Demonoid Shut By Ukrainian Authorities 178
hypnosec writes "After a prolonged outage that lasted for nearly a week Demonoid has reportedly been audited and closed down by the Ukrainian law enforcement agency. According to reports the Ukrainian anti-cybercrime police division carried out an investigation of ColoCall – the hosting service provider for Demonoid. Servers were sealed after all the data on the servers was copied. According to ColoCall the servers haven't been seized but, they are not operational any more. The hosting service provider is going to end the agreement with Demonoid. 'Investigators have copied all the information from the Demonoid servers and sealed them.' a manager from ColoCall, wishing to stay anonymous, said."
Re:Color me surprised (Score:5, Informative)
Russian doesn't give a damn about US copyright claims.
Ukraine != Russia.
The former Soviet republics that are now independent states (including Ukraine) tend to be friendlier to the US and EU than Russia itself is, because they rely upon NATO support to maintain effective independence from Russian control.
Re:Bout time (Score:5, Informative)
Demonoid was a torrent site, not a storage service.
Re:Huge victory for content industry! (Score:5, Informative)
When Doctor Who started up again Demonoid torrents were the only way us USAians could see it *at all*. It probably helped Who and many other BBC shows get their American deals.
There is definitely advantages for content owners here whether they want to admit it or not.
wtf are you talking about (Score:5, Informative)
they never had malware ads, but they did turn on the ads after being DDOS'd due to the bandwidth bill. Considering that such a thing happened literally in the last two days I can't see why the Ukranians would shut it down that fast or even have the capability to, for that matter.
Re:WTH is Demonoid? (Score:4, Informative)
Here you go
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonoid [wikipedia.org]
Re:Huge victory for content industry! (Score:4, Informative)
If you think demonoid was the only place to get Doctor Who, you're hilariously incorrect.