Re: Demoniod DOA

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

On 9/27/07, Dude VanWinkle <dudevanwinkle () gmail com> wrote:
> Ooh Canada!
>
> http://torrentfreak.com/demonoid-shut-down-by-cria-070925/

Per request for those who's work blocks access to interesting sites:

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.

Demonoid Shut Down by the CRIAAs 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.

Update: The CRIA and Demonoid's ISP refuse to comment to the
allegations, they don't confirm or deny anything.
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