If the US was involved with this I've got to say I'm impressed by the amount of international cooperation internet piracy can produce.
But man when Mexicans who run a site with Montenegro address through servers in the Ukraine in order to avoid US laws I guess its either massive cooperation or total failure.
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I've know Demonoid was down for the past week or so but I heard rumors it was do to hackers. Soon PirateBay will be down and we will be left with almost nothing.
Last edited by ares834 on Aug 9th, 2012 at 12:52 AM
I'm wondering if the demise of the site indirectly came from the very users that used the site. Considering the nature of a DDOS attack, it is launched from several machines at once, which send the same packet at the same time, which overloads the server due to the amount of requests that it tasks the server. Once the server gets thousands of requests, it is pulled down while attempting to resolve all packet requests. Simple and effective with no known way of being stopped.
They wouldn't have to. A trojan could/would have been sown into thousands of files over the past year, and when users downloaded these files that do not appear to affect the multiple machines that download them, (pretty much going undetected) all that the ring master has to do once they have a high count of infected machines from all over the world, is send a simple script that launches packet upon packet requests from those infected machines, to the server/s targeted. A back door is opened, and the server/s can be flooded by a malicious propagating worm or virus.
A child could do this from what I have read concerning this form of attack, and most of the times they are.
So, it appears, Colocall, the servers who hosted Demonoid, took them down voluntarily. This was after being visited by members of Ukrainian law enforcement, who sealed off some computers and copied data. This may have been done at a request by Interpol and Mexican police agencies, as the owners of the site are thought to be in Mexico, and there is an ongoing investigation there. The timing of the shut down seems to coincide with the Ukrainian PM visiting Washington, as intellectual property rights have been a sticking issue between the two nations before, and Ukraine is looking to show the Americans they are doing something about it.
Anonymous launched a series of DDOS attacks against various Ukrainian government web sites, however, it appears the last nail in the coffin for Demonoid came earlier this weekend, as the domain names are back up for sale. There is still no information as to whether there will be action taken against individual Demonoid users as a result of the raids.
Now you jobless bums are going to have to pay money for all the shitty movies and games you want.
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