CRIA allegedly shuts down Demonoid

Demonoid, the very popular torrent tracker, has allegedly been taken down by CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association) as users have noticed that both the tracker and the website have been down for at least the last 24 hours.

Although Demonoid and CRIA have yet to deny or confirm the reports it is definitely a possibility that Demonoid's new Canadian ISP shut the site down after being pressured by CRIA. Recently, the ISP said it would pull the plug on Demonoid if it received complaints.

This would be the second time in recent memory that Demonoid has had major downtime, the last time being when it was still based in the Netherlands. The Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN asked the web host Leaseweb to take Demonoid down and hand over the admin's personal information but Demonoid relocated to Canada before anything could come of it.

It seems likely now that Demonoid will have to relocate again, or stay offline and be another huge blow to the BitTorrent community.

Source:
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Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 25 Sep 2007 19:50

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81 comments

Creddly

OH DEAR GOD NO!!!

26.9.2007 08:37 #1

dsgtrain

Is this the end for Demonoid??

26.9.2007 08:49 #2

thekingo7

I was kind of wondering where they went, well I have the feeling this isn't the end of Demonoid. They will figure out somthing.

26.9.2007 08:56 #3

sk8flawzz

this is just a RUMOR
i think the source was their IRC, but the demonoid staff said one of their website HDD's crashed..something like that, and that it'd be a few days to get her up and running again

26.9.2007 10:00 #4

pcanisius

I just hope they dont bend over and take it like some other tracker sites have, I hope the make the smart descion and go for one of the last safe places left, Sweden.

26.9.2007 10:01 #5

joonbugg

Yeah, I have also heard that Sweden is a safehaven for torrent trackers. Im sure there are other safehavens as well. Hopefully its just a hard drive crash. Long live Demonoid!

26.9.2007 10:39 #6

2tough4u

Host in Iran!

26.9.2007 11:45 #7

dikdimond

I hope it IS only technical difficulties,and that they will be up soon...by far one the best P2P sites...

26.9.2007 12:41 #8

vinny13

Ahh!

I had a good ratio too! 2.85 or around there... It's like the Apple store for my iMac but better because everything is free! I trust that site too...

I hope it's a dead HDD or somethin', because I depend on that site lol

26.9.2007 12:43 #9

morguex

Originally posted by Creddly: OH DEAR GOD NO!!!You took the words outta my mouth.
Hopefully it is just a broken HD.

Say a little prayer for demonoid all.

Peace all

26.9.2007 12:55 #10

webe123

Demonoid has come back before...no reason to expect they won't this time.

26.9.2007 13:13 #11

PeaInAPod

A bit of text I just found thats supposedly from Demonoids IRC Channel...
http://diggdl.googlepages.com/demonoid

26.9.2007 13:33 #12

amf0802

Yeah, I trusted that site so much......anyone know of any other similar trackers?

26.9.2007 13:58 #13

DoomLight

yeah i liked demonoid cause i could find non fake crap on there. this sucks

least we got mininova.... for now

26.9.2007 17:58 #14

hikaricor

false

26.9.2007 19:18 #15

WierdName

The key word most people seems to be missing is "allegedly."

26.9.2007 20:20 #16

Creddly

It's bad if it goes, but we have to remember something else will come along. There's a new type of internet coming soon that will succeed Broadband, speeds will be faster, etc.

Who knows what new P2P methods will come? All I know is, there is ALWAYS a new P2P software/site/method that comes along and there always will.

They will never stop it.

But I just love Demonoid so much because it has EVERYTHING (Except porn, but who cares, that's everywhere?) !!!

26.9.2007 22:01 #17

Ticksy

Terrible news.

Hope Demonoid is up and running soon. Good luck to them.

27.9.2007 01:51 #18

hughjars

Hmmmm, it's been a few days now.

I hope they get back up and running soon.......otherwise I'll just have to use one of the other several hundred (thousand?) torrent sites out there.

Picking on the more 'high-profile' torrent sites is nothing more than posturing, they aren't stopping a thing.

All this type of idioic counter-productive posing does is harden the resolve of the sharers.

27.9.2007 03:10 #19

creaky

some info here - http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_jump.cfm/566087/3425228

27.9.2007 04:34 #20

Granola

What a bummer. I've been a member of the demonoid community for years, and this is a serious blow....And yes, there are other torrent sites out there, but none of them regulated the torrent quality like demonoid. It also served as a community for people to exchange ideas and requests, and to educate people on how to properly rip, encode, and up various forms of media.

27.9.2007 08:58 #21

ZippyDSM

I guess another one got shot down eh?

27.9.2007 16:42 #22

ShoeBark

Figures. This comes two weeks after I get a handle.

URRGHH!

I'm too lazy to ponder a witty signature at the moment. ;)

27.9.2007 18:20 #23

Granola

There is a post on the other thread that is linked by creaky saying that there is a server drive down and they are working to fix it. It should be back in about 3 days....around 9/29 or 9/30. This info is from a member here who apparently knows some info from IRC. I hope this is correct, and the CRIA hype is a myth.

27.9.2007 21:26 #24

Alexe84

Is this the end of another era for Demonoid?. Is this the end which sweet bliss fails, and vegetates to the never ending horror?

Well, if may be, I had been a user for at least two years, and it will be disappointing, to say the least. I found the torrent site, to be very useful, and accommodating :(

Thanks.

28.9.2007 06:09 #25

DragonRM

Yeah... Pretty sure the CRIA thing is crap either way... if they had managed to get something shut down, they'd be broadcasting it everywhere they could in an official capacity. Will be nice to have them back up an running :)

28.9.2007 12:19 #26

morguex

Granola is right, I found Demonoid was best for having quality products, unlike some other sites who would let morons upload supposed dvd rips only to find out later that it was just a piece o crap cam movie converted to vob files.(and no, not everyone provides samples)
WEll it's been 2 days plus now for demonoid, I really miss em.

Peace all

28.9.2007 12:28 #27

Creddly

I agree, it feels as though something is missing from my life.

I hope they're back up soon.

I might even take up a religion and start praying for it to come back.

28.9.2007 12:41 #28

gbswales

Amongst other things the torrent community preserves old recordings that the recording industry have consigned to the basement and refuse to publish any more - simply because they cannot meet today's "quality standards" - that is quality in terms of electronics not musical quality. I am afraid copyright lasts far too long to protect authors and artistes many of whom are dead long before the copyright runs out - handed on to family or businesses who did nothing towards creating the work. I personally feel that 20 years is long enough for any copyright - if the artiste, or more usually commercial conglomerate, hasnt made their money from it by then maybe it wasnt that good in the first place.

28.9.2007 13:46 #29

D40

It's no big deal. At worst, even if the authorities managed to shut down all P2P, the people would just revert to the way we did it in the old days. We would form a share group of about fifty people. Then we would all pitch in to buy one copy of what ever movie or software everyone wanted. Then we would make copies for everyone that contributed. On top of that, everyone that got a copy would then make copies for their friends, usually for free. They will never get it through their thick heads that there is no practical way to stop people from sharing. LOL!!!
If they were smart and really wanted to stop P2P they would reduce their outrageous prices to the point where people would not go to the trouble of downloading anything.

28.9.2007 14:23 #30

juaneryle

Oh well, it was a good run for Demonoid. Nothing last forever. There will be other P2P's popping up. But I doubt they will match the quality of Demonoid.

28.9.2007 17:44 #31

slacker1

looks like the tracker is back up as my arrows just turned blue!!! all we need now is the site to come back up

28.9.2007 20:36 #32

philraz

mine too !

28.9.2007 21:24 #33

SyfeKS

oh i hope it's fake. it would suck trying to get another handle esle where

28.9.2007 21:53 #34

borhan9

Lets just hope they relocate.

28.9.2007 22:25 #35

kjbcstar

good spot slacker1 - Demonoid seems to be back in some form

28.9.2007 23:34 #36

gojet

ah well plenty more fish in the sea as they say

28.9.2007 23:37 #37

VioletHue

I have been using Demonoid for several months. The other BT sites just give me a headache. Demonoid is so pleasant to browse, search, and upload to, it really has a nice user interface. I can set preferences to only show English torrents. And the comments posted by downloaders will quickly show if a torrent is real, fake, or has some other problem. Sometimes the poster will fix problems that the downloaders find with the uploads.

I am sorely missing Demonoid and I wish some of the other tracker sites would copy some of Demonoid's user interface features.

29.9.2007 02:10 #38

ahiah9

You know, I really agree with VioletHue. Demonoid is a very good example of what the "community" should be. Glad to see it's getting back up.

29.9.2007 03:04 #39

vinny13

I also agree. I've saved a lot of money within the last couple months because of demonoid...

$250+ for CS3? Screw that.

29.9.2007 08:15 #40

thekingo7

Originally posted by ahiah9: You know, I really agree with VioletHue. Demonoid is a very good example of what the "community" should be. Glad to see it's getting back up.What do you meaning "getting back up"? No one has said anything about it coming back.

29.9.2007 08:32 #41

SyfeKS

the site wasn't up this morning. i hope by least 9pm my time i guess.

i aslo argee with VioletHue

29.9.2007 10:15 #42

mea2214

IIRC it was mid December 2004 when Demonoid went down for over a month and didn't come back until late January. I think that's when they moved their servers to the Netherlands. That was right before the MPAA took down that Lokitorrent web site amongst others. I'm not too worried about Demonoid.

29.9.2007 12:32 #43

edsrouter

Trackers are definitely back online according to here. Of course torrentfreak is the one that started the rumor to begin with.

29.9.2007 14:18 #44

banmrk

There is an update about Demon, via this link, was suprised to see it was no on here.

http://torrentfreak.com/demonoid-trackers-back-online-070929/

29.9.2007 15:05 #45

VioletHue

Demonoid is UP!!!

See what >150GB of quality MP3s look like:
http://www.violethue.com/Music%20Lists/mymusiclist.htm

30.9.2007 09:44 #46

creaky

7.10.2007 21:40 #66

r0cket

LOL, yeah so I hear but that's all foreign to me. I know nothing about setting that up or how about going to use it.

9.10.2007 09:57 #67

mjfouline

AH torrents suck anyway

just use newshroups or dare i say.

Forumw.org

OMG a better thing then torrents

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9.10.2007 10:07 #68

morguex

twice in here I have seen "No invite trading"

Maybe i'm confused, but giving someone an invite code for free, dosen't seem like trading to me, and if i did give someone an invite code it would be done in a PM.

9.10.2007 11:39 #69

creaky

Originally posted by morguex: twice in here I have seen "No invite trading"

Maybe i'm confused, but giving someone an invite code for free, dosen't seem like trading to me, and if i did give someone an invite code it would be done in a PM. we mods can't see what goes on in PM's, however we are concerned with Invite Trading on the public forums

snippet from the Forum Rules -

Invites to private sites

Requesting for or offering invites to private sites (such as private torrent trackers or similar private P2P sites) is not allowed. This rule has been requested by several private site administrators, and we honor their request. (Penalty: 2 day ban)

also see here -
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/473658
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/498018

9.10.2007 11:46 #70

morguex

OK, fair enough.

9.10.2007 11:51 #71

WierdName

*whispers in the back*Don't anger the mods*whispers fade*

9.10.2007 14:17 #72

austenfan

I always wanted to join demonoid. I checked a couple of times everyday and it always said it was closed and i didn't know anyone with a demonoid account. i hope it gets back up. it was the only one that had what i neede

9.11.2007 22:09 #73

rdmercer1

this is the latest from the site (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)

9.11.2007 23:42 #74

alecuba

so is it gone for good or what??

13.11.2007 21:53 #75

Creddly

Nope. In fact, it's even more obvious this time around that it's not gone, than when the above news statement was made.

14.11.2007 07:44 #76

lavet

Originally posted by Creddly: Nope. In fact, it's even more obvious this time around that it's not gone, than when the above news statement was made.Quote:How do you know that?

14.11.2007 15:25 #77

Voodoomaria (unverified)

Well it hasn't been down 24 hours, I was on Deonoid at 4:am PST (27 Apr.)and it was running fine, So that much of this "Story' isn't true.

Also, If any of the Posters here are American, and you can't get onto Demonoid,, then the rest of the story isn't true either,, as a Canadian Agency doesn't have the Authority to shut down access to a website in the USA Unless it originates within Canada.

Demonoid Doesn't.

This is the same sort of "The Sky is falling" News story that came out last time Demonoid went off the Air due to a System Failure.
Rumors are worthless. Calm Down and wait for REAL news.

Maria.

28.4.2010 03:34 #78

dsgtrain

*Sarcasm*Well done for bringing this article up again.*/Sarcasm*

It was posted in Septemer 2007.

28.4.2010 07:32 #79

WierdName

Quote:Well it hasn't been down 24 hours, I was on Deonoid at 4:am PST (27 Apr.)and it was running fine, So that much of this "Story' isn't true.

Also, If any of the Posters here are American, and you can't get onto Demonoid,, then the rest of the story isn't true either,, as a Canadian Agency doesn't have the Authority to shut down access to a website in the USA Unless it originates within Canada.

Demonoid Doesn't.

This is the same sort of "The Sky is falling" News story that came out last time Demonoid went off the Air due to a System Failure.
Rumors are worthless. Calm Down and wait for REAL news.

Maria. Well this story was posted around 2 and a half years ago. I read this 'comment' at 9:40P.M. PST (28 Apr.) and it was full of crap.

Unverified users shouldn't be allowed to dig up old stories.

They are.

This sort of "pulling a story out of its time context then critiquing it as false" is worthless. Wait for REAL comments.
... Except that this story is so old I wouldn't hold your breath for new comments except against digging comment.

An annoyed reader subscribed to this thread from a post years ago.

Doesnt expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected and therefore mean youre expecting the expected which was the unexpected until you expected it?
"Opinions are immunities to being told were wrong." - Relient K

28.4.2010 12:57 #80

cyprusrom

Originally posted by Voodoomaria: Well it hasn't been down 24 hours, I was on Deonoid at 4:am PST (27 Apr.)and it was running fine, So that much of this "Story' isn't true.

Also, If any of the Posters here are American, and you can't get onto Demonoid,, then the rest of the story isn't true either,, as a Canadian Agency doesn't have the Authority to shut down access to a website in the USA Unless it originates within Canada.

Demonoid Doesn't.

This is the same sort of "The Sky is falling" News story that came out last time Demonoid went off the Air due to a System Failure.
Rumors are worthless. Calm Down and wait for REAL news.

Maria.
You're wrong, here's the real story for you, "Mary":
Demoniod goes down, AGAIN!!!

28.4.2010 13:07 #81

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