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 discovered demonoid a month ago i found that site to be perfect thus i became a member in 3 very hard days but now demonoid is down sure they may have unlimited resourses but they VS millions and millions of user that will find one or another way to keep going the legacy of FILE Shareing PS if demonoid could build a software like are or limewire then atleast on1 will go shuting them down LONG LIVE DEMONOID
In my opinion, get hosting in China, they obviously dont give a shit about pirated anything, hence why you can get $2 DVDs and CDs
BLAME CANADA!
china filters information.
they would be the WORST place to host a server.
those damn canadians…
se pasaron de verga estos putos culeros pormy que chinguen asu puta madre
stupid ass (CRIA)they should have left demonoid alone… now where am i going going to get many of the fine quality software i used to download from their website.
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WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT)
# Albania
# Argentina
# Armenia
# Azerbaijan
# Bahrain
# Belarus
# Belgium
# Benin
# Botswana
# Bulgaria
# Burkina Faso
# Chile
# Costa Rica
# Croatia
# Cyprus
# Czech Republic
# Dominican Republic
# Ecuador
# El Salvador
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# Honduras
# Hungary
# Jamaica
# Japan
# Jordan
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Total: 59 Countries
WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT)
# Albania
# Argentina
# Armenia
# Azerbaijan
# Bahrain
# Belarus
# Belgium
# Benin
# Botswana
# Bulgaria
# Burkina Faso
# Chile
# Costa Rica
# Croatia
# Cyprus
# Czech Republic
# Dominican Republic
# Ecuador
# El Salvador
# Gabon
# Georgia
# Guatemala
# Guinea
# Honduras
# Hungary
# Jamaica
# Japan
# Jordan
# Kyrgyzstan
# Latvia
# Lithuania
# Mali
# Mexico
# Mongolia
# Nicaragua
# Oman
# Panama
# Paraguay
# Philippines
# Poland
# Qatar
# Republic of Moldova
# Romania
# Saint Lucia
# Senegal
# Serbia and Montenegro
# Singapore
# Slovakia
# Slovenia
# Togo
# Ukraine
# United Arab Emirates
# United States of America
# The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Total: 58 Countries
European Countries
that have implemented WPPT and will ratify en masse
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Total: 16 Countries
CRIA or RIAA or however would have released a coment, by now, if they had done been able to shut the server down. It would be all over the net by now, so this story about CRIA is sounding more like a scam.
I have donated, and I use demonid more than any other torrent index site. There are a lot of good things that you can find only there.
[quote comment="173638"]torrnet freak is gay [/quote]
What the hell is this?
It’s just server issues. Fuck.
#12
Piracy has been around since property in general has been available.
but honestly, isohunt and now this? you damn canucks. lol
RAID SPAM INVADE!
Take these fuckers down!
Filesharing is legal in Canada!
1) It is very unlikely that Demonoid is shut down since the court would have to do that and there has been no hearing or news of such a thing going on in Canada.
2) CRIA has nothing to do with Canada basically it is a bunch of US capitalist.
3) Canada is not a communist country and is far from it…. and no we don’t live in igloos….
4) I think the reason to have a server in Canada is the law and the privacy concerns of the citizens so there is like not much chance of your IPs being checked =)
ok does anyone know another good site for torrents?
also, do you think that this website will come back?
Yes I am American & and I’m Sad to say
FUCK CANADA AY’
[quote comment="173883"]Yes I am American & and I’m Sad to say
FUCK CANADA AY’[/quote]
no offense but you do realize that the U.S is the one against piracy and weed not Canada
We really need Demonius and Torrentfreaks to swap phone numbers so we know what’s really going on.
Unless these morons (aka governments/companies) are willing to hunt down every human being who’s pirated software/content, piracy cannot, nor will it EVER die.
As long as people have the avenue for access (aka the internet) piracy will be available.
The sad part is, which these morons seem to ignore, if you take out the biggest culprit (Demo in this case) at least 6 or 7 new websites pop-up to replace it, which just manifests the ‘problem’ for these agencies.
I remember the days where IRC was a piracy problem, now it’s torrents, piracy will evolve, and the agencies will be way behind, as per usual.
True
But I’m A Drug Crazed Vandal, So Fuck the Police as Well :>
The best way and/or solution to this thing is to find the ’safe haven’. Where? Well, it’s basically pretty easy just buy your own island and make it a country… hmmm… sounds like a game to me… oh well.. that’s all i could think of… Your country, your own law. You’ll be f*cking untouchable there.
Long live the empire… err…
demonoid… XD
Wow - I’m intrigued as to where it says that the CRIA shut it down, because it doesn’t actually say that, does it?
[quote comment="173655"]Toilet Finger: Interesting you would make such a statement, but comment on a website that promotes p2p sharing. Therefore, you must be one of the same md persona that continues to make an assclown out of themselves. Long live p2p and demonoid where movies are often made in better quality than publishing companies.[/quote]
asstunnel*
that is soo gay…..
now i hav to rely on NO SEEDERS ON PIRATEBAY HOW GAY!!!
Long live P2P!!!
I wish someone would update this news story to include the fact that THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT NOR ANY PRIVATE COMPANY HAD ANY PART IN THE DOWNTIME OF DEMONOID. They should also include the fact that THE DOWNTIME IS A RESULT OF A HARDWARE FAILURE, MOST LIKELY A DISK FAILURE.
Stop saying they’ve been raided.
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