Demonoid.com

[TayfunRaider]

Messege sent. Hope not late. Thank you.

[deeeznuuuts]

most demoniod torrents are posted on various other sites, would worry too much about registering

[feelgood]

That's weird...

[boltsi]

What is there so special in demonoid.com ?
Looks like everyone is trying to get in there

[Doin]

Does anyone know what's happened to Demonoid?
There is no page to open anymore. Internet Explorer can't find the page.
I really want the first episode of the new Heroes....

What are the other good torrent sites?

PS - I have downloaded Paradise Lost 1&2 - the movies made by the guys who made Some Kind of Monster. Very good doco. Still watching it.

[sorrowman]

Demonoid has developed a 'habit' of going down every once in a while. I believe recently they were working on some technical issues (overload on their servers they were trying to sort out), so I think they're gonna be down for a little while, maybe a couple of dayz or something

[metmum]

Could be more serious than just hardware issues. This was posted at the traders den

Originally Posted by TorrentFreak
The Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN filed a subpoena against Demonoid’s ISP (Leaseweb) in which they demand that the site will be taken offline. It seems likely that Demonoid’s current downtime is not a hardware problem, they are probably moving to another ISP.

breinYesterday we reported that the downtime at demonoid was caused by a harddisk crash, but now it seems that the real reason for the downtime could be a bit more complicated.

Demonoid is probably relocating to a new “safe haven” as we speak, this also explains why it takes a few days instead of a few hours to get back online (edit: see update).

Tim Kuik, managing director of BREIN, said in response to the downtime at Demonoid (Dutch link): “They are probably playing hide and seek. We want Leaseweb to take and keep this, and other illegal sites offline.”

This the the fist time that BREIN takes on one of the bigger BitTorrent sites. Last week they won a lawsuit against Leaseweb in a similar case, this could spell trouble for Demonoid.

In this case the Amsterdam court decided that Leaseweb had to take down everlasting.nu and hand over the name and address of the owner. Additionally, Leaseweb was forced to take down everlasting.nu, in case the site returns in the near future. The same thing could now happen to Demonoid.

Nearly 94% of the .torrent files on Demonoid are used to download copyrighted material according to research by TNO. BREIN will probably use this figure in court to convince the Judge that Demonoid is mainly used to download infringing content.

Update: Demonoid now has a message on the frontpage stating that the downtime is not related to the subpoena.

Stay tuned for updates

[Poolzer]

its back online, though not for cannucks:

We received a letter from a lawyer represeting the CRIA, they were threatening with legal action and we need to start blocking Canadian traffic because of this.

[dmegametal#1]

out of curiosity..why Canadians??

[Poolzer]

cuz their money is silly