The CRIA threatened the company hosting our servers, and because of this, we are unable to keep the site online. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your understanding.
This is what we found when trying to access www.demonoid.com today. The CRIA is the Canadian Recording Industry Association, famous for the effectiveness of its anti-piracy service. For its part, Demonoid.com is one of the best-known torrent file trackers; the site was already closed last September 27, a closure that ended when Demonoid.com massively banned Canadian users, a clever maneuver that evaded the CRIA’s jurisdiction. A tracker is a server that hosts and indexes
Demonoid.com is not the first tracker that the “defenders of the entertainment industries” have closed, nor is it the first to manage to slip out of their clutches, as is the case with Thepiratebay.org, a website created by the Swedish anti-copyright association Piratbyrån, and whose managers tried to buy a country to continue their activity without breaking the law.
Technorati Tags: copyright, economy, information, internet, network, legality