Demonoid Shut Down by the CRIA?
Written by Ernesto on September 25, 2007Demonoid.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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no romania isn’t read above they signed the treaty making all this “illegal”
damn right.
i’ll add my voice to those who think everyone should just chill for a bit. like tpb, they’ll probably be back soon. even if they aren’t, more trackers will rise in it’s place. as it has been written before, “the hydra cannot be destroyed!”
for as long as we have dump sites still around which new ones apear all the time
p2p wont die , it will never die
you hear that lol never never never
so do as much as you like CRIA , riaa,mpaa you wont beet us ,new sites opening all the time
1 goes 1 comes to life .
infact we dont even need trackers anymore thats what DHT is there for lol
If they would just stop charging so dang much for seasons of shows, more people would go buy them instead of downloading them.
I would never pay $80.00 dollars a season for some show, so of course I download it, but if they charged $25.00 per season, I would go buy it as I am sure at least 27.3% of other people would as well.
Seems that someone should explain the math to them.
why dont they ever fucking shut down porno trackers , which btw always seem to run faster for some f$#%$# reason!!!!!…..They are turning us all into jerkoffssss!!!!
I smell the damn RIAA and his little bitch brother the MPAA!!!
it’s WAR!!!
All the organization against piracy can do us nothing. What a group of few people can do to 5 milion of people. Demonoid is powered by us.
Why not try Kosovo????
here in the moment there’s no law or anything like that that would prohibit in any way piracy, well demonoid isn’t piracy. But it’d be save for a longer while.
the big D shall return!!! until it does lets give support!! screw all the rumors and pirate like hell!!!
[quote comment="173723"]The best thing about demonoid was that it was a private site, private tracker, but the torrent with tracker could be uploaded to other sites as well, and it also interacted with other trackers. No other torrent site that I know of was that ingenious. I did find another very nice, mostly safe, torrent site that is private as well, called torrent-damage.net. It very well could be the next demonoid if demonoid does go under. Check it out, registrations are open until 50,000 members. They have EXCELLENT seed ratios, and I was totally maxing out my connections. Just remember, it’s a private site, so leeching is prohibited. Lets take this great community farther. They wont take us down.[/quote]
Demonoid is a PUBLIC tracker!!!!
bad.lets start a revolution
we want demonoid back
i dont understand why they did it
HMM maybe I can go outdoors now. P2P
has been great, but it has spoiled me!
Sweden is the promised land.
Fuckers !!! I really like demonoid “angry”
Man Demonoid IS A PRIVATE TRACKER!!!
I don’t think its legal action cause of the time of the server going down…. Also some kinda statement should’ve come if it had been legal….
LET US HOPE AND PRAY ITS BACK!!!
No matter what i was looking for demonoid always had it.
From oldtime comixs from the 70´s to rare soulrecordings longlost in cd-stores. They have not only shut down a piratehub they have also destroyed one of the few trackers that actually had a bit of heart.
R.I.P. Demonoid
Demonoid will be back, just give them time to get things sorted and be positive!
good thing i have a usenet account, it may not be free but at least i know it’s private, encrypted and runs at max speed of my connection. No uploading involved unless i want to. But to all that are looking for an alternative or a backup try the usenet servers, they got unlimited accounts from 10 bucks a month for unlimited accounts, at least then you don’t have to worry about your ip being leaked, or how many seeders there are.
It is really a pity tha Demonoid is down. So I have to live in the same way as I did before I discovered Demonoid.
Let us wait and see to what country domonoid will move.
CRIA, lick my stinky anal aperture!!!
Long live Demonoid!
Demonoid was the best thing
on the net ,hope return soon.
Demonoid will rise from the ashes, shake off the chains of oppression and will once again be the greatest tracker on the net.
YOU CANT CLEAN THE SCENE.
you know what ??? i think demonoid is stupid to NOT ALLOW DHT IN THEIR TORRENT .. know everyone is stuck…
f.u.c.k. the stats really.. if DHT can bring back many 99% completed torrents i dont care about DHT messing the stats.
If Demonoid is down, here is a list of sites you can still use:
http://piratebay.org
http://mininova.org
http://sumotorrent.com
http://fenopy.com
Enjoy !
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