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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[quote comment="176569"]NOW I HEAR DEIMOS HAS DIED DUE TO
A AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT[/quote]
Deimos is not dead, it was a joke rumour that all the panicking little dickwads on here want to believe, you people need to get a life and stop panicking, DEIMOS is not dead, DEMONOID has not been shut down, STOP whining, moaning and acting like 5 year olds, its just offline for a few days, get over it
Good news I just found this quote posted ten hours ago–News from Onijin Demonid.com Global Moderator site is down Tracker is down Forums are down.Estimated date of return unknown.Deimos is not Dead.–So thats the best news weve got in a few days the tracker is now back up cos my downloads have started up again so it seems that they may have started to get it up and running again but the lack of info is crap.It must have been a total system crash which we all now is a bugger to fix.LONG LIVE DEMONOID!!
YAY! The tracker works! :D
[quote comment="176593"][quote comment="176569"]NOW I HEAR DEIMOS HAS DIED DUE TO
A AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT[/quote]
Deimos is not dead, it was a joke rumour that all the panicking little dickwads on here want to believe, you people need to get a life and stop panicking, DEIMOS is not dead, DEMONOID has not been shut down, STOP whining, moaning and acting like 5 year olds, its just offline for a few days, get over it[/quote]
WELL JAY I HOPE YOUR RIGHT AND I WISH ALL THESE PEOPLE WOULD QUIT
PUTTING UP RUMORS BECAUSE IT DOESNT
HELP THE SITUATION ONE BIT WE WILL
JUST HAVE TO BE PATIENT AND WAIT AND SEE
@ STEVE1961
Using upper cases the way you’re doing just proves how stupid you are really, do the world a favour, kill yourself, would you?
why is everyone over-reacting, Deimos is obviously not dead, if the CRIA or anyone for that matter had closed demonoid down they would be ranting about how they did it, they’d be going around telling everyone how they beat demonoid and how such and such were next.
Demonoid is not closed, it is on downtime SO STOP HAVING HISSY FITS GIRLS,
the sky is falling, the sky is falling, etc
So, demonoid website like a my life of part in my computer life to continue become genius but what happend now pls consider to be make it past to run that server as before to that waiting and searching more website as demonoid web but I think that can’t find
The real issue is: Freedom versus Tyranny. Are we, the people, to be truly free? Or are we to be continually coralled by a small handful of greed corrupted brigands in each nation: and turned into merchandise for their pleasure?
Power To The People!!! Long Live Demonoid.
[quote comment="176413"][quote comment="176390"]I for one support attempts to combat piracy! Ever since the music industry was shut down in the 1970s as a direct result of tape to tape copying, and the movie industry shut down in the 1980s with the widespread use of VCRs to copy tapes I’ve had nothing to listen to or watch![/quote]
You have nothing to listen to? This is bull shit my friend.You,I and every one els knows it.Any one can go to town and buy a movie or a music CD.Don’t sit there and cry “you don’t have any thing to watch or listen to”.Your just to lazy or stupid to help your self.
P.S Demonoid trackers still work day after this happen i finished downloading DIRE STRAITS & Mark Knopfler - Complete Discography 4.83 gigs[/quote]
Ever hear of irony, my friend? I just _bet_ you’re a merkin - they _always_ have problems with subtlety…
P.S. “you’re”, not “your” - just a pet peeve of mine…
hey CRIA you must let free demonoid.com! What are you??? GOD? or what?. Let people free!
YAY!
trackers are working!!!
I was missing the site so much ;_;
Long Live Demonoid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and Deimos, you’re the best (after my husband ^^*), I’m glad you’re not dead
^_______________^
>>Ever hear of irony, my friend? I just _bet_ you’re a merkin - they _always_ have problems with subtlety…
How can we sill donate?
Seems the donate site is down also…
Demonoid Tracker is online. After 4 day now I can breath and eat with an appetite. Wish you all the guys behind Demonoid. Cruse all the bastards who like to see demonoid down.
!!! LONG LIVE DEMONOID!!!!
!!! LONG LIVE DEMONOID FOUNDER!!!!
!!! LONG LIVE DEMONOID SUPPORTERS!!!!
i dont doubt demonoid will bee back real soon, great site and people behind it!!!
haha your all a bunch of wankers all rying like little bitches cos demonoid has gone down .. you fucking retards and get a life you fuck heads.
also why hate on skagman hes the one that fucking encodes films you fuck heads.
stop crying like little gay lords barstards and get a grip.
so fucking what demonoid has gone down woohoo thank fuck it has the greedy bum holes also i hope the fucking twat that owns it gets banged up and rapped by a big blak man.
demonoid has been shut down it hasnt been up for days so stop ballshitting your selfs saying it be up.
demonoids torrents are dieing as we speak and theres no costruction page up so its fucking clear its dead and thank fuck it is.
its a wank site full of shit and needs to be nuked.. wankers good..
get a grip fuck heads yes thats what you all are FUCK HEADS
0O00O0O0O DEMONOID PLEASE COME BACK BOOO FUCKING HOOOOO. WANKERS!!! go give ya misses one while you wait to see demonoid never comes back you pricks..
i hope the shitting site gets nuked and you all get busted when they get yourip’s hahahahahaha wankers.
your all dumb as fuck to think any diffrent
0o0o0o0 i forgot
BOOOOOO FUCKING HOOOOO DEMONOID PLEASE COME BACK
HAHAHA YOU BUNCH OF LOW LIFE FUCK TARTS
look at you all crying like batty boys not getting done up the ringers!!!
oyea expect the batty cops banging on yor doors when they get your addresses
[quote comment="176708"]0O00O0O0O DEMONOID PLEASE COME BACK BOOO FUCKING HOOOOO. WANKERS!!! go give ya misses one while you wait to see demonoid never comes back you pricks..
i hope the shitting site gets nuked and you all get busted when they get yourip’s hahahahahaha wankers.
your all dumb as fuck to think any diffrent[/quote]
thanks, it’s always good to get everyones differing opinion, had been a long time since we had paedophiles giving their thoughts
Masterman you are one big prick
I think we all know who the fucking low life is
hahaha well stop making storys saying demonoid will be back its perfectic just look at the facts.
demonoid is down
hasnt been up in days
face facts idiots
stop crying like hoes and get a life…
you fudge packers
well the trackers are working fine now so why do you think its still not going to work
huh cos they mght have other servers running the announce url but thats it.. the actual tracker aint coming back is it.
once there other servers get closed then torrents will die
whats a matter cat get ya tongue . bell ends
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