Demonoid Torrent Tracker Shut Down by CRIA

An anonymous reader writes "As of Tuesday, 25th September 2007, Demonoid is currently down, with no prior warnings from any moderators of the site. Both the main torrent page and the forum (fora) are no longer accessible. It is still possible to ping and trace the IP address of the site and it locates itself as in Canada. As of 6:45pm EST on 9-25-07, SSH and SMTP services are no longer active. Torrentfreak.com has since reported this is due to legal actions from the CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association) who ordered Demonoid's ISP to shut down the site."

Finger in the dyke...

[downix]

This action is akin to putting a finger in the dyke, but there are thousands, if not millions of other holes. You will run out of fingers (read funding) long before you ever patch up the holes in the wall that is DRM. We are in an era where the old rules of rights management can not survive. Pandoras Box is open, the cat is out of the bag, you cannot go back without causing more damage, if you can go back at all. Adapt or die.

Re:Legal?

[Aladrin]

Ah, my bad. The page only partially loaded the first time. There's more words there, but still no real information.

No details yet...

[pathological liar]

This story is useless without details, and nobody has them yet.

Re:CRIA orders ISP to disconnect? Or a judge?

[Egonis]

Action like this is highly unlikely, because within our legal system they cannot (rather, should not) take action with the assumption that you are guilty without first having a full judgement.

If there were in fact a judgement, given the speed of our legal system, it would be shut down three years from now.

Re:I hate Torrents

[Applekid]

It is because of you that there are GB caps and severe upload restrictions on my internet access.

As I recall, upload restrictions and bandwidth caps predate Bittorrent by at least 5 years, if not more. Maybe you just need a better ISP: one that will maintain and upgrade their infrastructure as traffic grows instead of just blaming their customers.

Why I get my news from slashdot ... the comments

[Anonymous Coward]

This is truly why I still read slashdot ... Someone can post BS and that'll be refuted in the comments. (anonym because mod-pointed)

Re:Hurts, but there are other trackers.

[sYkSh0n3]

Well, lets just list all our favorite trackers so the MAFIAA can shut them down too! :)

Actually, I would believe this is hardware failure before them being shutdown. Demonoid is always goin down for something.

that's what makes it absurd

[gambolt]

People don't go to demonoid for Britteny Spears. They go for Jazz and Classical recordings that have not been available for purchase in the US for 20 years. They go for medical textbooks. I got a full Principa Mathmatica there for cripe's sake. It's where Americans get 30 year old BBC productions. I'd been wanting to see The Sweeny for years. I'd have paid for it given the chance.

The copyright Nazis don't give a shit about 90% of what's there and 90% of the people using Demonoid don't give a shit about any of the stuff the copyright Nazis give a shit about.

Re:CRIA Sut Down by Pirates

[Zontar_Thing_From_Ve]

Moderators: PLEASE check the stories BEFORE you allow them to post. According to the folks on demonoid IRC, they were NOT shut down by the CRIA.

Geez slashdot is turning into DIGG where every moron can post "the truth"

You get a hearty second from me on this. It just seems that a lot of stuff on Slashdot these days is FUD and fearmongering. Just this week we had a big story on how evil Apple was going to deliberately brick your iPhone if you unlocked. I am not an Apple apologist or fanboy by the way and I own no Apple products, not even a iPod.

The real story apparently was that Apple tested its new firmware update on the iPhone on some unlocked iPhones and found that it bricked them. Apple decided to warn people - "Hey, if you unlocked your iPhone, you better skip this firmware update". Of course no good deed goes unpunished and the tin foil hat brigade swung into full force about how "evil Apple" had deliberately decided to brick unlocked iPhones in conjunction with some sort of unholy alliance with AT&T. Sadly, the truth seems to have been lost in this discussion.

Then we have the story that Slashdot had to update from earlier this week about how some open source program supposedly sent all kinds of private information to evil overlords who would use it in nefarious ways before the update arrived that said that the program in question only sent a few bits of information that in no way could identify its user. All you have to do any more these days is post something untrue but sure to ruffle some feathers and it shows up immediately.

Re:I hate Torrents

[Tom]

But: I just want to say that I really hate torrents and torrent users. It is because of you that there are GB caps and severe upload restrictions on my internet access.

Yes. Evil users. Look, they actually use the bandwidth they pay for!

it is highly unlikely that the ISPs will ever become more generous in what they give the consumer.

You need a slap with the cluebat. It isn't a matter of generosity. It's a matter of contract law. You pay for a service. ISP has to deliver service. If I buy a book at Amazon, it's not generosity that makes them deliver it to my house, it's the fact that they have to, because that's the service they offer and collect money for.

I hate to break it to you...

[aws910]

but "sensationalism sells". That's why most of the "news" on tv is about war/shootings/etc.

Re:that's what makes it absurd

[Syberghost]

Oh come on. Read the comments on any TV show torrent and tell me Demonoid's users are there for medical textbooks. You are, maybe; but most of Demonoid's users are there for TV shows, current hollywood movies, Windows games, and comic books, to judge by the usual output of browsing the new torrents.

Re:I can do that too!

[StingRay02]

Right. The simplest "solution" is a corporate conspiracy designed to scare customers and drive away sales. Seems to me that "We just want to let you know there's a problem" is a lot simpler a solution.

I'm sorry you're too much of an nutjob to recognize it.