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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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
No Man I hope the demon is toast!!!
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.
Um I like toast! Delicious ;)
They thought Canada would be a safe haven? LOL! Try Russia.
@ #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.
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!
We will not let them take us over. We will prevail. Long live piracy.
lz0, i was answering georges question about eztv being down. eztv is sick i dont know about demonoid.
Measures will be taken.
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
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
EZTV is fine, just having server lag issues. They changed their torrent hosting server thingammijig to miivi.org (not miivi.com, don’t panic).
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.
WTF!!!
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*
man this sucks. anybody know where to get a great fix for comic book torrents?
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.
Demonoid Will Raie Of another Horizen…
Be Sure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Demonoid has no information yet to confirm(or deny) this rumor.
[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
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.
0o00o0o0oooo thats bad news but owell more members for me now then :-)
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
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