Red_Knight
26/9/07 08:54:36 PM
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From http://torrentfreak.com/demonoid-shut-down-by-cria-070925/
Demonoid.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.
Bugger! We'll just have to wait and see if Demonoid pops up in another country any time soon.
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lew~
26/9/07 08:59:54 PM
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Damn. :(
I never really considered Canada might be a safe haven for trackers... Just seems an odd choice. -----
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confined
26/9/07 09:00:14 PM
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'twas not a bad tracker, but it was very public and I can't really say I am suprised that this has happened.
Thems the breaks when you're in the bittorrent business. -----
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tantryl
26/9/07 09:15:24 PM
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It'll be back.
They always come back. -----
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morgoth
26/9/07 09:29:32 PM
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Just like Napster.......
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iamthemaxx
26/9/07 10:11:55 PM
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Bastards. -----
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Midnighter
26/9/07 10:32:24 PM
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Quote by iamthemaxx
Bastards.
What he said. -----
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aliali
27/9/07 12:14:23 AM
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I hear the West Indies is nice most of the year, perhaps move there?
Oh anyone had a look at ISOhunts homepage of late? makes a bit of interesting reading.
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confined
27/9/07 12:23:55 AM
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Quote by aliali
I hear the West Indies is nice most of the year, perhaps move there?
Oh anyone had a look at ISOhunts homepage of late? makes a bit of interesting reading.
Interesting...
To quote the main page of isoHunt:
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. -----
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pwarren
27/9/07 12:00:10 PM
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And you trust torrentfreak?
From the demonoid IRC:
"Ok folks, here it is. Demonoid is down. It has been for around 1 day 2 hours. The reason is down is unkown. It hasnt been RAIDed, shutdown, terminated, deleted, burned, mamed, or thrown under a bridge. There have been speculation as demonoid.com whereabouts. Well the rurmors are false. A no name site in Netherlands has a blog about Demonoid.com being down. As I don't speak douche, I can not translate. However TorrentFreak Decided upon there own free will to further spread this and rumors. Torrent freak has known to be a sleazy site they post false rumors and hope they turn out true. They do this in order for money and popularity. Quite sad isn't it. To prove this is quite easy..."
It's a shame that slashdot got hold of this and posted it on the front page before checking the facts.
I've also heard that the problem was crashed disks, which meant the demonoid site (and others) have to be reloaded from backups. -----
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Errorist
27/9/07 12:33:26 PM
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It better be back soon...
Anybody have much success with using Usenet newsgroups to get the latest 0-day releases for comics?
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NeoDaemon69
27/9/07 03:03:09 PM
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Quote by pwarren
As I don't speak douche, I can not translate.
PMSL...
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lew~
27/9/07 03:56:33 PM
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Quote by NeoDaemon69
Quote by pwarren
As I don't speak douche, I can not translate.
PMSL...
I believe its spelt Dutch :P
*whooooosh*? :P
Quote by pwarren
And you trust torrentfreak?
Never had a reason not to!
But I feel my comment still stands, why Canada? I would've thought Sweden would be a better choice... -----
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NeoDaemon69
27/9/07 04:09:27 PM
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Quote by lew~
Quote by NeoDaemon69
Quote by pwarren
As I don't speak douche, I can not translate.
PMSL...
I believe its spelt Dutch :P
*whooooosh*? :P
This might help, http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Douche -----
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lew~
27/9/07 06:04:29 PM
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Quote by NeoDaemon69
Quote by lew~
Quote by NeoDaemon69
Quote by pwarren
As I don't speak douche, I can not translate.
PMSL...
I believe its spelt Dutch :P
*whooooosh*? :P
This might help, http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Douche
I still can't figure out if you got the joke or not. I'm so confused :( -----
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mattsk88
28/9/07 10:13:38 PM
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Hmm this closure is going to inconvenience alot of people -----
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chatmaster
29/9/07 12:04:40 AM
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Yeah doing that is really going to stop all the internet piracy.
Its a cover up for something else, theres another reason why this site was specifically targeted. -----
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tantryl
29/9/07 12:11:00 AM
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Quote by chatmaster
Yeah doing that is really going to stop all the internet piracy.
Its a cover up for something else, theres another reason why this site was specifically targeted.
It was the Nazi Jews, eh? I KNEW IT! -----
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Red_Knight
29/9/07 01:44:19 AM
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Wow! over 3600 reads?!
chatmaster: Would you like to give anymore details as to why you think Demonoid was specifically targeted?
Go on, amuse me!
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tantryl
29/9/07 01:47:00 AM
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Quote by Red_Knight
Wow! over 3600 reads?!
Short explanation: http://www.google.com.au/search?q=demonoid+shut+down -----
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