Demonoid Shut Down by the CRIA Again!

[Shinobi]

This time it may be for good - at least in Canada that is.

It was about a month and a half ago that Demonoid was shut down due to apparent pressure by the Canadian Recording Industry Association(CRIA). The site reappeared a few days later, but was forced to begin blocking Canadian visitors.

Now it seems that the CRIA has successfully pressured Demonoid's ISP into discontinuing its rental of servers to the very popular BitTorrent tracker site.

A message on the site now reads:

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.

Apparently blocking Canadian visitors was not enough. But, shouldn't it be legal in Canada if it technically complies with Canadian copyright laws? As usual the CRIA doesn't seem to care and Demonoid will no doubt be forced to pack up and move elsewhere once again. Maybe Sweden will be its next stop.

What's interesting to also note is that the CRIA has been reduced to little more than a front for foreign music interests. After the much publicized departure of virtually all canadian music labels last year following a dispute over radio content rules and grant programs for emerging artists, it became truly apparent to all that the "C" in the CRIA means anything but Canadian these days and should instead read "Cartel" to accurately describe its desire to control the supply and demand of all things music. At the very least it ought to drop the "C" and add an "A," for all it is is a foreign subsidiary of the RIAA.

Yet, despite all this the CRIA is allowed to throw its weight around in Canada and to pressure ISPs to shut down sites even if they seem to comply with Canadian laws. So much for national sovereignty and net neutrality.

http://www.zeropaid.com/news/9095/Demonoid...e+CRIA+Again%21
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[0110110]

FUCK THE CRIA

[Shinobi]

Stuff them all!
With broken pieces of computers and betamax tapes

[nataraja]

:(

still down...

but i think what they are doing now is adding loads of trackers to torrents. ive noticed this, alot of them using sumo torrents now

but demonoid was great:(

[Guest]

You might need to be Canadian to know the history but my gov ALREADY put a tax on cassette tapes to repay artists for "piracy".... never mind this "tax" would also tax my OWN music/dictation whatever.
Moreover, this tax was then added to CD's and DVD's later on in history.

THE ARTISTS IN CANADA HAVE THIS TAX TO FUCKING COMPENSATE THEM ALREADY!!!!

[Ognir]

Same here as in most of Europe

[yassin]

I understood it's importance only after it was shut down.

[clowns789]

The tracker is back up...

http://torrentfreak.com/demonoid-tracker-back-080219/

[TeslaandLyne]

News on the new site:

European Court Decides FileSharers Should Stay Anonymous

European file-sharers were given a huge legal boost today, as the European Court of Justice declared that EU law does not allow Internet Service Providers to be forced to reveal the personal details of people accused of file sharing.

January 29, 2008

[Easy Skanking]

...and it's back again:

Quote:Source
A famous BitTorrent tracker Demonoid is back online after months of downtime. The former administrator of the site, Deimos, had to shutdown the project in Canada. There were numerous attempts in relaunching Demonoid under different hostings all over the world, but it always failed after few days. It’s just a few moments since a new administrator took over the site after Deimos stepped down from his function due to personal reasons and relaunched it.

A quick look into WHOIS discovers that Demonoid is now hosted by American server hosting company Softlayer - I could probably imagine a better country for hosting a torrent website or tracker because of legal climax regarding peer to peer websites in the USA, but it seems to work fine now. And as we know the importance of reliable trackers in the BitTorrent community, I’d like to wish Demonoid team on behalf of our whole staff a very long uptime and a good luck in eventual legal battles.

[hilly7]

Think they're safe, or is this a trick? Whats with all the Disney stuff?

[psilocybin]

Quote:Think they're safe, or is this a trick? Whats with all the Disney stuff?

I don't care... they have all the account info and I'm listed as having up'd nearly half a TB, so the damage was already done.

[freeon]

Quote:...and it's back again:

Quote:Source
A quick look into WHOIS discovers that Demonoid is now hosted by American server hosting company Softlayer - I could probably imagine a better country for hosting a torrent website or tracker because of legal climax regarding peer to peer websites in the USA, but it seems to work fine now. And as we know the importance of reliable trackers in the BitTorrent community, I’d like to wish Demonoid team on behalf of our whole staff a very long uptime and a good luck in eventual legal battles.

Looks to me like it's hosted by http://www.colocall.net/
in the Ukraine



13. 333.59ms 251.36ms 207.61ms RETN-LTDStockholm.TenGigabitEthernet8-4.ar1.ARN3.gblx.net
14. 247.61ms 247.72ms 247.82ms so-300.RT771-001.kiv.retn.net
15. 248.59ms 248.24ms 247.59ms 87.245.247.18
16. 247.61ms 248.96ms 247.60ms itsinternet-gw.colocall.net
17. 247.57ms 248.20ms 248.59ms 62.149.31.50
18. 249.64ms 248.60ms 248.60ms demonoid.com

Quote:IP Information for 62.149.24.66
IP Location: Ukraine Ukraine Provider Local Registry
Resolve Host: demonoid.com
IP Address: 62.149.24.66 [Whois] [Reverse-Ip] [Ping] [DNS Lookup] [Traceroute]
Blacklist Status: Clear
Whois Record

inetnum: 62.149.0.0 - 62.149.31.255
org: ORG-CL8-RIPE
netname: UA-COLOCALL-20000713
descr: Provider Local Registry
country: UA
admin-c: BB2858-RIPE
tech-c: COLO2-RIPE
status: ALLOCATED PA
mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT
mnt-lower: AS15497-MNT
source: RIPE # Filtered

organisation: ORG-CL8-RIPE
org-name: Colocall Ltd.
org-type: LIR
address: Turgenevskaya, 52-58
address: 04053
address: Kiev
address: Ukraine

[yassin]

Quote:

Quote:...and it's back again:

Quote:Source
A quick look into WHOIS discovers that Demonoid is now hosted by American server hosting company Softlayer - I could probably imagine a better country for hosting a torrent website or tracker because of legal climax regarding peer to peer websites in the USA, but it seems to work fine now. And as we know the importance of reliable trackers in the BitTorrent community, I’d like to wish Demonoid team on behalf of our whole staff a very long uptime and a good luck in eventual legal battles.

Looks to me like it's hosted by http://www.colocall.net/
in the Ukraine



13. 333.59ms 251.36ms 207.61ms RETN-LTDStockholm.TenGigabitEthernet8-4.ar1.ARN3.gblx.net
14. 247.61ms 247.72ms 247.82ms so-300.RT771-001.kiv.retn.net
15. 248.59ms 248.24ms 247.59ms 87.245.247.18
16. 247.61ms 248.96ms 247.60ms itsinternet-gw.colocall.net
17. 247.57ms 248.20ms 248.59ms 62.149.31.50
18. 249.64ms 248.60ms 248.60ms demonoid.com

Quote:IP Information for 62.149.24.66
IP Location: Ukraine Ukraine Provider Local Registry
Resolve Host: demonoid.com
IP Address: 62.149.24.66 [Whois] [Reverse-Ip] [Ping] [DNS Lookup] [Traceroute]
Blacklist Status: Clear
Whois Record

inetnum: 62.149.0.0 - 62.149.31.255
org: ORG-CL8-RIPE
netname: UA-COLOCALL-20000713
descr: Provider Local Registry
country: UA
admin-c: BB2858-RIPE
tech-c: COLO2-RIPE
status: ALLOCATED PA
mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT
mnt-lower: AS15497-MNT
source: RIPE # Filtered

organisation: ORG-CL8-RIPE
org-name: Colocall Ltd.
org-type: LIR
address: Turgenevskaya, 52-58
address: 04053
address: Kiev
address: Ukraine

Yes I tracerouted em' too, ends up in Ukraine.

[hilly7]

Good. Also good point about already having info. Still can't understand all the Disney stuff there????