Hello, i own a warez site and here is the real story: 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 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.
Yeah, I've been trying to access it for the last few days and haven't been successful. I hope it returns, it was a good website.
Yay some news I SPOTTED IT FIRST!! Says the site So maybe they rnt gone forever.... yippy Wonder if it wasn't even a legal issue... and sumone was stirring the pot.... anywho hope they get fixed soon
Why are you doubting it? The site came back online for a few hours and the latest post explained the downtime was due to legal issues with the CRIA, and they had to block all Canadian users from demonoid.
i think they should move to sweden... i read somewhere under swedish laws its legal...since Piratebay is also hosted there.. and is doing good just wish demonoid came back online soon...
i saw sumthing on the news that there are countries starting to fued cos some allow pirated content wheras some dont.