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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I download copyrighted stuff because I have got a mortgage,wife etc… and the taxman takes a cut, also fuck paying for stuff I started pirating C64 games and moved on to hacking the amiga(I was with NFA)it just doesn’t seem right to pay for stuff when you can get it free!. I do work for local government and do earn more than I ever thought I would. I use Demonoid primarily as a source for Audiobooks which I get through in copious amounts due to the amount of commuting I do.
Can I ask are you black or do you just think its cool to try Ghetto talk, either way fuckstain, you aren’t worthy of sucking the smegma from my cock.
Your mom is going to be pissed when she realises you aven’t got into bed yet, best switch of you little princess night light and go to sleep.
I download copyrighted stuff because I have got a mortgage,wife etc… and the taxman takes a cut, also fuck paying for stuff I started pirating C64 games and moved on to hacking the amiga(I was with NFA)it just doesn’t seem right to pay for stuff when you can get it free!. I do work for local government and do earn more than I ever thought I would. I use Demonoid primarily as a source for Audiobooks which I get through in copious amounts due to the amount of commuting I do.
Can I ask are you black or do you just think its cool to try Ghetto talk, either way fuckstain, you aren’t worthy of sucking the smegma from my cock.
Your mom is going to be pissed when she realises you haven’t got into bed yet, best switch of you little princess night light and go to sleep.
These mong pills im on are pretty good they make my bum hole numb and i can shove all sorts of things up there its good fun.
but i am sorry skagman i dont mean to be nast its just i still havent smoked my 20 rock of crack yet. my boys havent been round and dropped it off. hope they do soon im clucking. i have a wife and spastic kids sorry to say but i personal fuck my dog cos its azzz is nice.
my wife is abit of a dog anyway
ps sorry skagman
So what ball bag you pirated C64 games I pirated and programmed spectrum games big deal. Yeh man i’m black with a big black cock and i’m gonna beat your kids up with it.
You aren’t an MP no MP has them morals I have kids and a mortgage so I download copyright stuff. There are plenty of MPs with kids that don’t download illegal stuff.
Your a fucking liar you wierdo is your wife and kids real or are they someone elses that you fantasize are yours
I like to play hide the sausage with my kids my son loves to win because the winner gets a jolly good rogering. I know he likes it because I did when my dad did it with me “please daddy bum me” I would say.
We like to keep it in the family as they say all us MPs are the same we love it!
Fuck off u cunt deimos.
Tracker is functioning again… So this entire thread is garbage…
Ok, I give up, I will stop posting if you guys shut the fuck up. Capeesh?
hoist the sails and go to thepiratebay.com
But before I go, I really am gay and I need some cock to suck. Can anyone help me with that? Pleaaaase….
demonoid has changed it’s name , it is now called Pirate Bay,the name demonoid .com was just to scary for the born again christians , all so check out Soulseek demonoids cousin ,now theres a site that thumbs there nose at the recording industry.
This is why I don’t use Pirate bay because it’s full of immature uneducated little punks like you who think you are something because you use the word fuck! You guys are so cool. I would be very surprised if any of you can finish one complete sentence without using slang or curse words.It is not hard to hate pirates when you act the way you do.So quite making the rest of us look bad and please start your next comments with “My opinions are my own retarded thoughts and by no means reflect the views of others unless they are as ignorant and immature as I”
This is why I don’t use Pirate bay because it’s full of immature uneducated little punks like you who think you are something because you use the word fuck! You guys are so cool. I would be very surprised if any of you can finish one complete sentence without using slang or curse words.It is not hard to hate pirates when you act the way you do.So quite making the rest of us look bad and please start your next comments with “My opinions are my own retarded thoughts and by no means reflect the views of others unless they are as ignorant and immature as I”
This is why I don’t use Pirate bay because it’s full of immature uneducated little punks like you who think you are something because you use the word fuck! You guys are so cool. I would be very surprised if any of you can finish one complete sentence without using slang or curse words.It is not hard to hate pirates when you act the way you do.So quite making the rest of us look bad and please start your next comments with “My opinions are my own retarded thoughts and by no means reflect the views of others unless they are as ignorant and immature as I”
This is why I don’t use Pirate bay because it’s full of immature uneducated little punks like you who think you are something because you use the word fuck! You guys are so cool. I would be very surprised if any of you can finish one complete sentence without using slang or curse words.It is not hard to hate pirates when you act the way you do.So quite making the rest of us look bad and please start your next comments with “My opinions are my own retarded thoughts and by no means reflect the views of others unless they are as ignorant and immature as I”
[quote comment="177427"]This is why I don’t use Pirate bay because it’s full of immature uneducated little punks like you who think you are something because you use the word fuck! You guys are so cool. I would be very surprised if any of you can finish one complete sentence without using slang or curse words.It is not hard to hate pirates when you act the way you do.So quite making the rest of us look bad and please start your next comments with “My opinions are my own retarded thoughts and by no means reflect the views of others unless they are as ignorant and immature as I”[/quote]
I Agree.Pirate bay sucks, they leave viruses all over the place. at least demonoid cleans them up quick and demonoid has a much better class of people than pirate bay.
I suspect everyone here that is putting down Demonoid has probably been banned from the site for posting crap as they are here.I think pirate bay should utilize the 5 warning system that demonoid has. I suspect if they do they would loose at least 3/4 of there members, but in return it would be a much better site!
I think pirate bay is ran by sweeds as are most of their members.I don’t think they have any schools there, so you really can’t blame them you can only feel sorry for their lack of mental abilities.
What do you get when you mix a brit with a sweed?
George W. Bush
Please don’t judge us Americans by are president, most of us think he is a retard.And no the majority of us did not vote for him.
NOOOO puede ser cierto….I love demonoid!! =(
THE DEMONOID TRACKERS ARE BACK ONLINE!!!
DEMONOID IS NOT DEAD!!!
Hope they ant bought him off like what happened with supernova, when other private sites go of line you usualy get some response,no one saying any thing official and all you get from demonoid irc is hardware failiure,guess time will tell
I am so so sorry everyone for calling you all those things, it’s just………… well I’ve got a lot on my mind what with all the bullying I get and being raped by that quadraplegic and all ya know, thats probably why I ended up taking those pictures of the 5 year old I was baby sitting and then I, well I shouldn’t say too much as the trial is next week, but please forgive me
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