It’s shaping up to be a bad week for the BitTorrent community as another popular tracker site winds up in legal crosshairs.
The BREIN foundation, a joint Dutch anti-piracy program of authors, artists and producers of music, film and interactive software in the fight against Intellectual Property theft, have now set their sites on the ubiquitous Demonoid.com, one of the more popular "private" BitTorrent tracker sites out there today.
Demonoid has been offline for a few days due to an apparent HDD drive crash, with a message to users on their site reading as follows:
We had a system problem which will force us to restore everything from backup.
The disks are pretty much empty right now and until we are able to upload the backup and set up everything up, we have to close down.
We’ll be back as soon as possible. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Well, now it would seem that the plot has thickened with BREIN now apparently targeting Demonoid’s ISP Leaseweb for hosting the site and thereby scaring Demonoid enough to seek out a new server host. An exasperated BREIN gleefully comments that "…it strongly seems that disappearing the site is the consequence of this intimation."
BREIN notes that "…on average 93.8% of the accessible files are see as illegal to. From the control of the contents became clear that at least 92.4% of files the commented as a resistance worker were effectively useful. None of these useful works the contained other content then title of the torrent indicated."
"This outcome shows clearly that it is illegal content offering takes place on large international torrent sites such as Demonoid where the users supply torrentlinks and content," says BREIN director Tim Kuik.
BREIN also oddly notes that the site is adamant about refusing to host links to pornographic material yet, feels no such quandary about links to copyrighted content. They cite this as example of how Demonoid could just as easily refuse copyrighted content and that it has no argument with which to justify a stance to the contrary.
It too criticizes the Netherlands reputation as a "safe port" and in particular Leaseweb, and that this all must come to an end.
Kulk closes with an a warning for Demonoid and Leaseweb, writing:
So it seems Demonoid plays hide and go seek. We think it’s important that Leaseweb takes measures to take and keep these and other illegal sites inaccessible and the name – and address data of his administrators be released so that they can be held liable for damages. Should it appear that Leaseweb has no reliable customer data, then it should be held liable for the damage it has caused.
Moreover, it would seem the gloves have come off in the copyright holders battle against BitTorrent tracker sites and it’s anybody’s guess what the outcome will be. But, if groups like BREIN are to effectively root out "safe ports" like the Netherlands and elsewhere it may just spell the end of the days where large BitTorrent trackers sites ran free and push everybody into the world of small, private, clandestine sites, or even into a complete switchover to the world of Usenet.
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Thank God they will have a HARD TIME shutting down newsgroups. At least I still have that.
@Meyou123
I think thats really the future anyways.
hum what they don’t seem to realize is the underground community…. I mean the real one the hardcore one…. they won’t let that happen…. we have seen in the past what a major virus can do…. we have seen what a major flooding is capable of…. and i remember reading an article a couple years ago about the government having made a study which seems to say that if the major hackers or group of hackers would ally together against a single country they could take the country to its knees in a matter of weeks….
today it’s just the copyrights and P2P which is targeted…. what will happen when they start to really invade our privacy illegally….???
I mean come on remember doing mix tapes on the radio and making doubles for my friends and I have more than 200 films in Vs that I made copies of for friends…. did it destroyed the industry ???? and I’m pretty sure their are less people that knows about the P2P industry than about cassettes recorder back then…….
I really start thinking that the fight is not about copyrights but more about controlling the web and the flow of information….
doing that sooner or later you gonna have a reaction and that day it won’t be pretty….. economically speaking it could be worst than 9/11…. we are talking about a telecommunication blackout…. which more than possible….
i’m not saying it’s gonna be the end of the world….. but if major place like wall street and major nods in the net work are down more than a 12 hours we are talking about 100 of billions of dollars lost…. I’m not sure they want that to happen…..
fuck that! demonoid will rturn nobody can stop filesharing. its the future
if demonoid goes down ill be really pissed. i could handle losing torrentspy but not BOTH.
I like ZP.
it’s a game of cat and mouse take down one & another pops up with better lawyers (napster->limewire)
please dont shutdown demonoid=( please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!