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Demonoid Torrent Tracker Shut Down by CRIA

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the well-thats-a-big-surprise-now-isn't-it dept.

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 As of 6:45pm EST on 9-25-07, SSH and SMTP services are no longer active.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

3 of 222 comments (clear)

  1. So I guess... by Klaidas · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    CRIA is the new RIAA?
    Well, in a "public appearance" sense.

  2. Legal? by Aladrin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Didn't we just decide that stea^W copyright infringement was legal in Canada since they pay all those taxes on everything that might be used for it?

    Maybe it's still illegal to provide, if not infringe...

    I dunno, maybe if the article had more words than the summary, I'd have some clue.

    --
    "If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you." - DM
  3. The pirate bay by darrenkopp · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I hope the pirate bay reams the RIAA and MPAA if they end up suing them. I wish someone would run for president on an anti-RIAA/anti-MPAA platform because they would have my vote.