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Demonoid Domain Names Up For Grabs
hypnosec writes "One of the most famous Torrent tracking sites, Demonoid, which was shut down recently by Ukrainian authorities, is on the receiving end of one more blow, as the domain names for the site are up for grabs. As it stands, three Demonoid domains: Demonoid.me, Demonoid.com and Demonoid.ph are up for sale on Sedo. The time is ripe as of now for the sale of the domain names as it has caught the attention of many on and off the web. The traffic that Demonoid used to attract was huge, and internet marketers would definitely want to bank on this. Initially thought of as being under a series of DDoS attacks, the torrent tracking site was out for a prolonged duration, following which it started serving malware-laden ads."
Sounds like shady marketers would be the only ones who would actually want it, after all for the rest of us it's just an open invitation for various agencies to start digging for dirt on us. If getting caught for torrenting small amounts of pirated goods is about as likely as getting hit by lightning, then buying this domain would be akin to climbing up onto the highest building around during a lightningstorm wearing your special copper-clad "protection from girls +3" homemade armour and swinging a long copper rod angrily at the skies.
I would highly suggest the university library. You will have to leave your chair though.
Nice segue into your own, personal gripe-session.
Bottom line is that the methods employed to bring Demonoid down were underhanded at best; potentially illegal at worst. DDoS attack that everyone knows was state-sponsored; inter-governmental collusion to smear, raid, confiscate, and transport data; questionable legal justification for property seizure; no charges filed and no avenue for appeal; etc. The most powerful government in the world just strong-armed a former Soviet republic into bending and/or breaking local and international laws at the behest of a conglomerate of private interests... but you're okay with that because the victim was turning a blind eye to Bad Things (TM).
You're a terrible person.
Yeah Its fucking bizare the movie industry is still doing this.
I havent pirated an album in years thanks to itunes more or less solving the music availability puzzle for me. I can afford to blow a tenner here or there for a decent album, and now I do.
But netflix is blocked, hula is blocked, itunes has terrible movie availability here, and AMV etc just do the shitty "Not available in your region" crap.
What other options do we have in australia? Sweet fuck all. So australians pirate movies.
Surely fixing that problem should be a priority but this shits being going on for the better part of a decade.
Shoot the lawyers, offer the services here, problem solved the studios get fat cash and we get to have the movies and TV shows we want.
Excuse the Unicode crap in my posts. That's an apostrophe, and slashdot is busted.
You've got the order wrong, there will be a lot less pirating when companies realize that DRM is what's killing their sales. DRM only hurts the people who buy the software, not the people who pirate it. Really, it's the pirates that are getting superior software (due to removed DRM), and they're getting it for free. There's no way you can logically argue that you can put an end to DRM by eliminating piracy. If you eliminate DRM though, it's much easier to end piracy.
DRM doesn't protect companies from pirates (and companies who believe it does are idiotic), no matter how good of a system they come up with eventually there will be a way to bypass it. The reality of the situation is that developing DRM is a complete waste of resources, because people will get past it - so the cost of developing DRM really just cuts into their profits more.
tl;dr: You have it backwards, end DRM to (help) stop Piracy. Also DRM is idiotic in general.
Feel free to mod me down, just know that unlike some Anonymous Cowards I'm not afraid to express my views as myself.