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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."
About time that the Ukraine accepted what most governments of the world have already accepted--that the U.S. is your master and you had goddamn well better do whatever the fuck we tell you to!
Now sit, rollover, and say "We're your bitch!" ....No, SAY IT LOUDER!!
If your shit's not safe in the Ukraine, it's not safe anywhere.
Support the EFF and Creative Commons. The war is coming, and they're supporting you...
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.
Demonoid was a torrent site, not a storage service.
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.
There is a Ukrainian law enforcement agency? Who knew?
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
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
they never had malware ads, but they did turn on the ads after being DDOS'd due to the bandwidth bill. Considering that such a thing happened literally in the last two days I can't see why the Ukranians would shut it down that fast or even have the capability to, for that matter.
If it were the U.S. I'd be worried they'd come after the stored user data & put people into indefinite detainment (under NDAA 2012).
My AC stalker: " I personally agree with your posts most of the time, but that won't keep me from modding you troll"
So, are we comfortable with officially labeling the DDOS from which Demonoid has been suffering these past few days an act of officially-sanctioned vandalism on the part of law enforcement, local or otherwise? Because this is damned coincidental, if not... and should be terrifying to businesses the world over if true.
Here you go
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonoid
The country that tolerates you one day can turn against you the next, and you have little or no recourse.
At least in the United States, if you have enough cash you have access to the courts.*
*Pissing of the feds in ways that invoke National Security(TM) are, sadly, excluded. But as far as copyright violations go, any American has as much access to the courts as he has money to pay lawyers. This is not true in some other countries.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
Good luck getting any of that reversed when elected politicians eyes are like looney toon cartoon characters with dollar signs rolling and a cash register caching. They won't ever vote to strip themselves of unlimited secret campaign funds and a third party candidate would just take a seat at the trough with the 600+ other pigs.
Who do you think passed McCain-Feingold before the Supreme Court struck down the provision? It wasn't a referendum.
/me admits to knowing.
Why couldn't someone setup a site like Demonoid on Tor, but direct people out to the public internet to actually transfer the torrents? The tracker would exist on the Tor network, but the file sharing would be done on the public network and therefore not saturate the limited bandwidth available via Tor.
Is there something inherent in bittorrent that requires the tracker and the transfer to take place on the same network? Is it so inherent in the application that it could not be separated into two separate components?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine%E2%80%93NATO_relations
It's currently on hold because of their current president and parliament, as part of trying to keep Russia from coming unglued at them. However, if their stated intention to join the EU goes through, it's likely they will become a NATO member state (21 of the 27 EU member states are currently members of NATO). Currently, they engage in joint military exercises with NATO.
Viva la Usenet!
You actually believe that if a third party achieved a significant voice in government, that they wouldn't sell out to corporations just as the two main parties have?
Not necessarily, and FYI, I never said anything to that effect. Learn to read what's written, instead of inferring what you want to think is there.
What about you? Do you actually believe it's better to be a good little wage slave who doesn't challenge the status quo, rather than at least attempt to cast off your shackles?
If not, why bust my balls over pointing out that which has the potential to change the political landscape for the better?
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
If you think Obama, or any member of the democratic party for that matter, is not completely bought and sold to corporate interests, you're a fool. The difference between Republicans and Democrats? There isn't one. Those with a lot of money simply shift where their campaign donations go from election season to election season. Republicans invade countries to fight terrorism, Democrats invade to liberate the oppressed. Does it really matter what the excuse is when the result is the same? If you're voting Democrat or Republican during the next election, YOU are the problem... Not Obama or Romney.
The only way a third party will ever get in office is when the electorate starts to give a flying fuck, and if that ever happens (we can dream, right?), some degree of accountability might actually take place.
Then again, considering the majority of the stuff that gets blamed/credited on/to the President is actually the legislative branch, I hold very little hope for the U.S. to do anything but continue its downward spiral towards irrelevancy.
You can do it folks, but you're gonna have to do it 1 congressperson at a time.
People replying to my sig annoy me. That's why I change it all the time.
BTJunkie folded earlier this year, damn it.
Understanding the scope of the problem is the first step on the path to true panic.