The demonoid downtime caused quite some controversy, especially after the popular Dutch news site nu.nl reported that the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) was responsible for the downtime.

We contacted both the CRIA and Demonoid’s ISP in an attempt to confirm the story, but they didn’t want to respond to these allegations. Both parties confirmed nor denied their involvement. In addition, we tried to get an official response from Deimos, the founder and the head admin of Demonoid, unfortunately without any result.

The general consensus in the Demonoid IRC channel now is that the downtime is caused by hardware issues, and that the site will probably return within a few days.

Others still think that the Canadian ISP took Demonoid offline after they received legal threats (from the CRIA), but this is just speculation at this point. Demonoid’s ISP said earlier that it would not hesitate to pull the plug on Demonoid if they had to, however, this explanation is less plausible now because the trackers still run on the same IP. This indicates that the servers are still hosted by their Canadian ISP.

It is great to see that the second largest BitTorrent tracker is back in action. Thousands of torrents stopped responding when the tracker went down, frustrating over a million BitTorrent users. I guess it’s time to finish these torrents.

Source:Torrent Freak

Demonoid is Back Online

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The popular BitTorrent tracker site (http://www.zeropaid.com/links/bittorrent/) is up and running once again, and has moved from a server in the Netherlands to one in Canada.


Last week I reported (http://www.zeropaid.com/news/8873/BREIN+trying+to+shut+down+Demonoid) how the Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN was targeting the Demonoid (http://www.demonoid.com/) BitTorrent tracker site in its fight against intellectual property theft and how this new legal challenge combined with a HDD drive crash had made things seem bleaker than ever for one of the more popular tracker sites around.

BREIN had been apparently targeting Demonoid's ISP Leaseweb for hosting the site and thereby led to Demonoid's decision to seek out a new server host. An exasperated BREIN even gleefully commented that "...it strongly seems that disappearing the site is the consequence of this intimation." It also criticized the Netherlands reputation as a "safe port" and in particular Leaseweb, and that this all must come to an end.

onga bro, nakapasok nko knina umaga...:D:yipee:

badtrip nga yung mga tracker nila one week atang offline :ranting: kainis dami akong di ma-DL na torrents :upset:

pero sana ngayon ok na :D

ok na demonoid uli mga pre

wooohoooo!!!! :clap::thumbsup::praise:

Yahooo!!!Demonoid is back online..:yipee:

"We received a letter from a lawyer represeting the CRIA, they were threatening with legal action and we need to start blocking Canadian traffic because of this.

Thanks for your understanding, and sorry for any inconvenience." Demonoid

:thumbsup::salute::yipee::clap:

ala po bang may invites ng demonoid dito... pahingi naman po... salamat pa send na lang po sa email...coolgrab@yahoo.com

ako din pahingi ng invites...