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Offline Killer360

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Demonoid shutdown
« on: September 25, 2007, 08:06:34 pm »
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 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.

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.
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Re: Demonoid shutdown
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2007, 08:36:09 pm »
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Re: Demonoid shutdown
« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2007, 08:42:46 pm »
How come every time a tracker goes down, everyone thinks it has to do with a takedown?

Tracking sites always run to safe countries before they go to court. Always.
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Re: Demonoid shutdown
« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2007, 08:49:16 pm »
Fuck you Canada.

Good riddance to Demonoid. It got watched by feds anyway. ;)
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Quote from: CrAz3D on June 30, 2008, 10:38:22 am
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Re: Demonoid shutdown
« Reply #4 on: September 25, 2007, 09:40:26 pm »
No wonder my torrent is in blue state...rofl
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Re: Demonoid shutdown
« Reply #5 on: September 25, 2007, 09:54:18 pm »
Quote from: Newby on September 25, 2007, 08:49:16 pm
Fuck you Canada.

Good riddance to Demonoid. It got watched by feds anyway. ;)
i had to learn that the hard way
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Re: Demonoid shutdown
« Reply #6 on: September 26, 2007, 12:17:41 am »
Quote from: Newby on September 25, 2007, 08:49:16 pm
Fuck you Canada.
I think you missed the part about the CRIA being a rumour. :P
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Re: Demonoid shutdown
« Reply #7 on: September 26, 2007, 09:36:51 am »
Quote from: iago on September 26, 2007, 12:17:41 am
Quote from: Newby on September 25, 2007, 08:49:16 pm
Fuck you Canada.
I think you missed the part about the CRIA being a rumour. :P

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Quote from: Rule on June 30, 2008, 01:13:20 pm
Quote from: CrAz3D on June 30, 2008, 10:38:22 am
I'd bet that you're currently bloated like a water ballon on a hot summer's day.

That analogy doesn't even make sense.  Why would a water balloon be especially bloated on a hot summer's day? For your sake, I hope there wasn't too much logic testing on your LSAT. 

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Re: Demonoid shutdown
« Reply #8 on: September 26, 2007, 12:22:23 pm »
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Re: Demonoid shutdown
« Reply #9 on: September 30, 2007, 05:10:20 pm »
It's back up you bunch of girls.
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We received a letter from a lawyer represeting the CRIA, they were threatening with legal action and we need to start blocking Canadian traffic because of this.

Thanks for your understanding, and sorry for any inconvenience.
Haha, Canadians.
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Re: Demonoid shutdown
« Reply #10 on: September 30, 2007, 05:12:33 pm »
Ahahahaha, fucking shit on.
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[17:32:54] * xar sets mode: +o newby
[17:32:58] <xar> new rule
[17:33:02] <xar> me and newby rule all

Quote from: Rule on June 30, 2008, 01:13:20 pm
Quote from: CrAz3D on June 30, 2008, 10:38:22 am
I'd bet that you're currently bloated like a water ballon on a hot summer's day.

That analogy doesn't even make sense.  Why would a water balloon be especially bloated on a hot summer's day? For your sake, I hope there wasn't too much logic testing on your LSAT. 

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Re: Demonoid shutdown
« Reply #11 on: September 30, 2007, 06:01:12 pm »
Demonoid was only good for old shit anyway. 0day trackers are where it's at. Oh, and OiNK.
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Re: Demonoid shutdown
« Reply #12 on: October 01, 2007, 12:19:41 pm »
Quote from: Ergot on September 30, 2007, 05:10:20 pm
It's back up you bunch of girls.
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Downtime

We received a letter from a lawyer represeting the CRIA, they were threatening with legal action and we need to start blocking Canadian traffic because of this.

Thanks for your understanding, and sorry for any inconvenience.
Haha, Canadians.
Whatever, my ISP prolly won't block it. Some ISP's here in Canada block torrent traffic, but mine doesn't.
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Re: Demonoid shutdown
« Reply #13 on: October 01, 2007, 12:29:10 pm »
Quote from: Killer360 on October 01, 2007, 12:19:41 pm
Whatever, my ISP prolly won't block it. Some ISP's here in Canada block torrent traffic, but mine doesn't.

I think the order was for demonoid to block Canadian ISPs, not the other way around.
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Re: Demonoid shutdown
« Reply #14 on: October 01, 2007, 12:30:45 pm »
Quote from: Sidoh on October 01, 2007, 12:29:10 pm
Quote from: Killer360 on October 01, 2007, 12:19:41 pm
Whatever, my ISP prolly won't block it. Some ISP's here in Canada block torrent traffic, but mine doesn't.

I think the order was for demonoid to block Canadian ISPs, not the other way around.
Oh.. I see.
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