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Canadian-hosted torrent site is the next to fall in a series of takedowns

The world-wide crackdown on torrent sites has brought down another major torrent hub. After being forced to close its doors to Canadian users in September due to pressure from the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA), Demonoid.com survived for only slightly more than a month before being having forced offline entirely today.

The previously bustling homepage has been replaced by a single line of text; bereft of much in the way of details, but leaving little doubt as to the fate of the website:

The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding.

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The Minnesota woman who last week was ordered to pay the recording industry $222,000 for copyright violations related to sharing songs, has decided to appeal the verdict.

Thomas announced her decision Monday morning on cable news channel CNN and on her MySpace.com page.

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The TPB team is currently working on a more efficient Open Source tracker system that, among other things, will guarantee better protection against anti-piracy outfits.

Some of you might have noticed that the Pirate Bay trackers were down for a couple of hours today. The reason for the downtime is not related to an anti-piracy organization this time, on the contrary. TPB has moved its servers to a new datacenter and added some extra servers to their already pretty impressive server lineup. The tracker currently runs on 12 servers, and 4 brand new ones will be added later today.

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Demonoid.com has allegedly been taken offline by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA).

Both the tracker and the website have been unresponsive for nearly 24 hours now. As of now it is still unsure what exactly happened, but the popular Dutch news site nu.nl reports that the CRIA is responsible for the downtime.

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The big record and movie companies are paying professional hackers, saboteurs and ddosers to destroy the site.

Thanks to the email-leakage from MediaDefender-Defenders we(TPB) now have proof of the things we’ve been suspecting for a long time; the big record and movie labels are paying professional hackers, saboteurs and ddosers to destroy our trackers.

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While ISPs start limiting BitTorrent Traffic, there are still some way to get around it. While there are valid arguments for and against these limitations, we’re not here to debate. We just want the fastest BitTorrent transfers possible.

Even though many of them deny it, most ISPs actively engage in traffic shaping, bandwidth throttling, connection denial or some such tactic to keep the amount of bandwidth consumed by high traffic applications on their networks to a minimum. While this does often ensure better performance for everyone in the neighborhood, it can mean painfully slow transfer speeds for those dabbling in P2P — legit or not.

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Sk0t, an ex-administrator of the EliteTorrents BitTorrent tracker, who uploaded the latest Star Wars movie got arrested, pleaded guilty to ‘conspiracy to commit copyright infringement’ and ‘criminal copyright infringement’ and got jail and home confinement. As part of his home confinement, he agreed to install some tracking software on his computer. The problem is He’s an Ubuntu Linux user and the government doesn’t have any tracking software for Linux. So he’s been told that he must use Windows for the term of his confinement.

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A company that distributes Japanese animated cartoons has tracked down thousands of BitTorrent users it accuses of breaching their copyrights and has successfully forced their ISPs to reveal their identities. Next step - threatening letters: ?Pay Us $3,500 or Else?

In 2007 a decision was made in the company to start targeting people who share their material via BitTorrent after they claimed their sales had dropped 60-70 percent in just 2 years. After using a tracking system to collect the IP addresses of sharers, they have successfully forced StarHub - an internet service provider - to reveal the identities of 1000 BitTorrent users they accuse of breaching their copyrights. It had previously forced the ISP SingNet to reveal its customers details.

The next step for Odex is a familiar one to file-sharers: they will use the list of names that StarHub supplies to send them threatening letters(pdf) declaring that they?ve been caught sharing anime, such as the hugely popular ?Bleach?, and that the only alternative to being dragged through the courts, is to pay a $3000-plus ?fine?. Not that they?ll have much time to think about the next step - Odex gives around 9 days for a response before it threatens legal action.

According to Stephen Sing (a director of Odex) the ?downloading situation? in Singapore is very bad: ?We have engaged companies to track illegal downloads in Singapore, and ratio-wise, we?re actually right up there in the illegal downloads in the world, in terms of Japanese animation.?

Mr Sing,  has been dubbed ?the most hated main in Singapore?s anime community?, with anime fans putting up his photographs and personal information onto the internet, making wanted posters of him, posting pictures of his wife on the internet, threatening him with violence and promising to set fire to his house. At this point, Sing called in the police.

Mr Sing has been dubbed ?the most hated main in Singapore?s anime community?, with anime fans putting up his photographs and personal information onto the internet, making wanted posters of him, posting pictures of his wife on the internet, threatening him with violence and promising to set fire to his house. At this point, Sing called in the police.

Source: torrentfreak