Demonoid Returns, Forced to Block Canadian Traffic By the CRIA
Written by Ernesto on September 30, 2007The 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.
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.
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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[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.
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.
;)
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
einstein.. proxy would be needed to just download the .torrent file
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.
[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.
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
Way to go Demonoid CRIA is a joke you fell for.
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.
Why don’t you just post the info here instead of answering emails?
BIG THANKS TO ALL @ DEMONOID
LOVE IT
not sure on the legal stuff, if I can post websites etc
Not sure what this sites policies are for posting website links in forrum
Fuck, that’s so gay.
sorry
[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 !!
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.
Canadian users can use this proxy to enter demonoid.
Type “demonoid.com” in the URL field and press Enter.
Good to see TF is yet again on the mark. Great blog, love reading it.
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…
Fuck the CRIA.
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
“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.
Why is everybody so Fucking upset? Demonoid is back! who cares about right or wrong in rumor land?
Dearest Ernesto, considering where the previous discussions on this subject have gone, do you really want to continue entertaining these ideas? ;)
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