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  • Dirtbox 9 Nov 2007 12:18:41 73,724 posts
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    If you visit the site you get this uncermonious 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.

    Blimey!

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  • pjmaybe 9 Nov 2007 12:19:06 70,678 posts
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    What is it?

    Some kinky sex site?

    Peej
  • GrandTheftApu 9 Nov 2007 12:20:11 6,116 posts
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    Pah! Can't they just host it on some servers in Venezuala?
  • kalel 9 Nov 2007 12:20:12 76,472 posts
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    And another one bites the dust. Won’t be too many years before these kind of sites are a distant memory.
  • absolutezero 9 Nov 2007 12:20:27 7,957 posts
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    It got taken down at some point last month aswell, looks like this time its finally been brought down for good.

    :(
  • Dirtbox 9 Nov 2007 12:21:01 73,724 posts
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    pjmaybe wrote:
    What is it?

    Some kinky sex site?

    Peej
    It's the main BT site from which most of the torrents all the other sites, like Pirate Bay and Mininova get the stuff that draws the crowds..

    This is the heaviest imaginable blow to piracy.

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  • pjmaybe 9 Nov 2007 12:21:31 70,678 posts
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    Oh right...!

    Peej
  • Psychotext 9 Nov 2007 12:23:18 49,221 posts
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    I'm so tempted to start a hosting company in a backwater country somewhere.

    Assholes.

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  • Merlinho 9 Nov 2007 12:25:26 5,910 posts
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    I wonder if they'll be back. It doesn't say they're shutting down for good.
  • Dirtbox 9 Nov 2007 12:31:36 73,724 posts
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    They'll just get a Swedish host or something.

    Or one in Gambia.

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  • The_Aardvark 9 Nov 2007 12:36:45 3,063 posts
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    ;_;

    I reckon they were probably shut down by the CIA for funding terrorism.
  • Razz 9 Nov 2007 12:40:28 57,932 posts
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    This was expected. Demonoid hasn't been good for a while though.

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  • Hunam 9 Nov 2007 12:41:23 20,674 posts
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    Use demonoid alot for music, good site, filters out shit/fake torrents and usually has a decent leecher to seeder ratio.
  • Dirtbox 9 Nov 2007 12:41:51 73,724 posts
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    Razz wrote:
    This was expected. Demonoid hasn't been good for a while though.
    How do you mean? They're still the busiest, most trusted tracker in the world for nigh on everything.

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  • Deleted user 9 November 2007 12:42:34
    Demonoid was alright because it made older torrents private, meaning you usually got decent speeds off not-too-obscure stuff.
  • Psychotext 9 Nov 2007 12:42:41 49,221 posts
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    Yeah, I like demonoid. My annoyance with this isn't that they've been shut down, it's the fact that they can be shut down without any sort of legal action, simply by badgering their hosting service.

    That's just bad all round.

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  • silentbob 9 Nov 2007 12:42:59 28,764 posts
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    It's an annoyance indeed. I remember reading that they'd had a couple of letters threatening as much some time ago.

    Having said that, a large proportion of trackers were offsite anyway. I found the comments and such invaluable at times though.

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  • Dirtbox 9 Nov 2007 12:45:58 73,724 posts
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    It wouldn't have happened if they hadn't set up a mirror site specifically for Canada after they were asked to block Canadian traffic from their main site.

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  • Psychotext 9 Nov 2007 12:58:35 49,221 posts
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    Dirtbox wrote:
    It wouldn't have happened if they hadn't set up a mirror site specifically for Canada after they were asked to block Canadian traffic from their main site.
    They blocked canada completely as I recall. Isn't that why everyone lost connectivity to them for a while?

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  • Euronymous 9 Nov 2007 12:59:20 95 posts
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    TorrentFreak's Article Regarding Demonoid Shut Down. [Clicky]
  • Razz 9 Nov 2007 13:00:05 57,932 posts
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    Dirtbox wrote:
    Razz wrote:
    This was expected. Demonoid hasn't been good for a while though.
    How do you mean? They're still the busiest, most trusted tracker in the world for nigh on everything.
    From a personal perspective I never found anything I wanted on Demonoid. And it's demise was talked rumoured in the Oink thread.

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  • evilashchris 9 Nov 2007 13:13:51 6,637 posts
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    oink and this going is awful, basts.

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  • silentbob 9 Nov 2007 13:15:41 28,764 posts
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    Euronymous wrote:
    TorrentFreak's Article Regarding Demonoid Shut Down. [Clicky]
    A message on the Demonoid IRC channel says: “Site is down, tracker is up. Expect the site to return, unless we hear otherwise from Deimos.”
    So outstanding torrents should still work. Getting access to new ones until the site up is obviously difficult.

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  • Xerx3s 9 Nov 2007 13:16:22 23,942 posts
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    kalel wrote:
    And another one bites the dust. Won’t be too many years before these kind of sites are a distant memory.
    I doubt it. When they took down supernova, mininova popped up within a week. For everything they take down, 10 more arise. And then they are not even scratching the surface of stuff such as DC++ & newsgroups - which are the biggest source of all pirating on the web.
  • ecureuil 9 Nov 2007 13:16:29 74,170 posts
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    Yeah this is not really surprising. I had about three different memberships there, I'd sign up for one torrent, never use it, get my account purged, then do the same again at some point. It had been unstable for a while though, I'm not at all surprised by it.
  • Deleted user 9 November 2007 13:23:40
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    Ah fuck. Where will i get my scanned comics from now?
    Z Cult?
  • The_Aardvark 11 Nov 2007 15:53:40 3,063 posts
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    FWIW, Demonoid's wikipedia page now says that the site will be up again eventually.

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  • Telepathic.Geometry 11 Nov 2007 15:58:09 10,281 posts
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    Jayzus, streaming sites and torrents being tackled, that bodes a bit doesn't it? Maybe the world is starting to get its arse in gear about internet crime. ;_; This better not affect my Dexter fix.

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