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Demonoid Shut By Ukrainian Authorities
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."
Congratulations! It will now take people an additional 3 clicks to find the movie, game or song they want to steal!
Keep up the good work, guys, people will stop making unlicensed digital copies any day now!
OTOH, US Law Enforcement could take a lesson on how to conduct a raid on a datacenter. Go in with a forensic team, isolate, copy, preserve, and leave the shit in place. You don't go in with bolt cutters to cables, wipe out businesses of a dozen other bystanders in the facility, seize stuff for months, or prevent businesses from starting back up.
Does the Ukranian government regularly take action against malware? If not, then no, they got shut down for copyright infringement, and "We're shutting down this malware site for your protection, citizen" is a lie on the same level as "We had to shut down the protest because they didn't have a proper permit, not because we don't like their message."
As much as I agree that Obama is part of the problem (he's a huge corporatist, allowing banks to get off the hook like he did) he's running against Romney who will do NOTHING except what corporations one. There is no candidate standing that will curb corporate abuse. It's not a party issue.
I know its been said before.. but I think itd worth saying again..
A lot of stuff on demonoid wasnt in print anymore, and there was a big focus on books/other things that arent readily available anymore.
I think that it brings up a big point that we miss when the whole debate of copyright infringement and pirating the newest movies is brought up in relation to these torrent sites.
These places are in some ways the last place to easily access important parts of the culture of the world.... Is it so important to protect the newest blockbuster films at the cost of so many people losing access to bits of global creative culture that they cant access legally ?
There is no Democrat or Republican candidate standing that will curb corporate abuse.
FTFY.
Third parties don't get enough notice in this nation to be included in such a generalization (which, if all third parties were included, would become false anyway).
A quote I've been trying to spread around: "The only wasted vote, is the one that goes to a Democrat or a Republican."
Here's hoping it catches on...
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
Technically you don't even need a tracker anymore as magnet links are enough for distributed hash tables, and magnet links can easily be distributed anywhere, while DHT is a builtin component of the transfer network. TPB already operates that way and would work fine on Tor (as far as I know there could already be several such tor sites, can't say I've checked).
After that it'll probably go to i2p or turn over to the various f2f networks available. Sharing technology is already several generations ahead. The only question is really how far the pressure will go to push people towards an utterly unmonitorable network.
Of course, ending up with an evolved completely opaque network has advantages once We The People will be forced to start lining people up against the wall.
Because there are so few countries with copyright laws you mean ?
No, because websites shouldn't be taken down just because there is some infringing material on them. The US is already seizing domain names randomly. That's bad enough. Other countries don't need to go and do similar things.
Also I've recently visited a very large software company (in America), and the developers were nearly universally in favor of copyright laws and destroying things like demonoid and thepiratebay.
Not exactly the most unbiased group to ask, eh? Ask me if I deserve a million dollars.
At least candied walnuts, unlike serving a public enemy's head on a platter, don't require other people to get squashed.
Catering to someone's likes is ok, but catering to their hatred in a way that hurts others is not.