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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The latest changes to the site are giving us some problems - We’ll be back soon
latest word
[quote comment="178111"]Wow! You can’t spell for shit - congratulations!
1 - instigator
2 - pathetic
&
3 - illiterate
4 - fuckhead
HTH, HAND, etc., etc…[/quote]
xbncxbnbxviuzsgyhhuss03u4h - no kiddin
wow nice to hear it…actually demonoid has a little problem from the past specially the server or hardware side but “Good news” demonoid will be back…check the site guyz…”Demonoid will rule…” Time to celebrate for the moment…:)
[quote comment="178111"]Wow! You can’t spell for shit - congratulations!
1 - instigator
2 - pathetic
&
3 - illiterate
4 - fuckhead
HTH, HAND, etc., etc…[/quote]
This Guy Is A LOSER!!!!
[quote comment="178095"]oh no what will i ever going to do with my perfetic life!!!!!!!!!! demon rulezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz[/quote]
So Is This Guy????
[quote comment="178165"]The latest changes to the site are giving us some problems - We’ll be back soon
latest word
DEMONOID.COM will be back when it fuckin feels like.so shut the fuck up and wait like everyone else
LOSER!!!!
[quote comment="178286"]
This Guy Is A LOSER!!!![/quote]
…said the cock-knocker who posted thus, “GAY TURDS , SHITHEADS CAN TAKE A SIGH OF RELEIF YOUR LITTLE TORENT”
That’s quite a feat of ALL-CAPS fuckheadery. Your momma ought to be proud of your high degree of cretinisation…
[quote comment="178380"][quote comment="178379"][quote comment="178377"]The latest changes to the site are giving us some problems - We’ll be back soon…..
This is What it Said on MSN at ..
And The Same at Mozilla FireFox
if no one Has Checked as of Recent
Check it out Soon.[/quote][/quote]
true[/quote]
The latest changes to the site are giving us some problems - We’ll be back soon
this is what it says at both msn
and firefox as of now
[quote comment="178351"][quote comment="178286"]
This Guy Is A LOSER!!!![/quote]
…said the cock-knocker who posted thus, “GAY TURDS , SHITHEADS CAN TAKE A SIGH OF RELEIF YOUR LITTLE TORENT”
That’s quite a feat of ALL-CAPS fuckheadery. Your momma ought to be proud of your high degree of cretinisation…[/quote]
what a SISSY AHHH DON’T CRY???
[quote comment="178417"]
what a SISSY AHHH DON’T CRY???[/quote]
My sincerest apologies.
From your last post, I see now you’re actually brain-damaged in some way. I make it a point not to point & laugh at your kind, so I’ll be putting my clue-by-four away for now.
Again, sorry…
[quote comment="178568"][quote comment="178417"]
what a SISSY AHHH DON’T CRY???[/quote]
My sincerest apologies.
From your last post, I see now you’re actually brain-damaged in some way. I make it a point not to point & laugh at your kind, so I’ll be putting my clue-by-four away for now.
Again, sorry…[/quote]
WHAT A LOSER !!!
And Now For Something Completely Different!
MONTY PYTHON
You know, if you’re going to make a career of internet trollery, you’re going to have to do far better than shouting “LOSER!!!1!” or “SISSY!!!12!”, you fucking dolt.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAetc. LMFAOPMP
and dont forget ALLWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE
JOKE
HOW HIGH IS A CHINA MAN
KORNEY EH
[quote comment="178593"]You know, if you’re going to make a career of internet trollery, you’re going to have to do far better than shouting “LOSER!!!1!” or “SISSY!!!12!”, you fucking dolt.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAetc. LMFAOPMP[/quote]
this guy must be gay ha ha ha ha!!!
I’m going to donate the same amount of booz I spent in the last few days!!!
zomg teh armageddon avoidzor win
when demonoid comes back online i’m going to download some led zepplin. what are you going to download???
ill download some crap game what aint worth buying for 30£ - 40£
well i meen if they sold games etc at lower prices ppl who download them might start buying them
[quote comment="178666"]
this guy must be gay ha ha ha ha!!![/quote]
Well done! The homosexual epithet is _far_ more advanced than either ’sissy’ or ‘loser’. I can tell you’re a veritable fountain of intellect. What’s next, I wonder? “YOU SMELL!!!1!”, perhaps?
Meh-heh-heh! :D
Here, I found this photograph of you & your Mummy - enjoy: hai2u.com
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