One of the most popular Bitttorrent tracker site Demonoid.com was shut down by Ukrainian authorities on August 6,2012 from the Ukraine's largest data center ColoCall after 9 years of its operation (launched in 2003).
Ukrainian officials did that to show that they are taking U.S intellectual property rights very seriously.According to sources server was taken down by massive distributed denial of service(DDoS) attack.
In last few days site was inaccessible and was redirecting to some random sites.You might have noticed following error message:
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The action you requested could not be completed because the server is too busy.
Please try again in a few minutes
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In the past Demonoid frequently changed its location to avoid of being into too much focus.Also its registration were done through invitation or on some particular days of month.Demonoid’s current Alexa rank was 986 (Aug,2012).It’s major earning source was through advertisements.
Demonoid servers may have been shut down but ,it’s administrator has promised its users that Demonoid would be back very soon.Hope for the best
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