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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come on then where is demonoid.? why isnt there a construction page up?
they are pretty shit if they carnt be bothered to let everyone know whats going on.
why isnt head owner letting you all know its all fine? come answer that you cunts
demonoid should move their servers in Romania .. nobody gives a shit here about piracy , they won’t be bothered..
HEY DICKHEAD GO FUCK UR SELF YOU DOG WANKER
[quote comment="176771"]if the tracker was up the torrents that i have from them would b seeding and not givin me error like they are[/quote]
well all my torrents bar 1 are seeding.
I hate metallica!!!!!!!!!
anyone else think it’s funny that anonymous and masterman always comment around the same time?
are they
A:lovers,
B:the same person,
C:paedophiles who share the same pictures,
or
D:the same person
SOME NICE PEOPLE HERE
YES THE SAME PERSON IN IT AND JUST A DOG WANKER EH
this is useless reading this stuff. I came here to find other places to go and I do not care why it is down. i click my demonoid link 3 times a day and if it is not back up then I move on. when it does get back up i will be happy but until then I moved on and I suggest you do too and stop wasting yours and my time whining about something you know nothing about
I Miss You Demonoid, Oh How I Do. Fuck the CRIA, trying to tell us what we can and cant do. IF YOUR CREATING ART AND MUSIC FOR MONEY THEN YOUR REALLY CREATING BULLSHIT, and I particularly don’t want to pay for something I flush. Cheers To Demonoid.
demonoid should be back up soon, the trackers should be working now, check here for updatres
there is also screenshots for proof
http://www.thecircuitbox.com/demonoid/
Nothing on there site
http://www.cria.ca/news.php
funny they would be bragging about it
Re: Masterman / Anonymous
Has anyone else noticed how this ass fucking, cock smoker disappears after about 8 o’clock at night and is around for about an hour in the morning. My bet is that he is about 13 years old, unpopular and wishes he was black.
Btw Demonoid is the premier source of audiobooks, e-books, music, software etc…… on the web all they don’t do best is DVD’s and Torrentleach is most supreme in that regard.
Masterman / Anonymous I am sincerely sorry if I am wrong and you aren’t a pubescent nerd. However if this is the case, then you really are sad, if you don’t like demonoid then fuck off who cares about you,go and join some fag insult forum and hang yourself on live feed before I find you and stomp your head down your neck.
ZED
well said ZED i agree and his parents ave put him to bed cos hes a naughty boy or girl or hes a retard who wants ppl to respond to him cos hes not got a life or any friends
I don’t see why people fight over the net. That makes you guys as low as Masterman / Anonymous.
[quote]Btw Demonoid is the premier source of audiobooks, e-books, music, software etc…… on the web all they don’t do best is DVD’s and Torrentleach is most supreme in that regard.[/quote]
How fucking stupid are you? Just because you don’t know anywhere else it doesn’t mean there isn’t anywhere you fucked up flid there’s torrent sites that are dedicated to just ebooks, i’ve got hundreds of ftps with GB’s of ebooks and music and movies. There’s thousands upon thousands of sites to get shit from you ever been on warez-bb.org or projectw.org?
ON THE WEB? Your the type of guy that would be happy working in a factory as a fudge packer or in a supermarket as a shelf stacker for the rest of his shitty fucked up life what a stupid frigging statement to make puppy feltching kiddy fiddler.
Now then masterman why you entertaining these gibbons fuck em!
[quote comment="177050"][quote]
Now then masterman why you entertaining these gibbons fuck em![/quote]
oh so now we’ve sussed out that you are using anonymous as well as masterman you go and get another name, well done, now go away and get to bed before your mother catches you up this late, when you upset her too much she can’t give me such good head and that really aggravates me
hahhaha What you on about ya fuckin spastic i fucked ya mum, dad and ya gran. Yer gran was the best like a fuckin hoover one gurgle and straight down the dirty old cow.
What because I mention masterman it makes me masterman there’s one other solution that your smegma brain couldn’t handle err not the same person fucker!
FUCK YOU ALL THE RIAA & BREIN & CRIA AND HOLLYWOOD AND ALL OTHER’S
FUCK YOU ALL THE RIAA & BREIN & CRIA AND HOLLYWOOD AND ALL OTHER’S
[quote comment="177060"]hahhaha What you on about ya fuckin spastic i fucked ya mum, dad and ya gran. Yer gran was the best like a fuckin hoover one gurgle and straight down the dirty old cow.
What because I mention masterman it makes me masterman there’s one other solution that your smegma brain couldn’t handle err not the same person fucker![/quote]
its probably becaus you sound like the lil twat, actually you sound more lik a goth ladyboy to me
zed ya peace of shit demonoid is wank ya mum is a slut and she gets ganged banged evry night by the local school kids
how you know what i sound like u thick twat you’ll find out when i sneak up behind u and bum u dry you little fuckin pansy
i dont see wot all the fuzz is about its a forum ppl and not a gd 1 at that
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