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Demonoid returns but forced to block Canadian traffic to site
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The following comments relate to this news article:
article published on 30 September, 2007
Demonoid is finally back online after a week of downtime in which rumors swirled that the tracker was taken down by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA). Although the rumors proved to be somewhat true, the tracker and website are still being hosted on a Canadian ISP but now must block all Canadian traffic.
A note on the Demonoid homepage had this to say, "We received a letter ... [ read the full article ]
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1. October 2007 @ 18:44 |
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Originally posted by Headborg:
I'm in the US too, and having no trouble accessing ISOHUNT or TorrentSpy...so much for blocking. I recommend Canadian users to get a VPN tunnel to a proxy ISP outside their country and then they'll have no problem either...it's just a less direct connection...ayy the beauty of a world wide web.
any good proxy ISP suggestions??? And what is that VPN tunnel?
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Headborg
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1. October 2007 @ 19:40 |
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Originally posted by Headborg:
I'm in the US too, and having no trouble accessing ISOHUNT or TorrentSpy...so much for blocking. I recommend Canadian users to get a VPN tunnel to a proxy ISP outside their country and then they'll have no problem either...it's just a less direct connection...ayy the beauty of a world wide web.
any good proxy ISP suggestions??? And what is that VPN tunnel?
I copied this...it includes much good advice....I would also suggest paying for your Relakks via International Money Order...under an assumed name & get a private mail box(not a USP post office box)..one of those private mail box addresses at UPS store etc. anyway:
I use Relakks and the Tor Button Plug-In for anonymity with Firefox, and I use Hushmail to maintain my relakks account, but I wonder if using these services acts as some kind of "red flag" as far as the FBI is concerned (did I automatically become the subject of some kind of investigation, just by using these services?) and I wonder if Tor servers are not actually controlled by the FBI or other intelligence agencies. Actually, I kind of doubt either option is 100% secure (ie, not infiltrated by so-called "jackbooted thugs"). But these are the best options I know of for guarding my privacy, and as far as I can tell, our rights have been eroded pointlessly and needlessly. So using these resources is like making a mild political statement, an objection to government overstepping its bounds - I think everyone should do it. Oh, and by the way Big Brother, you don't belong in our bedrooms either...
RELAKKS Safe Surf (http://www.relakks.com - EUR 5.00 per month )...
The Service consists of an encrypted VPN tunnel between your computer and RELAKKS. The IP-number you receive from your existing ISP is only used to connect your computer to RELAKKS,from there on RELAKKS substitute your existing IP-number with a new IP-number from RELAKKS. This gives you a number of advantages:
· Your existing ISP will not be able to intercept and track your applications or communication
· Your existing ISP can not limit what you can do nor limit what information you can access
· Other organizations or individuals can?t intercept or track your applications or communication.
And Torpark or Tor Button...
Torrify/Torpak (I use the free browser) http://www.torrify.com/intro.html - They also offer "secure offshore servers" and "secure email" as well as "anonymous payment processing". $35+ per month. (I think it's SLOW, and expensive for my simple purposes.)
Torbutton is a 1-click way for Firefox users to enable or disable the browser's use of Tor. It adds a panel to the statusbar that says "Tor Enabled" (in green) or "Tor Disabled" (in red)... http://freehaven.net/~squires/torbutton/
Oh, and http://www.anonymous-p2p.org/ - great resource. Spread the word.
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lavet
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1. October 2007 @ 20:20 |
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Originally posted by Headborg:
I'm in the US too, and having no trouble accessing ISOHUNT or TorrentSpy...so much for blocking. I recommend Canadian users to get a VPN tunnel to a proxy ISP outside their country and then they'll have no problem either...it's just a less direct connection...ayy the beauty of a world wide web.
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May I ask what a VPN tunnel to a proxy is?
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hwbc
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1. October 2007 @ 21:03 |
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I'm a member of Demonoid from Canada, and I've got question.
If I use a proxy to access the site again, would I still have my old account, or will I have to open a new account?
Thanks for any replies.
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cammy07
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1. October 2007 @ 21:08 |
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although I am wraped that demonoid is back I will be thinking of you canadians and will give a moment of silence, hope they way around it works for you guys, good luck from New Zealand.
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1. October 2007 @ 21:15 |
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Originally posted by cammy07:
although I am wraped that demonoid is back I will be thinking of you canadians and will give a moment of silence, hope they way around it works for you guys, good luck from New Zealand.
I already tried using a proxy but demonoid says that the site is still in maintenance and will be back shortly. Anyway, it sucks!!!!!!!!!!! Am so pissed coz demonoid has everything! I would rather trade it for torrentpy any day!
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Headborg
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1. October 2007 @ 21:44 |
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Originally posted by hwbc:
I'm a member of Demonoid from Canada, and I've got question.
If I use a proxy to access the site again, would I still have my old account, or will I have to open a new account?
Thanks for any replies.
I don't believe there would be any techno reason for having to establish a new account just because you're using a proxy as a "front door" agent to get in. But, i was just over there 3 minutes ago...and the Member List was under "repair" which leads me to believe they are at this time..purging all members with Canadian ISP's (e-mail accounts or other indications that those members are Canadian.) For Your protection as well as Demonoid's). So, yep you might have to open a new account...Not sure. That would be a good question for:
Gate_Keeper@demonoid.com
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hwbc
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1. October 2007 @ 21:51 |
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Thank you.
If they are indeed purging their Canadian accounts, then I guess I'll have to start over.
Demonoid is by far my favorite site to give it up without a fight.
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1. October 2007 @ 22:12 |
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Originally posted by cammy07:
although I am wraped that demonoid is back I will be thinking of you canadians and will give a moment of silence, hope they way around it works for you guys, good luck from New Zealand.
Thats one of the good things about living in a small country like NZ (I do too), the likelyhood of us being blocked from anywhere is slim. They have bigger fish to fry, would be better if we had better Broadband speeds though :(
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I already tried using a proxy but demonoid says that the site is still in maintenance and will be back shortly. Anyway, it sucks!!!!!!!!!!! Am so pissed coz demonoid has everything! I would rather trade it for torrentpy any day!
Can confirm that the site is now working properly, just logged in.
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1. October 2007 @ 22:17 |
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Originally posted by cammy07:
although I am wraped that demonoid is back I will be thinking of you canadians and will give a moment of silence, hope they way around it works for you guys, good luck from New Zealand.
Thats one of the good things about living in a small country like NZ (I do too), the likelyhood of us being blocked from anywhere is slim. They have bigger fish to fry, would be better if we had better Broadband speeds though :(
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I already tried using a proxy but demonoid says that the site is still in maintenance and will be back shortly. Anyway, it sucks!!!!!!!!!!! Am so pissed coz demonoid has everything! I would rather trade it for torrentpy any day!
bastard ;)
Can confirm that the site is now working properly, just logged in.
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Kerpalguy
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2. October 2007 @ 06:09 |
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Can anybody tell me when the site opens for new member registrations? I check there every day, but the registration is always closed :-(
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bendis
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2. October 2007 @ 14:06 |
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... OK, tried the link posted above and it gets me to something called www.demonoiders.com but then it has this "standby mode" in the middle of the screen and nothing else... what up with that?
On another note, I visites CRIA's website today (Oct.02,2007) and NOWHERE on their OWN website could I find that file sharing in Canada is illegal! What a crock'o'shite with Demonoid then! As far as i know/could find in the news, the file sharing in Canada is still legal by a court order from a couple years back, and even CRIA say on their own website that:
"The WIPO Treaties were adopted in Geneva in 1996 to provide a substantial legal basis for healthy electronic commerce with a particular benefit to the music industry.
Canada signed its intent to ratify the Treaties in 1997, but to date has not passed implementing legislation to reform the Copyright Act and allow Canada to ratify the Treaties. Meanwhile, over 60 countries worldwide, including all of Canada's major trading partners (including the US, most of the European Union, Japan and Mexico) have implemented the WIPO Treaties, while Canada has been relegated to the sidelines."
link to that here: http://www.cria.ca/wipo.php
So I really don't understand what the hell is going on with Demonoid cutting us Canadians out.
... so, how do I get there via proxies? PM me, I beg you!
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morguex
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2. October 2007 @ 14:10 |
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@Kerpalguy
If I ever get back in I'll send you an invite code.
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bendis
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2. October 2007 @ 14:14 |
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Originally posted by LILBUCK:
For all canadian demonoid members there is a way around the isp blocking go here http://www.demonoiders.com/forum/index.php
there is how to guides and tutorials. HA! The CRIA loses again!
doesn't work. any other sugestions?
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2. October 2007 @ 14:39 |
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thank..............................GOD!!!
going through detox in d/l'ing some hard to find stuff. :)
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2. October 2007 @ 14:56 |
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Originally posted by Headborg:
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Originally posted by Headborg:
I'm in the US too, and having no trouble accessing ISOHUNT or TorrentSpy...so much for blocking. I recommend Canadian users to get a VPN tunnel to a proxy ISP outside their country and then they'll have no problem either...it's just a less direct connection...ayy the beauty of a world wide web.
any good proxy ISP suggestions??? And what is that VPN tunnel?
I copied this...it includes much good advice....I would also suggest paying for your Relakks via International Money Order...under an assumed name & get a private mail box(not a USP post office box)..one of those private mail box addresses at UPS store etc. anyway:
I use Relakks and the Tor Button Plug-In for anonymity with Firefox, and I use Hushmail to maintain my relakks account, but I wonder if using these services acts as some kind of "red flag" as far as the FBI is concerned (did I automatically become the subject of some kind of investigation, just by using these services?) and I wonder if Tor servers are not actually controlled by the FBI or other intelligence agencies. Actually, I kind of doubt either option is 100% secure (ie, not infiltrated by so-called "jackbooted thugs"). But these are the best options I know of for guarding my privacy, and as far as I can tell, our rights have been eroded pointlessly and needlessly. So using these resources is like making a mild political statement, an objection to government overstepping its bounds - I think everyone should do it. Oh, and by the way Big Brother, you don't belong in our bedrooms either...
RELAKKS Safe Surf (http://www.relakks.com - EUR 5.00 per month )...
The Service consists of an encrypted VPN tunnel between your computer and RELAKKS. The IP-number you receive from your existing ISP is only used to connect your computer to RELAKKS,from there on RELAKKS substitute your existing IP-number with a new IP-number from RELAKKS. This gives you a number of advantages:
· Your existing ISP will not be able to intercept and track your applications or communication
· Your existing ISP can not limit what you can do nor limit what information you can access
· Other organizations or individuals can?t intercept or track your applications or communication.
And Torpark or Tor Button...
Torrify/Torpak (I use the free browser) http://www.torrify.com/intro.html - They also offer "secure offshore servers" and "secure email" as well as "anonymous payment processing". $35+ per month. (I think it's SLOW, and expensive for my simple purposes.)
Torbutton is a 1-click way for Firefox users to enable or disable the browser's use of Tor. It adds a panel to the statusbar that says "Tor Enabled" (in green) or "Tor Disabled" (in red)... http://freehaven.net/~squires/torbutton/
Oh, and http://www.anonymous-p2p.org/ - great resource. Spread the word.
hey, torpak works great! :D However, I couldn't log in. I dunno why. Did they deleted my account by any chance coz they know that Am from Canada?
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2. October 2007 @ 16:36 |
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A word of warning to those hinting on Invite Trading, it often offends and results in account suspensions/bans..
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morguex
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2. October 2007 @ 17:07 |
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Sorry Creaky, I wasn't planing on trading the invite code, was just gonna send one to a friend.
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lavet
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2. October 2007 @ 17:19 |
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Originally posted by LILBUCK:
For all canadian demonoid members there is a way around the isp blocking go here http://www.demonoiders.com/forum/index.php
there is how to guides and tutorials. HA! The CRIA loses again!
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I tried this and all I get is a circle in the middle that says "Standby Mode".
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2. October 2007 @ 19:06 |
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This is not going to stop them i can just see these guys build another site and have no probs with it.
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LILBUCK
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2. October 2007 @ 19:24 |
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Ok,
I went to proxy.org and picked a proxy that ends in u.s, I typed in demonoid.com and presto chango! Im back on demonoind. After signing in I quickly changed my country of origin to something other than canada and went on to enjoy this great filesharing website.
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2. October 2007 @ 20:10 |
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Originally posted by LILBUCK:
Ok,
I went to proxy.org and picked a proxy that ends in u.s, I typed in demonoid.com and presto chango! Im back on demonoind. After signing in I quickly changed my country of origin to something other than canada and went on to enjoy this great filesharing website.
what??? Your account was not deleted? hmm....You're very luck
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LILBUCK
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2. October 2007 @ 20:26 |
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Ok,
I just double checked again and I have NO problems getting on demonoid through a proxy site The only thing that I noticed is that every time I put my username and password, it comes up as an error but after retyping password it is good to go......I must be lucky or that's becuase my email address is american based.
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rytmitz
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2. October 2007 @ 21:51 |
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returns of demonoid.com should avoid traffics again.
kia radiator
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bendis
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2. October 2007 @ 23:24 |
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...sorry, tech difficulties with posting...
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