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 fucking Hate those canadian sons of Bitchs!Stupid Mother fuckers The Best Mother fucking Site to have fucking come out THE BEST and they shut the stuff Down Those Mother Fucking BasterdS Who evers iDEA it was need to have there heads bashed in with a rock I thought It was Legal In Canada What In the Fuck? God fucking damnit! What in the Fuck Bring It back you stupid assholes Bring It back Now you pieces of Shit no good rich mother fuckers, Why in the fuck would it bother you theres 1000 sites just like it go fuck with those bring Demonoid back You Cock Smoking ass rapping fagits I hate you Slim Ball Corporate shit eating money grubing fuckers. FUCK YOU Right in your ass I hope you read this and get Cursed you Low Lifes DEMONOID RULED you FUUUUCKKKK why in the hell did you do that? Scum Bags!
I sent an email to the CRIA in hopes of some response,no luck.
Dearest CRIA and RIAA Members,
The fact that the first thing I viewed on the RIAA ‘s site, when trying to understand your point of view of illegal downloading of music, is how one organization controls 90% of the legitimate creation and distribution of sound recordings, enrages me!! So much for my non-biased temperament towards an issue that your organizations purposefully control income and behavior of. What happened to enterprising a nation instead of monopolizing and conquering it. When I was at age of adolescence I bought my first KISS cassette tape (Destroyer) without the fear of being arrested if I let my friend take it home and copy it. It is a known fact that technology has made this much easier for consumers today. That is because of the people who have created wonderful software and hardware that allow users to do this effortlessly. Yet these “developers, entrepreneur’s, and programmers” can easily get away with marketing their creations to the consumer without being price regulated only for this to be compatible with everything else for maybe a year. Then turnaround and produce a barely better incompatible knock off version for outrageous profits. Thus leading the consumer with empty pockets and looking for an inexpensive answer to do something that will get them incarcerated. My anger stems from the recent threatening position the CRIA took upon the only web community I actually enjoyed that wasn’t full of tasteless pornographic media and/or unbearable pressure advertising. DEMONOID! You take that away and now myself and the rest of it’s members proceed to economic war on your organizations. By this I mean for as long as Demonoid is down I refuse to buy any merchandise whatsoever that in any way feed the tyrants whom have by their greed began to deteriorate the recording business. Don’t worry you won’t see me downloading illegally off the net, but feel free to come to my neighborhood and attempt to catch me borrowing all of my neighbors CD’s and copying for my family and my personal use. I wouldn’t dream of trying to monopolize the music industry and recording artists by making copies of music and selling them for profit. That’s your job. Why don’t you use some the intelligence in your organization to come together with your bosses (the consumer) and make some compromises that benefit us all. Good luck. Hail Demonoid!!!
(My Name was actually here)
Father
Ex-music Consumer
[quote comment="252297"]I sent an email to the CRIA in hopes of some response,no luck.
Dearest CRIA and RIAA Members,
The fact that the first thing I viewed on the RIAA ‘s site, when trying to understand your point of view of illegal downloading of music, is how one organization controls 90% of the legitimate creation and distribution of sound recordings, enrages me!! So much for my non-biased temperament towards an issue that your organizations purposefully control income and behavior of. What happened to enterprising a nation instead of monopolizing and conquering it. When I was at age of adolescence I bought my first KISS cassette tape (Destroyer) without the fear of being arrested if I let my friend take it home and copy it. It is a known fact that technology has made this much easier for consumers today. That is because of the people who have created wonderful software and hardware that allow users to do this effortlessly. Yet these “developers, entrepreneur’s, and programmers” can easily get away with marketing their creations to the consumer without being price regulated only for this to be compatible with everything else for maybe a year. Then turnaround and produce a barely better incompatible knock off version for outrageous profits. Thus leading the consumer with empty pockets and looking for an inexpensive answer to do something that will get them incarcerated. My anger stems from the recent threatening position the CRIA took upon the only web community I actually enjoyed that wasn’t full of tasteless pornographic media and/or unbearable pressure advertising. DEMONOID! You take that away and now myself and the rest of it’s members proceed to economic war on your organizations. By this I mean for as long as Demonoid is down I refuse to buy any merchandise whatsoever that in any way feed the tyrants whom have by their greed began to deteriorate the recording business. Don’t worry you won’t see me downloading illegally off the net, but feel free to come to my neighborhood and attempt to catch me borrowing all of my neighbors CD’s and copying for my family and my personal use. I wouldn’t dream of trying to monopolize the music industry and recording artists by making copies of music and selling them for profit. That’s your job. Why don’t you use some the intelligence in your organization to come together with your bosses (the consumer) and make some compromises that benefit us all. Good luck. Hail Demonoid!!!
(My Name was actually here)
Father
Ex-music Consumer[/quote]
your all a bunch of morons ,we all know that by dl those new movies out and music that we are infringing establised laws ,so why would anyone be surprised ,demonoid had a good run ,now its over ,move on there is so many better sites around to be member at that this sould not affect experience downloaders besides the little fuckos like you guys who dont know where else to go .like smoking weed sharing protected content is illegal so live and learn and get on with your lifes
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You look for something new and there are tons of fakes it dosent matter where you go
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