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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its up yahoooooo
[quote comment="177790"]Its it for me to go have a time with granny. Shouldn’t take long, she always makes me Blow my wad in a hurry![/quote]
FUNNY…..for a 12 year old with a slight learning disability..
back on line demonoid rocks
Its BACK UP.!!!
LONG LIVE Demonoid
[quote comment="177794"]as staff on Demonoid i can say that we are a bunch of wankers who do not deserve you lot on there so fuk of[/quote]
That enough proof for me. DUMBASS!! It’s not sabin.
No, It’s not….He was on here in a different thread a while back, but the douchebag that is claiming to be him now is just some silly little boy that was probably banned from the site a while ago & has nothing better to do than play with his tiny prick & post as someone else…
its back up, but not for canadians, if you live in canada, you get redirected to a page saying the CRIA threatened Demonoid with lawsuits if they didn’t block canadians from accessing demonoid. Weird since it is in canada. So what does this mean, americans and everyone else can access it? Doesn’t make much sense..
the site is up and runing
Oh, & buy the way….Demonoid IS back up & running, so all you retards on here throwing around the rumors & running It down…GO FUCK YOUR MOTHERS!!!!! boy that felt good….
Demonoid is blocked in Canada. This is what there web page says. “We received a letter from a lawyer represeting the CRIA, they were threatening with legal action and We need to start blocking Canadian traffic because of this. If you reside in Canada, that is the reason you are being redirected to this message. Thanks for your understanding, and sorry for any inconvenience.”
its back! so there all you non believers!!!!
IT’S ALIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE. MUAAHAHAHAHAHA
Noooooooo. Demonoid’s my one and only.
And now I’m getting this message
“We received a letter from a lawyer represeting the CRIA, they were threatening with legal action and We need to start blocking Canadian traffic because of this. If you reside in Canada, that is the reason you are being redirected to this message. Thanks for your understanding, and sorry for any inconvenience.”
nope, can’t login.
who cares aboout canadians? duh!
[quote comment="177814"]Noooooooo. Demonoid’s my one and only.
And now I’m getting this message
“We received a letter from a lawyer represeting the CRIA, they were threatening with legal action and We need to start blocking Canadian traffic because of this. If you reside in Canada, that is the reason you are being redirected to this message. Thanks for your understanding, and sorry for any inconvenience.”[/quote]
It sucks to have to use one, but try a proxy….You should be able to connect that way…This Is my final post. TF Blows Is Dead!!! (unless that waste that’s claiming to be sabin revives him him)
I love demonoid !!! awasome torrent tracker.. the greatest all of time
whoooooppppppppppppppppppppyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
demonoid is backkkk !!!!
great site, doing a great community service, great torrents and an awesome tracker!!
good to have you back and may god bless you and your support staff.
heehaw !!!!!!!!! suck it CREA!!!!
those big-time companies just don’t get it… they will NEVER be able to stop piracy. its that simple. they can shut one down torrent site, another one is just gonna be created an hour afterwards.
Vindication for Ernesto, IYAM. All those who dissed him for reporting on the CRIA as being FUD must be chowing down on a large slice of the ol’ humble pie right about now… =]
OMFG this would have to be the biggest load of crap I have ever had the misfortune to read… Get a clue the lot of you…
WELL ALL YOU PISS ANTS ,SUCKHOLES ,
ASSHOLESS , FUCKUPS ,GAY TURDS , SHITHEADS CAN TAKE A SIGH OF RELEIF YOUR LITTLE TORENT SITE ISN’Y DEAD AFTERALL IT WILL BE BACK AT SUNDAY 7:00PM PACIFIC TIME!!!
DEMONOID RULES!!!
oh no what will i ever going to do with my perfetic life!!!!!!!!!! demon rulezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Wow! You can’t spell for shit - congratulations!
1 - instigator
2 - pathetic
&
3 - illiterate
4 - fuckhead
HTH, HAND, etc., etc…
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