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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonoid_(BitTorrent)#Current_Shutdown
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.
Fuck you Canada.
Good riddance to Demonoid. It got watched by feds anyway. ;)
No wonder my torrent is in blue state...rofl
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
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
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.
Ahahahaha, fucking shit on.
Demonoid was only good for old shit anyway. 0day trackers are where it's at. Oh, and OiNK.
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.
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.
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.
Currently, I get:
QuoteThe latest changes to the site are giving us some problems - We'll be back soon
Quote from: Screenor 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.
OiNK is better than 0day; they've got shit weeks before it comes out. They're negative-day.
Fuck...Fuck...Fuck...
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. If you reside in Canada, that is the reason you are being redirected to this message. Thanks for your understanding, and sorry for any inconvenience.
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lol @ Candian
That's lame!
But is also easy to get around. :)
yay deminoid works now...
Quote from: iago on October 02, 2007, 09:26:29 AM
That's lame!
But is also easy to get around. :)
Exactly... ;)
Do the trackers block Canadian IP addresses? It's rather difficult to get around that.
Quote from: Camel on October 02, 2007, 12:42:30 PM
Do the trackers block Canadian IP addresses? It's rather difficult to get around that.
Some bittorent clients such as Azureus support proxies.
What the hell? I can't access the website, but I'm definitely not Canadian. :p
Quote from: Blaze on October 02, 2007, 02:15:18 PM
Some bittorent clients such as Azureus support proxies.
What I meant was that you can't tell the client to only connect through the proxy to talk to the tracker (because the swarm will determine that you are an intruder when it sees the IP address mismatch). Only applies to private torrents, though.
Quote from: deadly7 on October 02, 2007, 02:36:19 PM
What the hell? I can't access the website, but I'm definitely not Canadian. :p
Shouldn't you be at school? :P
Quote from: Killer360 on October 02, 2007, 02:55:40 PM
Shouldn't you be at school? :P
He's in college. His schedule has a bit more time in the middle. :P
More like Tuesdays I finish at 10AM.
Really? Wow. I thought you were like 16..
Quote from: Killer360 on October 02, 2007, 05:03:05 PM
Really? Wow. I thought you were like 16..
He is 16 (just turned 16, in fact). He's a clever fellow!
I'm not completely familiar with the program, but he earns his high school diploma while concurrently gaining college credit, meaning he'll have a degree when he's 20, I think?
Ahh, that's pretty cool.
What a hacker.