Demonoid Shut By Ukrainian Authorities

Posted by samzenpus on Monday August 6, 2012 @06:55AM from the book-em dept.

hypnosec writes "After a prolonged outage that lasted for nearly a week Demonoid has reportedly been audited and closed down by the Ukrainian law enforcement agency. According to reports the Ukrainian anti-cybercrime police division carried out an investigation of ColoCall – the hosting service provider for Demonoid. Servers were sealed after all the data on the servers was copied. According to ColoCall the servers haven't been seized but, they are not operational any more. The hosting service provider is going to end the agreement with Demonoid. 'Investigators have copied all the information from the Demonoid servers and sealed them.' a manager from ColoCall, wishing to stay anonymous, said."

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Re:Color me surprised by JDG1980 · 2012-08-06 07:04 · Score: 5, Informative

Russian doesn't give a damn about US copyright claims.
Ukraine != Russia.
The former Soviet republics that are now independent states (including Ukraine) tend to be friendlier to the US and EU than Russia itself is, because they rely upon NATO support to maintain effective independence from Russian control.
Re:Bout time by preaction · 2012-08-06 07:17 · Score: 5, Informative

Demonoid was a torrent site, not a storage service.