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Offline Synbios

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Demonoid Gone!
« on: November 09, 2007, 01:10:26 pm »
It was only a matter of time. Earlier today demonoid got shut down by the CRIA.

See for yourselves:

www.demonoid.com

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Re: Demonoid Gone!
« Reply #1 on: November 12, 2007, 06:15:05 am »
Demonoid Shuts Down Again
Written by Ernesto on November 09, 2007

Demonoid.com, one of the most popular BitTorrent trackers, was forced to go offline again because the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) threatened their ISP.

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It’s been just over 6 weeks since the CRIA allegedly shut down the Demonoid BitTorrent tracker. Details were scarce at the time, with lots of people simply claiming the site had some technical or server issues. Indeed, TorrentFreak came in for quite some criticism when we claimed the CRIA was involved, but when the site returned there were some ominous signs which seemed to support our claims.

Eventually, the Demonoid trackers reappeared, followed by the site itself but was forced to block Canadian visitors by the CRIA. However, despite blocking Canadians, it seems the CRIA hasn’t yet had enough of harassing Demonoid and its host.

On Demonoid.com we now read:

“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.”

Indeed, Demonoid’s host had previously said that if it had any major hassle, it was likely it could pull the plug on the site.

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.”

Canada seems to becoming more unfriendly for BitTorrent sites - Demonoid aren’t the only ones being threatened by the recording labels there.

http://torrentfreak.com/demonoid-shuts-down-again-071109/

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Re: Demonoid Gone!
« Reply #2 on: November 12, 2007, 09:33:20 am »
Does anyone know the server and/or channel name for the Demonoid IRC channel?

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Re: Demonoid Gone!
« Reply #3 on: November 13, 2007, 04:07:36 pm »
i did at one point.. hmm.. it might be on the same server as the bit_che chatroom.. you can try jumping on that server in mIRC and then using /list to see if demonoid pops up. ill give it a shot next time i reboot into WinXP
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Re: Demonoid Gone!
« Reply #4 on: November 14, 2007, 12:23:59 am »
i did at one point.. hmm.. it might be on the same server as the bit_che chatroom.. you can try jumping on that server in mIRC and then using /list to see if demonoid pops up. ill give it a shot next time i reboot into WinXP

Yup it is and topic of the IRC channel is:

"Site is down, tracker is intermittent (sometimes up, sometimes down), No Current ETA is known. That is all we know...DON'T ASK"
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