Demonoid Shut Down by the CRIA?
Demonoid.com, one of the most popular BitTorrent trackers has allegedly been taken offline by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA). Both the tracker and the website have been unresponsive for nearly 24 hours now.
As of now it is still unsure what exactly happened, but the popular Dutch news site nu.nl reports that the CRIA is responsible for the downtime.
TorrentFreak contacted some of the Demonoid administrators, but they are not sure what happened either. It is certainly possible that Demonoid’s Canadian ISP pulled the plug after being pressured by the CRIA. The ISP said before that they would take it down if they would receive complaints.
Right now, the Demonoid server is still pinging, but the ISP could have firewalled the everything after they received some serious legal threats. Deimos, the founder and the head admin of the site is unreachable and has not responded yet.
This is not the first time Demonoid suffers major downtime due to pressure from the anti-piracy lobby. Demonoid had to move its servers from The Netherlands to Canada in June after The Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN filed a subpoena against Demonoid’s ISP. BREIN had asked the ISP to take Demonoid offline and hand over the administrator’s personal details, but Demonoid relocated their servers before any harm was done.
Unfortunately, it now seems that Canada is not the “safe haven” as they expected it to be. It is likely that Demonoid has to relocate again, for the second time in three months.
Demonoid tracks over a million .torrent files and is the second largest BitTorrent tracker after The Pirate Bay. The shutdown of the site and tracker is a huge blow for the BitTorrent community that lost 2 of the most popular BitTorrent trackers (TorrentBox was taken offline for US users a few hours ago) within 24 hours.
More info soon!
Update: Still no response from Deimos, the CRIA or Demonoid’s ISP.
Update: The CRIA and Demonoid’s ISP refuse to comment to the allegations, they don’t confirm or deny anything.
Update: The tracker is back online.
Update: Demonoid Returns, Forced to Block Canadian Traffic By the CRIA
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Oh my… That’s really bad =(
That would be the worse thing that could happen.
OMG what is to become of me now???
This could be really bad news, lets hope there is a mix up of info going on.
No!!!!!!!!!!
I’ve been working on getting every season of power rangers from Demonoid :(
We Want Our Fookin Demonoid Back NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
What about the fact that brein could infiltrate demonoid, and take our ip’s for suing. That’s what makes me scared now when demonoid goes down like that.
All they have to do, is get a court order to replicate the site, and they can reput up demonoid as them instead nad take our ip’s. That’s what I am afraid of with this situation.
I can’t lose demonoid, they just want to restrict the privacy of the public. This is not fair…
noooooooo!!!
just get those servers out of there and start it up as soon as possible!
someone get started on mininoid.com and mononoid and meganoid and so on….
the hydra cannot be destroyed!
long live P2P!
[quote comment="173336"]someone get started on mininoid.com and mononoid and meganoid and so on….
the hydra cannot be destroyed!
long live P2P![/quote]
Well said, the p2p community will NEVER die.
Doubt that any of our IP info could be handed over. As keen as we Canadians are at enforcing anti-piracy, we do recognize that there is also legitimate file-sharing happening and we can’t throw out the baby with the bathwater and vice-versa. So these kinds of things tend to get mired in all sort of legal red tape and the courts are notoriously slow and backlogged. It would take an Act of Parliament to push things through and with signs elections are going to happen, and probably another minority government will be installed, it will be awhile for any IP logging legislation will be enacted
I would tend to agree that Demonoid’s ISP got lawyer-whipped by the CRIA. Deimos and the gang are busy looking for a new ISP and/or relocating as we speak.
Piracy prevails!
Piracy has been around since the “concept” of intellectual property came up. Therefore one can assume that I will be around for a little while.
That sounds reasonable. I just really hope they are able to get demonoid back online. They are the best/biggest one out there. I just started using them, not even 3 days ago. Got really excited/happy about finding them, then they are taken away from us. I just hope they can find another/fix the problem soon. I fear they will remain in silence for an eternity.
go to hell, canadian recording industryies!!!!!!!!!!!
It may not be the only one, no, but it’s the best one.
I have used others for a long time. Most of them have gotten my viruses from time to time. Pirate bay/demonoid are the only 2 respectively large and popular ones remaining.
Demonoid is statistically larger and more popular. if it goes down, there is nothing stopping the communist punks from destroying the rest of the p2p sites in existence. Even on most of the torrent directories, it would be annoying. Almost everything I EVER downloaded had a demonodi tracker.
It’s the only place that I can look without the danger of a virus (as much as most sites).
demonoid has one of the best communities of all the torrent site (along side tpb) thanks comments are plentiful re-seed requests are answered and ratios remain high.
the hydra cannot be destroyed!
long live P2P!
[quote]Demonoid is statistically larger and more popular.[/quote]
Funny you should say that;
http://torrentfreak.com/5-most-popular-bittorrent-trackers-070924/
[quote]if it goes down, there is nothing stopping the communist punks from destroying the rest of the p2p sites in existence. [/quote]
The people doing these bad anti-P2P/anti-Freedom things arn’t communists (don’t label anyone you dislike as communists), they’re capitalists ;)
Hmm, demonoid can have my bandwidth anytime!
Now come on fubar lets not squabble, all i’m sayong is that demonoid means alot to alot of people, if you like another site please let us know. just don’t knock demonoid.
How about EZTV? It is also down since this morning…
They had a message for a while stating that they will be down for a while, but now nothing. I hope it is unrelated with Demonoid and IsoHunt…
[quote comment="173350"]go to hell, canadian recording industryies!!!!!!!!!!![/quote]
Actually most Canadian Artist labels Don’t even belong to the CRIA anymore. Basically its just representing the RRIA in Canada without actually representing any Canadian Artists.
As for handing of any information like one poster said … we may not be the safe haven that Demonoid thought we were but when it comes to privacy information there is little to no chance that anything would be handed over.
Heck the CRIA hasn’t even manage to mount anything remotely close to the RRIA’s annoying (pay us pay us) letters.
#eztv on irc says the site is sick and they are upgrading to cope with the massive traffic the fall premiers have generated.
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What? Torrentfreak has moderation now? =(
uhh yea, all bullshit
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