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Demonoid Shut By Ukrainian Authorities

Posted by samzenpus on 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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  1. Color me surprised by dyingtolive · · Score: 5, Funny

    If your shit's not safe in the Ukraine, it's not safe anywhere.

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    1. Re:Color me surprised by JDG1980 · · 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.

    2. Re:Color me surprised by C0C0C0 · · Score: 5, Interesting

      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.

      Ukraine != Poland, either. The entire northern half speaks Russian natively and, despite the best efforts of the Ukrainian Ukrainians, they appear to have the upper hand in parliment right now. I'd say that the jury is still out, and while Ukraine certainly isn't Belarus, they lean a lot more towards Moscow than you suggest.

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    3. Re:Color me surprised by gl4ss · · Score: 5, Interesting

      there's another twist of the story that ". According to one source in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the investigation was timed to coincide with Ukrainian First Deputy Prime Minister Valeriy Khoroshkovsky's visit to the United States, after he released a statement with the US Trade Representative agreeing to "redouble" intellectual property enforcement. While the ColoCall source says Demonoid has backup servers elsewhere, nothing has been restored at this point."

      http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/6/3223253/demonoid-bittorrent-tracker-shut-down-by-ukrainian-police

      so they're doubledowning and redoubling efforts. Maybe they won't bother with finding out who to prosecute and for what, but that's not the point of eastern european lipservice police work really.

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  2. Huge victory for content industry! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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!

  3. OTOH, US Law Enforcement could take a lesson... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:OTOH, US Law Enforcement could take a lesson... by jamstar7 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      But that's not as much fun, nor does it appeal to the 'cowboy' mentality it seems a lot of Feds have been cultivating lately. And the collateral damage? Shouldn'tve put your data on a server those eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil terrorrorrorrist pyrates could use! Now go file the appropriate papwerwork, along with the appropriate fees, and maybe, if you're good kids and eat all your vegetables, they MIGHT let you see your (totally legal) data sometime before the Second Coming of Elvis.

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  4. Re:Bout time by preaction · · Score: 5, Informative

    Demonoid was a torrent site, not a storage service.

  5. Re:Just like the war on drugs, nobody ever learns. by MickyTheIdiot · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  6. Shocking! by frovingslosh · · Score: 5, Funny

    There is a Ukrainian law enforcement agency? Who knew?

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  7. well.. crap by lemur3 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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 ?

    1. Re:well.. crap by MickyTheIdiot · · Score: 5, Insightful

      One area that is constantly ignored are the grey-area copyrights (where no one knows who owns the copyright because a copyright holder has gone bankrupt) and the stuff in torrents that is not even in print. Trading that stuff doesn't hurt anyone and, as a matter of fact, often gets them noticed again and brought back into print. Has anyone ever heard a greedhead from the *AAs even acknowledge this?

  8. Re:Just like the war on drugs, nobody ever learns. by CanHasDIY · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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...

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  9. DDOS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  10. Re:You're a GOOD dog!! Yes you are! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.