The Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN file a subpoena against Demonoid’s ISP (Leaseweb) where they emergency that the site will be taken offline. It seem predictable that Demonoid’s current downtime is not a hardware problem, they are probably moving to another ISP.
Yesterday we reported that the downtime at demonoid be cause by a harddisk crash, but presently it seem that the unadulterated rationale for the downtime could be a bit more complicated.
Demonoid is probably relocating to a unmarked “safe haven” as we speak, this also explains why it take a few days instead of a few hours to go and get vertebrae online (edit: see update).
Tim Kuik, managing director of BREIN, said in response to the downtime at Demonoid (Dutch link): “They are probably playing hide from view and aim. We want Leaseweb to thieve and hold on to this, and other unconstitutional sites offline.”
This the the fist time that BREIN take on one of the bigger BitTorrent sites. Last week they won a lawsuit against Leaseweb in a similar suitcase, this could spell trouble for Demonoid.
In this luggage the Amsterdam court established that Leaseweb have to pilfer down everlasting.nu and foot over the nickname and address of the owner. Additionally, Leaseweb be forced to transport down everlasting.nu, in shield the site returns surrounded by the close by adjectives. The same entity could immediately evolve to Demonoid.
Nearly 94% of the .torrent files on Demonoid are used to download copyrighted matter according to research by TNO. BREIN will probably use this digit surrounded by court to convince the Judge that Demonoid is for the most part used to download infringing content.
Update: Demonoid immediately have a message on the frontpage stating that the downtime is not related to the subpoena.
Answers:
I don't know what 's the question. I've used demonoid, didn't close to it. I use torrentspy or axxotorrent and I've get no problem.