Demonoid: Gone for good?

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Sat Nov 10, 2007 9:00 am

rlslog.net wrote:Now, when everything looked safe and sound, the site is offline once again. CRIA sent a threatening letter to Demonoidâ€™s hosting provider (Netelligent.ca), which resulted into shutting down the whole site. Demonoidâ€™s tracker still works and ironically wasnâ€™t affected by this latest issue, although itâ€™s the essential part in the process of downloading content through BitTorrent. According to the official IRC channel of this popular site, Demonoid administrator is already working on returning everything back to normal. I wouldnâ€™t wonder if they decided to move their servers to different country and hosting company though, the pressure on p2p applications in Canada is increasing every weekâ€¦

It's ok guys.

Post by **CronoTriggerfan** » Sat Nov 10, 2007 1:32 pm

vb_master wrote:
rlslog.net wrote:Now, when everything looked safe and sound, the site is offline once again. CRIA sent a threatening letter to Demonoidâ€™s hosting provider (Netelligent.ca), which resulted into shutting down the whole site. Demonoidâ€™s tracker still works and ironically wasnâ€™t affected by this latest issue, although itâ€™s the essential part in the process of downloading content through BitTorrent. According to the official IRC channel of this popular site, Demonoid administrator is already working on returning everything back to normal. I wouldnâ€™t wonder if they decided to move their servers to different country and hosting company though, the pressure on p2p applications in Canada is increasing every weekâ€¦
It's ok guys.

I hope so, VB, I hope...

CTFan

Post by **Skyone** » Sat Nov 10, 2007 3:32 pm

You guys are pathetic!

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Sat Nov 10, 2007 3:57 pm

I was downloading a primus discography, and it's a demonoid tracker, but it's currently actively refusing me. I don't know if this adds to this conversation at all. (And clue what it means?)

dudex77 · Post by **dudex77** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 8:46 am

Kurt_ wrote:I was downloading a primus discography, and it's a demonoid tracker, but it's currently actively refusing me. I don't know if this adds to this conversation at all. (And clue what it means?)

Hey I downloaded that as well.

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 9:26 am

The download hasn't budged since I posted that.

Charlie · Post by **Charlie** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 10:22 am

"According to the Demonoid IRC channel, the tracker is still working, and they expect the site to be back up soon:

[+mntrSCTf] Welcome to #Demonoid | Site is down, tracker is intermittent (sometimes up, sometimes down), No Current ETA is known. That is all we know...DON'T ASK | Alternate forums at www.demonoiders.com. Expect the site to return, unless we hear otherwise from Deimos."

I certainly hope so.

Adam G · Post by **Adam G** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 2:01 pm

Canadian Police Tolerates Piracy For Personal Use

Torrent Freak wrote:The Canadian police announced that it will stop targeting people who download copyrighted material for personal use. Their priority will be to focus on organized crime and copyright theft that affects the health and safety of consumers instead of the cash flow of large corporations...Read It!

It looks like they might be coming back...

Limewater · Post by **Limewater** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 3:53 pm

Wow. Mention of the word "marijuana" without discussion of its use is enough to get a thread locked and several posts deleted.

Direct confession and discussion of piracy... not so much.

Post by **CronoTriggerfan** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 4:02 pm

Limewater wrote:Wow. Mention of the word "marijuana" without discussion of its use is enough to get a thread locked and several posts deleted.

Direct confession and discussion of piracy... not so much.

No, the discussion here is about Demonoid being closed, not about piracy. Demonoid is closed because of copyright infringement, but that doesn't mean it doesn't provide legal freeware and the like. And trust me, we've locked and deleted several threads due to piracy talk before, if this gets out of hand, which it hasn't, I'll close it ASAP.

CTFan

project_failure · Post by **project_failure** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 8:08 pm

i hope i don't have to try newsgroups.

Limewater · Post by **Limewater** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 8:35 pm

CronoTriggerfan wrote:No, the discussion here is about Demonoid being closed, not about piracy. Demonoid is closed because of copyright infringement, but that doesn't mean it doesn't provide legal freeware and the like. And trust me, we've locked and deleted several threads due to piracy talk before, if this gets out of hand, which it hasn't, I'll close it ASAP.

CTFan

I didn't say anything about Demonoid.

I was just making an observation about a few of the above posts. You know, "Good news, the Canadian police will be more tolerant of piracy," "I was downloading copyrighted material X when this went down," "Where can I get invites to alternative restricted access trackers," etc...

But I'm not a mod, so I won't comment further.

Edit:

OK, I lied about not commenting further. I will also say that piratey conversations are usually shut down pretty quickly on the forum.

gamemasterAS · Post by **gamemasterAS** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 8:45 pm

project_failure wrote:i hope i don't have to try newsgroups.

http://www.newsdemon.com/

Is pretty good, usenet is un organized and not very complete but if you want stuff in a hurry it is great. I love my 800-900kbps

illustriouschin · Post by **illustriouschin** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 9:15 pm

Limewater wrote:Wow. Mention of the word "marijuana" without discussion of its use is enough to get a thread locked and several posts deleted.

Direct confession and discussion of piracy... not so much.

thats funny, the other forum i go to that is the exact opposite.

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:00 pm

gamemasterAS wrote:Is pretty good, usenet is un organized and not very complete but if you want stuff in a hurry it is great. I love my 800-900kbps

Untrue. I find usenet to be very organized and usually have pre'd things within one day. You just need to be in the right places (#altbin @ EFNet, anyone?)