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1 Sep 25, 2007 at 21:32 by Nitrate Row

Oh my… That’s really bad =(

2 Sep 25, 2007 at 21:37 by dave

That would be the worse thing that could happen.

3 Sep 25, 2007 at 21:39 by halaambe

OMG what is to become of me now???

4 Sep 25, 2007 at 21:45 by Damon

This could be really bad news, lets hope there is a mix up of info going on.

5 Sep 25, 2007 at 21:47 by pitviper

No!!!!!!!!!!

I’ve been working on getting every season of power rangers from Demonoid :(

6 Sep 25, 2007 at 21:47 by Tambo

We Want Our Fookin Demonoid Back NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

7 Sep 25, 2007 at 21:48 by dave

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…

8 Sep 25, 2007 at 21:51 by dan

noooooooo!!!
just get those servers out of there and start it up as soon as possible!

9 Sep 25, 2007 at 22:00 by the.dwarfer

someone get started on mininoid.com and mononoid and meganoid and so on….

the hydra cannot be destroyed!

long live P2P!

10 Sep 25, 2007 at 22:02 by dave

[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.

11 Sep 25, 2007 at 22:03 by Dogmeat

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.

12 Sep 25, 2007 at 22:08 by Noby

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.

13 Sep 25, 2007 at 22:09 by dave

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.

14 Sep 25, 2007 at 22:12 by frank

go to hell, canadian recording industryies!!!!!!!!!!!

15 Sep 25, 2007 at 22:14 by dave

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).

16 Sep 25, 2007 at 22:16 by the.dwarfer

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!

17 Sep 25, 2007 at 22:17 by ~

[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 ;)

18 Sep 25, 2007 at 22:18 by fischju

Hmm, demonoid can have my bandwidth anytime!

19 Sep 25, 2007 at 22:20 by the.dwarfer

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.

20 Sep 25, 2007 at 22:21 by George

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…

21 Sep 25, 2007 at 22:21 by JaseBarti

[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.

22 Sep 25, 2007 at 22:22 by the.dwarfer

#eztv on irc says the site is sick and they are upgrading to cope with the massive traffic the fall premiers have generated.

23 Sep 25, 2007 at 22:23 by ~

[quote] […]
Your response is awaiting moderation. [/quote]

What? Torrentfreak has moderation now? =(

24 Sep 25, 2007 at 22:23 by wtfbbq

uhh yea, all bullshit

25 Sep 25, 2007 at 22:23 by yohkopan

this is very bad i knew something was up after reading about iso fall and then noticing demon stop working and my friend told it was a maintenance but i just had a feeling .
but p2p will never die studip cria

26 Sep 25, 2007 at 22:25 by PBJ

No Man I hope the demon is toast!!!

27 Sep 25, 2007 at 22:35 by dave

Well the time continues to tick.
it’s been down 24-72 hours, it’ll take them 5 to realize it’s down, and about 20 to change hosts and get settled.
Let’s just hope it’s up tomorrow or the next day.

28 Sep 25, 2007 at 22:37 by Anonymous coward

Um I like toast! Delicious ;)

29 Sep 25, 2007 at 22:44 by Jackson

They thought Canada would be a safe haven? LOL! Try Russia.

30 Sep 25, 2007 at 22:44 by lz0

@ #23 the.dwarfer

I find it odd that Demonoid would pull the site completely for upgrading and maintenance. It is usually their policy to 1) announce downtime in advance and 2) at least leave a redirect or brief info page stating that the site is down for maintenance.

A sudden disappearance is out of character and hints at legal trouble.

Let’s hope it IS just a tech issue. But for now it’s all just unsubstantiated rumor till we hear from Deimos or other Demonoid staff.

31 Sep 25, 2007 at 22:46 by n3l87

There are many possible solutions, but only one seems the best possible one:

Problem - Netherlands nore Canada are “safe heavens”

Solution - MOVE TO THE PRQ NETWORK

Seriously, Demonoid Admins, contact Brokep or someone over at TPB, and get that shit set up! They are untouchable!

32 Sep 25, 2007 at 22:48 by Anonymous

We will not let them take us over. We will prevail. Long live piracy.

33 Sep 25, 2007 at 22:50 by the.dwarfer

lz0, i was answering georges question about eztv being down. eztv is sick i dont know about demonoid.

34 Sep 25, 2007 at 22:51 by Anonymous

Measures will be taken.

35 Sep 25, 2007 at 22:53 by spyke02

seriously not cool, pirate bay sucks in my opinion and i have been a demonoid die hard for many years, i really hope that demonoid.com comes back up soon, it was one of the few safe havens left

36 Sep 25, 2007 at 22:54 by Vandingo

Interesting that the 3 top us trackers go down the same week as the Fall US tv season starts - reminds me of the old ECM attacks on satellite hackers before the SuperBowl back in the H card days

37 Sep 25, 2007 at 22:55 by Neil

EZTV is fine, just having server lag issues. They changed their torrent hosting server thingammijig to miivi.org (not miivi.com, don’t panic).

38 Sep 25, 2007 at 22:55 by dave

There has been a “change” in demonoid.
It’s no longer “page not found” it’s not a white blank page when I go there. Now it’s gone again to a page not found.

39 Sep 25, 2007 at 22:57 by Yatti

WTF!!!

40 Sep 25, 2007 at 22:58 by Fabian G

Um if they did take the ip’s of the probably… 5+million people who use demonoid (just random number i dont know)
How could they sue us all?
Idk, i think that if someone tried to pull something off at that scale it wouldnt work.
If demonoid really does go up as a “fake-ip-recording” site, I wonder what RIAA would do.

Also i really dont get what is so hard about getting peoples ip’s in the first place.

I can always see as many as I want when i download off leechers/seeders. Just to test i made my Connections to infinate, and in the end could have written down something like 20,000 ips if i had wanted.

Can someome explain why the RIAA just doesnt do that?

(I probably said lots of stuff that made me seem dumb, but im not a laywer or a pc-pro, so flame away!)

*puts-anti-flam0r-cream-on*

41 Sep 25, 2007 at 23:03 by twitchofkrypton

man this sucks. anybody know where to get a great fix for comic book torrents?

42 Sep 25, 2007 at 23:03 by heddy

holy cow, all you have is a couple of paras off a Dutch news site? Why would they get the exclusive when CRIA aren’t talking, RIAA and IFPI aren’t talking, and none of the Demonoid admins know anything?

This is pretty speculative tosh atm. Sure, they’ve been down for a good while but come on… you’re just fanning the flames.

43 Sep 25, 2007 at 23:03 by PAEEZ at DEMONOID

Demonoid Will Raie Of another Horizen…
Be Sure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

44 Sep 25, 2007 at 23:04 by Omniscient

Demonoid has no information yet to confirm(or deny) this rumor.

45 Sep 25, 2007 at 23:05 by ~

[quote]I find it odd that Demonoid would pull the site completely for upgrading and maintenance. It is usually their policy to 1) announce downtime in advance and 2) at least leave a redirect or brief info page stating that the site is down for maintenance.[/quote]

Actually, Demonoid goes down for maintenance every day for a bit.

[quote]Solution - MOVE TO THE PRQ NETWORK

Seriously, Demonoid Admins, contact Brokep or someone over at TPB, and get that shit set up! They are untouchable![/quote]

That would actually be a good idea.

[quote]Um if they did take the ip’s of the probably… 5+million people who use demonoid (just random number i dont know)
How could they sue us all?[/quote]

All the site tracks is what IP each account has. Being a member on a torrent site is not a crime (even in the most draconian fascist countries).

[quote]Just to test i made my Connections to infinate, and in the end could have written down something like 20,000 ips if i had wanted.[/quote]

I doubt your router will actually connect to all those ;)

Just the fact that you connect to your IP doesn’t even mean you infringed on their copyrights. Anti-piracy organizations don’t usually collect a whole lot of data either.

[quote]*puts-anti-flam0r-cream-on*[/quote]

I HATE YOU, YOU #$%#%#%!!!

Oh, wait, I don’t know you :P

46 Sep 25, 2007 at 23:06 by dave

We’ll the ip has to be tracked getting something “illegal (to them)” like copyrighted material or something.
I have just heard rumor’s A LOT about certain torrent sites have been compromosed, and are no longer owned by the original owners. Instead they are now owned by different anti-piracy organizations that get the “ip’s” off the site’s of people who download/upload copyrighted material, and sue them (go after them in court).
I don’t remember the names of these torrent sites, but I have heard a few that became that, but I had never heard of any of them before.
That was my only original concern (that they would take over demonoid with a different organization and us never know) but on a site that big, I think the odds are almost impossible, as the poster mentioned somewhere above.

I just hope they get demonoid back up sooner or later, I really liked that site, and was only signed up for 2 days.

47 Sep 25, 2007 at 23:08 by daniel

0o00o0o0oooo thats bad news but owell more members for me now then :-)

48 Sep 25, 2007 at 23:10 by pete

as a mod on demonoid i can confirm we r down and have been taken of by the isp .trust we will b bk up

49 Sep 25, 2007 at 23:12 by G. Hamilton

Interestingly, Digital Distractions also recently disappeared.

I tracked down the admin to ask what happened, but he was none too pleased to hear from me. Freaked, in fact. It seemed to me he was running scared.

It all fits….

50 Sep 25, 2007 at 23:13 by PAEEZ at DEMONOID

Demonoid Will Raise Of another Horizen…
Be Sure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

51 Sep 25, 2007 at 23:20 by dave

If you really are a mod for demonoid, then thank heavens your coming back.
Will all the torrents, and everything (user’s, torrents) and everything still be there.

52 Sep 25, 2007 at 23:26 by Ferocious_Imbecile

I love Demonoid. It’s so awesome. Pirate Bay may be bigger but Demonoid is unarguably the best, with an incredible crew of people over there.

I sure hope we see them back up again soon.

53 Sep 25, 2007 at 23:26 by pete

yes have spoke to other staff and torrents members will all b staying

u cant keep the demon down

54 Sep 25, 2007 at 23:32 by tdatb

“BMG Canada Inc. v. John Doe — the most recent decision on the matter by the Federal Court, the highest Canadian court to rule on the issue — both uploading and downloading were found to be legal. This decision has not been overturned, so this is current Canadian law”

The courts have deemed it legal, so it’s legal. If there had been a suit against Demonoid in an attempt to get the previous rulings overturned we’d've heard about it on Demonoid long ago. The CRIA cannot shut anything down, only the courts can.

Also, it’s doubtful any agency would’ve moved on them in the middle of the night: much more likely it would’ve happened in the 9AM-5PM range. Factor in the temporary disappearances of EZTV and Mininova and the fact that, while they may be back up now, they are both running terribly slow, and you reach a likely explanation of server crashes brought about by either excessive traffic or DOS attacks. Demonoid would take longer to restore to working order because:
1)They have a huge membership and an even more huge inventory of torrents and,
2)Their site is more complex than most and,
3)Demonoid has a history of being notoriously slow to restore from backups, anyway.

55 Sep 25, 2007 at 23:37 by Shaze

I work just down the street from them and their affiliates, time to go bash some fucking heads in.

56 Sep 25, 2007 at 23:42 by ych890m

As a member of demonoid I uploaded over 40 of the classical music BBC Proms of 2007- recorded from live BBC broadcasts- effectively sharing this marvellous festival with the world. Now the tracker is no longer working and this legitimate activity has been ended - for now. Lets hope demonoid are able to recover!!

57 Sep 25, 2007 at 23:43 by DarkAeons

WTF?
Demonoid is one of my favorite trackers and those hicks, CRIA, who doesn’t even represent the canadian music industry forced the isp to block it?
Seriously canada its time we kick their sorry asses out of our parliamentary representatives offices.

58 Sep 25, 2007 at 23:52 by tdatb

Mininova is rarely ever slow for me, although EZTV can be a real bitch, sometimes.

Again, though, the courts have ruled filesharing legal in Canada and until the courts rule otherwise no one - not the CRIA, the RIAA, the RCMP, nor my Aunt Fanny can get any Bittorrent site in Canada shut down for filesharing.

59 Sep 25, 2007 at 23:57 by wayne brady

i think wayne brady has to choke a bitch.

60 Sep 26, 2007 at 00:00 by seanap

These allegations are false, and this guy is not a Demonoid OP. Please don’t spread false rumors, as soon as we know anything we will report it (more than likely via IRC). I am an OP on Demonoid, and can confirm this if you were to joing the Demonoid IRC (irc.p2p-network.net #Demonoid). Please do not continue spreading these rumors, as there is no word from the site admin as to why the site is down.

Regards,
seanap

61 Sep 26, 2007 at 00:01 by Awe Man

I just donated too….a few days ago. =(

62 Sep 26, 2007 at 00:05 by noid

i don’t know why the anti-piracy waist there time with these things.
it always ends up in noting.

63 Sep 26, 2007 at 00:10 by Jason

its coming back! no longer is ther a page not found, the icon shows up and there is a black page!!!

64 Sep 26, 2007 at 00:10 by ir amod

i r a mod on demoiniod n i kan sey that we wil b bl rly sune….plz chk bk sune n we wil b rt bk……..i r a mod at demoidoid

65 Sep 26, 2007 at 00:12 by Mohan P Sivam

Demonoid is very very best bittorent site than other.

We Hope The site will be regain.

66 Sep 26, 2007 at 00:15 by Jeff

How many times does this have to happen before people recognize the vulnerability of non-distributed search? DHT solves the single-point-of-failure problem for trackers but unlike, say KAD, it does not do search. With distributed search these problems are history. And this has been known for years. Why persist with obvious design flaws when they have already been previously identified and addressed. Nobody else uses centralized search.

67 Sep 26, 2007 at 00:18 by cetane

i can’t wait for demonoid to be back up. so much missed tv programing to get and watch. oh well, until then, i will keep the pc on 24/7 seeding what i have downloaded.

68 Sep 26, 2007 at 00:19 by maggie

So Much Crying!

So Much Wailing!

Whatever the problem Demonoid is handling, I’m sure it can be handled with some money!

And did YOU ever donate a single iota to Demonoid via it’s donate button?

I didn’t think so.

69 Sep 26, 2007 at 00:25 by Propagandist

Thanks a lot Canada…

70 Sep 26, 2007 at 00:25 by evil-genius

Will you all stop fussing. I.m sure it will be back soon just give it few days or so

Yeah i know all the demonoid torrent trackers have stoppped downloading, but i am still uploading to those trackers so something must be working eh?

Chill and be paitent!!!

71 Sep 26, 2007 at 00:26 by Zmajcic

Again ?
All I want is to give support to Demonoid team .They deserve it.
” Rise on fallen fighters, rise and take your stands again.
‘Cause, he who fights and run away, live to fight another day.”
Bob Marley

72 Sep 26, 2007 at 00:27 by Dan

Actually, I have donated - several times.

73 Sep 26, 2007 at 00:30 by h33t

demonoid is relocating, dont panic!

no worries folks, demonoid will be back. give Diemos 5 days and he will have the site back up

h33t.com where filesharing is an education

74 Sep 26, 2007 at 00:30 by Syndicate

[quote comment="173340"]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.[/quote]

Yeah, I use demonoid for the Forums, I don’t download anything from it.

75 Sep 26, 2007 at 00:33 by OVERMiND

Oh boy.. if Demonoid is sinking.. what now? :(

76 Sep 26, 2007 at 00:35 by ophidic

Wow CRIA, lick my balls.

77 Sep 26, 2007 at 00:36 by twist

A black day for the bit torrent community.

78 Sep 26, 2007 at 00:37 by ColdFission

This is truly a huge blow to the BitTorrent community as IsoHunt’s trackers and Demonnoid itself are down. They like what, track well into the millions of torrents, which is a massive majority of the BitTorrent network.(In my view at least)

I am very concerned with the state of the network that it is in right now.

I also want to add that the EDonkey Serves in Germany are down and that the EDonkey Network is literally limping right now on some small servers. It is in an extremely critical state right now.

I personally think that if or when shutdowns become more frequent, I really think it is some time before P2P would go down. Shares and pirates would have to resort to techniques and methods used way back when before the Internet was even born. However, this time it would be in digital formats. Although vinyl is still very popular strong. The distribution of these materials will be riskier and much, much more underground.

Oh and yes, I do agree that the RIAA and CRIA do NOT support or even represent artists in North America. I personally believe that these companies are just in it for the money and the joy of suing people in the 6 digits until they are out of house and home, literally in some cases (sell their houses to pay up).

When I do become (and yes, I am planning to do this) a producer of music (particularly in the Trance genre) and a DJ, I’d like to release MY songs and CD’s out there on the net as it is so much more efficient and so much faster than getting it on shelves. I’d make them free of charge as well. I also do not want to have anything to do with the CRIA and/or the RIAA when I become a producer and DJ.

However, I would only have 3 conditions for my works: Listen, Share, Credit Me (For any remixing or usage in a commercial area or release in your works). I mean, even the thought of anyone listening to my music totally outweighs monetary income.

79 Sep 26, 2007 at 00:43 by DemonShareZ

Ok, heres the thing I heard other then this bullshit CRIA hit. According to the rumors I have, Demonoid got seriuosly DdoSed. Zombified, if youd rather. As of 36 or so hrs ago, said bots had been released and tore into Demonoid like a fat kid in a candy store. I heard this thru certain channels.

Everything I have heard so far, including the DdoSing and CRIA sound like a load of shit.

Either way tho, the Demon is definatly down for whatever reason. Im sure tho that they will be back soon. *Crosses fingers and just in case, crosses toes.* LOL

80 Sep 26, 2007 at 00:54 by KaaJamm

These things happen. Ahh, finally a chance to sort some of those downloaded files and listen to some of those tunes, I have only been sampling.

Good luck to all you demons and pirates. Hope to see ya’ soon.

81 Sep 26, 2007 at 00:56 by Dan

[quote comment="173324"]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…[/quote]

I believe that they only keep identifiable information in volatile RAM, thus erasing all IP addresses and whatnot when someone pulls the plug on their servers. I wouldn’t worry, unless this fact that I am now recalling is for some other BT site.
This sucks, though…

82 Sep 26, 2007 at 00:56 by LiquidEyes

hav nae fear me fellow pirates, u’are all doin a sterlin job so ye arrr… Hold steady, we shal prevail.

83 Sep 26, 2007 at 00:59 by Levintofu

Why not move the server(s) to New Zealand? There is no recording industry here!!

84 Sep 26, 2007 at 01:00 by lz0

“Actually, Demonoid goes down for maintenance every day for a bit.”

No shit sherlock? And they have a page that tells you they are down for maintenance.

85 Sep 26, 2007 at 01:00 by nick

This sux- it really is the best site out there- but I never download movies or music off it so the music industry shutting it down gets my goat. But I went everyday for the books and comics- other sites don’t concentrate on that at all - well, happiness never lasts forever.

86 Sep 26, 2007 at 01:05 by mrbigtoughguychris

Why are we not moving Servers to Africa???

87 Sep 26, 2007 at 01:12 by B~rock AKA pimppimp

I’ll get my Juggalo homies and we’ll shoot up those CRIA mother fuckers till there’s none left!!!!Fucking canadians are turning into little bitches, letting a stupid little anti-piracy group push them around.I mean who doesn’t like piracy?I’ll tell you who, stupid little cock suckers!P2P WILL NEVER DIE!!!!LONG LIVE DEMONOID!!

88 Sep 26, 2007 at 01:14 by ~

[quote]No shit sherlock? And they have a page that tells you they are down for maintenance.[/quote]

Right - But someone said they don’t go down without notice in advance.

89 Sep 26, 2007 at 01:23 by Scuba

How can people keep doing this? Do these people really think they’re doing a good thing?

90 Sep 26, 2007 at 01:25 by ericepp

What a lying bitch! Problem loading page, still. I love my Demonoid dammit! I expect they will be back, but I am one impatient mutherfucker.

How am I gonna seed now?

91 Sep 26, 2007 at 01:27 by asstunneler

the cria can lick my sweaty balls too

92 Sep 26, 2007 at 01:28 by hoodlum

http://diggdl.googlepages.com/demonoid

Quotes from Demonoid IRC channel:

http://torrentfreak.com/demonoid-shut-down-by-cria-070925/ we DO NOT know what actually happened. the CRIA is just a SPECULATION. the site is TEMPORAROLY OFFLINE

Yes the tracker is down, they are going through heavy maintenance, please wait patiently for it to come back up.

Jumba; that torrent freak article is completely false
there is NO evidence

and NO word from site staff, and i’m in contact with the TF dude right now

93 Sep 26, 2007 at 01:29 by Admin

The lastest info regarding this matter has been decided that demoniod is to much of a risk to our servers and we cannot under take constant attacks also we cannot even think to bare the courts dissions. we are a high class company that has up most respect.
Thi matter should be closed

administrator

94 Sep 26, 2007 at 01:31 by four!

Just move the servers to Sweden. They don’t care over there.

95 Sep 26, 2007 at 01:32 by ughzug

come back soon demonoid!!!

96 Sep 26, 2007 at 01:32 by kylu

Posted to the Wikipedia page on Demonoid: (ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Demonoid&diff=160365350&oldid=160364721 )

Update Sept 26 01:03 GMT - Demonoid not shut down, just an un-scheduled rebuild.
(Posted to Demonoid IRC channel, and re-posted at zeropaid.com)
Anti-Piracy Organization Tries to Shut Down Demonoid
However, the current downtime of Demonoid has nothing to do with legal actions, but with hardware issues. The Demonoid team says they are currently replacing harddrives, and that it could take a few days before the site is back up.
The timeline given indicated that this is more than a regular hardware update. The downtime is probably caused by harddrive failure.
The official announcement in the Demonoid IRC channel is:
“Site offline for a few days while harddrives get replaced”
At this point it is still uncertain if any data is permanently lost or how long it will take to get things up and running. According to one of the admins It looks like the most recent data is lost for good. The good news is that there are backups, but these are a few days old.
Luckily the Demonoid trackers are not affected by the downtime. Demonoid is still one of the most used trackers, any downtime of the tracker will make thousands of torrents unusable in clients without DHT and multi-tracker support.

Update:
Demonoid placed this message on the frontpage:

We had a system problem which will force us to restore everything from backup.

The disks are pretty much empty right now and until we are able to upload the backup and set up everything up, we have to close down.
http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=45289&page=2

97 Sep 26, 2007 at 01:35 by Anonymous of Canada

[quote comment="173551"]Fucking canadians are turning into little bitches, letting a stupid little anti-piracy group push them around[/quote]

Just for the record, the CRIA (despite the name) does NOT represent Canadian artists and the Canadian music industry. It’s an AMERICAN association based in Canada to represent the RIAA here.

98 Sep 26, 2007 at 01:39 by Neighbour

[quote comment="173324"]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…[/quote]

Actually let’s say my neighbour tried to have his account deleted on Demonoid a few months back

No reply in the IRC channel or via email…

Nice job taking care of people’s privacy by Demonoid :rolleyes:

My neighbour never used Demonoid again (thankfully)

99 Sep 26, 2007 at 01:42 by mo.nanymous

Got word from the Canadian ISP. They certainly did NOT pull the plug on Demonoid. Seems this was done voluntarily so as not to aggravate situation with CRIA, for now, in order to assemble a proper legal response. Many options are on the table and Demonoid will be back online eventually. No worries :)

100 Sep 26, 2007 at 01:44 by Aday

Blame canada!

http://aday.net.au/images/aday/blamecanada.jpg

101 Sep 26, 2007 at 01:47 by Eddie

Update Sept 26 01:03 GMT - Demonoid not shut down, just an un-scheduled rebuild. (Posted to Demonoid IRC channel, and re-posted at zeropaid.com)

saw this on irc, could be fake or not

102 Sep 26, 2007 at 01:51 by kjkjkjkj

These muthafuckers are pissing me off, the fact they are shutting down more trackers have made me download so much pirated shit in the last DAY then every BEFORE. So they are really not accomplishing anything at most they are making more people pirate shit.

103 Sep 26, 2007 at 01:51 by toxic tim

BLAME CANADA!!!!BLAME CANADA!!!! LETS GO TO WAR….BLAME CANADA!!!BLAME CANADA!!!!

104 Sep 26, 2007 at 01:53 by Bush

tim no it’s BUSHES FAULT ;)

105 Sep 26, 2007 at 01:57 by PsiKnife

[quote comment="173394"]@ #23 the.dwarfer

I find it odd that Demonoid would pull the site completely for upgrading and maintenance. It is usually their policy to 1) announce downtime in advance and 2) at least leave a redirect or brief info page stating that the site is down for maintenance.

A sudden disappearance is out of character and hints at legal trouble.

Let’s hope it IS just a tech issue. But for now it’s all just unsubstantiated rumor till we hear from Deimos or other Demonoid staff.[/quote]

They didn’t warn ahead of time the last time they went down for a few days. Nothing different now. A drive exploded. Routine replacement.

This CRIA nonsense is completely bogus and unsubstantiated as others have pointed out.

-

106 Sep 26, 2007 at 01:58 by Kenny

The Demonoid Irc chat just went belly up too. Maybe too many connections.

107 Sep 26, 2007 at 01:59 by PsiKnife

[quote comment="173583"]Got word from the Canadian ISP. They certainly did NOT pull the plug on Demonoid. Seems this was done voluntarily so as not to aggravate situation with CRIA, for now, in order to assemble a proper legal response. Many options are on the table and Demonoid will be back online eventually. No worries :)[/quote]

Way to call more unwanted attention to Demonoid, asshat.

108 Sep 26, 2007 at 02:02 by BuzzinDom

Fucking shit heads!!! Why dont the fuckshit government go fuck themselves and concentrate on the fucking assholes committing real crimes, like fucking robbery and rape?? Leave us the fuck alone….. We aint doin nothing other than helping eachother enjoy our perks to life of living with the shit fuckhead government that apparently knows whats best for us.

Hope to see you all soon DEMONOID users and mod staff.

109 Sep 26, 2007 at 02:05 by PsiKnife

[quote comment="173601"]Fucking shit heads!!! Why dont the fuckshit government go fuck themselves and concentrate on the fucking assholes committing real crimes, like fucking robbery and rape?? Leave us the fuck alone….. We aint doin nothing other than helping eachother enjoy our perks to life of living with the shit fuckhead government that apparently knows whats best for us.

Hope to see you all soon DEMONOID users and mod staff.[/quote]

What a compelling defense. You must be retarded.

110 Sep 26, 2007 at 02:06 by Steve Jobs sucks

[quote comment="173592"]tim no it’s BUSHES FAULT ;)[/quote]

Dumb ass.

111 Sep 26, 2007 at 02:08 by TheGargantua

Hey guys, friendly tip, use isohunt.com, they track demonoinds .torrents files aswell.

112 Sep 26, 2007 at 02:18 by Madcotto

We sorry to here about the problems some other sites are having but would like to say that

http://www.Scene-Inspired.com

is open for new users, we dont know how long we can keep the doors open so be quick

99.9% uptime

113 Sep 26, 2007 at 02:19 by David

Demonoid is by far the best torrent site, it better come back up soon!

114 Sep 26, 2007 at 02:26 by Trelew

It’s a shame that corporate greed rules all in our world today.

115 Sep 26, 2007 at 02:28 by Sebastian32

[quote comment="173571"]The lastest info regarding this matter has been decided that demoniod is to much of a risk to our servers and we cannot under take constant attacks also we cannot even think to bare the courts dissions. we are a high class company that has up most respect.
Thi matter should be closed

administrator[/quote]
fag.

116 Sep 26, 2007 at 02:29 by Honeyko

> http://www.Scene-Inspired.com is open for new users, we dont
> know how long we can keep the doors open so be quick

Well, that was a waste of five minutes.

(Cluebats: 1. Bigger text, please. 2. No fucking flash menus — people who use Firefox, which your sites requires, use it in particular in order to install cool extensions like FlashBlock.)

117 Sep 26, 2007 at 02:30 by Honeyko

> http://www.Scene-Inspired.com is open for new users, we dont
> know how long we can keep the doors open so be quick

Well, that was a waste of five minutes.

(Cluebats: 1. Bigger text, please. 2. No fwucking flash menus — people who use Firefox, which your sites requires, use it in particular in order to install cool extensions like FlashBlock.)

118 Sep 26, 2007 at 02:30 by Honeyko

> http://www.Scene-Inspired.com is open for new users, we dont
> know how long we can keep the doors open so be quick

Well, that was a waste of five minutes.

(Cluebats: 1. Bigger text, please. 2. No flash menus — people who use Firefox, which your sites requires, use it in particular in order to install cool extensions like FlashBlock.)

119 Sep 26, 2007 at 02:39 by Ezekiel Crowe

This bodes ill, but the p2p community has proven time and time again that even if it is knocked down, it will bounce back up again. Just look at The Pirate Bay…hell, even SuprNova’s been resurrected from its very grave. There will never be a true end to piracy, no matter how many millions are spent by organizations like the CRIA or the MPAA. We’re a community, folks…and communities don’t back down against faceless opposition.

120 Sep 26, 2007 at 02:39 by noslen

they are crazy or what how they do it
i cant live without demonoid

jesus and 2 times they must buy they own country like pirate bay or any
anty piracy organization will botter again

121 Sep 26, 2007 at 02:43 by Jordan

I hope Demonoid will be back soon.

LONG LIVE P2P

122 Sep 26, 2007 at 02:45 by dave

actually I just did some research on pirate bay. There in sweden, and fully safe from all anti-piracy groups. They could move the demonoid servers to sweden if they wanted to be “safer”.

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124 Sep 26, 2007 at 02:47 by MeAtHere

[quote comment="173571"]The lastest info regarding this matter has been decided that demoniod is to much of a risk to our servers and we cannot under take constant attacks also we cannot even think to bare the courts dissions. we are a high class company that has up most respect.
Thi matter should be closed

administrator[/quote]

Nice spelling. Very high class.

125 Sep 26, 2007 at 02:47 by ter

Taking demonoid off the internet is like taking the proverbial piss out of the swimming pool. It just won’t work.
-ter

126 Sep 26, 2007 at 02:51 by Shaun

[quote comment="173614"]We sorry to here about the problems some other sites are having but would like to say that

http://www.Scene-Inspired.com

is open for new users, we dont know how long we can keep the doors open so be quick

99.9% uptime[/quote]

how can you say what goes on in 5 mins u prat

127 Sep 26, 2007 at 02:52 by Jackson

Why Demonoid kicks ass: It’s forums. You can tell if a torrent is good/bad/has problems by reading comments. They also have a lot of stuff *besides* tv+movies+music and has good navigation.

CRIA have a hollow victory. Eventually Demonoid will find a safe haven (I vote for Sweden too though something is to be said for “country redundancy”) and eventually it’ll all go darknet anyway. MPAA needs to wisen up on pricing. RIAA needs to take their outdated pricing model and die: No one needs the RIAA any more. Dead business model. Finis.

128 Sep 26, 2007 at 02:54 by Islander671

My demonoid tracker are still working on my seeds though so what does that mean? its just that I cant log on to my demoid accounts… anyone having the same situation?

129 Sep 26, 2007 at 02:55 by Jayhouchin

I use these torrent site to find music you cant even find in stores anymore So I say leave em alone

130 Sep 26, 2007 at 02:58 by Toilet Finger

I cannot believe this! Maybe it really is against the law to steal movies and music? PSP is just a way of saying you are interested in a community of thieves. You all in Demonoid are breaking the law and you do so without regard for consequences!

131 Sep 26, 2007 at 03:01 by CaptainHack

Toilet Finger: Interesting you would make such a statement, but comment on a website that promotes p2p sharing. Therefore, you must be one of the same md persona that continues to make an assclown out of themselves. Long live p2p and demonoid where movies are often made in better quality than publishing companies.

132 Sep 26, 2007 at 03:01 by pdq

PSP is Playstation Portable you knob. :p

133 Sep 26, 2007 at 03:01 by Justanobody

The retards are really coming out of the woodwork today…this thread better not be representative of the general public IQ level or the world is going to end soon. Within a generation. Probably.
Speculation is a waste of time and brainwork. Be patient and we shall see what has become of Demonoid.com. Meanwhile keep those teeny-bopper retarded comments flowing..hehe.

134 Sep 26, 2007 at 03:06 by Oshala

Long Live Demonoid

135 Sep 26, 2007 at 03:07 by Mr. Green

I used to still buy the stuff I really wanted even though I could get it free. I won’t buy anything ever again if they ruin all the fun of the internet downloading.

136 Sep 26, 2007 at 03:07 by B~rock AKA pimppimp

Fagget hater is a faggot who can’t spell.Fagget hater is a faggot who can’t spell.Fagget hater is a faggot who can’t spell.Fagget hater is a faggot who can’t spell.Fagget hater is a faggot who can’t spell.

Fuck all the haters!
All torrent sites are special in their own way.But Demonoid is by far the greatest, it doesn’t have many dead torrents, viruses, or popups.But it has great users!We love you Demonoid!I’m sure everything will be fine, so don’t worry guys.

137 Sep 26, 2007 at 03:10 by greg

typical move by the communist canadian government

138 Sep 26, 2007 at 03:12 by Mr. Green

to Jackson: Screw sweden, that’s where torrentspy is from, I live in the USA I bought a bunch of their shirts to show support and then they ban ONLY the USA. If the MPAA can go all the way to sweden and threaten them with lawsuits and privacy, what’s to stop them from threatening Canada next? Canada is easier to get to. I need to move out of the USA and into an actual free country. Seems like it’s ONLY the USA that doesn’t have the downloading right anymore and people still refer to this messed up country as land of the free. It makes me sick.

139 Sep 26, 2007 at 03:12 by thebobevil_aka_bobevil2

I’m a DS rom uploader on Demonoid, and I’m sat on a ton of new stuff … some of it not even on the newsgroups yet … got ‘em all set to roll out on Demonoid, when I got home from work … and BAM! I go online and it’s down :(

Just wanted all my leechers to know that I have the newest $#!t and you will get it as soon as Demonoid is back … and it will be back … I can feel it … keep the faith.

140 Sep 26, 2007 at 03:14 by Silent3xecution

Not my words…taken from Emuman @BC

SABIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

EDIT: Good news. Taken from the Demonoid temporary forum, right out of a global mod’s mouth (fingers, whatever >_>):

FFS, stop falling into rumors. Down time happens. Especially with monstrous traffic sites. Such huge traffic keeps the HDD spinning. And constant spinning = short life. This isn’t the first time we broke a HDD, and I guarantee you that it won’t be the last.

AFAIK, no we weren’t taken offline.

*wipes sweat* Phew…

141 Sep 26, 2007 at 03:16 by TWHD

IVE USE DEMONOID FOR A LONG WHILE NOW THEY ARE THE BEST , THEY WILL RETURN DONT SWEAT IT BROTHERS AND SISTERS , HAVE FAITH IN THE PIRATE NATION… LONG LIVE DEMONOID

142 Sep 26, 2007 at 03:20 by Meltdown

“As of earlier today, we have disabled access from users in the US to our trackers, until further notice. This goes for ALL trackers (torrentbox, podtropolis) we run. This is due to the US’s hostility towards P2P technologies, and we feel with our current lawsuit brought by the MPAA, we can no longer ensure your security and privacy in the US. So, if you’re outside the US, you may notice less peers. We encourage you to add other public, unhampered trackers to torrents you post, in addition to Torrentbox and Podtropolis’s trackers. ” - taken from isoHunt.com

Something big seems to be afoot.’

143 Sep 26, 2007 at 03:24 by Ishi

Let’s move servers and trackers here to Mexico, they never do shit about the so-called “internet piracy”, fuck, they don’t even know it exists

144 Sep 26, 2007 at 03:28 by Kar2n

this is just the beginning…CINEA has started using special DVD players and discs of screenes rs given to Award Groups to view so the number of pres we see is gonna drop unless someone has a dongle and can do the thing or someone who has a CINEA player or discs and can run it back to the release groups…TS s seem to be dwindling as security beefs up at Cinemas during big premiers…New projectors in cinemas that adjust the FPS throughout the picture so u cant record at the right Frame rate the whole film so it comes out ..clear…ghost…ghostier…shit has hit the fan and after the big dogs fall…question is …are they gonna be satisfied or will they rely on their new super developioneers(Lamers)…and go after everybody with a leased line…a http://FTP…ADSL..(probably not) but it sucks a greasy nut that Demonoid is down for whatever reasons….it was a sweet site…thats all that needs to be said about that…BeSafe…Peace..Kar2n

145 Sep 26, 2007 at 03:30 by dante

its a sad day

146 Sep 26, 2007 at 03:37 by smartenough2read

http://www.cria.ca/wipo.php

all about the anti-piracy treaties & who is on what side. Why don’t all you people who keep saying “go this country” go read what your talking about. 2/3 of the countries mentioned here have signed the treaties so no they wouldn’t be “safe”

147 Sep 26, 2007 at 03:39 by Dylan!

What, this is gay, demonoid is god!

148 Sep 26, 2007 at 03:43 by the.dwarfer

[quote comment="173696"]CINEA has started using special DVD players and discs of screeners[/quote]

who cares R5s are what you want.

149 Sep 26, 2007 at 03:44 by Steve

[quote comment="173668"]typical move by the communist canadian government[/quote]

That was the stupidest fucking comment I have ever heard. Demonoid owner was in Russia. Give him time to get over to Canada and fix up things.. It wasn’t the first time Demonoid has been down.. And no the fucking CRIA hasn’t shut them down lol. Most of the CRIA is US members anyways.. As most the Canadians members left.

The ISP that Demonoid is on doesn’t give a shit about the fucking CRIA as they can’t do shit with Canadian laws anyways.

150 Sep 26, 2007 at 03:46 by dave

either way, I hope demonoid never dies.

151 Sep 26, 2007 at 03:49 by hellboy

so many trackers and uploaders out their try them, BREIN’s action is not equal, piracy is too broad and active…you cannot stop it as long peop