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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OH my god just use a neighbours internet… and to top it off…haha wep is easy to beat.
1) hook up a nice antenna
2) hook ant up to a Linksys WET54G (wireless to wired bridge)
3) Hook to a crap router…
4) USE SMAC2.0 SPOOF your MAC!
5) Steal at your own liesure and off your neighbours internet
did 500GB one month… SHAW shut him down a week.. haha
Jeez, haven’t you lot found something more productive to do already??
And as for the donuts slagging off scene-inspired……You pricks!! of course its no Demonoid….there is no site that can compare to Demonoid…but it is a fine, fast & friendly up & coming site. Theres a lot of the regulars from the ‘noid there, and for you to slate it after checking it out for 5 minutes, just shows us sensible people what utter morons you are…and I’m glad you wont be back….it saves the mods banning your funky ass in a couple of weeks….!
Not apprently shut down bye us Canadians….
Demonoid Not Shut Down by the CRIA, Servers Being Rebuilt
Posted: 27 Sep 2007 03:36 AM CDT
Supposedly “major server failures” were to blame and not the CRIA, meaning that Demonoid should be back online very soon.
It’s been a hectic last few nights for many of those whom have come to rely on Demonoid as their BitTorrent tracker site mainstay. Between the loss of TorrentSpy, and most recently ISOHunt, to US visitors, the thought that Demonoid had been effectively shut down sent an eerie chill throughout the BitTorrent community.
Now in all fairness, t wouldn’t have been too great a leap to buy into the story published on a Dutch news site that the CRIA, the Can
Bring back our Demonoid or I’ll bomb you’re capitol city !!! :P
Relocate to any foreign soviet country and ull be safe for years. ;)
I JOINED DEMONOID .COM OVER A YEAR
AGO AND I HIGHLY RESPECT THERE SITE
MOST ALL TORRENTS ARE CLEAN AND FREE
OF ANY VIRUSES IT IS A FRIENDLY SITE
MOST PEOPLE GO THERE ITS A MEETING
PLACE PEOPLE LIKE DEIMOS SHOULD BE
CONGRADULATED FOR CREATING A GOOD
PLACE LIKE DEMONOID I HOPE THEY GET
IT UP AND RUNNING AGAIN SOON I KNOW
MANY PEOPLE WOULD MISS THIS SITE
A GREAT DEAL DONT LET THIS SITE DIE
IT IS A GOOD SERVICE TO PEOPLE AND
HAS THE PEOPLES INTREST AT HEART I
HOPE AND PRAY DEIMOS GETS IT
BACK UP AND RUNNING AGAIN SOON
FOR EVERYONES SAKE ” GOD BLESS YOU
DEIMOS
I don’t believe it!!!!!
why don’t they spend there time catching the sick perverts who share CHILD PORN!!!!, and leave the rest (law abidding) citizens alone!, big deal we share some movies, i don’t sell them, i don’t make money off it, i wish big brother would used his powers for good, China is the biggest copy right infringer in the world, SHUT THEM DOWN!!!!! leave DEMONOID ALONE!!!!!! A-HOLES.
they should catch porn sites instead of blocking the best sites like demonoid.
what the bloody hell is this
come back demonoid please come back i miss you
Move the server 2 sweden
the ant-piracy ppl cant do anything here
[quote comment="173551"]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!![/quote]
You are an idiot. You and you ICP fantasy are laughable.
Its only there servers yu idiots…
Well,If demonoid.cm goes down. If someone wold like to make another demonoid.com I will be glad to re-contribute all I have already contributed! I also know a few other people who will b glad 2 do the same. If the fed’s destroy demonoid.com. it will never be gone, it will just be different somewhere else!
Let freedom ring!
TW
dam now demonoid has gone down damit theres not much left.
i used demonoid alot and liked the community makes you kinda feel at home..
well guys and girls if you need somewhere to hang and chat come to astalavistatorrent.com its not as great as demonoid buts atleast its somewhere to hang about until demonoid pops up
This is really sad… I hope they get it running soon
dont get me rong guys an girls but we all built demonoid community and get torrents on there cos we helped each other and built it. me asking you to join astalavistatorrent.com im not trying to take you away from demonoid but lets not sit on our azz scratching our heads being upset what happened to demonoid lets start again and build up asta. we get million of us join and upload dam will be as big as demonoid. we gotta realize its us and our friendly building that builds the site… come on down lets get building…
this is all BS!! demonoid is down but not out!! trust me this is wrong and has nothing to do with CRIA
NOOOO!!!! I loved that tracker so much. Nearly all torrents i downloaded was from demo.!!!!!
[quote comment="175114"]dont get me rong guys an girls but we all built demonoid community and get torrents on there cos we helped each other and built it. me asking you to join astalavistatorrent.com im not trying to take you away from demonoid but lets not sit on our azz scratching our heads being upset what happened to demonoid lets start again and build up asta. we get million of us join and upload dam will be as big as demonoid. we gotta realize its us and our friendly building that builds the site… come on down lets get building…[/quote]
I make you right there!
Iv been bored shitless since demonoid been down so its about time we did something and btw asta nice site just needs some effort from people and il sure help!
see you there.
ps. thanks for posting your site and being nice about demonoid
fuck CRIA canada damn didnt work the DEMmonoid server aaaaaaa i wana go back there i living canada why they fucken police go to find some gay shit assholes or drug people why they fucken close this nice server sept 26 2007 didnt work the demonoid and why plz help me
Fuck them they can’t stop piracy man LONG LIVE P2P servers
stupid komounist canada and USA nothing different same like other europa why they not go to hunt drug or save the forest or other things shit goverment dammet reptilians aliens they all not human they aliens clown
Where are all you Canada haters going to be when Demonoid comes back up?????? While in your precious countries it’s already, and will remain illegal.
F*CK all the Canada haters….you know your Grandmother lives here!!!!
why they close nice demonoid nothing happent stupid CIA OR other why they not closing porno site or pervez movies really stupid this people its all about money komonist people that all
why not closing anti-spyware or all fucken gmail porno trakcers fucker komonist people gay candaidans and americans homo goverments and agensy
Serves them right for closing registration all the time and not figuring out how to manage traffic.
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