Summary: Demonoid, one of the biggest torrent sites, was taken down on July 25 by a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. Ukrainian officials then made sure the servers remained inaccessible, apparently to show the U.S. it is taking intellectual property rights seriously.
"The general consensus is that Demonoid did not break Ukranian law. In fact, the site went to extreme measures to avoid the wrath of local authorities: it blocked all Ukranian IP addresses. Nevertheless, it is believed that the U.S. got involved, and suddenly Ukraine started looking into the torrent site.
On Friday, Ukraine's Interior Ministry announced that the site was taken down the night before its First Deputy Prime Minister Valeriy Khoroshkovsky arrived in the U.S. to discuss matters with United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk. One of the issues on the docket was, unsurprisingly, intellectual property rights. In fact, this was the first matter mentioned in their joint statement, which was released by the Office of the United States Trade Representative: ...."
Yikes. That worries me...though the demonoid admin promises he'll be back soon.
hope the demonoid soon returns
Here's the whole chronology with new updates:
Chronological order... Demonoid Goes Down, Sort Of Demonoid hit by DDoS attack One week later, Demonoid still down after massive DDOS attack Demonoid Still Down, Fake Facebook Gets Press Is Demonoid gone for good? Demonoid Starts Redirecting to Ads and Malware Oh wait...yay Demonoid admin: We'll be back Oh wait, fuck.. Demonoid busted by the police
Demonoid owners under criminal investigation
heheheh
Anonymous attacks Ukrainian government after Demonoid bust
Oh no's! The government websites went down...who will read them now!?
'Men do not change, they unmask themselves' - Germaine de Stael
thats nothing compared to kimdotcoms mega upload.kimdot com was raided with a massive force of arms now deemed an illegal raid by nz high court.the timing was in tune with new Internet laws.what was real interesting is his service for dealing with copy right infringements was comparable to youtubes and no complaint to mega upload was giver given by any of the major film industries players.
Yea how is that case going by the way? Anyone have any updates?
Andrew Cain:Yea how is that case going by the way? Anyone have any updates?
Kim Dotcom#Megaupload and related companies
A while back:
MPAA Wants To Force Megaupload Host Server To Sit on All That Data So They Can Take Their Time and Sue More People (with update)
In July he wrote a letter to Hollywood.
Just a few days ago he vowed that new Megaupload will have ironclad legal protection
Fuck the government!
So he is starting a new megaupload. Good. That is how it should be done. Not these stupid DDOS attacks on government websites which serve no purpose other then publicity. If the state smashes a website, build around it.