Prawker Posted September 25, 2007 Share Posted September 25, 2007 Allegedly, the CRIA has taken demonoid down, the site and tracker have been unresponsive for almost 24 hours. The Demonoid server is still pinging, but the ISP could have firewalled everything after they received some serious legal threats. http://torrentfreak.com/demonoid-shut-down-by-cria-070925/ Edit: It seems the link is going on and off, so here is a screen shot just incase: http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/6712/picture1oh5.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lkr Posted September 25, 2007 Share Posted September 25, 2007 damn canadians Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyhighmac Posted September 25, 2007 Share Posted September 25, 2007 Thanks. I was wondering why I couldn't get there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted September 25, 2007 Share Posted September 25, 2007 Can't access Demonoid either. Aren't they gonna put up some violation notice so we know whats going on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tha_toadman Posted September 25, 2007 Share Posted September 25, 2007 damn, damn, damn! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted September 25, 2007 Share Posted September 25, 2007 The green demon is essential, especially for osx86 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numberzz Posted September 25, 2007 Share Posted September 25, 2007 It is true that demonoid did host a lot of illegal files. But is there a law that says that the Canadians can just shut down a website like that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apowerr Posted September 25, 2007 Share Posted September 25, 2007 Demonoids down? IM A SPLODE!11!111!!1!!1 After I finish seeding uphuck 1.4a (7 GB up!!!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted September 25, 2007 Share Posted September 25, 2007 numberz, Canadians can shut it down because the Demonoid servers are stationed in Canada (they were moved from New Zealand). Canada itself didn't shut it down. It pressured Demonoids ISP to close Demonoid. Didn't you read the article... ^ ^ noob ( Sweet payback) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwhsh8r Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 OH NOES D: :'( rip demonoid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numberzz Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 numberz, Canadians can shut it down because the Demonoid servers are stationed in Canada (they were moved from New Zealand). Canada itself didn't shut it down. It pressured Demonoids ISP to close Demonoid. Didn't you read the article... ^ ^ noob ( Sweet payback) Oh, I get it. Demonoid's ISP shut them down. Why would Canada shut Demonoid down? No, I did not read the article. ^^ n00b Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myzrael Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 Dammit dammit dammit dammit dammit!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayanami Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 Not cool.... Not cool at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 numberz, Wanna stop the n00b war or do you want to keep it going, ^ ^ n00b ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numberzz Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 Yeah, real mature buddy. Too bad really, if it gets shut down permanently, we will have to find a place to put most of our OSX86 DMGs. I hope to God that is not the Bay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prawker Posted September 26, 2007 Author Share Posted September 26, 2007 Update: As of Tuesday, 25th September 2007, Demonoid is down, with no prior warnings from any moderators of the site. Both the main torrent page and the forum (fora) are no longer accessible. It is still possible to ping and trace the IP address of the site and it locates itself as in Canada. As of 6:45pm EST on 9-25-07, SSH and SMTP services are no longer active. Torrentfreak.com has since reported this is due to legal actions from the CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association) who ordered Demonoid's ISP to shut down the site. Update Sept 26 01:03 GMT - Demonoid not shut down, just an un-scheduled rebuild. (Posted to Demonoid IRC channel, and re-posted at zeropaid.com) Anti-Piracy Organization Tries to Shut Down Demonoid However, the current downtime of Demonoid has nothing to do with legal actions, but with hardware issues. The Demonoid team says they are currently replacing harddrives, and that it could take a few days before the site is back up. The timeline given indicated that this is more than a regular hardware update. The downtime is probably caused by harddrive failure. The official announcement in the Demonoid IRC channel is: “Site offline for a few days while harddrives get replaced” At this point it is still uncertain if any data is permanently lost or how long it will take to get things up and running. According to one of the admins It looks like the most recent data is lost for good. The good news is that there are backups, but these are a few days old. Luckily the Demonoid trackers are not affected by the downtime. Demonoid is still one of the most used trackers, any downtime of the tracker will make thousands of torrents unusable in clients without DHT and multi-tracker support. Update: Demonoid placed this message on the frontpage: We had a system problem which will force us to restore everything from backup. The disks are pretty much empty right now and until we are able to upload the backup and set up everything up, we have to close down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numberzz Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 Yeah... they probably should have warned people, with Torrentfreak being shut down at the same time. Good job Demonoid Mods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlmorg Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 Has anyone talked to the demonoid mods? Seems like everyone is coming up with their own stories... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macmaniac Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 There was absolutely no mention of the CRIA (or any other entity) applying pressure to shut down Demonoid in the Canadian Press. Surely, if CRIA was successful in this regard, they would be beating their chests, and shouting from the rooftops. Perhaps this "maintainence" was unscheduled, hence the lack of warning. We should give the demon-mods a break. I bet they're busting their asses getting the site up and running. Vive le Canada! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyle elkins Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 UGHH and i had been trying to get an invite.... i was wanting to test out one of the latest leopard builds.... oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special-K Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 holy {censored} that was the worst news i heard until it was all cleared up phew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Envying Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 Here is bad news for TPB http://www.computerworld.com/action/articl...rc=news_ts_head Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soündless Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 looks like those guys who offer demonid invites for oink ones are out of luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeezoflip Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 wow. now how am i supposed to get osx86 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numberzz Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 Here is bad news for TPB http://www.computerworld.com/action/articl...rc=news_ts_head Well, it is not really trouble for The Pirate Bay. I mean, for once, the torrent distributor is actually suing another company. It will be very interesting to see how this turns out. You might even see something on the front page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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