Demonoid has always been the cleanest among all BitTorrent trackers. Sadly, the site has been forced to shut down by Canadian Radio Industry Association (CRIA), which equivalent to American RIAA. It started back in September, when CRIA forced to Demonoid to go offline for a few days, but Demonoid came back online and blocked all Canadian traffic.
That didn’t satisfy CRIA, so they went after the company who is renting servers to them. If you visit Demonoid now, you’ll see this message:
"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."
I have been a member of Demonoid for a few months now. It was probably the best torrent tracking site because the quality of comments where excellent. Most of the times, they help you take the decision whether to download or not (unlike PirateBay which constantly gets spammed by members from MPAA).
This news is shocking to the whole P2P world, but I’m pretty confident that they’ll make a comeback. I’m beginning to wonder, if PirateBay would be interested in helping them out. Anti piracy organizations have been getting small victories in the past. OiNK was shutdown, aXXo walked out of PirateBay, and now Demonoid has been taken down.
[Via: DailyApps]
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wrote, on November 10th, 2007
i believe they will come back!!!
wrote, on November 27th, 2007
me too , this is not the end for demonoid. demonoid was established for so many years and they are just treated like this. maybe this time they are down.
and i’m still hoping that they will come back again..
wrote, on January 18th, 2008
The guys who owned demonoid made hundreds of millions of dollars each and they were the ones who shut it down to go retire to the good life and took everyone for suckers by blaming it on the CRIA. A friend on mine’s wife works there and she said that they had nothing to do with it. The owners of demonoid had so much money they couldn’t hide it any more and just cut and ran. They pulled the plug on the servers and left all the hardware there with all the users info on them. It’s in the hands of the Canadian Government now. They are looking into tax fraud and everyone’s personal info. I was a user of demonoid and paid money through PayPal every month for over two years. I questioned them about this on subdemon forum and they banned me. One of their pee ones runs that forum from a laptop in Jamaica.
wrote, on April 12th, 2008
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