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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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?
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.
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?
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 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]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.
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!
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 !
[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?
[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]
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 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.
As a Canadian I’m disappointed.
But it’s easy to get around the “ban” so meh, big deal!
[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
Hooray! and God Bless America! Canada’s anthem should be changed from O! Canada to Doh! Canada!
eh?
[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.
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. ;)
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.”
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!
I am in Canada and used a proxy and was able to get in demonoid and even log in.
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
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.
Bravo TorrentFreak ,
Humble pie for the bitches out there :)
[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.
the fora(forum) is back up
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