“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).”
noooooooooooo. i was greatly saddened when torrentspy started tracking people. also when the pirate bay was down briefly. i wish them the greatest of luck. ironically my hard drive crashed on the weekend. and a few weeks beforehand. so im off get a new one. best of luck.
I don’t understand how all of these sites aren’t permanently shut down/ taken off the web (or whatever! (no jargon here)) - surely they’re all highly illegal (which is why I don’t illegally download files )
The websites themselves are not illegal, just as a BitTorrent client or a P2P server like Kazaa is not illegal…it can just be used to do illegal things.
I’m on 3 Private sites, which I’m not even going to say the names of.
One is completely Scene RLS’s, one is completely Music Scene RLS’s, and the other is all HD stuff, movies, TV, Trailers, etc…
Since like 4 years ago when I got into these sites, I have only visited public trackers maybe a max of once every few months when I want something old, or someone wants something that isn’t on my Private Scene sites.
EDIT: If I count all the private sites I have accounts on but don’t use, it’s probably in the range of 15-20, but I only use the best sites with uploaders from Sweden, and the likes that maxes out my 10mbit download speed. As well I only use sites if they upload new stuff quickly, fast pre-time uploads. My favourite site is usually any where from 30 seconds after pre-time, to about 15 minutes.
I find it pretty funny that its the CRIA that might be behind it. In Canada they have set a few precedents that basically make it legal to download music and other things (although other things seems a bit ambiguous) and it is only illegal to rip music and other things for the purpose of sharing them with others. So you are aloud to rip music and stuff but you aren’t aloud to share what you rip, but you are aloud to download music and stuff and share that. Its all a bit confusing but I guess it still comes down to big corporations attacking torrent communities.
(which is why I don’t illegally download files 
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