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Demonoid taken down as a gift to the U.S. by the Ukrainian government.
Where’s Demonoid? Oh, it was taken down by the Ukranian government as a little present to the United States. A source in the country’s Interior Ministry says that the action was scheduled to coincide with Deputy Prime Minister Valery Khoroshkovsky’s trip to the United States.
ColoCall is the largest datacenter in Ukraine and a place that has been Demonoid’s home in recent years. But in the middle of last week, in the wake of the DDoS attack, government investigators arrived at ColoCall to shut Demonoid down.
“Investigators have copied all the information from the servers Demonoid and sealed them,” an anonymous ColoCall source confirmed. “Some equipment was not seized, but now it does not work, and we were forced to terminate the agreement with the site.”
As reported on TorrentFreak following our discussions with Demonoid’s admin last week, there were suspicions that the site may have been subjected to some kind of exploit or hack in addition to the DDoS. That version of events is now confirmed by the ColoCall source.
“Shortly after [the DDoS] a hacker break-in occurred, and a few days later came the investigators,” the source added.
But aside from the busting of the site, which is the biggest BitTorrent-related raid in recent memory and one that has taken out the world’s largest torrent site/tracker combo, there is a rather large international sting in the tail.
Despite general opinion that Demonoid did not contravene Ukranian law, especially since it blocked all Ukranian IP addresses to avoid upsetting the locals, the site still attracted the attention of the authorities there. That, according to a source in the country’s government, is all down to the United States getting involved.
A source inside the Interior Ministry has informed Kommersant that the raid on Demonoid was timed to coincide with the very first trip of Deputy Prime Minister Valery Khoroshkovsky‘s trip to the United States. On the agenda: copyright infringement.
Ukraine had promised the United States that it would improve its attitude and efforts towards enforcing copyright and no doubt its Western partner will be very pleased indeed that Demonoid’s head has been presented on a platter.
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posted 06 August, 2012
by soxxie
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This is really sad. I dont use public or semi-public trackers any more but demonoid did have lots of rare stuff! The...
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WHERE THE FUCK AM I GONNA GET CRITERION FILMS NOW?
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i just saw this yesterday when i went to download something. ): betcha this wouldn’t have happened if they’d just kept...
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FUCK. Another one bites the dust. Oh well. At least The Pirate Bay is still up.
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are you fucking kidding me?
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Fucking third world dicksucking scumbag crony country ruining my internets. Their 2 biggest out ports are sadness and...
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AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUCK
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bullshit. If you read...whole thing and think about why this all happened, it’s sicking...
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I am the saddest sad.
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FUCKKKK YOOOUUUUU THAT WAS MY SOURCE FOR FREE COMICS!!!!
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Well that explains why I haven’t been able to get on it in like two weeks.
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