Demonoid follows after the uTorrent was brought down in a coordinated effort
Monday, August 13th, 2012 5:07:03 by Usman Khalid
Three key Demonoid domains are now up for sale, less than two weeks after the BitTorrent site was taken down in a coordinated effort.
Torrent lovers, beware, their beloved uTorrent has been taken down and now three more website names are up for grabs as they have also been unplugged from the web because of notorious work.
The Ukraine-based site was taken offline earlier this month when local authorities contacted its Internet service provider, Colocall, and forced it to shut down the service’s servers. Demonoid was among the Web sites included in the U.S. “Notorious Markets List,” which was created to identify “markets, including those on the Internet, which exemplify the problem of marketplaces dealing in infringing goods and helping sustain global piracy.”
Three of its domains — demonoid.me, demonoid.com, and demonoid.ph. — are available for purchase on domain marketplace Sedo.
Interpol and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry said they worked together to take down the site, was ranked in the top 600 Web sites in global traffic and the top 300 in U.S. traffic. However, Colocall said decided to terminate Demonoid’s service on its own accord.
“Demonoid was a leading global player in digital music piracy which acted as unfair competition to the more than 500 licensed digital music services that offer great value music to consumers while respecting the rights of artists, songwriters and record companies,” Jeremy Banks, director of anti-piracy for the IFPI, said in a statement. “The operation to close Demonoid was a great example of international cooperation to tackle a service that was facilitating the illegal distribution of music on a vast scale.”
The action led international hacking group Anonymous to promise to bring down its wrath on the Ukrainian government and use “any means necessary” to restore Demonoid.
Tags: demonoid, out, pluged, utorrentShort URL: https://www.newspakistan.pk/?p=30828
Posted by Usman Khalid
on Aug 13 2012. Filed under Sci-Tech.
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It sounds like the beginning of the end for demonoid. Too bad. Hopefully they pull through. I do hope this adware crap with utorrent is their death blow. I haven’t used or trusted utorrent in a long time, and now never will. I switched to Tixati and highly recommend it to anyone looking for a good, stable, simple, ad-ware free and spyware free client.
I think that the loss of Demonoid will make room for newer innovations and Demonoid will return inanother, far more robust form. History has shown that this type of action always creates newer and more innovative ways for Demonoid-like-goals to be fulfilled, and along with IPv6, and ever increasing bandwidth and newer technologies emerging, it’s a huge understatement to say soon even the “Demonoid problem” Napster, (remember that?) only not so nearly as easily to get rid of as simply removing a central tracker website or any number of people who might utilize a decentralized system built upon plausible denyability.