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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Interestingly, Digital Distractions also recently disappeared.
I tracked down the admin to ask what happened, but he was none too pleased to hear from me. Freaked, in fact. It seemed to me he was running scared.
It all fits….
Demonoid Will Raise Of another Horizen…
Be Sure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you really are a mod for demonoid, then thank heavens your coming back.
Will all the torrents, and everything (user’s, torrents) and everything still be there.
I love Demonoid. It’s so awesome. Pirate Bay may be bigger but Demonoid is unarguably the best, with an incredible crew of people over there.
I sure hope we see them back up again soon.
yes have spoke to other staff and torrents members will all b staying
u cant keep the demon down
“BMG Canada Inc. v. John Doe — the most recent decision on the matter by the Federal Court, the highest Canadian court to rule on the issue — both uploading and downloading were found to be legal. This decision has not been overturned, so this is current Canadian law”
The courts have deemed it legal, so it’s legal. If there had been a suit against Demonoid in an attempt to get the previous rulings overturned we’d've heard about it on Demonoid long ago. The CRIA cannot shut anything down, only the courts can.
Also, it’s doubtful any agency would’ve moved on them in the middle of the night: much more likely it would’ve happened in the 9AM-5PM range. Factor in the temporary disappearances of EZTV and Mininova and the fact that, while they may be back up now, they are both running terribly slow, and you reach a likely explanation of server crashes brought about by either excessive traffic or DOS attacks. Demonoid would take longer to restore to working order because:
1)They have a huge membership and an even more huge inventory of torrents and,
2)Their site is more complex than most and,
3)Demonoid has a history of being notoriously slow to restore from backups, anyway.
I work just down the street from them and their affiliates, time to go bash some fucking heads in.
As a member of demonoid I uploaded over 40 of the classical music BBC Proms of 2007- recorded from live BBC broadcasts- effectively sharing this marvellous festival with the world. Now the tracker is no longer working and this legitimate activity has been ended - for now. Lets hope demonoid are able to recover!!
WTF?
Demonoid is one of my favorite trackers and those hicks, CRIA, who doesn’t even represent the canadian music industry forced the isp to block it?
Seriously canada its time we kick their sorry asses out of our parliamentary representatives offices.
Mininova is rarely ever slow for me, although EZTV can be a real bitch, sometimes.
Again, though, the courts have ruled filesharing legal in Canada and until the courts rule otherwise no one - not the CRIA, the RIAA, the RCMP, nor my Aunt Fanny can get any Bittorrent site in Canada shut down for filesharing.
i think wayne brady has to choke a bitch.
These allegations are false, and this guy is not a Demonoid OP. Please don’t spread false rumors, as soon as we know anything we will report it (more than likely via IRC). I am an OP on Demonoid, and can confirm this if you were to joing the Demonoid IRC (irc.p2p-network.net #Demonoid). Please do not continue spreading these rumors, as there is no word from the site admin as to why the site is down.
Regards,
seanap
I just donated too….a few days ago. =(
i don’t know why the anti-piracy waist there time with these things.
it always ends up in noting.
its coming back! no longer is ther a page not found, the icon shows up and there is a black page!!!
i r a mod on demoiniod n i kan sey that we wil b bl rly sune….plz chk bk sune n we wil b rt bk……..i r a mod at demoidoid
Demonoid is very very best bittorent site than other.
We Hope The site will be regain.
How many times does this have to happen before people recognize the vulnerability of non-distributed search? DHT solves the single-point-of-failure problem for trackers but unlike, say KAD, it does not do search. With distributed search these problems are history. And this has been known for years. Why persist with obvious design flaws when they have already been previously identified and addressed. Nobody else uses centralized search.
i can’t wait for demonoid to be back up. so much missed tv programing to get and watch. oh well, until then, i will keep the pc on 24/7 seeding what i have downloaded.
So Much Crying!
So Much Wailing!
Whatever the problem Demonoid is handling, I’m sure it can be handled with some money!
And did YOU ever donate a single iota to Demonoid via it’s donate button?
I didn’t think so.
Thanks a lot Canada…
Will you all stop fussing. I.m sure it will be back soon just give it few days or so
Yeah i know all the demonoid torrent trackers have stoppped downloading, but i am still uploading to those trackers so something must be working eh?
Chill and be paitent!!!
Again ?
All I want is to give support to Demonoid team .They deserve it.
” Rise on fallen fighters, rise and take your stands again.
‘Cause, he who fights and run away, live to fight another day.”
Bob Marley
Actually, I have donated - several times.
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