Demonoid down
p2pnet news | P2P:- The CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association of America), Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s RIAA clown (sorry, clone), is noted more for its failures, which are legion, than its successes, which are few.
However, it may have scored against BitTorrent tracker Demonoid.
Says Torrentfreak over in The Netherlands >>>
Demonoid.com, one of the most popular BitTorrent trackers has allegedly been taken offline by the 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 isn’t 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.
Definitely stay tuned.
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September 26th, 2007 at 2:12 pm
Futile, the internet machine cannot die. Plug a hole, hundreds appear.
September 26th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
Dang… my favorite torrent site too.
September 26th, 2007 at 6:22 pm
P2P apps to the RIAA and MPAA ……”You WILL be assimilated….resistance is futile!”
September 26th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
Very nice reporting..considering the guy who wrote that ahs admitted int eh Demonoid IRC channel to it being complete conjecture. Really, try to keep up.
September 26th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
At least Suprnova is coming back up…
September 26th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
yeah the story is bogus as far as im concerned. the cria has no clout in canada. its own musicans dont like the cria. and torrentbox was never offline. they just blocked us users from gaining access.
everyone knows the first news site to say something about it is gonna be quoted by every other site and there fore make them gain more attention. after the truth comes out no one will care that torrentfreak just made up the story.
if a few people stay with torrentfreak and read their news then they succeded.
(cat ate my shift)
September 26th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
Demonoid: relocate to Iran
September 26th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
Coincidence that Halo 3 was released about the time Demonoid went down – Microsoft pressure?
September 26th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
Microsoft pressure? No.
Demonoid admins PLAYING too much Halo 3 ignoring their servers? Possibly…
September 27th, 2007 at 3:08 am
i just think its hella convenient about a week after media defender gets hacked demonoid goes down.
September 27th, 2007 at 5:20 am
halo 3 sucks ……………. first person shooters suck………… they are all the same…….. demonoid being down wont increase sales of halo..
MediaDefender……. Now thats a different story………. A lot of trackers/torrent sites have been attacked recently . tactics include—-
DDOS attacks to flood the tracker and server making them slow and unusable.
Threats of law suites for hosting and tracking torrents.
Threats to isp’s.
Fake files.
Fake files that are very popular and redirect lots of trafic, to target a specific server and slow/shut it down.
Slander and lies about the loss occured by the copyright holers via torrents.
MEDIADEFENDER Sucks ………….
The copyright owners shouldnt listen to them…………
September 27th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
No one is safe from anything. I doubt even the Netherlands is safe anymore. But they seem to forget no matter what gets closed down more pop up. what they gunna muder da net I doubt it.
September 28th, 2007 at 7:17 am
I’ve read on wikipedia this morning that Deimos(admin of demonoid) has died from massive head trauma as a result of a automobile accident and the servers were shutdown indefinitely! and the reason there wasn’t any info posted at the demonoid site was because Deimos had exclusive access to any changes. but then I went back to wikipedia to copy the info to paste here and it had been removed. so who knows
September 29th, 2007 at 6:37 am
An unverified IRC chat was posted at The Circuit Box, which claims to be a discussion between a TorrentFreak reporter and a Demonoid staff member. This was released approximately 18 hours after the site went offline:
“Ok folks, here it is. Demonoid is down. It has been for around 2 day (sic) almost. The reason it is down is unknown, and is still unknown. It HASN’T I repeat HASN’T been RAIDed, shutdown, terminated, deleted, burned, mamed (sic), or thrown under a bridge.”[7]
As of Saturday, September 29, 2007 at 4:34:09 AM GMT, the Demonoid trackers are working, although the site is still offline.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonoid_(BitTorrent)
September 30th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
I just got off the Demonoid site and this is what is posted:
“The latest changes to the site are giving us some problems – We’ll be back soon”
October 2nd, 2007 at 9:07 pm
I’m sure all those torrents for Anne Murray songs and Tommy Hunter Lp’s on Demonoid were at the heart of the CRIA’s legal briefs. All their hot-shot young lawyers probably passed the bar on torrented legal books. Why is a Canadian court giving legal standing to an American (CRIA) oganization? Last time I checked SOCAN collected royalties for Canadian artists in Canada.
November 13th, 2007 at 12:38 am
What I don’t get is what does CRIA have to do with the states??? I know the RIAA probably wants them down, but why shut everyone out if even they haven’t stepped in yet?
Deimos – you’re in my prayers!
November 13th, 2007 at 12:40 am
btw – what about antarctica, greenland, iceland, north pole??? Canada can’t be too much warmer than ‘em, eh?