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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[quote comment="173730"]BURN IN HELL YOU GOVERNMENT BASTARDS!!!!
LONG LIVE DEMONOID
LONG LIVE P2P
HAIL TO ALL ITS USERS[/quote]
I don’t think we need to resort to quoting Hitler, but nice way to express your wisdom. I wouldn’t be surprised to see the majority of Canadian, Russian, and Sweden torrent sites blocking US visitors.
*PS. I’m extremely anti-American so don’t listen to anything I say*, Except US does have some nice companies, Apple, Microsoft, Bungie, CS:S (Game), etc :)
http://www.ruzster.com/forum temp home to demonoid fora
Hey guys … take it easy !!
IF WE ALL BELIEVE IN GOD WE MUST ALL BELIEVE IN DEMONOID !!
Nice to see the CRIA doing something right.
you guys are fucking hilarious. You all rock and long live demoniod.
funny thing is they are just making torrenting more popular. i first started torrennting when the pirate bay got raided i believe it was last year? if it wasnt for the antipiracy companies i wouldnt know about it
It looks I have to go back to IRC for a bit.
xx, they’re not “doing something right”, they’re sheeping along to the USA. Hah.
Long live Demonoid and the P2P community, whatever it’s used for.
GODDAMMIT!!
Okay, so I spent the last 24 hours like this…packaged some files and created torrents…setup and uploaded torrent files…seeding…BAM!!!
WTF!!! I am cussing at Comcast and throwing computers…bouncing off walls…yelling at neighbors…then I setup a linux box…COMCAST MUST BE SENDING ME RSTs…linux gets installed…iptables is good to go…setup torrents again…WTF!!!
WHY CAN’T I UPLOAD!!! CONNECTION REFUSED!!!
Continue cussing Comcast…throwing same computers around…more yelling at neighbors over fence…then I read this post!
GODDAMMIT!!!
I feel better now…
[quote comment="173736"]Lol!
Karma is a bitch, ain’t it? :D[/quote]
No but you sure are.
to demonoid crew:
if u need money let us now we’ll help!!
This is gay… you gotta be kidding me.. Demonoid should not have been taken down, piracy or not, it helped out a ton of people, let alone myself. Demonoid better be back up soon.. and as Glazed said, LONG LIVE DEMONOID!
[quote comment="173748"]www.ruzster.com/forum
temp home to demonoid fora[/quote]
bumping
Thx :)
demonoid will rise from the ashes ant keep a could thing down it sucks that canadian govermet has grown a set
I’m getting scared, my uploads are, as of 3am yesterday morning, starting to slow down too. And TvT is also unresponsive. :(
Toilet Finger Wrote
“I cannot believe this! Maybe it really is against the law to steal movies and music? PSP is just a way of saying you are interested in a community of thieves. You all in Demonoid are breaking the law and you do so without regard for consequences!”
The true crime is the price they make us pay for all these crappy movies that they keep pumping out, like the constant flow of old tv shows into horrible movies.
But just to be clear, at one time or another I have paid money for the movies and music I have downloaded, but why should I have to pay all over again just because there is a new format that requires us to buy all the stuff all over again - they are the true pirates!
I have been with Demonoid for years, and it has always been my favorite site, and I will giggle like a little school girl when it comes back on line.
Tehehehe :)
God Damn you CRIA!!!
Quote by Onijin, a Global Moderator at Demonoid:
“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.”
no one would fall into the rumor trap if they would inform us these things. Be it on a temporary page that says such. All we get is “connection denied” or “connection reset while loading.”
This is rather strange, as Canadian Law recently changed to allowing both upload and download of music. (This is due to a tax imposed on audio players and media such as CDs and tapes.) This would effectively give the CRIA no legal grounds to shut down the site. I am a bit suspicious of these claims, and would be very surprised if the CRIA is able to hold up such a position in a court.
[quote comment="173797"]This is rather strange, as Canadian Law recently changed to allowing both upload and download of music. (This is due to a tax imposed on audio players and media such as CDs and tapes.) This would effectively give the CRIA no legal grounds to shut down the site. I am a bit suspicious of these claims, and would be very surprised if the CRIA is able to hold up such a position in a court.[/quote]
The CRIA is not involved, their server just tanked. They have already discussed this on the Demonoid temporary forums.
I hate thi Fu++in’ situation!
I use demonoid a lot, i just can’t belive this!
WTF’r you doin’ Canada??? this NEVER DIES!!!
Hydra lives in EVERYWHERE!!!!!
check out wuforever.com for a huge hip-hop library of direct downloads
“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”
AMEN brother
Fight it Demonoid! We are all behind ya. Demonoid will never be gone. Even if it was, Demonoid will be remember forever because it is a f*cking legend.
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