Demonoid, a popular invite-only BitTorrent tracker, seems to be swimming in some murky waters lately. At the end of September Demonoid was forced to temporarily shutdown by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA), which is equivalent to America’s RIAA. They came back online a few days later after installing a system to block all Canadian traffic.
Now the CRIA is after them again, but this time they are attacking the company who is renting servers to Demonoid. When you visit the site 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.
Apparently the CRIA doesn’t care that P2P music sharing actually helps music sales, at least in Canada.
Despite the site being down I did read reports that the tracker was still up until recently. As of a few minutes ago the tracker was said to be down, which means any in-progress downloads may come to a halt. We just need the seemingly immune Pirate Bay to take Demonoid under their wing like they did with SuprNova.
I’ve been a member of Demonoid for a few months now thanks to one of our readers, Curtiss, who gave me an invite. The thing I love the most about the site is the quality comments that people leave, and when Demonoid comes back online I’ll be sure to hand out some invites!
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I lived in Detroit Michigan my entire life. Windsor Ontario is just a jump across the river for us, and I have to say that Canadian authorities are very relentless when it comes to being the strong arm of the law. It’s like they feel they have something to prove because the rest of the world thinks their a bunch of whimps. Most people think of Canada as being this lovey dovey land with extremely polite people, and don’t get me wrong they are very polite. But don’t piss them off because they can be real bastards. When it comes to policing they make the United States look like hall monitors.
Having said all that. What Demonoid needs to do is partner with some servers in a far off land that can’t be influenced by anyone. Hey! Who with me, let’s buy some solar panel and setup shop under the mango tree in the middle of the Amazon jungle?
Hmmm solar servers..could work, anyway dibs on invite when/if they come out.
demonoid is welcome to host their stuff here in india. we have very lax cyberlaws in here. And there is no equivalent to the CRIA or the RIAA.
OH BTW Ryan, please send me an invite if and when demonoid is back. i will be eternally grateful. Thank You
Meh, isohunt and btjunkie are good enough, anyways.
Don’t think you can call dibs on an invite in this post guys.
That’s an interesting concept. It may just end up resulting to that.
I thought that as well until I started using Demonoid. The quality of the torrents on there are much higher quality, and people are good about seeding.
Demonoid itself will be back, or the whole Hydra thing will come into play. Like with Oink: it was shut down, but 3-4 site sprang up in it’s place. The RIAA/CRIA (IE: music monopoly) is fighting a costly and losing battle. I remember reading on Slyck that site shutdowns is like a call to arms.
That, and this is the darkness before the dawn. Things are bad now, but they WILL get better.
> I’ll be sure to hand out some invites!
Isn’t that like saying: “RIAA, please do come shut us down!”
There are an insane amount of file sharing sites popping up these days. I just don’t think any of them can replace the community that Demonoid built.
We’ll they are just strings of text, so that’s what I’ll call them. If people happen to copy the strings of text onto the Demonoid invite form then that is just a coincidence.