Demonoid is down

[Black Core]

read and weep
http://slashdot.org/articles/07/09/26/132204.shtml

http://torrentfreak.com/demonoid-shut-down-by-cria-070925/

 

[Inapprope]

Actually the blog has done CNN's trick (or is it Fox's trick?) in that they assert a fact that they cannot prove, and so had a question mark at the end. They haven't said the CRIA is responsible, they've ASKED if the CRIA is responsible.

At this point the only thing we know is that demonoid was hosted in Canada, is currently down and the admins of the website haven't made any official comment.

It simply makes no sense that CRIA would be responsible for this. The Canadian MPAA would make more sense as I believe they haven't blundered into the situation the Canadian professional music industry has.

From what I've read, the demonoid servers got hosed and the admins have to restore everything from backups. The TorrentFreak article is just baseless speculation at this point and slashdot isn't helping by spreading these rumours.

maybe its not

 

[Black Core]

well it's down atm so...

 

[<-Warheart->]

There are other torrent sites...

 

[Inapprope]

^exactly i didnt even have a demonoid pword anyway

 

[Black Core]

There are other torrent sites...

true but none give the same quality as demonoid. With demonoid you're certain that there are seeds and that the tracker won't just vanish.

only site that beats Demonoid is Oink imo

 

[inhe]

true but none give the same quality as demonoid. With demonoid you're certain that there are seeds and that the tracker won't just vanish.

When you're getting something for free you can't really be that picky.

 

[vikk]

i always used Mininova, never had a problem

 

[Nerve]

^ Too weak.

 

[vikk]

but i never had a problem, and i don't even use much torrent

 

[Black Core]

^I use it every day so I need a solid tracker

When you're getting something for free you can't really be that picky.

true but it's quite annoying that you're at 97% of a movie and suddenly the tracker is down

 

[Corny]

Who uses torrents when you can have direct downloads ?(

 

[Black Core]

cuz rapidshare sucks when you don't have an account and you can't pause the downloads without having to start all over again

 

[vikk]

why pause it? my net sucks, and i download a full CD in 10 mins

 

[Black Core]

my net sucks more: 3 hours for 100mb

 

[Corny]

Then blame your shitty connection. A normal album takes 4-6 minutes with Rapidshare. And who cares about expensive accounts? If you don't have an account, you can just download 100 Mb every few hours. Solution: The large files are splitted in 100 Mb parts. After every part, restart your router. So downloading a 700 Mb file takes ca. 40 minutes.

But buying CDs is still the best alternative.

 

[vikk]

my net sucks more: 3 hours for 100mb

lol

 

[Fetzer]

why pause it? my net sucks, and i download a full CD in 10 mins

Why pause it? Well I'm actually downloading 9 movies and 3 full discography.

 

[Anonymous]

Oink is better anyways. I always find the most obscure shit on there with plenty of seeds.

 

[Black Core]

^exactly my point, you find more on torrents

who the fuck are you on Oink, Brandon? I've got oink too