Saturday, November 10th 2007
Torrent Tracker Demonoid Shut Down by CRIA
There seems to be a worldwide crackdown on piracy, as of late. Demonoid was once shut down by the Canadian Recording Industry Association, and then came back on the promise that Canadians could not access Demonoid. Unfortunately for anyone hoping for a fast and easy way to download that latest Linux distribution, the CRIA had a nasty surprise for the administrators of Demonoid. You can see the nasty surprise on the front page of the website.
Source:
DailyTech
The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding.This method of site shutdown, called "upstream takedown", was done in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
47 Comments on Torrent Tracker Demonoid Shut Down by CRIA
@ Scrizz: I wonder who's left? :F
im a pirate.
This sounds as stupid as someone speeding in school zone -> lets go to the source and shut down the neighborhood gas station, so no-one can't speed anymore at that site. Was it that gas stations fault that someone whom they provided speed used it illegally?
Parents have to take their kids to school with hydrogen busses and gas station owners kids have to starve as some stupid CRIA members blackmailed them :(
Demonoid was huge but I think they knew what was coming as when ever I tried to sign up to an account to get to their torrents it wouldnt let me claiming they had already reached their Max level of uses & you couldnt join unless you had a special Invitation/serial key from them....
Rust in peace Demonoid
You cant stop piracy, dont bother trying.
Once the internet was created it all blew up (piracy... the good kind of blew up! )
& thats a large thing keeping the net going at the rate it is.
Give up, we will all find bigger & better ways 2 stay under the radar!:roll:
so :toast: to all the pirates keeping the system running.
another revelation is coming & we'll just keep making them better.:respect:
EDIT: (b1lk1 this isn't a comeback 2 ur last post. i didn't see it when i wrote this & i pretty much agree with the prices thing!!!)
(p.s. im not exactly sober!)
i loved demonoid...
Respect to the unauthorised lenders/ friends I've not met in person as of yet!
ah well thank god for the net interlacing all of us!!!! id die without it!!!
(on that note.. how funny would it b if everyone switched off there comps at the same time.... as far as im concerned... there would b a lot of ppls house equipment & power plants blowing up!!!! & the temporary death of RAM viruses.)
From what I remember games were just as expensive then as they are now.
It's not going to stop.
you really are deluded if you think this will ever have the effect of lowering prices.
they cant RAISE prices as long as piracy is there because honest people will only pay so much before they turn to "alternate" means of getting media. eliminate piracy and overnight you can double the price or more on media.
if you never had one pirated copy made the prices would be way way higher than you pay now. if you could flip a switch and as of this second nothing could be pirated any more, the companies would be fighting over each other to see who could be the fastest to raise prices the most.
as long as pirates are there they keep the media companies prices lower because if you can get a pirate copy they have no choice but to supply us with a reasonably priced legal copy or you wont buy it.