Demonoid Shut Down by the CRIA?
Written by Ernesto on September 25, 2007

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.

 

That sucks, bit torrent is such a great thing..

 

Oink is better for music but CRAP...Demonoid is the shizzle for movies and apps and EVERYTHING...

 

yeah there's still rumors floating around that their servers are just down... no chance that's true?

 

Private trackers FTW!!!!

 

That's happened before, but the trackers are on different servers so it have to be a BIG failure. btjunkie.org is rocking for sure during the downtime.

 

Hopefully it'll be up and going sooner than later. I just tried torrentbox and its still up and going which is sweet cause thats where I get my axxo releases.

 

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! damn...ever since X hooked it up, demonoid has been heaven...

 

Doesn't it work to have your own island country? What's the bittorrent tracker that is on it's own island? I forget...

 

what the hell is demanoid?