc…[/quote]

    Actually I tried to delete my account. Not possible (even emailed admins about it, no response). Thanks for respecting people’s privacy.

  • DarkAeons

    I’ m from canada and I’m seriously pissed by the treatment we get especially when this shouldn’t be happening… CRIA like said many times before has no legal ground for this action and demonoid still bans canadian users… excuse me but FUCK THEM MORONS.

  • Emperor

    I don’t see what’s the big problem, just use the piratebay. I know it’s frustrating but still, there are other options.

  • UKDave

    [quote comment="178482"]Good work Ernesto, I do believe your articles have served more then their purpose. TRAFFIC = MONEY[/quote]

    You sound like the **AAs with all your money-money bullshit

  • Soumik

    Canadian users can access Demonoid easily, via proxies. No need to make a big fuss over this!

  • Peppyto

    Ok people should make viruses or stuff like that and attack the CRIA to show them to stop fucking with us. If the CRIA can do that kind of pressure why would’nt other country’s compagnies join in to block completely demonoid

  • Ernesto’s Fan

    Lol, I

  • Ernesto’s Fan

    Comments full? Lol, I

  • Ernesto’s Fan

    Comments are screwed up!

    Lol, I lub Ernesto. =P But I lost a lil’ bit of respect with his subtle “I told you so” in that last paragraph. Oh Ernesto, the thing’s you’ve sunk to. I still lub u, just PLEASE (for the sake of your fans), don’t do that again~ Isn’t it enough that WE believed you? Your need to be validated by these other chumps is nothing short of pathetic. T.T Don’t make me feel like this again, or my love will completely fade away. T.T

  • Ernesto’s Fan

    Comments are screwed up!

    What’s going on? oo;; Lol, I lub Ernesto. =P But I lost a lil’ bit of respect with his subtle “I told you so” in that last paragraph. Oh Ernesto, the thing’s you’ve sunk to. I still lub u, just PLEASE (for the sake of your fans), don’t do that again~ Isn’t it enough that WE believed you? Your need to be validated by these other chumps is nothing short of pathetic. T.T Don’t make me feel like this again, or my love will completely fade away. T.T

  • Ernesto’s Fan

    Lol, sorry about the multiples guys, messages are really messed up. The original message got cut, and then was getting attached to the other ones. Guess too many comments already? xD

  • Earl

    (1)
    What TorrentFreak did was the worst kind of journalism.
    As a journalist you don’t just publish anything based on a rumor, people will start using your ‘news’ outlet sooner or later and this kind of behavior just encourages that. A source you can’t cite is not enough! Every half backed journalist knows that.
    So what did they prove? Well, they seem to be what they look like – a fancy blog. This has nothing to do with journalism.

    (2)
    Demios plus staff on the other hand are either just dumb, new to the internet or they are hiding something.
    I mean honestly the guys can’t be that stupid. So why didn’t they come clean? Apparently no one was pressuring them.
    A lack of information or news vacuum always creates a bunch of rumors and they have to know that. If you want to hide the truth you usually do that under a bunch of rumors. (which TF sooner or later will help to spread)

    The first time this happened I thought: Alright they probably don’t know what they are doing. I’ve seen semi-professionals screw up this sort of thing.
    But WTF do they have a learning disorder!? This is not a screw up or a lack of knowledge. This was done intentional. For what reason I don’t know, think for your selfs *cough*.

  • Yeh

    Its a blog not a news source?

  • dRock

    too bad it doesnt say that on the front page fucktard. how bout you own up to your own fucking mistakes you fucking pussy bitch before i DDOS your site

  • limmey

    Staff @http://galacticcentral.org

    Seeems like so many ways to get around this current situation with Demenoid..
    we always get around it..

  • Nanana

    What a whinefest. Rumors are better than no news at all. Otherwise all you haters would be begging for any rumors right now. Yes, that’s right.

  • Anonymous

    [quote comment="178552"](1)
    What TorrentFreak did was the worst kind of journalism.
    As a journalist you don’t just publish anything based on a rumor, people will start using your ‘news’ outlet sooner or later and this kind of behavior just encourages that. A source you can’t cite is not enough! Every half backed journalist knows that.
    So what did they prove? Well, they seem to be what they look like – a fancy blog. This has nothing to do with journalism.

    (2)
    Demios plus staff on the other hand are either just dumb, new to the internet or they are hiding something.
    I mean honestly the guys can’t be that stupid. So why didn’t they come clean? Apparently no one was pressuring them.
    A lack of information or news vacuum always creates a bunch of rumors and they have to know that. If you want to hide the truth you usually do that under a bunch of rumors. (which TF sooner or later will help to spread)

    The first time this happened I thought: Alright they probably don’t know what they are doing. I’ve seen semi-professionals screw up this sort of thing.
    But WTF do they have a learning disorder!? This is not a screw up or a lack of knowledge. This was done intentional. For what reason I don’t know, think for your selfs *cough*.[/quote]

    firstly its not journalism, ernesto isnt a journalist, this is a blog that reports on the torrent community , not national news

    also you have absolutely nothing to back up your point which states demonoid staff are hiding something (there not stupid or new to the internet, their running one of the biggest torrent trackers on the planet, and you are not

    i think you should put your tinfoil hat and go away, your attempt at trying to start some rumor is poor (unless you do actually believe that crap)

  • Ernesto

    im a stupid faggot. Kill me please

  • CRIA-TATTY

    @ Earl
    (1)
    In Germany we not have anything like ‘Torrentfreak’. The ‘Spiegel’ a very good German-Maganzin give a Link to this ‘Torrentfreak Site’ and they was happy to get this Informations here. — Me too.

    (2)
    Yes, the CRIA, RIAA or a CIAR-lawyer don’t send letters to
    Tracker- or Torrentsites in –North America–. They use direct a court…

    Sorry for the bad english!!

    Cria-Tatty from:
    (www) torrent-tatty.ir

  • The_pwnerer

    do you realize how much traffic your giving this rumour spreading son of a cunt?

    You spanish bastard.
    go back to mexico you illegal immigrant mother fucker. fucking drain on society.

  • Earl

    First of all I’m not trying to start a rumor. You numb nut should probably learn to read and write. You are the one seeing a conspiracy all I said they are hiding something… which they probably are.
    Why do you moron assume that means they’ve been taken over? And no they are not stupid I said that like two times.. duh.
    To make it perfectly clear for mentally challenged people like you. I think they employ the worst information politic possible.

    Coincidently I work for a new agency and Spiegel Online citing this site is the main reason for my post in the first place… which means you pretty much made my point.

  • I don’t get it

    It’s not illegal in Canada to download copyrighted content off of the internet. It is however, illegal to download (or copy) copyrighted content and sell it, only when you sell it does it become an illegal act. So the CRIA has no grounds to stop Canadian traffic, if anything they should of stopped US traffic because it IS illegal in the US to download.

  • Solitaris

    of course they hiding something. Like they hide info about MediaDefender’s leaked emails

  • Oshala – Sri Lanka

    In Sri Lanka, we only have pirated material. Video rental shops, CD and DVD selling shops, Software Movie & Music shops, all sell only pirated CDs. We have supermarkets only for pirated stuffs. All video rental shops rent pirated stuff. Great Country!!! Lucky to live here
    Pirating is legal here, only fools have originals in Sri Lanka

  • Earl

    The whole point of the post is not supposed to focused on the subject of hiding something… which obviously was the wrong theme among a bunch of paranoids.
    The point is they should have come clear its not that difficult!
    “We can’t tell you everything (or even anything – whatever it was) but stay calm we’ll deal with it.”
    That was all I wanted… now out of the sudden respectable news outlets cite TorrentFreak sorry thats just not right and its a 100% demonoids fault. Thats it!

  • Anonymous

    What I wonder is whether or not the CRIA got involved before or after your wholly unsubstantiated report. Let’s face it Ernesto, you have less journalistic integrity than Fox News. The first hint that you should do more investigation is that people immediately assume everything you post is bullshit. GTFO off my internets.

  • Everybody Relax

    Just like everybody else, I was left scrambling for whatever info I could get on what happened at demonoid. I, too, am appreciative of the info I got on torrentfreak. But the rabid bitching and speculating doesn’t help anyone. The folks that are breaking deimos’ balls are the same ones that were the most annoyed by the fact that demonoid was down. I don’t think anyone at this point should be passing judgement on whether they were intimidated and whether it was valid or not, or second-gauessing the way this was handled. Just a week ago, a large group were sobbing that it was done for good, some speculated it would be relocated. Neither happened. It’s back up, or at least was (it’s temporarily down this minute). While it sucks that our Canadian bros are screwed a little, there are definite work-arounds that can be used to remedy that.

    My suggestion is that if you really feel like demonoid or deimos was intimidated, then remember it is easy to feel intimidated when you have less resources than your opponent. Donate some money.

  • moo

    Racism, foul language and threats on the part of Demonoid supporters and/or staff. Demios must use a reverse IQ test when he selects you lot. I suspect he cringes when he reads each idiotic post.

  • dan

    [quote]“The latest changes to the site are giving us some problems – We’ll be back soon”[/quote]

    they still have some problems hope they fix it up soon!

  • Nitrate Row

    [quote] @Nitrate Row

    Of course you do! That’s because you, as well as the majority of others, realise that we DON’T own Demonoid. The only person that owns Demonoid is Deimos himself — and he answers to NOBODY. Why should he? Donations aren’t enough to keep a site as large, and as popular, as Demonoid alive. No, he does that out of his own pocket with HELP from donations.

    He does his best with the situations that occur. He doesn’t owe us anything, he doesn’t owe staff anything (except gratitude for helping keep the site running smoothly) but one thing is certain;

    He does NOT owe ANYBODY explanations for anything! We should all just be grateful for the amazing site and the fact that no matter what hardships come up, he always manages to find a way to keep Demonoid alive.
    [/quote]

    It is very sickening to hear the minority of people (but a vocal minority, and they all seem to be on torrentfreak) act like Deimos owes us something. My one big concern here is that if Deimos is reading what all these idiots say, I hope he knows that the majority of the users aren’t like that.

    [quote]I just want to ask those people who keep saying “Sabin Got It Right!” to go pack and read his posts. he kept insisting that demonoid was down due to “hard drive failure” because of “The new TV season”.[/quote]

    I don’t remember anyone saying that about demonoid. I did hear people say that about EZTV when it was down apparently for a bit though.

  • neo

    i will miss demonoid. it was my first and favorite place to find stuff.
    dam the CRIA. dam them all to hell.

  • Tramline

    Can I just say congratulations to all at demonoid and well done for pulling it back together.
    also, thanks to torrentfreak for keeping us on the edge of our seat. Despite all the critisism, you guys do a great job.
    Finally, sorry to everyone in Canada but I’m sure you’ll be able to follow all of the advice from the other posters for a work through.
    Good luck guys and I’ll see you in my peer lists soon.

    So relieved its coming back!

  • Hfbrd1

    [quote comment="178676"]Racism, foul language and threats on the part of Demonoid supporters and/or staff. Demios must use a reverse IQ test when he selects you lot. I suspect he cringes when he reads each idiotic post.[/quote]
    ermmm not that i really want to get into this again but i actually defend someone I didn’t agree with when someone else posted racist crap… as did TorrentFreak_hater check the other comments on the previous post. we aren’t all racist idiots then but i admit i am foul mouthed… opps.

  • Hfbrd1

    sorry, i meant TorrentFreak_Disliker

  • MattChazz

    [quote comment="178136"]
    We handled it the best we can. It would have been even better if some site didnt post demonoid down by CRIA.

    [/quote]

    But it was down becausse of the CRIA! They threatened Demonoind and Demonoid went down to make changes. Cause and effect.

    And you are mad at the messenger for telling the story!

    Because for some reason you didn’t want to tell the story yourself when you had the chance. Earnesto ASKED for more facts and Deimos/Demonoid refused.

    The staffer he talked to — I’ve read the IRC transcript — said we can’t confirm that but take the story down. Why? The story was CORRECT. CRIA was the reason the site was down.

    For some reason you are mad becauase he found that out and published it and wouldn’t listen to Demonoid lies again (like last time).

    Earnesto is 2 for 2 and Demonoid is 0 for 2 in truth telling.

  • The_pwnerer

    ernesto is a nic bastard. he can lick my fucking nutsack cuz he likes it in the ass. AMERICA HATES YOU FUCKING IMMIGRANT FUCKTARDS GO BACK TO YOUR POOR ASS THIRD WORLD COUNTRY YOU FUCKING KIKE BITCH.

  • ciaolorenzo

    Am I missing something ? I live in the San Francisco area of California and anytime I attempt to access Demonoid I receive “The latest changes to the site are giving us some problems – We’ll be back soon”. Are other people experiencing this ?

  • Hfbrd1

    [quote comment="178737"]Am I missing something ? I live in the San Francisco area of California and anytime I attempt to access Demonoid I receive “The latest changes to the site are giving us some problems – We’ll be back soon”. Are other people experiencing this ?[/quote]
    yep in the uk. seeing the same thing here. http://www.demonoiders.com/forum/index.php
    is useful ish.

  • Awesome.

    Ciaolorenzo.
    Yeah, were all experiencing it.

    They were up for a brief time yesterday, then they updated, which is
    message were all getting.

  • Mulato

    Torrent freak full of boo boo……naaaahhhhh

  • The_pwnerer

    [quote comment="178742"]Torrent freak full of boo boo????……naaaahhhhh[/quote]

  • Hfbrd1

    O woe is me!
    O woe is me!
    I used to have a Hamster Tree!
    But it was eaten by a newt,
    And now I have no cuddly Fruit!
    O woe is me!
    O woe is me!
    I used to have a Hamster Tree!
    Just the way i feel looking at this page.

  • demonoid user

    Demonoid should try to ask and share some experiences in legal matters with the piratebay !

    please dont give up canadians

  • Anonymous

    [quote comment="178167"]Heh, I see. All this cussing and namecalling, spewing of accusations and lies just because TF’s Ernesto reported something that turned out to be true?[/quote]
    It’s not that he reported something that turned out to be true. It’s that he reported something that he had no idea whether it was true or not.
    He “reported” a baseless rumor without mentioning that he had nothing to substantiate it.
    The fact that the reported rumor turned out to have a ring of truth is moot. It could just as easily gone the other way and turned out to have no truth whatsoever.
    It’s this “reporting” practice of TorrentFreak that has me disliking it and agreeing with TorrentFreak_Hater(Disliker), rather than who was right or wrong.

  • NightmarE D

    This story doesn’t confirm a damn thing you said the last time. “You said DEMONOID HAS BEEN SHUT DOWN BY THE CRIA”. You then went to their IRC channel and annoyed the hell out of them and told them you weren’t taking the story down because you knew it was true because of your “SOURCE”. YOU WERE WRONG. You guys are pathetic and this site is a complete joke. Oh and you Wikipedia might run a little scan on the Demonoid page to see who it was that was saying that the admin of Demonoid was dead. You’ll be surprised who it was saying that.

  • NightmarE D

    You guys were wong. Plain and simple. You made the story sound like Demonoid was gone forever because the CRIA shut them down. To prove you all have no clue what you’re talking about. The site was never entirely down to begin with and the tracker was up. You guys never pointed out that when you’d try going to Demonoid that the site would try to load then quickly go to the “Cannot be found” page, but if you paid any attention you’d have seen the little Demonoid icon in your address bar. Meaning the site was there you just couldn’t access it. You guys sad they were shut down and the story was wrong. You guys are soo pathetic that you can’t even admit it. You changed your story around to fit what’s been confirmed. That all they got was a letter. Also the CRIA is a representative of the RIAA in Canada and actually doesn’t really have anything to do with Canadian artists. You really need to stop posting BS stories that aren’t even true. You create drama to get hits to your sites and that’s immature and very pathetic. The only reason I came here was to see all the people who are pointing out how you’re WRONG with the story you posted. I’ll never be back here and I hope others follow suit in completely ignoring this joke of a site

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  • assbreaker

    [quote comment="178735"]AMERICA HATES YOU FUCKING IMMIGRANT FUCKTARDS GO BACK TO YOUR POOR ASS THIRD WORLD COUNTRY YOU FUCKING KIKE BITCH.[/quote]

    I invite you to stay a single night at my “third world neighborhood”, we will break your pussy ass hole right in the middle you racist bastard!

  • Hfbrd1

    [quote comment="178824"][quote comment="178735"]AMERICA HATES YOU FUCKING IMMIGRANT FUCKTARDS GO BACK TO YOUR POOR ASS THIRD WORLD COUNTRY YOU FUCKING KIKE BITCH.[/quote]

    I invite you to stay a single night at my “third world neighborhood”, we will break your pussy ass hole right in the middle you racist bastard![/quote]
    Now here is my problem with the site as we see this cock bag calling himself “The_pwnerer” is able to post racist and just plain stupid remarks openly. Maybe the site should review their policy on their Responses system as these idiotic children currently r easily aloud to post these comments and then “pretend” to be other users… at least make them work for it.

  • Wwhat

    The icon of the site is cached, so it can be down and still show an icon NightmarE D.
    Torrentfreak was right that the CRIA were involved, they never said they knew full details, and who cares really how right torrentfreak was, at least they tried to inform as best they could.

    As for the situation, I agree that this caving in to the CRIA isn’t good, they should move to another country again because this sort of slowly blocking more and more countries is basically the ‘enemy’ winning, especially if you consider how the torrentusers are concentrated mainly in a few countries, if you have america or canada blocked you can basically say ‘they’ won more than half the battle.

  • MattChazz

    [quote comment="178774"]
    To prove you all have no clue what you’re talking about. The site was never entirely down to begin with and the tracker was up. [/quote]

    WRONG. The site was down AND the tracker was down. Where were you? The tracker came back about a day before the site came back but we didn’t know if it was really Demonoid or the enemy controlling it.

  • Anonymous

    [quote comment="178843"]WRONG. The site was down AND the tracker was down. Where were you? The tracker came back about a day before the site came back but we didn’t know if it was really Demonoid or the enemy controlling it.[/quote]
    and why did we not know if it was really demonoid or the enemy? Because TorrentFreak doesn’t have any credibility anymore and even if he did get it right, there is no way for us to really know if it’s true or not until everything played out. And because he left the topic open just so that ppl can come here, spread more bullshit and create more traffic, in turn giving him more revenue from site hits.

    Even me writing this comment is helping him a little more. TF has no more credibility in my eyes.

  • Nejix

    as far im concerned, im just glad demonoid will be back on. Whooooo, can start getting movies again.

  • atmrbt

    [quote comment="178840"]…and who cares really how right torrentfreak was, at least they tried to inform as best they could.
    …[/quote]
    it definitely matters how right they were. In that case, I’m sure TF’s intention was not to try to inform us, but to try to spark arguments, rumors, hearsay and controversy for their own personal gain. Who cares how right I am?! I think I’m right, therefore I am.

  • Imp-noid

    My little editorial…

    No one actually knows anything except what has been posted on Demonoid. Those are the only ‘facts’ we have to work with. Everything else is just assumption, speculation, and opinion. I, personally, prefer to wait it out and ‘see’ what happens. Demonoid is worth waiting for. It’s worth a little bit of my time and faith. So, it went down. It happens. Nothing’s perfect. Cars break down, fridges go on the blink, marriages fail. It’s not a perfect world.

    The facts that bother me are that 1 person has single-handedly caused a tremendous amount of turmoil, confusion, anger, and hatred by posting speculation and conjecture. The mere fact that he has since changed his story, tried to convince everyone that he didn’t actually say what he originally posted, and is now yelling “I told you so” (still without any true facts) is what really speaks for his character.

    Has anyone else here paid attention to the ‘facts’? Does anyone even care what the truth is? Or is it just about enjoying the free-for-all that 1 man started in an effort to stroke his own ego and gain some attention that makes this entire page of silliness necessary?

  • atmrbt

    [quote comment="178857"]as far im concerned, im just glad demonoid will be back on. Whooooo, can start getting movies again.[/quote]
    Well, unfortunately, me being a canadian am screwed… dunno what I’ll use instead of demonoid now :(

    I hope demonoid will at least allow canadian users on their forums. I was a fairly active poster on their forums.

  • CdnKronik420

    I’m a Canadian user and noticed something that others might not have….Did anyone think that maybe Canadian users are being blocked to PREVENT having personal info handed over to US authorities. Why is it that Americans(who could face prosecution) are still allowed to go download and think nothings wrong…Maybe we need to back up for 2 minutes and look at the bigger picture..It just doesnt make sense that Americans can continue but Canadians cannot…I can’t speak for “D” but I’m willing to bet that he has plans to come up in the near future.

    Maybe(only speculation) Demonoid is tracking all non-Canadian visitors and thier habits, while protecting the Canadian users that have legally paid a copyright levy.. Maybe Canda is safe, but only because of our levy and other users will be handed over to the authorities. These are just my idea’s, but I’m shocked I’m the only one thinking this way.. These are just my thoughts, and we are entitled to our own…Maybe I ‘m just a pot-head, or maybe I look at things a bit differently???!!!???

  • CdnKronik420

    If anyone here cares, the links below have some interesting redirects associated…. click on the “it’s over nine thousand…” link and you’ll go to the page, then it redirects to imagefap dot com for some ugly stretch marked breasts…..

  • konjic

    Can anyone access demonoid outside of canada?
    i’v tried hide.ip, this and that and i am still getting the same old answer “The latest changes to the site are giving us some problems – We’ll be back soon”
    i would appreciate respond.
    thanx.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, this is a problem with the site…it’s not region-specific…no matter where you are, you can’t access Demonoid right now.

  • Hater_of_TorrentFreak_Hater

    [quote comment="178735"]ernesto is a nic bastard. he can lick my fucking nutsack cuz he likes it in the ass. AMERICA HATES YOU FUCKING IMMIGRANT FUCKTARDS GO BACK TO YOUR POOR ASS THIRD WORLD COUNTRY YOU FUCKING KIKE BITCH.[/quote]
    [quote comment="178601"]do you realize how much traffic your giving this rumour spreading son of a cunt?

    You spanish bastard.
    go back to mexico you illegal immigrant mother fucker. fucking drain on society.[/quote]
    You’re a racist fuck. Go hang your head in shame.

  • Hater_of_TorrentFreak_Hater

    No one can access Demonoid at the moment, they must be modifying their server to block Canadian access or something.

  • wtfbbq

    Demonoid’s still down as of 11:34 PM EST on october 1st,2007.

    I’d also like to add to everyone who’s flaming us Canadians/Demonoiders… what do you get out of it? Satisfaction knowing that you made someone feel bad over the internet? Why bull shit over the net? Just let it be… demonoid’s down, Canadian users are banned from demonoid, end of story. No stupid rumors, nothing.

  • Anonymous

    [quote comment="177913"]Proxy can make ur connection speed slow sometimes, get on a VPN guys, they’ll never be able to trace you.

    I’m on relakks.com, Swedish IP addresses[/quote]

    Yeah but for Only SEK 49.00 per month or SEK 449.00 for 12 months
    !!! Anyone know of a free or at least cheap VPN?

  • Canadian Supreme court

    Demonoid should RETHINK THIS.. Below is the reason why.

    ———
    Quote – (Canadian Supreme court Judge Von Finckenstein)
    “I cannot see a real difference between a library that places a photocopy machine in a room full of copyrighted material and a computer user that places a personal copy (of a song) on a shared directory linked to a P2P (music sharing) service”

    ———

    Federal Court of Canada (and former Competition Bureau chair) judge Konrad von Finckenstein SAID .

    For the full decision, click HERE
    http://decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca/en/2004/2004…/2004fc488.html

    TORONTO – Federal Court of Canada (and former Competition Bureau chair) judge Konrad von Finckenstein dealt a blow to the Canadian recording industry yesterday by not only saying song downloaders could stay anonymous but also that their activities weren’t illegal.

    The judge issued his widely anticipated decision yesterday to a motion brought by all of the major record labels soperating in Canada under the auspices of the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) which demanded that Canadian ISPs give up 29 names and addresses of people it said were illegally trading in massive amounts of music downloaded over the Internet. CRIA named five ISPs: Shaw Communications, Rogers Communications, Bell Canada, Telus and Vidéotron.

    CRIA tracked ISP addresses and usernames and said that each of the 29 users identified downloaded over 1,000 songs.

    However, in a concise, surprising decision, Justice von Finckenstein said the recording industry just didn’t prove its case. While all of the ISPs actively opposed the motion in court, except Vidéotron, Justice von Finckenstein called several of the CRIA tactics and claims into question and concluded “downloading a song for personal use does not amount to infringement.”

    Further, “No evidence was presented that the alleged infringers either distributed or authorized the reproduction of sound recordings. They merely placed personal copies into their shared directories which were accessible by other computer user via a P2P service… . In either case the preconditions to copying and infringement are set up but the element of authorization is missing.”

    As for the actual tying of ISP accounts with the ISP addresses and usernames gathered by CRIA, Justice von Finckenstein took a dim view of that as well. While saying, “the ISPs are definitively involved with the alleged infringers. They are not mere bystanders. They are the means by which downloaders and uploaders access the Internet and get in touch with each other,” he explained that there are far too many variables involved in accurately attaching a months-old ISP address with the proper end-user. While the ISP address will point to the right account, there is no way to identify the person sitting in front of the computer when downloading and uploading was happening.

    “Under these circumstances, given the age of the data, its unreliability and the serious possibility of an innocent account holder being identified, this Court is of the view that the privacy concerns outweigh the public interest concerns in favour of disclosure,” reads the judge’s decision.

    “That is exactly the position that we took in court. We spearheaded the initiative to protect customers’ privacy rights and we think that was the right thing to do,” said Peter Bissonnette, president of Shaw, in a statement.

    CRIA, however, is not deterred by the decision. “We remain committed to our plans to enforce the law against unlawful ‘file sharing’, which is devastating the entire music community. We will continue to fight to protect music creators from the theft of hundreds of thousands of songs,” said CRIA President Brian Robertson.

    “We are reviewing the decision received today from the trial court and expect to appeal it,” added CRIA general counsel Richard Pfohl. “In our view, the copyright law in Canada does not allow people to put hundreds or thousands of music files on the Internet for copying, transmission and distribution to millions of strangers. We put forward a compelling case of copyright infringement in seeking these disclosure orders. We presented more initial evidence than has ever been put forward in a request for disclosure of user identities from ISPs – which Canadian courts have granted on numerous occasions.”

    Canada’s recording industry has launched several initiatives designed to meet the technological challenges posed by unauthorized online music distribution: from the Value of Music public awareness campaign aimed at the early teen demographic, to direct ‘instant messages’ to unauthorized file-sharing service users, to the creation of new legal online business models like http://www.puretracks.com and http://www.archambaultzik.ca.

    —-

    I would also like to know is if we pay a Copyright levy why is the CRIA saying we cant download ??
    what is the point in the “Copyright levy” if users like myself who buy Blank Media/Hard Drives/Flash-USB Drives/MP3 Players who are paying a “Copyright levy” when buying the things listed above cant take advanage of the “Copyright levy” by downloading for free???

    if the CRIA is not geting any of the money from the “Copyright levy” then they should take the “Canadian Private Copying Collective” to court and not users or usersites since it is the Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC) that collects the “Copyright levy”.

  • wtfbbq

    DEMONOID IS BACK ONLINE AS OF 11:44 PM EST ON OCT.1,07.

  • Travis

    Those fucking shits (the CRIA, I mean) I’m going to take down their servers.

    just watch, by october 3rd at 21:00 they are going to have their site replaced with a bunch of torrents and shit, FUCK THOSE BASTARDS

    unless they can bring demonoid back to CANADA – THEIR SITE IS GOING TO BE HURT BADLY, GOVERNMENT WEBSERVERS WHEVER ARE GOING DOWN, I HAVE PEOPLE THAT CAN TAKE DOWN THE MPAA – YES, THIS IS A WARNING BUT NOT A THREAT

  • Colin

    How long untill we canadians can use demonoid again?!?! *I’m Melting!!!*

  • Anonymous

    Ooooh.
    You being angry is making me hawt Travis.

    Rawr.

  • Tamburello26

    [quote comment="177992"]damn i wish i could get on demonoid but my password isnt working, which is pretty worrying for a start but hopefully its just a mistake on my behalf

    on the other hand if there is anyone who has an account i can get a message up on the demonoid forum or a spare invite code then you would be doing me a favour[/quote]

    ***** You may have to reset your password.***** Just click on there, as if you had ‘forgotten’ it … they’ll send you a link with the new one … then you can access your account and change it back again, that’s what happened to me. For reasons unknown my password wasn’t working anymore at first.

  • Frekinindian

    well its working for me and i am glad its back pirate bay is blocked by my isp and i hate proxies so demonoid and PVT trakers FTW

    And hats off to ernesto for the scoop he posted last week

    U lamers Owe him an Appology

  • anondemonoidstaffer

    I am locked in basement at CRIA headquarters. I am posting thru cellphone. dont use demonoid trackrs – its an ip trap!!!!911
    codeword: “verbophobe is STILL, after all these years, a faggot”

  • Please, Everyone Remind Demonoid Admins of there own user agreement

    I think their User agreement covers their Asses Completely and they Caved to a very idle and weak threat from the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) most likely… This is a Sad Day for Us All, especially us as One of the Major contributors to Demonoid. Yes we can freely access the Demonoid website sitting here in Canada which did nothing to prevent us from Downloading Freely yet renders our constant contributions to our favourite site completely unrewarding for us as our IP addresses are now masked by TOR and Privoxy so our ratios will not reflect or efforts and therefore we will not bother… I guess the last year’s 500 GB of uploading new releases will allow us to freely download anything we want for a long time until our ratio drops to nill and we are booted off… All we can say to those in other countries who think this doesn’t affect them… THINK AGAIN!!! Not only do you loose out on our huge percentage of uploads, we will now be boycotting uploading in general and becoming what we have despised the most over the years… A hit and run leacher… NO POINT TO UPLOAD !!! So we implore you, contact Demonoid and vent your furry and frustration with their pathetic and selfish actions in folding to an unenforceable threat while living in the country that is now Harbouring their spineless persons!!! We ask you remind them of this user agreement which protects them, as your country may be next and before long these chicken shit jellyfish administrators will have no place to run to!!!

  • ex-demonoid moderator

    [quote comment="178105"]I have belonged to Demoniod for years and have contributed to each every month. Its one of my favorite sites. However, they handled this very badly. The staff was uninformed and nasty to anyone asking questions. They kepts shrieking “we don’t owe you anything”! Well, sorry, you do. You owe me courtesy and a reasonable explanation of what is going on. I got neither.[/quote]

    While I haven’t used the site much for a couple of years now, it was still an old favorite, and I identify with your feelings on the matter. I don’t believe I’ll use the site again.. too much asshatery all around. A community only works when those in charge respect the members, and the members believe they can trust those in charge. Caving to CRIA, an organization with increasingly less and less legal and public clout, by removing access for Canadians is a slap in the face to a large portion of the original contributors and contents providers that made the site what it was. You fail Deimos, FAIL.

  • Idiot

    [quote]A community only works when those in charge respect the members, and the members believe they can trust those in charge.[/quote]

    What community? FYI this is a “FREE” site..they have no obligations to anyone at all…you are welcome to use it or abuse it..

    [quote]by removing access for Canadians[/quote]

    There are other sites like Mininova or pirate bay etc….

    [quote]You fail Deimos, FAIL[/quote]

    I feel the same way, but then maintaining a tracker like Demonoid must be pretty tough.How would you like to maintain a tracker like Demonoid?

  • Guspaz

    Little problem. When the European trackers block US traffic, that’s one thing; they’re out of the jurisdiction.

    When a Canadian tracker has to block Canadian IPs, that’s a more serious issue; the very thing that forces them to block Canadian IPs would also force them to remove their tracker from Canada. They can’t have it both ways.

    Make no mistake; Demonoid did cave under pressure. It took court rulings to get sites like TorrentSpy to block US traffic. Demonoid started blocking traffic based on a letter. Prosecuting BitTorrent related copyright infringement has not been tested in Canada to the same extent that it has in the US (read: at all), so there’s nothing compelling Demonoid to do this.

    Either way, it’s not a major concern to me; I’ll simply use a US proxy if I need to use Demonoid.

  • Oshala – Sri Lanka

    THE END

  • Vidalia Works

    Fellow Canadians… Here is the work around for accessing Demonoid:

    Step 1: Download Firefox Browser from here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

    Step 2: Install Firefox (this will be the browser you use to search and download from demonoid) if you don’t want to get firefox, Internet Explorer will work fine it just doesn’t have the on/off button for IP blocking installed right into the browser and you will have to manually configure the browser to run with the application in used in step 3

    Step 3: Get the bundle from http://www.vidalia-project.net/download.php
    Get the Latest Vidalia Release (26-August-2007) by looking under Stable Bundles and download the one that says 0.0.14 (sig) if you have windows

    Step 4: Install to the default directory it asks you to and include all of the recommended programs (there are 4 in total and they all work together)

    Step 5: Restart your computer and you will see some options in the toolbar near the clock, one that looks like a green piece of Garlic (TOR) and another that is a blue circle with a “P” inside it (Privoxy) and you can turn both of these on and off at will from here when you want to go on demonoid.

    Step 6: If you chose to use firefox you should see in the bottom right corner of the browser an indication on whether or not TOR is running, you can toggle this on and off. If you don’t see the “TORbutton” in the bottom right corner of firefox see: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2275 and click “install now”.
    Note if you chose to use Internet Explorer instead, you will have to configure it, to view install instructions for windows see: http://tor.eff.org/docs/tor-doc-win32.html

    Step 7: Go to: http://www.demonoid.com and sign in, this whole process will slow down your browsing as everything you see is being bounced off a volunteer server but you now have access, we suggest you go into your account and change your country listing from “Canada” to another country (like Sweden, or Norway, or maybe USA?) as who knows if they will delete the accounts listed as Canadian !!! Enjoy downloading only as uploading we do not believe will be reflected in your ratio… eventually you will get booted off for a low share ratio unless you currently have a very good ratio to play with for a while.

    If anyone knows of a better work around other that logging into a proxy server every time, please share.

  • Yay it’s Back!

    Demonoid site is back!!

  • Kapil

    Demonoid is up again.. Checked 12:29PM IST

  • Kapil

    oye// balle balle balle.. itz really back

  • Jake

    I don’t get it. If you don’t like this site, nobody is forcing you to read what it says. Just read around and get your own idea of what’s happening, christ.

  • grapes

    Maintenance

    We are currently performing the daily site maintenance.
    We’ll be back soon

    Do not click refresh. It will send you back to this page.

    Click here to retry instead

    and the site is off again seems like they havin too many problems

  • Kapil

    Maintenance is a daily routine.. it’ll be up in few minz..

  • LoLz

    Wow i haven’t laughed so hard in a long time. I mean the whole blog is a bad joke. I from canada and yes it sucks but people get a life.

    Yes being block from one of the best torrent sites on the net sucks, but the comments on this blog (not just the ones from TFH) are so sad

  • UiggieBnz

    The “Proxy Add-on” for Fire fox mentioned by “StonedSlacker” works beautifully for all Canadian users.

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  • thetyke

    For all you Canadian Users! I’ve been a member of Demonoid since before most of you remember BitTorrent existing. When I found out I could no longer visit one of my most favorite sites, I was quite dismayed. Luckily, I have the bypass for us!

    As stated above: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/125 works awesome.

    http://tools.rosinstrument.com/howto.htm#warn has a very useful guide afterwards to get you up and surfing Demonoid!

  • TorrentFreak_Disliker

    My comments weren’t sad – I’ve been grinning from ear-to-ear since this all started ;)

    I gave up any pretense of being sensible to you people .. none of you want the TRUTH, you just want more and more conspiracy theories. So I’ve just been entertaining myself by feeding the trolls :D

  • worandq

    Demonoid up and working fine from UK

  • Bob & Doug Mckenzie

    Canadian Recording Industry Association
    85 Mowat Avenue
    Toronto, Ontario
    M6K 3E3

    Phone: (416) 967-7272
    Fax: (416) 967-9415

    Have a question or comment? Contact CRIA by email at info@cria.ca.

  • illmatic

    fuck CRIA!

  • twizzzy

    amazing anger this week i agree
    some people can be well ‘orridd

    i never doubted your journalisitc integrity

    hope Demonica will be okay – her data base is currently suffering from some kind of corruption which is causing havoc.

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  • priss

    Looks like there were some truth to the rumors. With nobody giving any comment you did a good job hitting it close to the truth.
    I love coming to site to get the latest info on P2P news. I wouldn’t worry about the blocks. Any P2P user knows how to handle the block. But the question now is legal. Can the **AA still go after Demonoid. I wonder how the RIAA is going to tell its bitch (CRIA) to handle this. I suppose they’ll buy a new law.

  • good_fairy

    Oh for crying at loud, everybody here is posting unverified suspicious “facts” and opinions. Mine may also turn to be true?!

  • Anonymous

    Oh sure, ban me for good.
    (Hate mods)

  • Reveeen

    What everyone in the Canadian recording industry seems to forget is that since the early 60′s there is a hidden tax on all blank recording media sold in Canada payable to the recording industry. That’s right folks, blank tapes and CD’s are more expensive to buy in Canada because of this hidden tax, or royalty. The A-holes from the recording industry have taken those evil downloaders in Canada to court twice, and lost twice, as the court decision was that anyone who buys blank media has already paid, and should not be expected to pay twice. So, now the attack is not to individuals, but they are trying to attack/threaten the source. Well there are more sources than Demonoid, maybe something to do with pirates and bays, just keep downloading, you have paid in advance for it.

  • Anonymous

    Canadians should take a lesson from PirateBay and the Swedish people, who successfully stood up to empty legal threats like this one. Make sure you watch stealthismovie (“Steal This Movie”) LEGALLY available via bittorrent download everywhere (except in Canada via Demonoid). The laws in Canada in this regard are very similar to Sweden’s and the legal threat from the CRIA is probably baseless.

    This threat from the CRIA is a violation of free speech and our freedom to exchange information. I don’t even use Demonoid for music.

  • TOEJAM

    Haahahahahaaa……
    This has been an excellent read to finish off my night :)

    Deimos may, or may not fill in the blanks.
    But does it really matter??
    Would it change anything??
    Does he owe it to you??
    Is he really a man??
    Are you being fooled??
    Is he being smart??
    Am I going on??
    Are you still reading??
    Why are you still reading??
    Why dont you stop??
    Will I be flamed??
    Do I have your attention??
    Are you that easy??
    Should i stop now??
    Why should I stop??
    Will you read on??
    etc… etc… etc…
    Haahahahaaaaa…..
    An example of never ending questions, that wont change a damn thing, but nurture anothers question.

    One from me.
    Are you happy Demonoid is back? :)

    Hmmmmmmmm……
    Sorry to hear about the trouble our Canadian friends are facing. :(
    The alternative doors are open ;)

  • Anonymous

    You don’t think this is about free speech? Think about this: the world knows about the atrocities in Myanmar due to information being sent out over the Internet, despite government and military attempts to silence the people and keep the atrocities silent. This is the power of the Internet at its best and most productive. The world needs information and truth, and the Internet can deliver it so that people can live safely and with full and equal access to information, ideas and education.

    What does this have to do with Demonoid? Think about this, any government organization or corporate interest that wants to shut down a site that shares LEGAL information can simply site the existence of music torrent tracker files (which as we know aren’t actually music files at all) and then have the site shut down. Indeed, such government/corporate interests could PLANT the music tracker files themselves and have an entirely legal site shut down. Don’t think they’ll try? Well check out the recently exposed MediaDefender emails, leaked to the Internet, in which companies like Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Music and Sony Pictures have apparently engaged in infrastructural sabotage, denial of service attacks, hacking and spamming. These are all ILLEGAL activities. The companies in question are ostensibly seeking to protect their corporate profits, but have apparently used illicit, illegal, underhanded means to do so. What makes you think corporations and governments won’t use the same illegal tactics to squelch free speech and ideas.

    BitTorrent sites are NOT illegal under Canadian law. Just as they are not illegal under Swedish law. Canada is NOT a police state. We have to speak up. Whether you’re opposed to the theft of copyrighted material or not, threatening a perfectly legal website is not something that we should abide in one of the most free countries in the world.

  • Anonymous

    Torrentfreak is no better than Demonoid. I can see they too would cave easily as its clear they are afraid of the posts here by their own users about their so called journalists. How can you call yourselfs journalists or website that stands up for freedoms like torrents when you can’t even accept criticism from others and not only edit posts, but deny access completely?

  • Sean

    “Vidalia Works,”

    Yes vidalia does work, but as you said, it’s slow. Very slow. Pretty simple to use though after it’s all set up, so thanks for info.

    Sean

  • Anonymous

    If the CRIA spent half as much time and energy lobbying for a good, economical, trustworthy pay-for-download service, then I might have some more sympathy.

    Half of U.S. iTunes files are blocked in Canada.

    Scum like PureTracks still owes me 99 cents for the track I could NEVER get to play no matter what I tried, and despite repeated requests that went unanswered by the company, I never received a refund. What else am I supposed to do? I downloaded the file from some torrent site–the only “illegal” download of music I’ve made in years (for a file I payed for but couldn’t play).

  • Fuelerr

    [quote comment="177843"]Thank goodness for proxies? =D[/quote]
    Tried a proxy server(s) with no luck! Any suggestions?

  • Anonymous

    http://tools.rosinstrument.com/cgi-proxy.htm

    You may have to try it more than once to get through.

    And click the link that the proxy directs you to, rather than waiting for the countdown to re-direct you. Seems to help making a connection to Demonoid.

  • The_pwnerer

    i r talking to person from cRia. i r letting them know they suck.

    =)

  • Fuelerr

    [quote comment="179356"]http://tools.rosinstrument.com/cgi-proxy.htm

    You may have to try it more than once to get through.

    And click the link that the proxy directs you to, rather than waiting for the countdown to re-direct you. Seems to help making a connection to Demonoid.[/quote]
    Tried this but my password doesn’t work. I guess they (demonoid)reset everything after the fact and now I cannot access the password retrieval page

  • Fuelerr

    ps thanks for the link

  • snatchmaster

    Fellow Canuckle-heads hear this–I can still download and access Demonoid without any added Proxy nonsense! Maybe I am lucky but keep trying.

  • Anonymous

    [quote comment="179229"]Canadian Recording Industry Association
    85 Mowat Avenue
    Toronto, Ontario
    M6K 3E3

    Phone: (416) 967-7272
    Fax: (416) 967-9415

    Have a question or comment? Contact CRIA by email at info@cria.ca.[/quote]

    Hello, CRIA, how may I help you?

    Is your refrigerator running?

  • Former canadian demonoid user

    Something stinks in this situation. If Cria did this then they would be bragging all over the news services. I’ve seen nothing. IF and I repeat IF there is a letter from CRIA, then post it. Pirate Bay does it all the time. ISOhunt in Canada is doing fine too. Demonoid is not forthcoming in their communications. Let the public see this letter. Until then I’ll continue to believe that something stinks at Demonoid. I’m not even going to proxy access them. I’ve moved elsewhere.

  • Howyesno
  • Anonymous

    [quote comment="177824"]Dam im in canada!!![/quote]
    Yeah I am in Canada to and to top it off I am also a supporter of Demonoid so my money is now going down the drain. Does anyone know how to contact demios

  • Howyesno

    And who is that?
    Please! For the last time:
    It is DEIMOS!

  • vicious

    Stop and think for a minute. The site is blocking users from a country where BT is legal, but allowing them from a country where it’s illegal. The exact opposte of what other sites are doing to protect themselves legally. By doing this, demonoid would actually be inviting US legal action.

    Put two and two togeter and you have a site (Demonoid) thats now perfect for logging IP’s of users you can sue and or prosecute. If the anti-piracy crowd is running the show, they can easily get every ounce of evidence they need from the servers and the tracker. Tack the downloaders

    Why block Canadian users? Why waste time and resources sorting through Canadian IP’s and logs bogged down with those IP’s when you can’t touch them anyway? Instead why not set it up so you can isolate the US ip’s , sit back and let people trap themselves.

    Something definately stinks and Demonoid, I wouldn’t touch that site with a ten foot pole.

  • zee

    cant they just use a proxy to get around it?

  • Anonymous

    sorry to hear demo caved. i have lots of other sites i can use.

  • Howyesno

    Panic paranoia spreading schizophrenic. Angry now I am. How come the mods let you spread this shit all over this blog when you are obviously spiting the same crap that’s been dragged hundred times already, probably read it somewhere in this blog and forgot to see the only fact here is that you don’t know what the fuck are you talking about. Does anybody here have something worthy to say, or is it down to clueless repeating same old meaningless “I too wanna post” idiocy?!

  • to Howyesno

    methinks you doth protest o’er much. What is your relationship to this? Other than a pain in the arse. Rather than flaming people, say something constructive. What the people are talking about is not paranoia. It is valid speculation in view that Demonoid is not forthcoming with evidence of CRIA’s alleged letter. Something definitely stinks.

  • cautious

    TO Howyesno
    The only crap around here is in your posts. Until demonoid is forthcoming with this alleged CRIA letter, there is a lot to be concerned about. Even now it may be too late. They have damaged themselve beyond repair with their intransigence. You have what, 3 posts here? Maybe you have the “I wanna post-itis,” that you acuse others of having.

  • Eos

    Congrats Ernesto for now being able to throw this right back in the faces of the people who so quickly lashed out at you for doing your job. Everything worked out in the end and the people that did lash out gainst you have now rightfully been put in thier place. The people that have intelligence, class and maturaity have clearly separated themselves from the jackass’s during this entire fiasco and yes the jackass’s that attacked Ernesto know exactly who they are. They should have thier own subforum made up so they can all have a place to discuss how badly they just had thier ass handed to them and again they know who they are.

    Anyways great job all around Ernesto. Keep up the great work.

  • Howyesno

    Loyal member of Demonoid afcourse.
    You wanna know contents of the letter?
    Why not Deimos ID too. Or do you think this is harder for you then Deimos?
    Look, I feel sorry for all you people who live in Canada, but I trust Deimos will come out with a solution. Didn’t trusted the rumors when they were claiming that it is end of the world, Deimos is dead and so on.
    Demonoids staff from Canada are regularly logged on to the site. If they are not afraid of being prosecute trough their IPs then I don’t understund why anyone else should be. And as for silence treatment:
    The biggest problem with fighting anything in courts these days is the money, we are right back to feudal times when it comes to legal action where the biggest bully with the biggest purse wins the day…

    Deimos wants to remain anonymous, that is hardly possible if he then goes to court as the plaintiff against these copyright bully boys…

    Non of us stands to lose as much as Deimos does… I am sure he is already considering his next move carefully..

  • Anonymous

    i just hope they move out of Canada and to the same place pirates bay is and start up again and allow Canada in again that would be the smart move

  • forgottenllama

    File swapping was ruled legal in Canada by a federal judge like two years ago. all the CRIA has are vague and empty threats of “legal action”. Its too bad that was enough for them to get their way.
    Interesting that Canadians are now blocked by an American organization from engaging in what is in Canada a perfectly legal activity on a site thats hosted in Canada.

  • cautious

    As you obviously have no hard facts, just like the rest of us, your posts are pure opinion. One of the best ways to fight tyranny, such as that of CRIA, is through public exposure and ridicule. We don’t care who or what a Deimos is. That is a non sequitur. A red herring, if you prefer. Open the letter and let the whole world laugh. IF this letter exists. By the way get a dictionary.

  • cautious

    Sorry, folks. My last post was aimed at howyesno

  • scrippen

    Ha….Everyone was saying this was the fault of the USA. Hee Hee,this is funny.Well guess I will go download “WHATEVER I WANT” because I live in the “USA.” P.S. HA! HA!

  • Howyesno

    Well, this is not over yet. Who knows what tomorrow brings. Ernesto seems to be kind of of a prophet, Maybe he should write that CRIA has give up on their threats, and tomorrow just that happens. Just wondering, does it not help to change your IPs with some tools like Invisible browsing? For instance, my Proxy IP and port are now in Germany. Heard some people talking ‘but how they are using this kind of tools and it’s working for them.

  • Howyesno

    [quote comment="179561"]We don’t care who or what a Deimos is.[/quote]

    If you don’t care, well I do.
    That’s the man who enabled me free movies, music, etc. for which I’ve haven’t pay a single coin. So I think I owe him more than he owes me. A little gratitude perhaps.
    As for my dictionary, when you learn to write in Croatian, the way I’m writing in English let me know, Then we’ll have something to talk about.
    Anata wa hontai bakayarou!
    Or woul you rather meet me in some Japanese forum?

  • scrippen

    [quote comment="177866"]I suspect that Demonoid’s Canadian user-base may not take this lying down.

    A great number of members and prolific seeders of Demonoid reside in Canada.

    Remember that when your torrent takes 10x longer to complete.[/quote]

    I doubt it.I am experiencing wonderful download speeds thank you.

  • scrippen

    [quote comment="178735"]ernesto is a nic bastard. he can lick my fucking nutsack cuz he likes it in the ass. AMERICA HATES YOU FUCKING IMMIGRANT FUCKTARDS GO BACK TO YOUR POOR ASS THIRD WORLD COUNTRY YOU FUCKING KIKE BITCH.[/quote]

    Your English is a hack.You are not from the U.S.A. Who are you trying to fool you “ASSMUNCH.” Grow a set and quit pretending you are from the U.S.A. because you are not.Some of the way you spelled your words and your wording is a dead giveaway.

  • Jackson

    @scrippen: He’s writing in Gamer-speak. Name is a dead-giveaway: “Pwned”. Could easily be American.

    Re last week: I really don’t see why Deimos couldn’t have said somewhere “The site will be down while we implement a filtering system to met a demand from the CRIA”. This whole shut-down-and-go-silent thing was unnecessary theatrics.

  • Anonymous

    Well now that everybody has said everything that I have wanted to say. DOES ANYONE know of another site that isn’t filled with junk I mean a good site like demonoid that you don’t find viruses in everything? please help I am in Canada and well I can’t get Demonoid

  • southpark

    As Cartman and the gang proudly sung,
    “Blame Canada!, Blame Canada!”

    Well at least you Eskimos still have Bryan Adams.

    Cuts like a knife! hahahahahaha.

  • Berr Hefnd

    “Think you guys owe Ernesto some apologies.”

    No we don’t.

    Fact remains his previous article was based on rumors and idiocy.

    He got lucky this time. That doesn’t mean we have to apologise to him. He still sucks for being a sewer journalist spreading rumors and made up bullshit instead of researching.

  • gg

    Oh this is just terrible news, I’m from Canada! These things always seem a bit too permanent as well. I think I’ll need to try harder to become a torrentfreak member…

  • Dilbert

    If the music is great, I’ll still support it. If the CRIA thinks penalizing all Canadian Demonoid clients is fair, then they’re asking for war. I’m not buying another CD until Demonoid is back online in Canada.

  • Hey

    EVERYONE!

    send lots of angry letter to the CRIA

    here is their site
    http://www.cria.ca/contact.php

    phone them, contact them

    contact the canadian government while ur at it

  • vicious

    It really has nothing to do with wether or not Demonoid comes back to canadian users for me. There are so many torent sites (though Demonoid was my favourite) full ddl’s and IRC channels I can’t count them. All of which are alive and well.

    To me it boils down to the fact that this whole situation is beyond suspect. As well, none of the admins at the site had any idea what was happening during the downtime. You would think the owner woud have let them know if he was indeed in control wouldn’t you? As far as rumors go, torentfreak was right last time and if the posting on Demonoids homepage is true, then they are this time to. So, if a story crops up in a month and says Dmeonoid is being run by the RIAA, who will you believe then? It boils down to Demonoid being a loss either way, you can’t trust the site now and if the owner is still in charge thats purely his fault.

    If it’s a CRIA/RIAA scheme then they’ve obivously won with that site. If it isn’t, the lack of communication and the quick surrender by Demonoid means the anti-piracy people have won anyway. No one can be sure whats going on now, and despite the claims of no real seed lose, I was just in there and unless the trackers malfunctioning the total seeds on most torrents are way down. Why would anyone bother with a proxy for thier client, cutting thier speed when they can get the same files from Mini or a host of other sites? Just yanking Demonoid from the tracker list solves the problem.

    Demonoid was my favourite site because the look and feel was great. The atmosphere was great and I always paid attention to my ratio. If it’s a loss then so be it, TPB hasn’t failed me on a file in all the years I’ve been there. I think I had a total years back when I started torrenting. Full ddl and IC have never failed me and the older P2P nets are getting active again. Why die over Demonoid, one goes down a hundred more pop up.

    If people still want to trust Demonoid, then rock on. For people in Canada, thats the way she goes boys. We in Canada stll have Brian Adams and Americans can Enjoy the next 20 years paying of the billions in debt from the Iraq War, border security, anti-piracy lawsuits, Katrina, I could go on but why?

  • Stoklos

    Well, this sucks! I too am from Canada and Demonoid was actually the very first torrent site where I had started sharing my first made torrents, which are still going strong! Oh sure, there are other torrent sites to go by, but they all have their own certain “uniquenesses” and Demonoid is of no exception what-so-ever. Now what am I going to do with the downloads that were just fragments to completion?

    Update…
    After searching around, no other site has them available… Until I tried through ISOHunt, and guess what… I FOUND MY ‘BYPASS’ INTO DEMONOID, THROUGH ISOHUNT!!! WOOHOO!!! I got my torrents completed… But the only downfall is, I’m not directly connected to Demonoid.

  • Jason

    Just use a proxy server. Try this one
    http://www.ace-in.info/

    Just log into your account, download the torrent cue sheet and presto. I just brought down two torrents and am in the process of grabbing 28 weeks later. Screw the CRIA.

  • Earl

    @vicious
    You’ll probably get a lot of heat for this post but I for one agree with you.
    I still don’t think TF is a creditable news source but that’s another matter.

  • Sickert

    Sucks to live in canada right now… oh wait i do. I’ll miss you demonoid… oh and fuck you cria

  • bangzilla

    not to worry guys, just do the proxy thing as mentioned above, works great

  • Grenovic

    I’m wicked pissed because I’m in Canada and was going to finally try to sign up on the first when all of a sudden this shit happens. FUCKITY FUCK FUCK FUCK! Anyhow, if anyone has a spare invite please send to grenovic at yahoo and I’ll weasle my sweet ass in on their shit!

  • AX

    HEY PPL ITS NOT CANADA’S FAULT ITS CIRCA SO STOP TALKIN SHIT BOUT CANADA. ITS THE DAMM CIRCA PPL WHO STARTED THIS DAMM FUCK BOUT NOT HAVIN DEMONOID IN CANADA CUZ THEY JUS WANA HOG DEMONOID FCK THM

  • Anonymous

    Could have been worse. Sure going through a proxy can be annoying at times, but suck it up.
    At least we got Demonoid back.

  • CanadianTorrentFan

    I too was screwed a couple of hours ago because I live in Canada and couldn’t access Demonoid…. Then I came to TF and learned of web proxies.

    Ba da bing, ba da boom and now I’m downloading at lightning speed torrents from Demonoid once again!!!

    Try as hard as you like CRIA, but us Crazy Canucks will not be stopped by your pathetic threats to sue! DEMONOID LIVES FOR CANADIANS!!!!

  • THE DUDICON

    **********ATTENTION CANADIANS*******

    If you live in canada, use a proxy from a country outside of the u.s. and canada to connect to the website. you can do this in your web browser’s settings. many proxies can be found on google.

    **********ATTENTION CANADIANS*******

  • suga1

    It’s all fine and dandy to access demonoid through a proxy, but I can’t upload a torrent to demonoid through a proxy.

    Anyone know how I can?

    unknown029 [at] gmail [dot] com

  • Kai

    I don’t really know what all the fuss is about. I download whatever I want when I want it, never use demonoid, same as I did when Napster first showed up way back when (and then died). They can’t stop me. They can sue me, get a judgment against me, and then…go fuck themselves. There is no debtors prison, there is no way for them to collect other than walk up to me and take it from me in person, which isn’t happening. Grow some balls, kids. They (**AA) can’t do a fucking thing about any of this.

  • Anonymous

    [quote comment="179703"]Just use a proxy server. Try this one
    http://www.ace-in.info/

    Just log into your account, download the torrent cue sheet and presto. I just brought down two torrents and am in the process of grabbing 28 weeks later. Screw the CRIA.[/quote]
    THANK YOU YOU ARE MY NEW HERO

  • Charles Mair

    I will fight, bare-knuckled, anyone and everyone connected with the CRIA, one at a time, or all at once. Cocksuckers!

  • Rob

    That’s it for me as far has Demonoid is concerned. There is simply no reasonable or acceptable explanation for what they did. Torrents are legal in Canada. I no longer trust Demonoid. Also this is not China It’s Canada. I certainly won’t be reduced to use a proxy, play hide and seek or hide under a rock like a insect. I will move to Pirate Bay who is a lot more forthcoming with information and has been known to stand up and fight this media gestapo and has apparently a lot more balls then Demonoid.

  • Dan

    As a Canadian, I want all the money back that I’ve paid the CRIA for every blank CD, DVD, tape, etc that I’ve bought over the past few years. Pricks want their cake and eat it too? Maybe I’ll stop buying the CD’s that I like – wonder how long the CRIA would last if they’re the only ones “supporting” bands.

  • necro2607

    “As a Canadian, I want all the money back that I’ve paid the CRIA for every blank CD, DVD, tape, etc that I’ve bought over the past few years.”

    Me too. Wow. I am fucking pissed.

  • tml

    Hi guys,
    very disappointed about Demonoid no longer being accessible to canadian residents. After Demonoid what’s the best site to dload from. I like the membership ones like Demonoid.

  • Demonoid4ever

    Hello, I do not work for demonoid, nor do i have any affiliation with deimios, I’m just a member. If you are in canada, I have a way to get into Demonoid. if you want information, Email iet70@hotmail.com. you MUST be a former member of demonoid. noone requestiong invites please!!!

  • Anonymous

    Does anybody know if your ratio keeps current if you use a proxy to access Demonoid? I am accessing the site and using as normal but will my ratio keep up? Or will it keep decreasing as I d/l files?

    Fueler

  • Blargle

    Vicious, responding to your post in (Post #422).

    You may have something there, I would hope it’s only a conspiracy theory though.

    Besides Demonoid only blocked Canada, not the rest of the world.

    There’s still going to be tons of foreign IP’s. Now if they had managed to isolate the US completely I would most definitely say that it was a trap.

  • FUCK

    Canadian Recording Industry Association
    85 Mowat Avenue
    Toronto, Ontario
    M6K 3E3

    Phone: (416) 967-7272
    Fax: (416) 967-9415

    Have a question or comment? Contact CRIA by email at info@cria.ca.

  • ipswichross

    All the posts praising ernestos fine reporting are posted by 1 person Ernesto!! As it has already been stated by the few others on here with more than half a brain….5 days to block Canadian IP’s…??

    I visit this site just to get my weekly fix of laughing at ee-juts…!! All you fools slagging off Demonoid, why don’t you come to the forums and do it there, then you can get yourself banned and won’t have to get so upset if something happens again, and Deimos or the staff aren’t keeping you in the loop….cos you are that important and it is your right to be informed of everything (as well as get all your free movies, apps etc) You’re all gutless and hide behind this anonymous posting shit! Grow a pair ya mugs!

  • ipswichross

    POST 363 by imp-noid- Bravo Sir….You words were exactly what I was thinking but am unfortunately too stupid to put in too words….! I have just had my faith restored!!

    Also the so called supporters of Demonoid that are posting the racist & ignorant rubbish…..I’m sure everybody knows this is not indicative of us Demonoid regulars at all, and anyone that visits the forums will see this for themselves. While I have no qualms about calling ernesto and others a complete tool and full of shit, I draw the line at racism. I don’t care what colour or creed he is…he’s a 1st class Dick, that is the point!!

  • Rob

    Why don’t you go back to your shit hole mofo.

  • canada

    To ipswichross
    I tried to get an intelligent reply from some dork named Sabin, who is some sort of asinine staffmember/ moderator of forums. This jackass is an obfuscating asshole. Because if his outright stonewalling of any pertinant information, I bailed out of Demonoid, permanently. Something definitly reeks at demonoid. Not everyone is as gutless as you, who is also hiding behind an alias. So, why don’t you shut your cakehole, you limey prig.

  • Anonymous

    [quote comment="177847"]fuck the cria, fuck the mpaa, fuck the riaa. Demonoid fight for us Canadians, don’t be pushed around by ass eating homo’s. They have no legal standing to sue you guys, you dont host the content, you merely provide a link to the content, please do something!.[/quote]

    GET OFF YOUR FECKING R’S AND FIGHT FOR YOURSELVES!! It the big Corp’s. For God sake grow some BALLS and do it yourself, seriously.

  • CLASS ACTION CASE HERE WE COME CRIA…

    Umm Class Action on CRIA anyone??

    we all did pay extra for Blank media.. and guess what we are going to be paying more..

    Why pay extra if we cant donwload??
    just as the CRIA says “Music is not FFREE” well thats the same as what I’m going to say “MONEY IS NOT FREE” just seems like we are giving them free money with the extra that we pay for and not being able to take advanage of the Copyright Levy.

    so we as Canadians should take this to court and see how much the CRIA have to pay every canadian back.. NOW THIS WILL PUT THE CRIA OUT OF BIZ..

    10.00 extra for anything over 4GB = 1 Downloaded Album because thats what they are going for right around 10-15-20 Dollers?

    Canadian Private Copying Collective Proposed Tariff for 2008-2009 Read more here – http://www.cpcc.ca/english/pdf/c10022007-b.pdf

  • CLASS ACTION CASE HERE WE COME CRIA…

    I will be Contacting Electronic Frontier Canada and see if they could get a team of lawyers for the case.. I’m sure they would love to help..

    anyone have any ideas on what I should say when Contacting Electronic Frontier Canada??

  • ipswichross

    t0 472 canada. I am using the same name I use at demonoid and every other site I’m a member of….and I would rather listen to sabin and the other mods from demonoid than believe a word of ernestos nonsense, or any of the other garbage that is posted here. Any demonoid regulars know the facts about this case…its just you idiots that create rumours keep us all entertained!!

  • ipswichross

    472 canada….I’m really upset that you bailed out of demonoid permanently…..it would have been ace to witness sabin, gw and the others ripping the piss out of an ignoramus such as yourself, when you came to the forum spouting your tinfoil hat rubbish……be careful the fbi might be tracing you now because you are on to the big plan!! You donut!!

  • canada

    To these people who want to start a class action suit. First, make sure that there was a letter from CRIA. All we have is Demonoids’ word of this alleged letter. Deimos will not produce it like The PirateBay does. IF CRIA had accomplished this feat, they would be bragging about it all over the news networks. There is nothing there. So all there is, is an unsubstantiated claim by Deimos. Be very carefull about this talk of lawsuits. Remember, something really, really stinks here.

  • Maple leaf pussys

    Your nose is too close to your mouth thats what stinks…your breath!!

    that or the bullshit y’all are spouting! deimos is playing y’all for fools and laughing his tittys off along with the rest of us, at you ufo spotting, elvis witnessing, conspiracy freaks!!

  • canada

    Hey ipswich. I don’t give a rats’s ass about the FBI or any other organization. I’m Canadian. The only ignoramus here is you. The only trash here comes from your keyboard. So why don’t you go crawl back into your little demons’ hole and play with yourself, child. There’s adults here. By the way Demonoid can move to California, for all I care. Why don’t you move there too?

  • ipswichross

    ooooohhhhhh! Touch a nerve did I?? I see your “adult” side is shining through then…! I’ll rest my case now as you’ve proven yourself to be the vulgar little peasent I suspected. Good day to you sir.

  • canada

    hey, ipswich. Good day to you too. I hope the sun shines in your little hole some day. Crawl back to your little demons’ home, where idiots like sabin are your intellectual heroes. It is obvious to all that you have all the cognitive abilities of a worm and all the awareness of a rutabaga.

  • ipswichross

    I don’t have heroes….I have friends , but I suspect you don’t have (or ever had) many of those. I’m going to stop now as I do actually have a conscience, and its no fun toying with you as you are so obviously not in my league. I’ll leave you to play with the other retards that frequent this dive, and go back to the decent sites that petty little people such as you so frequently try to get invited to.

  • A former music buyer

    To Whom It May Concern at the CRIA:

    I have been an avid music collector for many years, and have approximately 1000 CD’s in my collection, not counting albums that I have purchased over the internet and own only digital copies of. I purchase approximately 30-40 new CDs per year. However, thanks to your recent decision to block Canadian users from accessing Demonoid, I have decided that I cannot continue to support this backwards, dysfunctional industry with my money any longer, and as such, I do not plan on purchasing music ever again if it means that one penny goes to your organization.

    I listen to heavy metal music, a form of music that “the industry” stopped supporting many years ago, so I have a hard time feeling any sympathy. Sites such as Demonoid have done far more to promote the music I love than your organization or the industry in general has ever done. I can find out about new artists and new releases from artists that are never promoted. I can listen to music from artists that have never been played on the radio, will never be shown on MuchMusic or MTV, and never have a review or even mention of their new album written about in the local newspaper. From listening to this music, I can make an informed decision if I wish to purchase the album or not, as I am not going to gamble $15-20 on something that I haven’t heard anything off of before.

    25 years ago, I primarily learned about music from friends who dubbed a copy onto a cassette tape, where I could listen to it and make a decision if I wanted to buy the tape for myself. Now, many years removed from school, my “gang” of friends to share music with has shifted from cassette tapes and the school cafeteria to sharing mp3′s online. I listen to some things that I don’t like, and consequently, I don’t buy those albums. What I do like, I buy, or at least I used to, before your decision intended to stop me from hearing new music.

    The industry cries that record sales are down, and blames this all on internet downloading. I won’t be so naïve as to say that internet downloading has no impact on the sales. Downloading has certainly stopped me from making the stupid purchases where I heard one single that I liked and bought an entire album only to find out that the rest of the songs are crap, and the CD sits collecting dust on my shelf. But for every CD that I didn’t buy based on those premises, there are 2 or 3 other CDs that I did buy because I heard of them for the first time on a site like Demonoid.

    In the meantime, the music industry itself needs to recognize that they are to blame for sagging record sales. For years, they have been marketing recycled crap, and people are getting tired of it. On the odd occasion that something fresh and new accidentally slips through and gets radio play, the music industry immediately signs a seemingly infinite number of clone bands that makes the “new, fresh” sound boring almost instantly. It seems the music industry doesn’t even care about making or promoting good music any more. Instead, they market a young, pretty face that can dance provocatively and lip-synch well, and push this on the radio stations to play while getting the tabloids to print large pictures of their breasts. If bands like AC/DC or Motorhead were to emerge today, they would never be successful; not because of poor record sales due to downloading, but due to the fact that they’re ugly so the record company wouldn’t promote them, if they picked them up at all. In the meantime, they’re falling all over themselves to promote Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, or any teenage tramp that can be airbrushed to look sexy.

    The record labels cry about downloading cutting into the profits of the sales of albums. They put out “greatest hits” albums by 20-year olds with 2 or 3 albums under their belts, released with one new track to try and sucker the fans that already have both albums into spending another $20 for one new song, or re-releasing a 3-month old album with a “previously unreleased bonus track”. Then they can’t understand why people aren’t buying them, and cry foul that people are downloading the one new song instead.

    I know not only the record companies are crying. Artists that have been around long enough to have enough clout to get a cut of the record sales are concerned about their cut, like Metallica that also clamor that “downloading is evil”, and then go on to sell over 9 million copies of their last album instead of 9.1 million. Boo hoo. Meanwhile, many younger, smaller artists favor downloading, because they know it’s the only way that people will get to hear the music and in turn come out to see their shows, because the record label sure as hell isn’t promoting them. But they can’t say that out loud, can they? If they do, guess which band is going to get dropped by the label?

    So tell me, what does the CRIA do to promote metal? Oh, right, you’ve got a link to the top 50 “metal” albums in Canada, which after a quick glance at the top ten this week includes punk acts like Dropkick Murphys, Finger Eleven, and Billy Talent, and rock acts like Nickelback and Queen, but very little that resembles heavy metal. (Perhaps you should ask the Celtic punk band, Dropkick Murphys, what they think of being labeled as “metal”.)

    And also tell me, without Demonoid, where would I have found out about bands like Evile or Dublin Death Patrol and made a decision to purchase their album online (because no record store that I have found in Canada carries either one). And god forbid the CRIA would care about the promotion of Canadian talent, such as longtime recording artist Annihilator, which released one of the better albums of 2007. However, I have yet to see their new album sold in any store in Canada, including HMV’s flagship store on Yonge Street in Toronto, and I ultimately had to buy a copy from a UK website. Considering the only place I had heard about this album was having downloaded it from Demonoid, do you really expect anyone to make this kind of effort to buy an album without ever having heard it?

    The record labels and CRIA have gone to great lengths to tell us that downloading and sharing music is killing the music industry. Open your eyes and you will see that the music industry dinosaur has already been killing itself for years, and by resisting technology rather than embracing it and using it to their advantage. “Oh, but they have,” you try to insist, pointing to the sites devoted to selling music in mp3 format online. I notice that most of the metal bands I am interested in are still not available through these services. I also notice that buying an entire album ends up costing as much, if not more, than if I went to buy it in the store, even though there are no longer costs of materials or shipping that have to be paid for, and once again, I fail to come up with any sympathy for the music industry. I hope the music industry does die, because I know that music itself will not die so with the corrupt aspects of the industry gone, only then might music once again flourish.

    Sincerely,

    A former music buyer

  • CRIA -Tatty

    Top 100 -Canada- Billboard 10-06-07 Charts @224 Torrent-Tatty

    non canadian Citizen
    get the torrent here:

    http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1369196/4651332/

    and canadian Citizen here:
    http://www.mininova.org/

    This Torrent is a MUST….smile

  • James

    You were printing rumour after rumour and you didn’t care what you wrote…
    Then you attacked people because they stood up for the site that they liked and your still attacking, do i sense a tough of jealousy, probably.

    Thank God we don’t have you coming into Demonoid as we wouldn’t want the place hotching with the fleas that you would bring in, they say if you lie with a dog, you will catch fleas and in this site’s case that is definitely true.

    Fuck off you dimwits

  • canada

    delusions,Ippy, delusions. Go see your MD and have him change your medication. The only playing around here has been you playing with your little best friend. Does your mother know where you are?

  • ipswichross

    @ James- very eloquently put!

    Wait for it…..here come the really witty comments from the retards….if only they realised we laugh at them, not with them;

  • Anonymous

    Well, I guess I picked a bad time to ask a question! If anyone can respond to my question in between the verbal volleys I would be really appreciate it.

    Thanks again:)

  • CRIA -Tatty

    Your response is awaiting moderation.

    ———
    ok this is not a place fo posting Torrents!!!

    but after all this troubel the last days – this Torrent is real a MUST.

    if our english is bad we are happy for moderation!

    torrenttatty.org

  • Anonymous

    [quote comment="180174"]Does anybody know if your ratio keeps current if you use a proxy to access Demonoid? I am accessing the site and using as normal but will my ratio keep up? Or will it keep decreasing as I d/l files?

    Fueler[/quote]
    Can someone please help me out?

    Thanks again :)

  • James

    Yes when Demonoid went down there was a panic because no one new what was wrong. When the other site went up as friends and good ones at that, we contacted each other to tell them were to meet.
    There was someone working on how to get the Canadians onto the site when it came back up and yes we helped each other.
    I have seen people getting help not only with their torrents but if they had personal problems affecting them, there was always an ear to listen to you although you did get some of them who abused the site so got themselves banned.

    Demonoid might just be a download site to other people that haven’t been in it but to me its more than that, it’s a family and as they are my family, I would love to have had the chance to take some of you headcases outside and really show you how it feels to be attacked but this time not online but face to face.

  • Shadow

    First Suprnova (my first number one) shuts down, then Seedler shuts down (my last number one) now Demonoid caves in to a fucking phantom organisation which is currently breaking our Rights and Freedoms. To Canadians all around, let’s fight this. They are going against our Chart of Rights and Freedoms!!!

  • roadranger73

    well now this sucks last i heard it was still legal all be it a very Grey area but legal still for private home use demonoid should tell the cria to jam it EH!

  • Uncle Aleister

    The goofiest thing about this CRIA [Canadian Recording Industry Assoc.] threat is that CRIA, I believe does not have a legal leg to stand on.

    I’m not a lawyer, but I follow the news in Canada, and my understanding is P2P file sharing has been considered by Cdn. courts all the way up to The Supreme Court of Canada, who ruled that P2P does NOT violate current Cdn. copyright laws!

    P2P fans in Canada know they are in no danger whatsoever of being prosecuted. Same thing goes for demonoid…if they only knew.

    Unless the gov’t rewrites the laws – and there’s been nothing in the news to suggest new laws are coming -
    Especially now that we have a fractious minority gov’t, the ruling Conservatives can’t pass any new law without support from a major opposition party.

    I believe CRIA is bluffing, likely misrepresenting the situation, and misstating facts in a fraudulent attempt to intimidate demonoid.

    If anyone has a legal case, it’s probably demonoid, who should sue CRIA, and should push to get their lying lawyers disbarred!

    -In the mean time, rest assured fellow Canucks, demonoid remains accessible, and you can still log in as before. Just google “hiding your IP address” and “proxies”, and you’ll quickly find convenient ways to sneak in the back door, no problem.

    Just in case, I also went into my demonoid account and changed my listed country location, and my Cdn.
    email address (which was .ca), to
    a different non-Cdn. email address.
    Better safe than…

  • Phil

    James wrote: “I would love to have had the chance to take some of you headcases outside and really show you how it feels to be attacked but this time not online but face to face.”
    It sounds like you have some very serious issues that need to be dealt with. Violence never solved anything. Go see a psychiatrist. You’re the only headcase around here. But anytime you want to give a member of the PPCLI a whirl, give me a call. Or better yet, Come to Kabul. I get a day off on Saturday.

  • James

    [quote comment="180289"]well now this sucks last i heard it was still legal all be it a very Grey area but legal still for private home use demonoid should tell the cria to jam it EH![/quote]

    Its okay to say that Demonoid should tell the CRIA to jam it but it would cost money and it would need to go to court.
    We can contibute to Demonoid but to be honest it would never be enough to pay the legal costs that would be incurred.

    It is a shame about the Canadians but there is a way round it but I amm not going into that here.

    Demonoid is a number one site and always will be for their torrents and their friendship.

  • Mitsuda

    This doesn’t make sense. I’m in Canada and I can use Demonoid just fine. *shrugs*

  • Anonymous

    [quote comment="177824"]Dam im in canada!!![/quote]

  • James

    [quote comment="180295"]This doesn’t make sense. I’m in Canada and I can use Demonoid just fine. *shrugs*[/quote]
    Yea that is what i am saying, some people can get in were as other’s can’t so by using a proxy and doing what Uncle Aleister says you wouldn’t have a problem.

    Phil
    You should read back on the thread and you will see what I mean, people were attacking other’s regarding Demonoid and some were spreading rumours so you can imagine how it feels to know that rummours are flying all over the place in here like Demos has died due to a car crash…shesh!! that takes the biscuite…
    The person should always check their facts before putting out such rubbish.
    By the way I am free on Saturday

  • Phil

    James. You may be feeling frustrated, but just walk away from it. Rise above it, and walk away. It aint worth the aggravation. People will be people. Ultimitely, NONE of it matters. That whole situation over there is just people playing games. Games where they don’t even know the rules, let alone what the game is. From this vantage point, the whole world is just one bad game. If you’re free on Saturday, go out and have a beer,like I’m doing. Leave the fighting to the pros.

  • James

    Yea I got so frustrated at the idea of rummours flying around instead of waiting for the truth to come out.
    I know it’s up and running now but I just found this site after someone telling me about it and what was in it so that is why i feel so angry.
    Yep, might just go out for a few beers myself, roll on Saturday

  • Phil

    James: Cheers, mate.

  • joe schmoe

    No, Demonoid does not rule – if they had any balls they wouldn’t cave to a pissant organization like the CRIA, who don’t have the law on their side in the first place.

  • xnowimcoolx

    I live in Canada … no big deal … I have a Mac so I down loaded Tor and I was back on Demonoid the day it banned Canadians …

  • JerichoStruass

    JUST PROXY the site. it bans based on ip range. search “proxy my site” and a proxy site comes up.

    Just do me a favor place “CSTC” into the comment fields of your dl’d torrents. thats “CSTC” for cant stop the canadians.

  • Tamburello26

    [quote comment="180254"][quote comment="180174"]Does anybody know if your ratio keeps current if you use a proxy to access Demonoid? I am accessing the site and using as normal but will my ratio keep up? Or will it keep decreasing as I d/l files?

    Fueler[/quote]
    Can someone please help me out?

    Thanks again :)[/quote]

    ********* No idea, but the ratio over there is not so important … even with a really bad 0.45 ratio, u won’t get banned or even warned. Plus they had issues with the ratios. Mine wasn’t updated at all for weeks before the recent shutdown. It was always showing the same numbers.

  • Candian Guy

    Im not very good with computers and was quite unhappy with demonoid going down, i decided to see if a not so techno savy person like myself could get through..it took about two minutes to get through..heres a link to get in

    http://aubretec2.net/cgiproxy/nph-proxy.pl/000100A/http/www.demonoid.com/files/?uid=515449&seeded=2

  • vicious

    Those of you bashing Canada might want to remember that site is now in Canada. It was moving it here in the first place that saved Demonoid from being sued by the RIAA and the MPAA and eventually shut down. So deal with it or get the site the hell out of Canada.

    As to the folks going around suggesting that this whole thing is some kind of joke, it would be a pretty bad one. Not to mention a great way to ruin the sites reputation. I was a “regular” of Demonoid with over 250 gigabytes seeded. Even if the site comes back with a huge “jokes on you” front page I still wouldn’t use it. Other than seeing where this whole thing goes, the sies dead to me.

    One last thing, to those saying that people like me are conspiracy nuts and so on. Either you think the message on Demonoids homepage is a lie, making the sites owners and admins liars. Or you believe it’s true, making what Ernesto said true. Which subsequently makes you the fools for continuing to support a site thats either RIAA run or owned by a chicken shit. Take your pick. As for fighting the good fight ouselves, we did, we won, we can legally share. How about you Americans, hows that file sharing battle workin out for ya?

  • SiliticX

    This is a vilation of my civic rights. I’m in canada and i have the RIGHT to view any site i want. This is pure bullshit and a discrimination of the chart of the human rights.

  • Earl

    This has nothing to do with anyones rights! Why do ppl not get this!?

    Demonoid is blocking you guys none else has anything to do with that.

    If I were to write a letter to TPB requesting to block all Canadians and they’d actually do that – that would be essentially the same thing which happened here.
    And since they do not feel obligated to share any more information on the subject they are dead to me – pretty easy actually.

  • Citizen C

    [quote comment="177903"]I live in canada and i have proxyed into demonoid site and logged in and its just like the good old times.

    I used http://www.guardster.com/subscription/proxy_free.php/quote

    Thanks! It allowed me to access the site … however, I can’t seem to be able to download any torrents.

    When I try to download it says one thing after another about proxies or something and it won’t download.

    I’m sorry, but I’m rather computer illiterate, and I don’t know what to do. I tried the other suggestion using Tor et al. but that didn’t seem to work for me either.

    Please help! thanks!

  • Citizen C

    Oh yeah. When I try to open it in bittorrent, for instance, it will say at the bottom:

    [UI]Failed to get torrent Traceback (most recent call last): File “Bittorent\UI.pyo” , line 298 in _open_external_torrents

    I’ve been trying now for two or three hours to download something and I can’t! I wouldn’t care so much about being on Demonoid, but there’s files here I just can’t find on any other torrent site! So I appreciate this sincerely if someone helps me !

  • huh?

    this was written by a girl on the official forums who works for canadian government and promised to get to the bottom of things:

    [quote]This is Crap!!!! I am in the process of getting to the bottom of this. CRIA cannot stop a public tracker service. It just cant happen. I work for a government agency here in Canada and what CRIA is doing is against our rights. We have the right as Canadians to access public information. There is absolutely no way that a non-government body would be able to force an interenet site to stop serving canadian traffic. Unless you are serving child porn or other illegal activity. File Sharing is not illegal here in Canada. I believe that you guys should take the tails out from between your legs and fight back. We canadians dont tolerate being pushed around and told what to do. I know that I already have staff in my office working on this issue as we find it a blatent disregard to our rights as Canadians.[/quote]

    now earlier today she wrote:

    [quote]I have contacted people at CRIA. This is what I have been told. They have in no way employed any Law Firm to represent them in any matters concerning torrents. CRIA did not have the letter sent. Someone is playing a very naasty joke and I would suggest you show them what they law is about when you unlawfully represent yourself. I would highly suggest that Demonoid contact CRIA direct and let them know about what he had recieved. I know they would love to see the letter. I would also look into seeing if this said law firm actually exsists. Anyways this is what I have found out. I hope this helps you get to the bottom of this.

    Cheers
    Merrlinne[/quote]

    this is getting weirder and weirder.

  • pat1

    its ok demonoid is lame bootcity traders den blow it away .demonoid is so lame they cant even answer emails or send emails to us customers sad .got invitation code created account no email response no respose from demonoid lame im a member of evey major torrent site in the free world with good standings except lame demonoid

  • bela

    fuck komonist i gone kill that CRI superviser i wana back the demonoid man ahh i living candada i cant connect plz help

  • Canada

    Regarding post 514. Thank you Merrlinne. This is what I’ve been saying all along. Something reeks over in Demonoid land.

  • ferrabi

    poor canadians

    i am glad that demonoid is still working for the rest of the world, i am a canadian, and i am not that sad because there are many ways around the problem,

    there are always other sites that post the same stuff,

    no biggy eh.

  • Rob

    [quote comment="177837"]Get the fuck out of Canada.[/quote]
    Fuck no this is one of the greatest places to live in the world (personal bias I realize what we need to do is move our country far away from the states, and tell our government to stop doing whatever the US tells it to do. Get that lapdog Harper out of the government and we might have the freedom to start downloading again

  • Demonoid_Hater

    Lots swearing
    Lots of whining
    I wish everyone would chill out and look for an alternative
    Demonoid is not the best
    Too many lazy people hang out at one place to find everything
    There is so many torrent site to hang out why this one???
    Do your not have a life? Really pathetic how some of you use it 24hrs a day making demonoid your only place to visit.

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  • ATTN: Canadians

    Right now, I know Ontario is having a provincial election. Call your local MPP, talk to them about this “war on piracy”. Canadians are taxed so that this kinda of S**t is not supposed to happen. We pay money to keep the CRIA happy. and the CRIA isnt even canadian, its part of the RIAA, so talk to them, call your MP (federal) get them off their a$$es and let us have our downloading. We paied for it. They OWE it to us. What they’ve done is illegal. Help fight the “man”. its our fight. our war.

  • nuggthug

    Another question to add fuel to the fire is why you couldnt just ban music torrents to .ca’s Im not sure if this is possible but the CRIA cant make people stop torrents that are not .ca music eh?!? Like warez for instance! LOL and where did all the xDCC bots go?? hahaha im gonna go look up the number to my old bbs and pir8 some l33t .txt files… torrents are old news go back private FTPs bbs’s n shit yeyeyeyeyeye PEACE

  • fxck demonoid haters

    Actually asshole, Demonoid is the best if you use Mac.

  • McQuAkEnBoRg

    is there no backbone left in the world ??? sheeesh let us canucks download ….

    demonoid adieu farewell

    shame that 100,000`s of hits/support/downloads will go else where, when people have been coming here for years, this site wouldnt have survived with out people to keep it afloat and passed on its name to others by recommendation
    from users spreading the word
    …..and gospel of demonoid !!
    now look blocked ……
    Demonoid stand up and fight !!

    Or is it to be americans next then french spanish german english

    Know what I mean ……….
    HMMMMPHhhhh feel betrayed man
    all that loyalty betrayed ……….

  • Anonymous

    To Tamburello26
    Thanks for the reply. I read some of the threads on Demonoid and it says exactly what you said and there doesn’t seem to be a real issue with ratio’s good or bad. It isn’t something that is reliable (TRACKER) according to some of the comments and therefor they (site mods) do not get to concerned

    Thanks again

  • international BT user

    it is disappointing that Demonoid didnt think enough before they did what they did to us since there is not only music on that site in the first place. Or maybe the letter or fake letter was sent to the isp and they took it for a real letter themselves and warned Demonoid about it and that was it since they had been warned already that they would have to close if they would receive a complaint.
    Also many proxies didnt work for me, only the new torrents show up,login failed, but I’m starting to not care about that …

  • The Tea Lady

    I think some of you angry peeps need a cup of herbal tea and a hug. Too much negative pooh brings us all down. Be nice to each other and take some time to reflect on your inner most feelings.

  • Maria

    hey candian guy I use your link and it work . But it seams that I can’t login please reply and let me know how thanx … in advance

  • xorrox

    Alright all,
    I’m a frequent demonoid user and I want to thank the clever posters who suggested things like Tor with uTorrent, HipeIP, PrivProxy, etc…
    Currently, my ip is broadcasting as though im in Taiwan, I assure you I’ve never been, though im sure its nice this time of year… whatever – Look fact of the matter is we have credible, verified, working alternatives to the trash the cria is causing, so lets not waste time with blame or rumours or flaming! anyone outside of canada – enjoy that demonoid is back up and has survived another attack – anyone in canada – my recommendation is HideIP – check piratebay for it – took me 8 miutes to download, i didnt do any setup, config or special hocus pocus, just installed, and ran as per the NFO file in the torrent… ENJOY CAUSE IT WORKS

  • JockW

    With all the pontificating that’s been going on around here the CRIA MPAA etc, can easily shut up shop for several months. Why because of the rumours that are being spread, the ass oles who post such bile and those supposedly in the know dissin Demonoid

    1st rule of War harass your enemy spread miss info and by spreading rumours your doing the job for the authorities.

    Jesus if you clowns stopped and looked back at what’s been written, you’ll see just how much your playing into the hands of the authorities.

    There again some people who posted here as as thick as pig shit>

  • Thoughtful

    Why don’t you all get together and start an online petition, perhaps gather some media support for it, and petition the CRIA for it’s actions?

    If you use your heads, you’ll do this with careful thought and careful comments, using facts rather than anger.

    Perhaps the CRIA hasn’t realized that it’s main source of income IS those levy’s it charges us Canadians when we by blank DVD’s and CD’s and other recording media?

    You’d think they’d be promoting sites like the dem and perhaps working at offering some hosting or something.

  • Mike

    why the hell would they ban canadian users? is the demonoid server not in Canada? If that’s the case I think that us Canadians should toss the demonoid servers and their owners out if they can’t be bothered to stand up for us to a bogus letter from an even more bogus “company”. I mean seriously, if your server is in our country, you best be lettin us use it otherwise get the fuck out.

  • MeDiC

    Does this ban effect Australian users??? I keep getting a:
    400 – Bad Request
    When I try to go there!

  • Anon

    You all make me laugh. Things like, why don’t they fight, take the CRIA on etc,etc. If it happened to you, would you take them on at YOUR expense.

    No one knows the man that runs Demonoid or his situation financialy but do you think he is going to put his head on the chopping block just because everyone wants him too, don’t think so, I wouldn’t expect him to do that for me.
    By the way I was a Demonoid user in Canada and can’t get inbut I will keep on trying but I WON’T blame Demous for that.

  • dinglenutz

    This is complete BS. Canada has no laws governing streaming data, how can ypu put a law on an electrical signal. FFS yet again big corporations tell us what we can and cannot do. F**king BS. DOWN WITH THE NEW WORLD ORDER. I guess the 20 billion they made isnt enough i guess they want that extra 3 billion we take from them.

  • sneakyman

    don’t worry fellow canadians ,were theres a will theres a way. i already know somes canadians who have snuck around the demonoid block. just read the bloggs above me , and you’ll find a way ,thats all i’m going to say , oops i’ve already said too much.

  • Blondie

    [quote comment="180409"]Those of you bashing Canada might want to remember that site is now in Canada. It was moving it here in the first place that saved Demonoid from being sued by the RIAA and the MPAA and eventually shut down.[/quote]No, demonoid fled from Leaseweb in The Netherlands, who were forced by FIOD/Brein (Dutch fingers of the MPAA/RIAA) to hand out demonoid’s private whois info, and to pay fines if they kept hosting demonoid’s tracker. It wasn’t even the indexing website, it was its tracker (inferno.*) that was in a dangerous location.

  • Reply E-Mail I got from Demonoid.com

    Subject: ‘RE: Re: Demonoid’s Return Forces Canadian Users Out’
    Message:
    I’m afraid its not a matter if it is legal or not – its a matter of whether they may sue. If they sue we still have to defend ourselves, and thats very expensive.

    And yes, I know we could ask the community for financial help, but you have to agree that it would complicate things a lot for the site.
    ———————————-
    ** PLEASE DO NOT REPLY THIS E-MAIL **

    - Demonoid.com gate keeper

    ==============================

    My reply back to them..

    Could you please provide me with the legal docs that the CRIA handed over to you guys. I may provide Legal Council FREE of COST.

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  • Anon

    I am sure that Demous is going to come out and show himself to anyone or hand over papers that are confidential to just anyone.
    The internet as we all know is a mystery of its own.
    I am a brain surgeon, would you trust me with your brain, don’t think so so why wouls anyone trust anyone on the net with such confidential papers

  • international BT user

    a sign that they don’t seem to care about helping us is that their back up forum site is on stand by mode, demonoiders.com so we cant go ask them questions from there…

  • ex-demonoid

    9.27 ratio, 180 gigs d/l

    No longer seeding any of the 400gb I was uploading for that site.

    Pity, because I really liked it.

    Canadian (ex)seeder

  • poopie man

    ohhhh bla bla bla???

  • Anonymous

    Don’t bother with using Demonoid….If they don’t want Canadian’s on their site, then we’ll just goto another one. Mininova is the best one anyways.

  • feel sorry for any canadians who have Supported them by Donations

    I so feel sorry for any canadians who have Supported them by Donations.

    and if Canadians have donated then Demonoid should fight. as the Donations was to support the site and cover the costs of running the site and that means running the site for Canadins and for legal fees.. thats what the word “support” means..

  • Demonoid Committing fraud?

    I wanna know if Demonoid Committing fraud by asking for Support Donations and not supporting Canadians if some canadians have supported them by Donations?

    the point in Donations are to be used as what its said to be use for and it seems like thats not happing.. therefore is this not called fraud?

  • Mr Back Bacon

    Yup it seems that there are more than one or two ways of getting in to demonoid for all for Canadians. And A few Canadians have noticed that their accounts were canceled or deleted. Maybe if this letter thing is real then not only was the file shut down to setup filtering etc, the maybe accounts that had “Canadian” listed as country of origin were purged too. IF thats your case you need to wait and register via a proxy page (remember to use a gmail, or web based not isp based mail account. Or if you know another Canadian that still has their account then get them to get an invite code and mail it to you and then re-register a new account.

    And remember O’ children of the North DO NOT EVER ENTER YOUR COUNTRY OF ORIGIN EVER AGAIN AT ANY PAGE THAT IT IS NOT MANDATORY FOR

    I’d like to think that Demonoid bailed when they had no choice, but I also think (know) that no Canadian politician is going to pass up a chance at the overflowing trough hosted by the MPAA/RIAA for a bunch of grubby, whiny, sniveling thieves either, regardless of what they think their rights are. Man maybe there will be some eventual solution to the CRIA angle, but if you know anything about Canadian Law or Politics it won’t happen any time soon, and it will be expensive as hell….And who is going to pay for it?

  • Mr.X

    They must be deleting canadian accounts alphabetically as my account was not deleted (my username begins with X.Because my account still works(for now anyhow,just changed the country to U.S from canada)

    Keeping my fingers crossed :D

    The site seems to be working (does for me anyhow…via proxy ;)

    Canadians still able to log on should change their country immediately.(hopefully it wont get deleted)

  • anon

    I don’t think they are deleting accounts. I proxied in and checked mine. Somebody had already changed my country to the US. Not that I’ll ever use it again. I’m out of demonoid, permanently. In another forum some moron called “ROOT….”, apparently a close friend of Dumb-ass, just called us “dumb canadians.” If that is the sentiment over at demonoid, then fuck them. They can get the hell out of our country. The sooner, the better. They come in, setup, shut us out and then insult us. Fight back. These jackasses have to eat. Cut off their money flow. DON”T send them money. They deserve to starve to death. I wonder how much money they are sucking up. It’s a real good scam they got running. Buy a few servers, set up a site and leech off of the people. No wonder they are so secretive. A real good con-job.

  • maria

    Hi I understand but every canadian account was delete . I’m wondering if it possible if someone could send me an invitation please my email add is dayvon2008@hotmail.com

  • anon

    To maria. post 549. Like i said, mine is still active. I will not send you an invite. I want to see these fuckers die. Go elsewhere. The stuff you want is out there.

  • Concerned CDN

    This whole letter by the CRIA was a lie or hoax towards Demonoid. This has been carried on to a different thread. Read the comments.

    http://torrentfreak.com/an-open-letter-to-the-cria-071004/#comments

  • sniper

    Has anybody given any thought to the fact that deimos doesn’t run his operation because he likes people and likes spreading torrents? It is a business. He makes a living by begging for donations. And people fall for it. Yes, demonoid is a business and they don’t like it when they’re caught in a lie. That is why we won’t see the Alleged CRIA letter. He made a monumental blunder and is now stone-walling it. Deimos is owed no loyalty. He is nothing more than a scamming little east-european scumbag posing as something he is not. He is so close to being a thief that it doesn’t matter. He would be doing do a great job, if he was a legitimate businessman. He doesn’t give a shit about the P2P community. He’s just in it for the money. How’s that european gypsy blood, deimos, running a little thin right now?

  • Anonymous

    In response to #545 and #552

    If he ran this like a business, then he is responsible for the business laws and taxes of that country he based in.

    In Canada, he would be responsible for taxes based on what he’s made. He can be charged with Tax evasion here and possible jail time, if he’s based in Canada, and has not paid the taxes on the income this site made. Those that donated I would follow up a complaint to federal law enforcement for further investigation.

  • gopi.J

    im candian too but found a loophole;):P

    use a proxy server

    i use proxy.cd

    go there and type in any website that is not accesable to you:)

  • homosapien12
  • alex

    Response to post Anonymous post 553. Thank you, sir. I have just put in a query to Revenue Canada. If demos is asking for, or accepting donations, and he is not a registered charitable organisation, then he might be in real deep. I will send queries off to the Provincial revenue authorities as well. I sincerely doubt that he is operating as a registered tax exempt religion. It is quite possible that he is operating a business without the proper licences as well. This is not quite at the stage, yet, where the police would take a very close look. But, if tax evasion is in the picture…

  • Trelew

    Well anyone can ask anyone (“Hey Brother can you spare a dime?”), but in this case it’s for the continual operation of Demonoid. It’s not require but certainly appreciated by the person (or people) who are running this on their own dime. Rev Canada can’t touch them because there is no business and donations are not required to use the site.

  • jim

    alex, post 553. Why don’t you send a letter to Immigration Canada? Find out under what circumstances Deimos is here. If he has a work visa, etc. Let’s fry this turkey in his own demonic juices.

  • international BT user

    this is getting funny

    btw, if we download torrents from other sites that are on the demonoid tracker, are they still going to work even if our account got deleted or not? I havent tried yet. There must be a site filled with duplicated torrents from Demonoid. The most ironic thing for me is I dont even need to download anything these days really.

  • Anonymous

    I use hipe ip and GhostSurf both cracked programs which change your ip through a proxy and hide ip mask your fake ip.

    both work great, no problems getting onto demonoid.

    copies of both programs are on pirates bay

  • justme

    Crap this stinks, I hate having to pay $$$$ for Crap….

  • Ace Strife

    This Is Bull. as a Canadian, I pay EXTRA fees on the blank CDs I buy and an Extra Fee On My Mp3 player just to keep it legal! this is horsesh*t

  • Conor

    Demonoid sucked anyway! Fuk’em.

  • p.c.31

    to alex, post 556. It is possible for Deimos to be brought in for questioning regard a very serious charge called Public Mischief.

  • Anonymouse

    With all the talk of reporting Deimos to Revenue Canda, having him deported, etc. – Are you sure that he is actually residing in Canada? I can host a site on a foreign server, but I don’t actually have to live in that country.

  • Illuminati

    One word. Proxy.

  • Jew

    Fuck you assholes.
    Everything is the Jews fault.
    You piece of shit coward mother fuckers.
    A little country the size of NJ and a people of a few million and they are the cause of alll your problems, including your 1 inch dick! Wow real heroes.
    If not for the Jews you would be playing with your 1 inch dicks instead of using your Jewish, Israeli designed pentiums.
    Go fuck yourself with that 1 inch dick, ha ha ha.
    If you don’t keep your trap shut we will send one of the omnipotent Jewish warriors to jam your heads up your asshole if it aint there already.
    Have a nice day from Israel.

  • Craig

    Why is it that Jews control our media?

    Is that why you never hear the phrase “Jewist Terrorist”, even though we all know the world is filled with them.

  • A JEW

    “Why is it that Jews control our media?”

    It’s cause you guys are too stupid, duffus!!!

    If we didn’t run the whole world you guys would be eating each other in the name of Global Warming!

    And you guys arn’t even Kosher,
    All that industrial food, YUCH!

    Have a nice day.

  • mike

    regarding Post 565. Deimos may be out of the country, but he has a presence here, in the form of demonoid. Demonoid has to follow the laws of the land. Looking into tax issues and business licences and all that stuff is a means to shed some light on this slippery charater, and to get to the truth. There are some potentially serious issues here.

  • Reg

    To post 567. I think you’re in the wrong place. This thread is about demonoid. The anti-israel section is over there, somewhere. The ignorant asshole section is someplace else. No wonder you showed up here. You’re lost. In more ways than one.

  • Fueler

    Maria

    Try hitting the submit button once more. I find that the first time doesnt always go through

  • djtuzilo

    Just use a proxy if you live in canada to access demonoid.com

  • Anonymous

    > Demonoid has to follow the laws of the land.

    Please explain for the masses what laws demonoid is violating specifically* and, CRIA’s interpretation of those laws. You’ll find they don’t match up ;)

    *Here’s a hint: None.

  • ted

    to post 574 What laws? How about public mischief? For starts. A lttle digging would most likely find more. Why don’t you get off your demonoid ass and have a look? Cria had nothing to do with it, dickwad. It is dumb-ass’ sole creation. A figment of his imagination. A scenario from a demented mind.

  • Apec1

    THIS IS SOO FUCKING GAY. i had a fucking Account there and now its fucking GONE. GAY GAY FUCKING GAY!~

    Fucking CRIA. Anybody have Ip changer programs err?…

    Email. pass_the_limit@hotmail.com

  • A JEW

    OK All You Inbred Hillbillies, Heres How You Get Around The Demonoid Block.First You Go To The Pirate Bay And Download An old Version of ” Easy-Hide-Ip ” Then You Go On Demonoid.Com And Upload The Latest Version of ” Easy-Hide-Ip ” Is That Easy Enough For You Inbread Hillbillies???

  • thedemon44

    Yeah no luck with the proxies here either.

    I can use other torrent sites and have been. Id rather not, Demoniod is a very nice site to browse.

    Why it shut down for a week b4 banning only Canadians doesnt make logical sense imo.

    Whatever, people like to talk shit, its all some people seem to be good at right? Belive whatever you want.

    What I know and belive is this: I cant access Demonoid because I live in Canada. Further than that, I cant say anything firmly except I would like to have access to Demoniod again.

    All I want is easy access to torrents. More options equals a happier me.

  • international BT user

    If the categories and descriptions on TPB would be more detailed as they were on Demonoid, then I would be very happy. I don’t know why some sites don’t even try making their site more enjoyable.
    And to the Jew, Coca Cola is Kosher, so we all eat the same crap as you do.

  • googooga

    they should close google too cause we can find more torrents on google than on Demonoid ;p

  • PersonWithBrain

    Demonoid is shit, and has been for a long time.

  • Gary

    CRIA Admits P2P Downloading Legal in Canada

    http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/15/066200

    Something very strange going on here

  • tn

    Thanks Gary for that post (582) – hmmmm… that does seem strange if CRIA admits p2p is legal.

    Soooo, what’s really going on Demonoid? This is damn strange!!

    I keep getting the msg the site is down for maintenance while using a proxy. Really liked Demonoid for files I wasn’t locating anywhere else – and I’ve been to lots of other torrent sites…

    Guess I won’t be seeding there anymore if this doesn’t straighten up.

  • instigator

    well i’m a canadian and i just finished surfing demonoid. what a site bigger,faster and more enjoyable. i’m so glad i got back on demonoid . i’m downloading like crazy. more people than ever on demonoid the seeders are crazy , there coming out of the woodwork . movies,music,software,books,pictures it’s all there , just a press of a button and it’s yours free . fellow canadians come and join the fun demonoid.com

  • Beancounter

    to poster #584
    What a load of b.s.
    I just got off a site that monitors all website traffic. Don’t worry they don’t log IP’s. just traffic flow. Demonoid is down, down, down. They are falling faster than a shot duck. If they fall much farther, they’re gonna be a smokin hole in the ground. They are down by 20% in markers such as reach, and page views. They have dropped 40 places in web usage. Who, what are you, a deimos demonoid imp spreading glad tidings and bullshit? You can’t fool a bean-counter, baby. We read between the lines of crap and see the real numbers. Pack your parachute and bail out while you can. Unless you’re a kamakazi, in which case, sayanara baby, welcome to the great demonoid imp duck-shoot.

  • Realist

    Hey, instigator, post 584
    Tell me, precisely, how i am going to “enjoy” demonoid when i have to go through a proxy only to find out my account has been deleted? The only thing I am going to enjoy is watching demonoid self-destruct. Make that two things. I’m going to enjoy seeing deimos strung up by his tiny balls. Come back to demonoid? When hell freezes over.

  • Zman

    about post #584
    Can I have some of what you’ve been smoking? Sounds like dynamite shit, man. Until you cough it up, don’t try to blow smoke up my ass. I’m not stupid.

  • instigator

    ok you got me , i have to go through a different ip adress. and it’s slower than shit and all the downloads are the same. demonoid is a real bummer now infact it’s crap . what a bummer!!!

  • P.C.31

    Wow, instigator. That was a nice try at humor in post 584. Unfortunately most people are so pissed at demonoid that they missed your sarcasm. They want a hanging party with Deimos as the guest of honour. I hope you aren’t too bruised.

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  • andres

    I get the 400 – Bad Request page also, try going to demonoid.cc

  • Anonymous

    Can someone tell those RETARDS that MP3 sharing is 100% LEGAL in Canada, please?

    They shut down cause the racording industry threatens to sue… SUE OVER WHAT? WTF?

    I hope demonois suffer greatly because they went running with their heads in their asses and their tails between their legs.

    “A threatening letter, oh noes!!! Let’s shut down quick!!”

    Retards. Guess all the money they’re making isn’t enough to get a cheapass lawyer to explain to them the Canadian laws.

  • roguedevlin

    Is anyone else having trouble opening demonoid’s page?
    Yesterday everything was fine, but today I can’topen it unless I try with an online proxy…
    I’m not in Canada, so why can’t I open it?

  • Dear Abby

    to:roguedevlin
    post 592
    Dear roguedevlin
    A lot of people are having trouble with demonoid. Or should I say that demonoid is having trouble with people. The two don’t seem to be compatable. The love affair with demonoid is over. They seem to be self-destructing. They have taken in a lot of money in the form of donations and are now flipping everyone “the bird.” My advice is to go to other sources for your torrents.

    Signed,
    Dear Abby

  • Uncle Aleister

    I’m Canadian, and am having no trouble logging into Demonoid and downloading torrents there, by using proxy sites. The only minor irritation is it’s often slower to get Demonoid’s pages loaded
    when using a proxy.

    The one difference re. Demonoid and my account, is that my share ratio doesn’t move any more (it’s now permanently stuck at a healthy 1.02). Since starting to use proxies, the amount of uploading and downloading I do no longer registers at the site.

    I hope they’re not going to, at some point, “weed me out”, cancel my account ’cause it appears I’m not
    downloading or uploading any more!

    I like to think it’s unlikely. The fact I often login, leave comments, and download torrents, should still be obvious to them, suggesting I’m still a member in good standing (with a new listed country of residence – I “moved”, at least according to my Demonoid account personal details, which I changed!)

    Also, lots of other Demonoid users,besides Canucks,
    no doubt use proxies too, though for
    other reasons: anonymity and safety.
    Their share ratios must get “frozen” like mine.

    So, perhaps I should stop worrying,
    ’cause it just doesn’t seem quite logical that a frozen share ratio would be grounds for getting kicked off Demonoid’s membership roll.

  • Anonymouse

    [quote comment="187174"]I’m Canadian, and am having no trouble logging into Demonoid and downloading torrents there, by using proxy sites. The only minor irritation is it’s often slower to get Demonoid’s pages loaded
    when using a proxy.

    The one difference re. Demonoid and my account, is that my share ratio doesn’t move any more (it’s now permanently stuck at a healthy 1.02). Since starting to use proxies, the amount of uploading and downloading I do no longer registers at the site.

    I hope they’re not going to, at some point, “weed me out”, cancel my account ’cause it appears I’m not
    downloading or uploading any more!

    I like to think it’s unlikely. The fact I often login, leave comments, and download torrents, should still be obvious to them, suggesting I’m still a member in good standing (with a new listed country of residence – I “moved”, at least according to my Demonoid account personal details, which I changed!)

    Also, lots of other Demonoid users,besides Canucks,
    no doubt use proxies too, though for
    other reasons: anonymity and safety.
    Their share ratios must get “frozen” like mine.

    So, perhaps I should stop worrying,
    ’cause it just doesn’t seem quite logical that a frozen share ratio would be grounds for getting kicked off Demonoid’s membership roll.[/quote]

    It seems to depend upon what proxy or software you use. I’m a Canadian using Ghost Surf, and both my upload and download ratios are changing on a daily basis.

  • user

    to anonymouse @post #595. It is not a proxy or software problem. It is and always has been a demonoid problem, amongst others. Demonoid is going downhill on greased skids. It now sucks worse than my ex-wife.

  • Uncle Aleister

    If my share ratio hasn’t changed since
    I started using proxies, but someone else sees their ratio change daily at
    Demonoid, and we’re both in the same “outcast” category (Canucks), and the only difference seems to be choice of proxy or client software(? – I use Azureus) — is it Demonoid’s fault, as stated above, or is it something at my end?

    I should try Ghost Surf and see what happens, if anything, and maybe even try another client, like Bit Comet, which seems to be the most popular
    and possibly best one , anyway.

  • user

    to Uncle Aleister post #597. I repeat: It is a demonoid problem. I am an ex-demonoid user. I will never go there again. While I was using it, before deimos pulled that stupid stunt, my ratio did not change for 3 months. 10 gigs of downloads and 80 gigs of up did not get recorded. If you are worried about it, go to other sites. There are a lot of them and they are all better than demonoid on it’s best day. If you aren’t worried about it, drop demonoid anyway. They are a pack of
    (Expletives Deleted)

  • thedemon44

    I cant even get to demonoid now… instead i get redirected to http://filessharing.us/?rid=607133

  • instigator

    The Problem With Demonoid Is The Staff Is A Bunch Of Crack Babies And Old Hippies.If You Can’t Trust Them While They Do Jib Or Smoke Reafers, Then Something Is Wrong With You.Since They Went To quebec CANADA They Also Experimented In Homosexuality.So Wright Now There In The Closet.

  • Concerned

    “They” must be really cracking down on internet “piracy” because no longer having easy access to Demonoid anymore, I decided to try piratebay.org.

    After using it for one episode of a tv series, I got an email from my the “Abuse” Department of my internet provider detailing how NBC and the Worldwide AntiPiracy people were down on my ass for “the downloading, uploading, and distribution of copyright material.”

    In all the years, I’ve been on the nnet, I’ve never had this happen, but I use one stupid site and now this. I sooo better not be sued.

    So, the point of this is, is anyone else out there getting messages like this? Is file sharing coming down to a close?

  • instigator

    This Site Is Censored Beware =)

  • Pie-rat

    Concerned, post 600. What country do you live in? Most of these letters are merely scare tactics used by the mega-corps. Read the article of October 13 on Torrentfreak’s home page. The article is labled FEARLESS DIGITAL PIRATES… There might be some useful info for you there. I received one of these notices and I live in Canada. My ISP also included their very nice “fuck off” letter that they replied with. No, P2P is not closing down. Over 100 million people are a very difficult target to hit. There is a lot of legal B.S. that differs from country to country, that is why i asked what country you reside in. But it mainly boils down to they have to prove you did it. Who else has access to your computer? How can they prove you did it? Maybe somebody hijacked your wireless. Right? I used to have a program that wiped all traces of where I’ve been and then overwrote it 3 times. Not even the NSA could figure out where I’ve been. Unfortunately I’ve forgotten which prog. Now I don’t give a rat’s ass who knows where I’ve been. It would look real good if some mega-corp took me to court. I’m disabled, in a wheelchair, no legs, one arm, one eye, living on a small pension, 300 miles from the nearest record store. I DARE the mofo’s to take me on. While it is hard for me to wipe my ass, I can throw shit real good.
    By the way, anybody can get your IP just by torrenting. I use Utorrent and everybody who is connected shows their IP. It is then no big deal to backtrack to the ISP and you. Or they could be using a program like CallerIP, and VisualTrace. It doesn’t matter what you do, when you web-crawl, you leave tracks. Unless of course you are some kind of real hacker and know how to hide. Be cool man, and don’t sweat it, yet.

  • The brat pack

    Hi,Instigator, post 601. How ya doin? Haven’t seen you in a while. Still having fun? Stir it up, baby.

  • Concerned

    Thanks, Pie-rat, for the reply.

    I had thought about some of what you had typed, like my ip being hacked and what have you, but the scare tactic worked very well.

    I’m in Canada myself, so I was really surprised by it.

    [My younger brother commented that someone should tell NBC the fact that Canada can't access all of their shows on their website because of their rating is one reason enough to download, and even if I had downloaded said episode, it was because of the censorship of their own website. He also commented that NBC's ratings have fallend, and they're starting to trail, so they'll use anything as an excuse as to why that is and "prevent" it.]

    But yeah, I thought of what you mentioned also: how can they prove anything.

    Of course, the possiblity of my seeding said file was what got their mad on, I especially detest their allegations of me to be some major distributor of their copyrighted goodie, and the insinuation that I’m one of the worst offenders of the planet.

    In any case, I was going to respond to my provider but was just royally pissed off at the time and thought the better of it and deleted the mail.

    It angers me that an organization or business or whoever is going to get all 1984 on me but fail to do anything about the actual site I may or may not have gotten a file from.

    It mentioned that the “infringement site” was pirate bay, so go after them. Go after Youtube for which I could easily have “illegally” viewed an episode of their copyrighted tv shows.

    If someone tries to shut down my computer or sue me for one episode of a tv series that I may not have known I downloaded would be extremely pathetic.

    But it’s scary when one hears of incidents where someone is sued and fined heavily for something.

    Again their scare tactic or warning has definitely worked. Now I’m paranoid of downloading anything torrent-wise … not so much NBC since obviously they’re not every corporation on the planet, but that my isp will shut me down, or that some other million dollar company will sue my ass.

  • Pie-rat

    TO: Concerened, Post 605. You’re Canadian? Take that Email you got, print it out and wipe your ass with it. Downloading is perfectly legal in Canada. Uploading is a wee bit of a grey area. But NOBODY in Canada has ever been sued for uploading. I doubt that any american corporation has legal standing in Canada. That means our courts would tell them to piss off. It would take hundreds of thousands of dollars to put together a case and present it. No company is going to do that over a single small uploader. But DOWNLOAD all you want. P2P sharing was declared legal in Canada by Judge Konrad von Finckenstein of the Federal Court ruling back in March, 2004. By the way, who is your ISP? They should know the legality of this. Maybe they were just passing the message along as a piece of information. If your ISP is a stupid one and shut you down, and they can’t do that legally, then they would be open to a lawsuit. So go and suck up all the bandwidth you want. Happy downloading. Raise the Jolly Roger and flip the world “the bird.”

  • Pie-rat

    Add-on to Post 606. About the seeding part. Don’t sweat it. Seed all you want. I usually go to a ratio of 8 to one. I believe in sharing. There might be a tiny problem with creating a torrent and uploading that way, but this is Canada. Our courts are so plugged up that no judge would waste his time on it. This is not the US, where you can get sued for farting in an elevator. Sleep well and rest easy. If you want to be a prick like me, ask your ISP for the full information on the complaint, including the return e-mail address of the NBC sender. Send them an e-mail, through a proxy server, or through a public access computer, a nicely worded reply ‘thanking them for their concern’. That is a very polite, lawyer way of telling them to fuck off. Include a copy of their letter, but delete any reference to your IP or anything that can identify you. If you ask your ISP for this information, they will most likely send you a reply saying something like this: “we just sent you this as a piece of information.”
    They probably won’t send a full copy of the alleged complaint. They’ll just quietly drop it. When I get cyber-slapped, I hit back. And from my position, it’s an uppercut with a full head of steam on it. Like I said, raise the Jolly Roger and happy torrenting.

  • Pie-rat

    Oh, dear sometimes what i write can be confusing. To clear up on small area. When I said this:”Send them an e-mail, through a proxy server, or through a public access computer, a nicely worded reply ‘thanking them for their concern’. That is a very polite, lawyer way of telling them to fuck off.” I meant to send that to the NBC stooge. Not to your ISP. Or your can just quietly keep on trucking and loot all you want.

  • Pie-rat

    Damn, i did it again. A further correction. If you are going to e-mail the NBC stooges, DON’T go through a proxy. You are still using your mail account. Set up one through AOL or MSN one of those open, anonymous web mail places. Then you could use a proxy. But, you will find it safer to go a public access computer, use a free web mail account and then blast the bastards. If you feel like blasting, that is. It might be wiser to just sail off into the sunset and keep on doing what you do. Enjoy your shows.

  • Uncle Aleister

    Thanks for the input “user”.
    You’re probably right it’s Demonoid’s deficiency, but the timing’s an odd coincidence. My share ratio froze only after the CRIA BS occurred.

    ‘Fraid I can’t help but still like Demonoid! For instance, this past week I discovered a unique cult musician, Scott Walker, by seeing a Bowie produced doc. film about him.
    Who has the best collections of his recordings? Demonoid. They have many recordings no one else seems to have. Not always, but sometimes, for certain artists, TV shows, and movies, Demonoid still rules!
    I’ve enjoyed their at times lively, informative message boards too.

  • user

    TO:Uncle Aleister @post 610. I used to say don’t worry about demonoid kicking you off, they don’t kick anyone for a low ratio. I do believe that if the account is inactive for a while they do close it. I don’t know if ratio non-change is tied into booting or not. I don’t know what it indicates to them(or a sniffer program). Maybe if you just access it and go through the torrents section, then maybe it indicates you’re still active. But all that may have changed since the stunt was pulled. NOBODY knows what is going on. I don’t think that even demonoid knows what’s going on. Some people have had their accounts deleted. Others can’t get in, even through a proxy. Others are re-directed to a dead zone. That is why I advocate dropping demonoid. It is now totally unreliable.
    I’m normally not this nice about my dislike for demonoid. I guess you got me on a good day. Good luck to you.

  • (not so) Concerned

    thanks, pie-rat. u helped a lot! downloading commencing!

  • (not so) Concerned

    Pie-rat, my man, thank you again! Your comments have definitely taken the edge off, and I’m downloading again happily! :P

  • instigator

    some people know too much about demonoid.it’s a torrent site not a religeon or a lifestyle. get a life people ???

  • Pie-rat

    To: (not so) Concerned
    Your welcome. That is what the P2P community is all about. Sharing concerns and solving problems.
    If only Deimos of demonoid ever pulled his head out of his paranoid ass and realised it, then he would not have split the community the way he did. He did a lot of damage. More than the mega-corps ever did.

    Best of luck to you.

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  • Anonymous

    Concerning Demonoid accounts. I couldn’t access my account either because it was giving me a username/password error, and so I went to the forgot your password section and had them email my pass to me and noticed upon receiving the email that my password had been changed on me, so I changed it back and then changed my country (being from Canada, I thought this might be a good thing to do) and now I can login to my account with no problems (except the proxy thing but even that’s not much of a hassle).

  • Bob Graton

    Onion Routing on wikipedia.org and canadian are back on …

    Tor, vidalia, privoxy and tor button on mozilla should do it

  • Canada – Mac user

    hey does anyone have a mac app that can mask your ip?? , i’ve been looking everywhere and can’t find anything !!, also does anyone know when regestration is going to be back open again ??

    responces to questions GREATLY appriciated!!

  • Vader

    Pussies, ever herd tell of a lawer??
    I mean please, The CRIA from here in Canada , the stupid group with no money , no power and no hope of support from our judicial system….You know, the ones CANADIANS laugh at!!!! Please man if your gonna tuck your tail do it for an actual reason. The CRIA are a bunch of wanna bee’s with no money and no support here in Canada. So what would posses you to listen to them….A letter from their Lawers……Call one of your own and see how he laughs.
    In Canada as canadians we cannot be charged by another countries buissnesses, we are protected from such things under our rights. WE own the airwaves as civilians and WE do not listen to a group of halfwits that have no power and have been told by the highest courts than file sharing is legal and there will be no suing the public. And yet you are based outside of Canada and you listen to them…..again Pussies!

  • Vader

    Oh and I have 11 letters from both sides of the boarder about cease and disist and I take the time to write back to each party and explain why they have no right to even send me the letter in the first place. It always works,I have downloaded about 5 tb over the years and have not received a letter or a response from any party in over 2 years. Know your RIGHTS!
    Pussies

  • texx11

    I think it is bull SH^% But us people in general are stupid we put these idiots in place for our so called protection but like all things the Governing bodies twist it and we get screwed in the end so maybe the next time we have a bright idea FORGET IT we seem to be our worst enemy. so all there doing is keeping some of the people out BUT where there is a will there is a way for us Canadians or Americans to get what we want or need plus if we spent less time time worrying about trivial matters like this and more time on the worlds stability then everyone would be happy. and if we really want to hurt them STOP BUYING MUSIC FOR A COUPLE OF MONTHS.

  • Pie-rat

    To: VADER, posts 619,620. Man, you sound like a kindred spirit. Except for calling people pussies, that is. It does turn people off, when you are trying to educate them as to their rights. But I do the same as you. Someone cyber-slaps me, I hit back. But, yeah, i know, it does get tiring, saying the same thing over and over. I don’t know how many times I’ve told people, that this is canada and P2P is legal here. I’m also very tired of deimos’ bullshit about this CRIA thing. Either somebody pulled a childish prank, that has no legal standing, or deimos is pulling something really stupid. Either way, dumb-ass fucked up big time. IF there was a letter, the best thing he could have done is to throw it out on the web, where everybody could laugh at it. He didn’t, so one has to assume that deimos is pulling a fast one for some unknown reason.

  • Vader

    Yeah ok, didn’t need the pussies comment but like you, it’s been a painful thing to explain and I am sick of it. These people should know
    better ,they are running a site and are scared off by Cria….something fishy about the whole thing!!!!

  • Pie-rat

    Vader, youi still out there?
    I am sick of it too. Actually I am sick to death of computers, period. You know that phrase: Familiarity breeds contempt? I seem to be the only guy for a couple of hundred miles that seems to know anything about them. Well, I am so damned familiar with them that what I have is a deep, dark, black hatred for the damn things. I’ve fixed too many. They’re just another piece of consumer goods foisted upon an unsuspecting public by the money grubbing merchandisers. People will spend thousands of dollars on them and they don’t know which end you put the gasoline in. Take a look at the web and any site that has a comment page. Most of what you see is vile language and absolute ignorance and stupidity. There doesn’t seem to be many educated people out there. A lot seem to be the type, where grade 3 was the best 4 years of their life. They may be able to start a computer, but they can’t start their brain. A lot of ignorance, un-awareness, hatred, racism and pure unadulterated stupidity, but they hold to their god-given right to spew it everywhere. Television, when it started held the promise of being a fantastic educational tool. Look at it now. A wasteland. And there is nothing for me there. Now take a look at the web. It too, held great promise as a tool for education and communication. Look at it now. A wasteland. And there is nothing there for me either. I think that I’m just going to shut down and go back to reading books. I’m sick and tired of the games people play. I’m sick to death of thieving, lying con-artist dickwads like Deimos of Demonoid. He wouldn’t be running demonoid if it wasn’t making money. A lot of money, from unsuspecting donors. And these imps of his raise him to the level of a diety. (that’s god level, for the uneducated). Deimos isn’t into this because he is altruistic. No way. It’s a money maker. And he doesn’t have to work at an honest job. What a con job that whole demonoid thing is. Something fishy at demonoid? Nope, it stinks to high heaven.
    Maybe I should start a website and cry “poor me, send money. Look at what I give in return.” And that will be a one finger salute, exactly what dumb-ass is doing.

  • thedemon44

    It doesnt add up. Fishy is right.

  • instigator

    Would You Like Some Cheese With Your Wine. Belly Ache Belly Ache , What A bunch of Winers. Demonois Realy Kicked You In The Chops , And Now Your Crying About It. Poor Babys Momma Going To Tuck You In At Night And Tell You A Story. After All It’s A Scary World Out There. Your Just A Bunch Of Nerdy Sissy Computor Geeks, Ha Ha Ha Ha

  • the brat pack

    Instigator, go fuck yourself. Get a brain, get a life, and get fucking lost, loser.

  • instigator

    [quote comment="192035"]Instigator, go fuck yourself. Get a brain, get a life, and get fucking lost, loser.[/quote]
    A Little To Close To The Truth I would Say , Ahhhhh Don’t Cry Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Nerd =(

  • The brat pack

    Instigator: You are so far off-base. You must be one of those people to whom grade 3 was the best 4 years of their life. You obviously have no intelligence or awareness beyond anything except your soggy diaper. Grow up, child. You aren’t funny. You aren’t even pathetic. You are not an “instigator.” You are a hemerrhoid. A bloody pain in the ass. Go sit on an ice pack till the swelling goes down. The ‘roids are so big they’re coming out your ears. Go back and haunt demonoid. They are more on your level. Fucking imp.

  • instigator

    [quote comment="188095"]Hi,Instigator, How ya doin? Haven’t seen you in a while. Still having fun? Stir it up, baby.[/quote]

    Poor Little Brat Pack Has No Freinds . And Has To Hang Out On A Blog Site. What A Nerdy Little Computor Geek , Probably Using A Dos Computor . Your Such A LOSER Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha =(

  • Zipper

    To Instigator:
    Your last post says more about you than anyone else. Why don’t you go hang around a mall with all your buddies? Oh that’s right, you have none. That’s why YOU hang around blogs. Go hang around with other of your type – at demonoid. You should also go to your physician and ask him to increase your Prozac dosage. It is obvious to all that you are in serious need of a life.

  • thedemon44

    Id say hes instigated you guys just as him name implies he intended from the beginning.

    Ignore the shit you dont like, and it will leave. It wants attention, it does not want to be ignored.

    He sucked you right in, lol.

  • kim

    I think this “Instigator” is a rabid dog mod guy from demonoid called Sabin. Plume,~,Damon, Pal,Radnom, Anonymous,Root@your.server, thanks for the lols, and a few web names on other blogs use the exact, same, identical format and attack mode. Instigator is just some dickweed that needs a good dose of herbicide.

  • instigator

    All Right This Is My Last Post. Your Right If I pissed You Off That Was My Intention.The Demonoid Problem Has Been Solved.Just Find A Program That Will Change Your Country IP Adress.It May Be Slow But At Least You Get On Demonoid.To Everyone I pissed Off, Go Fuck Yourself And Quite Wineing About Demonoid It Gets Boreing.Nerds Ha Ha Ha Ha =(

  • Vader

    you stupid fuck , thats what the blog was for…..goddamb retard.
    I don’t even use demonoid….go back to being an eight year old head ache.

    Man I’ll bet your parents just love you all to death….lol

  • Fuck Demonoid

    Never used it never would and now I hope they go down in flames

  • Anonymous

    we need to do somthing this is wroung i have a right to P2P in Canada

  • Keneth1988

    And yes u can not get on Demonoid ther is only one way to get this site if u live in canada ant thats to use this site http://www.facebookproxy.com U can get on demonoid with this proxy surver free so ya they can try to stop us bet like I say they can never stope the singnel ther is always a way and i fond it hahahahaha.

  • Anonymous

    Speaking as a Canadian:
    Demonoid = fags

    Oh well, at least I always have TPB. I don’t expect them to roll over and beg for some cocksucking lawyers any day soon.

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  • Xichael

    I just created a firefox search plugin for accessing demonoid by proxy from Canada. Get it here: http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=Demonoid+by+Proxy

  • Anonymous

    Let Graham Henderson,President of the CRIA, know what douche-bag sack of shit you think he is :)

    Graham Henderson
    E-mail: ghenderson@cria.ca
    phone: (416) 967-7272
    Fax: (416) 967-9415

    85 Mowat Avenue
    Toronto, Ontario
    M6K 3E3

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  • No Name

    [quote comment="200733"]I just created a firefox search plugin for accessing demonoid by proxy from Canada. Get it here: http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=Demonoid+by+Proxy/quote
    I would be careful if you use this, it works but my anti virus software says i’m opening a dangerous website that does hacking/proxy avoidance. the site is http://letus.in/cgi-bin/nph-pro

  • ProxyGeek

    Try http://www.freeanonymizer.net/ it seems to work great and it doesn’t have a lot of raunchy adds.

  • PISSED OFF CANADIAN

    FUCK YEH DEMONOID. WHY IN THE HELL DO YA BLOCK OFF CANADIANS?!?! SUCK MY BALLS.

    BTW any pissed off people who cant access it try isohunt.com

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  • Stupid Canadians!

    The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding.

  • Demonoid is now dead

    http://www.demonoid.com

    “The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding.”

  • Morons blame wrong ones

    CRIA is a branch of the MPAA which BRIEN used against Demonoid.
    “The BREIN foundation, a joint Dutch anti-piracy program of authors, artists and producers of music, film and interactive software in the fight against Intellectual Property theft, have now set their sites on the ubiquitous Demonoid.com, one of the more popular “private” BitTorrent tracker sites out there today.”

    Canada loves Demonoid, I was using proxies to access it.

    Blame BRIEN assholes for taking it down. Not us drunk pot smoking canucks. :)

  • st1

    Now demonoid is for ever dead.. RIP!! we will miss you!!

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  • Heinz

    It’s gone again.
    QUOTE
    The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding.

  • Heinz

    [quote comment="207616"]damn shame

  • Kenton

    “The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding.”

    Does this mean the end??

  • thanks a bunch cria, now our kids dont have a safe place to download seriously overprised software

    let me explain…
    demonoid uses a system in which membership registerations are only available every so often, in doing this, membership to people becomes even more valuable. because of this if a user gets banned for breaking the site rules i.e. uploading explicit adult material, viruses, and other sh!t etc… They can’t just dissconnect and reconnect and sign up again with a new username under a different IP Address, they must wait for anywere up to a month to re-register, unless another user sends them an invite to join (but that wont happen because what stupid person would jepordise their own membership inorder to allow someone back on the site who is only going to spread more sh!t) so this is why the site is safe for kids to use, but i would just like to sarcasticaly thank you for taking away the shield that has served our kids so effectivly for so long, now there only options are open sewers such as thepiratebay.org and other such un-filtered sites.

    things like this just emphasizes the fact that these large companys (cria & etc…) realy dont stand back and see the bigger picture. in these situations.

    Perhaps one day there will be a way to immediatly get music and mainly movies as quickly and as trouble free as these sites, but leagaly.

  • James

    Demonoid is down again :(
    Not just Canada

    “The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding.”

  • STOP BUYING SHITE

    Stop buying the shite musik and stop watching the trite MTV..NO MORE RAP CRAP or Bling bling shoes for me. It used to be fun to buy LP’s but now we get stiffed with a $20 pice of plastic, an eye sore for a graphik and as a result, no money to afford the opthalomologist bill. Dont let your kids put the money into the pockets of those with bad behavior and especially those who promote the behavior to kids through MTV or any other commercial entity… Who said 50 cent was cool? Take me back to the 70′s where there were punch cards, 8 track tapes, and girls that put out.

  • Downpour

    Hackers please DOS http://www.cria.ca

  • aus

    Fight the Power!!!!!

  • nood_nerd

    which democracy is cria use it!!
    damn to them!!

  • CRIA & FRIAA

    your IP address has been logged the police are on their way !

  • CRIA & FRIAA

    659 your IP address has been logged the police are on their way !

  • CRIA & FRIAA

    670

  • Anonymous

    [quote comment="177824"]Dam im in canada!!![/quote]
    haha im in uk

  • gizzmo123456

    [quote comment="177850"]Tears of joy[/quote]
    ur a cunt fuck off is this a moment of joy

  • Jignesh

    Is “Demonoid” is permanently shut down ?

  • Blue skies

    To all you poor bastards out there who think something like Demonoid is important: get a life. Human rights? Bollocks!, if you are downloading stuff you haven’t paid for you are in the wrong, it’s called theft.

  • Anonymous

    Try and stop them jack ass.

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  • St4lk3R

    Dude You think you are going to stop the pirate community by telling us it is wrong?

  • Kael’thas

    WTF…dam Canadians i knew there was a reason for hatting them…lol jk…yeah well im pretty pissed i can’t believe they would do this….everytime i go to demonide it gives me ohh the cria won’t let us give music blah blah blah…..SOB im really pissed i can’t belive it…Ahhh dam it
    lol well they should move to mexico or hatti or porto rico….so that way we can still get ur torrents….
    srry if i offended any canandians but srsly they are Fakkin stoopid…. >.>

  • Kael’thas

    and does anyone know when they’ll be back on????

  • GOD

    to the idiots bitching at demonoid TARDS it’s the OWNERS OF DA SERVER

  • panos009

    please dear god. bless Demonoid-Admin and Stuff. so they can share torrents.and everybody will be happy. exept the f*****g ASS (0) that dont like “file sharing”
    All this fuckers shuld get ******* and *****
    Long Live Demonoid and ALL the File Sharing Community.
    chiars

  • CRIA & FRIAA

    [quote comment="216049"]please dear god. bless Demonoid-Admin and Stuff. so they can share torrents.and everybody will be happy. exept the f*****g ASS (0) that dont like “file sharing”
    All this fuckers shuld get ******* and *****
    Long Live Demonoid and ALL the File Sharing Community.
    chiars[/quote]
    your IP address has been logged the police are on their way !

  • CRIA & FRIAA

    [quote comment="212816"]and does anyone know when they’ll be back on????[/quote]
    your IP address has been logged the police are on their way !

  • panos009

    public pc lol…..

  • Pissed of Canadian

    [quote comment="212815"]WTF…dam Canadians i knew there was a reason for hatting them…
    srry if i offended any canandians but srsly they are Fakkin stoopid…. >.>[/quote]
    Fuck you, us Canadians did nothing to shut Demonoid down, it was the CRIA! SO shut your stupid ass mouth. Or i’ma stick my hockey stick right up your shit hole… douche-bag…. I am so sick of people hating on Canada, what you think your all perfect and everyone loves you? guess again… God damnit that pisses me off…

  • Anonymous

    [quote comment="229769"][quote comment="212815"]WTF…dam Canadians i knew there was a reason for hatting them…
    srry if i offended any canandians but srsly they are Fakkin stoopid…. >.>[/quote]
    Fuck you, us Canadians did nothing to shut Demonoid down, it was the CRIA! SO shut your stupid ass mouth. Or i’ma stick my hockey stick right up your shit hole… douche-bag…. I am so sick of people hating on Canada, what you think your all perfect and everyone loves you? guess again… God damnit that pisses me off…[/quote]
    [quote comment="177888"]haha, kiss ernesto’s ass you mouth breathers[/quote]

  • Sarx

    GET DEMONOID BACK IN CANADA OR I SHALL EAT YOUR SOULS CAUSE I AM SATAIN AND I LIVE IN CANADA FOOOSS GETTTT ITT BACK DAMM CRIA

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  • sngooooooooooooob

    yeahhhhhh fuuuuck the law

  • CanadaSucks

    Here’s my IP Address. I dare the police to show up at my door.

  • shane

    i live in the us and still cant get on demonoid? do they have a different addressnow?

  • Max

    [quote comment="177939"][quote comment="177881"]All you need to do is to download Tor proxy and then you can download torrents from Demonoid.You won’t be able to sign into your account if you’re from Canada but you will be allowed to download a few torrents a week as a guest :-)[/quote]

    unless your exit node is canadian !![/quote]

    Can you tell me how this Tor proxy works

  • Anonymous

    [quote comment="229769"][quote comment="212815"]WTF…dam Canadians i knew there was a reason for hatting them…
    srry if i offended any canandians but srsly they are Fakkin stoopid…. >.>[/quote]
    Fuck you, us Canadians did nothing to shut Demonoid down, it was the CRIA! SO shut your stupid ass mouth. Or i’ma stick my hockey stick right up your shit hole… douche-bag…. I am so sick of people hating on Canada, what you think your all perfect and everyone loves you? guess again… God damnit that pisses me off…[/quote]
    [quote comment="212815"]WTF…dam Canadians i knew there was a reason for hatting them…lol jk…yeah well im pretty pissed i can’t believe they would do this….everytime i go to demonide it gives me ohh the cria won’t let us give music blah blah blah…..SOB im really pissed i can’t belive it…Ahhh dam it
    lol well they should move to mexico or hatti or porto rico….so that way we can still get ur torrents….
    srry if i offended any canandians but srsly they are Fakkin stoopid…. >.>[/quote]
    [quote comment="229769"][quote comment="212815"]WTF…dam Canadians i knew there was a reason for hatting them…
    srry if i offended any canandians but srsly they are Fakkin stoopid…. >.>[/quote]
    Fuck you, us Canadians did nothing to shut Demonoid down, it was the CRIA! SO shut your stupid ass mouth. Or i’ma stick my hockey stick right up your shit hole… douche-bag…. I am so sick of people hating on Canada, what you think your all perfect and everyone loves you? guess again… God damnit that pisses me off…[/quote]
    FI’d use the goalie stick, and make the b1tch sing Oh Canada!

  • Another Pi$$ed of Canuck!

    [quote comment="229769"][quote comment="212815"]WTF…dam Canadians i knew there was a reason for hatting them…
    srry if i offended any canandians but srsly they are Fakkin stoopid…. >.>[/quote]
    Fuck you, us Canadians did nothing to shut Demonoid down, it was the CRIA! SO shut your stupid ass mouth. Or i’ma stick my hockey stick right up your shit hole… douche-bag…. I am so sick of people hating on Canada, what you think your all perfect and everyone loves you? guess again… God damnit that pisses me off…[/quote]
    [quote comment="212815"]WTF…dam Canadians i knew there was a reason for hatting them…lol jk…yeah well im pretty pissed i can’t believe they would do this….everytime i go to demonide it gives me ohh the cria won’t let us give music blah blah blah…..SOB im really pissed i can’t belive it…Ahhh dam it
    lol well they should move to mexico or hatti or porto rico….so that way we can still get ur torrents….
    srry if i offended any canandians but srsly they are Fakkin stoopid…. >.>[/quote]
    [quote comment="229769"][quote comment="212815"]WTF…dam Canadians i knew there was a reason for hatting them…
    srry if i offended any canandians but srsly they are Fakkin stoopid…. >.>[/quote]
    Fuck you, us Canadians did nothing to shut Demonoid down, it was the CRIA! SO shut your stupid ass mouth. Or i’ma stick my hockey stick right up your shit hole… douche-bag…. I am so sick of people hating on Canada, what you think your all perfect and everyone loves you? guess again… God damnit that pisses me off…[/quote]
    FI’d use the goalie stick, and make the b1tch sing Oh Canada!

  • Jesus Anti-Christ

    So why doesn’t demonid work in the United States than, somebody please tell me.

  • xpac

    no demonoid?

  • Frankie Shmancky

    so will Demonoid be back eventually?

    it’s been months now

  • Nine

    How do you get invite to demon noid?

  • Protector

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  • Spelt

    Trackers responding again, is this a sign its ( demonoid ) fighting back to life ?

  • Tigress2002ca

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  • Panos009

    Love and Peace people.
    Demonoid is back rocking and Rolling….
    Looking in my hearth you will find….an emotional breakdown or happiness and sorrow.
    height is bad. Love is paradise…..

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