Demonoid owners under criminal investigation

[Os Cangaceiros]

Damn, I just searched for Demonoid recently (I'd used it in the past a bunch, was just curious as to what was happening with the site lately) and a bunch of articles came up about how it had been hammered by a DDoS attack, had it servers seized in the Ukraine, and the site's administrators are being prosecuted in Mexico! Bummer.

http://www.zdnet.com/demonoid-owners-under-criminal-investigation-7000002297/

[Lenina Rosenweg]

That does suck.I used it a lot myself, it was great for finding obscure books or offbeat music. Hopefully these sites will come back in some different form.

The ironic thing is the US itself didn't have an international copyright law until 1890 sometime. The classic 19th century British writers (with the exception of Charles Dickens) were popular in the US but didn't see any of their profits from US sales.

Artists should be compensated for their work but their has to be something other than the Amazon ropoff system now prevailing.Some sort of open source collaboration.

[piet11111]

Wasn't it so that some of the earliest disney work was about to become public domain ?
What ever happened to that because i don't think they actually let it happen.

[MrCool]

Dammit, my source of rare documentaries is down.
Piratebay and kat.ph are still up, but they don't have so much torrents.

[Will Scarlet]

Dammit, my source of rare documentaries is down.
Piratebay and kat.ph are still up, but they don't have so much torrents.
That's the most annoying thing about this, Demonoid had a lot of shit that you probably can't even buy anywhere. How do they get taken down but the ones that put up Hollywood films and big albums etc stay up.

Not that I want any taken down.

[Jazzratt]

Taking down sites like this costs the industries that do it huge amounts of money. In doing so though they destroy active hubs for spreading long out of print works and other legal or quasi-legal content while not even beginning to recoup the losses they claim to have lost through piracy: it is one of the (lesser) naked faces of corporate self interest.