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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