Zeus_Hunt Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 Demonoid.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.Demonoid is the Second biggest tracker on the net. View : Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toyo Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 “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.”This is a huge blow :blink:Sadly, it is worse as it does not even suggest that this is temporary, you can understand from this it is permanent. As it was the main international tracker for me, and I'm sure it was for countless other people, Demonoid did a very good job. I hope they find a way and move their stuff for good from Canada. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dllhost Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 F*ck :blink: There is many many files that r only on demonoid and even mininova doesn't have it ;(I think deimos got really big problems with all the demonoid site :PDeimos we all with u !! Hang on there :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jc5u Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 In the meantime everybody is chilling in the official channel:irc://irc.p2p-network.net/#demonoidFrom the IRC channel:“Site is down, tracker is up. Expect the site to return, unless we hear otherwise from Deimos.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myidisbb Posted November 10, 2007 Share Posted November 10, 2007 F*ck :blink: There is many many files that r only on demonoid and even mininova doesn't have it ;(I think deimos got really big problems with all the demonoid site :PDeimos we all with u !! Hang on there :blink:where was ther servers at anyway?awww this goes back to one of my orginal thoughs of the future of bit trackers. they need to post them on one of the newsgroup rooms. that would keep them safe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zer0buRn Posted November 10, 2007 Share Posted November 10, 2007 Sad news indeed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jc5u Posted November 10, 2007 Share Posted November 10, 2007 where was ther servers at anyway?awww this goes back to one of my orginal thoughs of the future of bit trackers. they need to post them on one of the newsgroup rooms. that would keep them safeDemonoid rents its servers from a Canadian company, hence the problem with the Canadian Recording Industry Association. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myidisbb Posted November 10, 2007 Share Posted November 10, 2007 where was ther servers at anyway?awww this goes back to one of my orginal thoughs of the future of bit trackers. they need to post them on one of the newsgroup rooms. that would keep them safeDemonoid rents its servers from a Canadian company, hence the problem with the Canadian Recording Industry Association.so its like kazaa fasttrack & their website australians not allow to access.so if a canadian used a sat internet they could get around it.wait a freaken minute what about the cdr and other taxes they pay for rolaties on copyright items? that is suppose to make up/down loading okay over there. seems to me someone is stealing and its not the people Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jc5u Posted November 10, 2007 Share Posted November 10, 2007 #demonoid Update.... well sort of.Site is down, tracker is intermittent (sometimes up, sometimes down), No Current ETA is known. That is all we know...DON'T ASK | Alternate forums at www.demonoiders.com. Expect the site to return, unless we hear otherwise from Deimos.No pertinent information on alternate forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooldude7273 Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 My demonoid... :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeus_Hunt Posted November 12, 2007 Author Share Posted November 12, 2007 Around the same time that the CRIA successfully took Demonoid offline, the Canadian police made clear that Demonoid’s users don’t have to worry about getting caught, at least not in Canada.According to the Canadian police it is impossible to track down everyone who downloads music or movies off the Internet. The police simply does not have the time nor the resources to go after filesharers.“Piracy for personal use is no longer targeted,” Noël St-Hilaire, head of copyright theft investigations of the Canadian police, said in an interview with Le Devoir. “It is too easy to copy these days and we do not know how to stop it,” he added.St-Hilaire explained that they rather focus on crimes that actually hurt consumers such as copyright violations related to medicine and electrical appliances.A wise decision, especially since we now know that filesharing has absolutely no impact on music sales. On the contrary, a recent study found that the more music people download on P2P-networks, the more CDs they buy.Original ArticleMan I am relieved :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marke68 Posted November 12, 2007 Share Posted November 12, 2007 :angry: Its looking like the only countries left that are safe for torrent sites to host there servers is russia and sweden,it seems that holland and canada are now anti p2p so there are very few safe host countries anymore.. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SokraT Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 OMG ;) ,i miss that demonoid ;) . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dock98 Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 a very unfortunate predicament for file sharers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cesarbtu Posted November 25, 2007 Share Posted November 25, 2007 Demonoid.com volta por favor chega de repressão do mundo da musica e video!!!!!!!!BRASIL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoKz Posted November 26, 2007 Share Posted November 26, 2007 Demonoid.com volta por favor chega de repressão do mundo da musica e video!!!!!!!!BRASIL...ok its still down lol :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frogger Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 theres no other site with their variety, and almost everything was seeded!so many ebooks that will never be downloaded again :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archaven Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 Really sad indeed. Demonoid was one of my best site that i joined quite early. That's the consequences of a site going too popular :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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