Demonoid.com torrent website is back online after being shut down following a lawsuit threat from the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA). Apparently the threat was not enough to keep the green devil offline and on Oct 1 the site was back online even though not fully functional.
It is still being hosted by a Canadian ISP, but is blocking all Canadian traffic to avoid trouble with the CRIA.
The Demonoid homepage said it had received a letter from a lawyer representing the CRIA, they were threatening with legal action and it need to start blocking Canadian traffic.
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We received a letter from a lawyer represeting the CRIA, they were threatening with legal action and we need to start blocking Canadian traffic because of this.
Thanks for your understanding, and sorry for any inconvenience.
The site is already a refugee from Sweden and is using the same self preservation technique developed by Isohunt and TorrentSpy which blocked access to US users to avoid complaints from the RIAA.
However adapting the site so it only accepts non-Canadians seems to have sent the forums and main page into disarray for a while. The administrators at the site say it will take a few days to recover completely.
