One of the biggest torrent sites busted by police

Miscellaneous General
1

Demonoid busted by the police

Summary: Demonoid, one of the biggest torrent sites, was taken down on July 25 by a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. Ukrainian officials then made sure the servers remained inaccessible, apparently to show the U.S. it is taking intellectual property rights seriously.

"The general consensus is that Demonoid did not break Ukranian law. In fact, the site went to extreme measures to avoid the wrath of local authorities: it blocked all Ukranian IP addresses. Nevertheless, it is believed that the U.S. got involved, and suddenly Ukraine started looking into the torrent site.

On Friday, Ukraine’s Interior Ministry announced that the site was taken down the night before its First Deputy Prime Minister Valeriy Khoroshkovsky arrived in the U.S. to discuss matters with United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk. One of the issues on the docket was, unsurprisingly, intellectual property rights. In fact, this was the first matter mentioned in their joint statement, which was released by the Office of the United States Trade Representative: …"

2

Yikes. That worries me…though the demonoid admin promises he’ll be back soon.

3

hope the demonoid soon returns

4

Here’s the whole chronology with new updates:

Chronological order…

Demonoid Goes Down, Sort Of

Demonoid hit by DDoS attack

One week later, Demonoid still down after massive DDOS attack

Demonoid Still Down, Fake Facebook Gets Press

Is Demonoid gone for good?

Demonoid Starts Redirecting to Ads and Malware

Oh wait…yay

Demonoid admin: We’ll be back

Oh wait, fuck..

Demonoid busted by the police

Demonoid owners under criminal investigation

heheheh

Anonymous attacks Ukrainian government after Demonoid bust

5

Oh no’s! The government websites went down…who will read them now!?

6

thats nothing compared to kimdotcoms mega upload.kimdot com was raided with a massive force of arms now deemed an illegal raid by nz high court.the timing was in tune with new Internet laws.what was real interesting is his service for dealing with copy right infringements was comparable to youtubes and no complaint to mega upload was giver given by any of the major film industries players.

7

Yea how is that case going by the way? Anyone have any updates?

8

Kim Dotcom#Megaupload and related companies

A while back:

MPAA Wants To Force Megaupload Host Server To Sit on All That Data So They Can Take Their Time and Sue More People (with update)

In July he wrote a letter to Hollywood.

Just a few days ago he vowed that new Megaupload will have ironclad legal protection

9

Fuck the government!

10

So he is starting a new megaupload. Good. That is how it should be done. Not these stupid DDOS attacks on government websites which serve no purpose other then publicity. If the state smashes a website, build around it.