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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 As of 6:45pm EST on 9-25-07, SSH and SMTP services are no longer active.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."
The CRIA couldnt have shut them down here, I work for one of the few ISP's that could have handled their traffic, and the rules here state that if another company (read *IAA) wants to shut someone down/off the proper responce is to ask them for the MAC address, if they provide it then we shut *IAA off for illigaly obtaining information from our network, if they dont we say get it and call us back.... The big ISP's in Canada LOVE torrent sites, Trackers bring in ALOT of cash to the ISP's that shelter them.
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I don't think so -- the ports shouldn't show at all. But I don't have any TTL comparisons. This was the result of a SYN stealth scan, not a TCP connect scan, FWIW. It shouldn't show any ports at all if the box is hung or booted into single user mount.
Without going into a treatise on the reliability of Nmap results, let me point out one thing. As well as getting a closed result for HTTP, you're also getting the same result for NTP, FTP and at least one HTTP proxy service. If you're assuming that the "closed" result for Port 80 means that it's running a web server but that the port is being blocked, then you also have to assume that it's running as an NTP server. An NTP server isn't something you enable by accident and I doubt the Demonoid server is connected to an atomic clock and providing time services to the rest of the network. So that and the other unexpected ports indicate a strong possibility that your results are inconsistent and useless.
So while it's not confirmed, it's pretty obvious to anyone knowledgeable in network admin that the ISP firewalled off all the ports at someone's behest.
I would say that someone who assumes a certain explanation is correct based only on running Nmap against a host in a different country is probably not quite as knowledgeable in the field of network administration as they may think.
My ISP (a one-man band, so the owner is also the entire tech dept.) explained it to me thus:
Download bandwidth is essentially free to the ISP.
However, upload bandwidth costs the ISP serious money, they pay so much per gig, and therefore it is a major operating expense. And that's why they limit uploads, and why your upload cap is usually so much smaller than your download cap.
So it's not the downloaders that are the problem, it's the uploaders. If you're going way over 1:1, sad to say your generosity is contributing to the problem.
Until a byte can be compressed to a bit, I don't see any good solution for P2P.
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