Demonoid Shuts Down Again
Written by Ernesto on November 09, 2007Demonoid.com, one of the most popular BitTorrent trackers, was forced to go offline again because the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) threatened their ISP.
It’s been just over 6 weeks since the CRIA allegedly shut down the Demonoid BitTorrent tracker. Details were scarce at the time, with lots of people simply claiming the site had some technical or server issues. Indeed, TorrentFreak came in for quite some criticism when we claimed the CRIA was involved, but when the site returned there were some ominous signs which seemed to support our claims.
Eventually, the Demonoid trackers reappeared, followed by the site itself but was forced to block Canadian visitors by the CRIA. However, despite blocking Canadians, it seems the CRIA hasn’t yet had enough of harassing Demonoid and its host.
On Demonoid.com we now read:
“The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding.”
Indeed, Demonoid’s host had previously said that if it had any major hassle, it was likely it could pull the plug on the site.
A message on the Demonoid IRC channel says: “Site is down, tracker is up. Expect the site to return, unless we hear otherwise from Deimos.”
Canada seems to becoming more unfriendly for BitTorrent sites - Demonoid aren’t the only ones being threatened by the recording labels there.
Developing story
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Moving servers to some P2P friendly country? China, Russia? Some small African country?
Demonoid is a great sight. Think for all those great unreleased music / books files that were shared… They were non-existent because those in power that be, decided that it wasn’t marketable anymore. Or simply, they would decide what we should reading or listening too…Long live Demonoid and to those whose shared something that they had paid for, to give to someone else almost free of charge…For this reason file shareing will always continue in some form…Demonoid will be around a little longer…
The Rasta’s were cool enough to know that making weed a religion would pit pit law against politics with God as the judge.
Welcome to the church of Bittorrent.
Looks like I picked a bad day to stop sniffing glue.
DAMN!!!!!
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Show your respect children!!!!!!
The Pirate Bay has served you well
and been an example to us all.
& FREEDOM
FUCK CRIA.
I wonder how many illegal stuff those fuckers from CRIA, have under their tables.
I don,t fucking belive this demonoid gone again
The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding
Fuck the CRIA can,t this site moved it is servers.
Will this site every come back online?
Lost all my torrents on there aswell.
My life revolves around Demonoid :(
[quote comment="207732"]I don,t fucking belive this demonoid gone again
The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding
Fuck the CRIA can,t this site moved it is servers.
Will this site every come back online?
Lost all my torrents on there aswell.[/quote]
Spelling wistakes
http://www.demonoiders.com
[quote comment="207727"]DAMN!!!!!
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Show your respect children!!!!!!
The Pirate Bay has served you well
and been an example to us all.
& FREEDOM[/quote]
very well put,people should watch steal this film, here is a link to watch it now on-line if you have never seen it
http://www.documentary-film.net/search/video-listings.php?e=57
The Children are disrespectful and must be reprimanded.
They do not appreciate the gift until it is gone.
HELL HATH NO FURY!!!!!!
CRIA sucks.
i miss demonoid.com
CRIA sucks!!!!!!
:’C
OMG
this is bull
damn Canada ruin it for everyone else!
why dont they like the site?
as if they make any programs or something freaking hell
Demonoid should be back soon I HOPE
otherwise there is no point in anything anymore
If you guys really want to hurt the CRIA (its the RIAA basically), stop buying CD’s, stop buying downloads from iTunes. When you walk past a music shop, yell out “You guys suck for the CRIA too?”
The server company Demonoid used must totally suck too, whats their name? Give them some really bad press, let’s not allow them the anonymity they are probably hiding under right now!
Come on guys get angry, before you get it up the ass by the recording industry!!
demonoid just get another host and quick!
Demonoid not just a sight but a radical way of exchanging any creative piece from softwares to music,as cliffsearch wrote “they(cria) would decide what we should reading or listening too…”
I’m writing from a poor nation,right now u believe it or not,I’m running a electronic library for the slum children &adult,they read watch things around the world through my p3 computers,most of the materials downloaded from demonoid,reasons,1)I can not afford to buy the so called legal stuff,2)most of the stuff on the stand is mainstream popular shit 3)In general after the globalisation pricing is same around the world,an american or European consumer is not equal to an african or asian consumer but we’ve forced to buy to the standards of rich.
So,demonoid is not a site of promoting piracy rather it’s a place where the knowledge is imparted without disparity(at least in our case).please,people who live in rich nation like Canada or usa… promote torrent sites and don’t support people like CRIA.
Damn… I just hope Demonoid will be back up soon!
dang this time it looks like its for good
fuckin hapens
going by past performance Deimos needs 10 days to find a safe host, order and install the new hardware, configure the system, load the databases, fire it up and test her. and he has a real life too, this cannot have happened at a convenient time
my prayers are with Deimos, whatever anyone says, he has done a great job over the years with demonoid, it is a quality site. more power to you dude
Demonoid should move their servers to the Philippines, where no laws whatsoever against P2P nor active anti-piracy laws
this sucks but this has happened before so it’l most likely be back. i have just spent hours preparing my rave musik torrents for upload, they’l have to wait now. o well. my name is raibndancerob on demonoid.
i guess tho taht i can now work on my complete Rotterdam Records label rip & hopefully be finished by the time that the site comes back online.
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