[Floyd Robertson]

Looks like it's back up.

Demonoid Returns: Canadian Users Banned

By Scott Gilbertson October 01, 2007 | 11:34:57 AMCategories: P2P


After a five day outage that started last week, the popular torrent site/tracker Demonoid.com appears to back online — sort of. Early reports say that the site relaunched with the following message on the front page:

We received a letter from a lawyer representing 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.

At the moment, Demonoid trackers appear to be working, but the site is currently down. However, it would seem that the site outage is most likely a technical problem. The front door says “the latest changes to the site are giving us some problems - We’ll be back soon.”

TorrentFreak was the first site to note that Demonoid was back online and the rumored ban of Canadian users comes from the TorrentFreak post, with a number of others reporting seeing the same on Digg. The Circuit Box, which has also been following the outage, disputes TorrentFreak's claims, though it doesn't give any reasons for doubting it, nor does it offer a different explanation.
If in fact Canadian users are being banned from Demonoid and you happen to be living in Canada, it’s time to learn about proxies.