Demonoid still Offline
The popular Demonoid.com, a semi-private BitTorrent tracker, has been taken offline. Both the torrent tracker and the site have been unresponsive. Although there has been no official word, or statement from the Demonoid administrators, TorrentFreak claims that the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) is responsible for the downtime, but the CRIA has refused to comment. TorrentFreak reports that it contacted some of the Demonoid administrators, but even they are not yet sure what happened to the site. You can logon to irc p2p network to find the status of the site. According to yahoo buzz, related queries on “demonoid shut down” and “what happened to demonoid” trippled. Folks must have faith that Demonoid will be revived, ’cause searches on competitors didn’t take off. Queries on “torrent reactor,” “isohunt,” and “mininova” all dipped.
[update 09/29/2007 14:00 PM CST] Good news demonoid rackers are now fully operational, but the site is still down. 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. The story about the CRIA shutting down Demonoid was not true (as reported by TorrentFreak). more
[update 09/30/2007 14:00 PM CST] Demonoid is backup now. Frontpage has following message, “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.” So TorrentFreak story was true, CRIA had something to do with this outage. Interesting comment - “Best Way to support Demonoid is to seeds Demonoid torrents as much as you can. Actions of majority of the population are considered legal. So don’t be afraid, seed much as you can using demonoid trackers. They will have to make court room big as 10 football stadium to bring all us demonoid supporters to court. And especially they have to spend millions to fly all demonoid supporters all over the world to that court room. More people doing an action which is ment to be illegal will make the same action legal.”
Reference: Wired Blogs, TorrentFreak, Yahoo Buzz
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rctay Said,
September 29, 2007 @ 5:17 am
this is grossly inaccurate at your time of writing (around now). The torrent tracker *is* responsive. Such inaccuracies do no favours for the rest of your article.
Boob Said,
September 29, 2007 @ 1:52 pm
What you have to ask yourself is that if the tracker is back and it IS only hardware problems.. then WHY hasn’t Deimos made any statements? Why no notification page?
The Irc channel is as much in the dark as everyone else (not to mention being moderated by people who ARE NOT recognised moderators) .. so WTF is going on?
xpherion Said,
September 29, 2007 @ 4:48 pm
Following wikipedia has some info about this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonoid_(BitTorrent)
Also Ruzsteroid Temporary Forum (http://www.ruzster.com/)