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 As of 6:45pm EST on 9-25-07, SSH and SMTP services are no longer active.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."

Comments

CRIA orders ISP to disconnect? Or a judge?

[Morgaine]

> "this is due to legal actions from the CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association) who ordered Demonoid's ISP to shut down the site."

I assume it was a judge who ordered Demonoid's ISP to disconnect Demonoid. If a trade organization like CRIA can order an ISP to disconnect a customer directly, then things are extremely bad in Canada.

But even a judge ordering that seems highly wrong. For example, a judge would not ordinarily order a person's electricity supply to be cut off (unless they're in default of paying their electricity bill of course). Surely here a judge would order Demonoid to immediately drop its site instead, and not order a service supplier to disconnect them upstream. After all, the same Internet feed could be serving many other businesses or private customers perfectly legally.

Something seems wrong with this (or maybe it's just bad reporting). Otherwise, Canada is in dire straights.