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Internet Demonoid.com Shut Down by CRIA
Chris Peredun - November 9, 2007 11:26 AM

66 comment(s) - last by Adonlude.. on Nov 13 at 7:21 PM

Canadian-hosted torrent site is the next to fall in a series of takedowns

The world-wide crackdown on torrent sites has brought down another major torrent hub. After being forced to close its doors to Canadian users in September due to pressure from the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA), Demonoid.com survived for only slightly more than a month before being having forced offline entirely today.

The previously bustling homepage has been replaced by a single line of text; bereft of much in the way of details, but leaving little doubt as to the fate of the website:

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.

The Demonoid tracker and website outage in September was explained as a server rebuild. With the CRIA now going after the hosts in question, it is unlikely that Demonoid will find a new host within Canada willing to defend themselves.

"Upstream takedown," as its dubbed, is a page right from the U.S. Digital Millenium Copyright Act takedown procedure.

After the Interpol takedown of the UK-based site OiNK on October 23rd, many OiNK users were warned that "a criminal investigation" would continue into the site and its users.

No such warning has been posted yet. It may be that Demonoid did not store any information, that the CRIA may have opted to simply remove the site rather than attempt to prosecute the end-users or that it may be a waiting game to determine if the operators will attempt to bring their site back online.

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Pretty scary

By gradoman on 11/9/2007 12:02:56 PM , Rating: 1

For any user of such websites, cause hey, you never know when a lawsuit might fall into your lap.

Time to stop frequenting these sites :-(

RE: Pretty scary

By cyriene on 11/9/2007 12:21:10 PM , Rating: 2

Son of a bitch. Soon there won't be any sites to frequent.

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RE: Pretty scary

By ajira99 on 11/9/2007 12:23:41 PM , Rating: 2

...and then they'll try and police the usenet.

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RE: Pretty scary

By Chris Peredun on 11/9/2007 12:33:31 PM , Rating: 5

Rule #1 - You do not talk about Usenet.
Rule #2 - YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT USENET.

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RE: Pretty scary

By bravacentauri83 on 11/9/2007 12:33:31 PM , Rating: 2

If (or when) that happens then that will be the last straw for me.

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RE: Pretty scary

By KristopherKubicki

(blog) on 11/9/2007 12:42:03 PM , Rating: 3

quote:
...and then they'll try and police the usenet.

You're too late. They already are.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=9330

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RE: Pretty scary

By B166ER on 11/10/2007 2:44:25 AM , Rating: 2

Stop talking about it, dammit!!!

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RE: Pretty scary

By Canai on 11/9/2007 12:23:06 PM , Rating: 2

I will never stop frequenting these sites. One site goes down, dozens more spring to life.

Is it scary? No, I'd say it's more inconvenient than anything.

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RE: Pretty scary

By Polynikes on 11/9/2007 12:35:57 PM , Rating: 2

Yeah. It's especially inconvenient for people like me who like the "private" trackers like these because you don't have to worry about what you're downloading. The chances of there being malware embedded in the files is negligible. When you go to a mininova or isohunt, however, you never know as there is little to no feedback on the contents of the torrent.

Seriously, though, we thought the RIAA was bad. The CRIA is like 10 times worse, thanks to their ridiculous amount of control in the Canadian government. That's pretty scary. Here's hoping Radiohead's latest album sales model catches on.

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RE: Pretty scary

By barjebus on 11/9/2007 12:42:06 PM , Rating: 2

There's not a huge amount more of control in the Canadian government really...the CRIA isn't as bad because they make have a loud bark, but no bite; They can't prosecute or go after people who download music, however, in the U.S., the RIAA can. I'm not sure how the "increased control" in the Canuck government translates into allowing the CRIA being worse than the RIAA.

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RE: Pretty scary

By OblivionMage on 11/9/2007 3:58:04 PM , Rating: 2

No, the hydra will never die.

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