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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Not my words…taken from Emuman @BC
SABIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
EDIT: Good news. Taken from the Demonoid temporary forum, right out of a global mod’s mouth (fingers, whatever >_>):
FFS, stop falling into rumors. Down time happens. Especially with monstrous traffic sites. Such huge traffic keeps the HDD spinning. And constant spinning = short life. This isn’t the first time we broke a HDD, and I guarantee you that it won’t be the last.
AFAIK, no we weren’t taken offline.
*wipes sweat* Phew…
IVE USE DEMONOID FOR A LONG WHILE NOW THEY ARE THE BEST , THEY WILL RETURN DONT SWEAT IT BROTHERS AND SISTERS , HAVE FAITH IN THE PIRATE NATION… LONG LIVE DEMONOID
“As of earlier today, we have disabled access from users in the US to our trackers, until further notice. This goes for ALL trackers (torrentbox, podtropolis) we run. This is due to the US’s hostility towards P2P technologies, and we feel with our current lawsuit brought by the MPAA, we can no longer ensure your security and privacy in the US. So, if you’re outside the US, you may notice less peers. We encourage you to add other public, unhampered trackers to torrents you post, in addition to Torrentbox and Podtropolis’s trackers. ” - taken from isoHunt.com
Something big seems to be afoot.’
Let’s move servers and trackers here to Mexico, they never do shit about the so-called “internet piracy”, fuck, they don’t even know it exists
this is just the beginning…CINEA has started using special DVD players and discs of screenes rs given to Award Groups to view so the number of pres we see is gonna drop unless someone has a dongle and can do the thing or someone who has a CINEA player or discs and can run it back to the release groups…TS s seem to be dwindling as security beefs up at Cinemas during big premiers…New projectors in cinemas that adjust the FPS throughout the picture so u cant record at the right Frame rate the whole film so it comes out ..clear…ghost…ghostier…shit has hit the fan and after the big dogs fall…question is …are they gonna be satisfied or will they rely on their new super developioneers(Lamers)…and go after everybody with a leased line…a http://FTP…ADSL..(probably not) but it sucks a greasy nut that Demonoid is down for whatever reasons….it was a sweet site…thats all that needs to be said about that…BeSafe…Peace..Kar2n
its a sad day
http://www.cria.ca/wipo.php
all about the anti-piracy treaties & who is on what side. Why don’t all you people who keep saying “go this country” go read what your talking about. 2/3 of the countries mentioned here have signed the treaties so no they wouldn’t be “safe”
What, this is gay, demonoid is god!
[quote comment="173696"]CINEA has started using special DVD players and discs of screeners[/quote]
who cares R5s are what you want.
[quote comment="173668"]typical move by the communist canadian government[/quote]
That was the stupidest fucking comment I have ever heard. Demonoid owner was in Russia. Give him time to get over to Canada and fix up things.. It wasn’t the first time Demonoid has been down.. And no the fucking CRIA hasn’t shut them down lol. Most of the CRIA is US members anyways.. As most the Canadians members left.
The ISP that Demonoid is on doesn’t give a shit about the fucking CRIA as they can’t do shit with Canadian laws anyways.
either way, I hope demonoid never dies.
so many trackers and uploaders out their try them, BREIN’s action is not equal, piracy is too broad and active…you cannot stop it as long people in this world generates another powerful tracker.
#&(%!#^(_^!@$(*^_!@$
You cant keep a good thing down.
There’s honor amongst us thieves!
I’ll be checking the site daily. Hourly, argh
The best thing about demonoid was that it was a private site, private tracker, but the torrent with tracker could be uploaded to other sites as well, and it also interacted with other trackers. No other torrent site that I know of was that ingenious. I did find another very nice, mostly safe, torrent site that is private as well, called torrent-damage.net. It very well could be the next demonoid if demonoid does go under. Check it out, registrations are open until 50,000 members. They have EXCELLENT seed ratios, and I was totally maxing out my connections. Just remember, it’s a private site, so leeching is prohibited. Lets take this great community farther. They wont take us down.
BRING IT BACK - NOW !!!
BURN IN HELL YOU GOVERNMENT BASTARDS!!!!
LONG LIVE DEMONOID
LONG LIVE P2P
HAIL TO ALL ITS USERS
Nothing could replace demonoid. I hope they contact TPB or something to get help.
time to buy an island!
Where are the temporary forums where the Demonoid staff said it was a HD failure?
Lol!
Karma is a bitch, ain’t it? :D
This is totally heart breaking..
[quote comment="173736"]Lol!
Karma is a bitch, ain’t it? :D[/quote]
walk the plank
eat a d&#k “by by”. if karma should be on anyone it should hit the administrators of this country that do nothing about the raping my wallet takes from the music and movie industries. why the f#$k am i forced to watch advertisements at a movie i already paid 10 dollars to see + popcorn and drinks
Ugh! TorrentSpy disallowed for American users, Demonoid taken down… Frick. :/
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