Posts Tagged ‘Demonoid’

Letter to the CRIA

Shawn | October 5, 2007 in General, Music | Comments (2)

So Demonoid is back up, but thanks to the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA), Demonoid is forced to block all Canadian traffic to the site. Read more here. Thank you Jarod for this letter that has been circulating myspace and other message boards. The guy tends to digress, but I’d be a ramblin’ mad Canuck in this case too!

To Whom It May Concern at the CRIA:

I have been an avid music collector for many years, and have approximately 1000 CD’s in my collection, not counting albums that I have purchased over the internet and own only digital copies of. I purchase approximately 30-40 new CDs per year. However, thanks to your recent decision to block Canadian users from accessing Demonoid, I have decided that I cannot continue to support this backwards, dysfunctional industry with my money any longer, and as such, I do not plan on purchasing music ever again if it means that one penny goes to your organization. (more…)

Grrrr!

Shawn | September 26, 2007 in Journal, Music | Comments (3)

Tags: Bittorrent, CRIA, Demonoid, offline

Torrent Tracker Demonoid.com Taken Offline

By Scott Gilbertson September 26, 2007 | 8:52:16 AMCategories: P2P

The popular Demonoid.com, a semi-private BitTorrent tracker, has been taken offline. Both the torrent tracker and the site have been unresponsive for over twenty-four hours. Although there has been no official word, or statement from the Demonoid administrators, TorrentFreak claims that the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) is responsible for the downtime, but the CRIA has refused to comment (see update below).

TorrentFreak reports that it contacted some of the Demonoid administrators, but even they are not yet sure what happened to the site.

If it does turn out to be the CRIA, this won’t be the first time Demonoid has suffered major downtime due to pressure from the recording industry. Earlier this year Demonoid moved its servers from The Netherlands to Canada after a Dutch anti-piracy group filed a subpoena demanding the site’s ISP remove Demonoid and cough up the administrator’s identities. –Read the entire article here at Wired