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[Project-Buckfast]

The nightmare week for Demonoid has just reached a huge crescendo, with news coming out of Ukraine that following a massive DDoS attack the site has now been busted by local authorities. Those looking for a U.S. connection to the raid won’t be disappointed – a source in the country’s Interior Ministry says that the action was scheduled to coincide with Deputy Prime Minister Valery Khoroshkovsky’s trip to the United States.

Last week thousands of Demonoid users feared the worst when their beloved site disappeared from the Internet. Many thought that the site had been busted, but were eventually relieved to hear that it was ‘only’ a massive DDoS attack.

But today the roller-coaster ride plummeted to new depths, with confirmation coming out of Ukraine that the DDoS was just the beginning – the site has been busted by the authorities.

ColoCall is the largest datacenter in Ukraine and a place that has been Demonoid’s home in recent years. But in the middle of last week, in the wake of the DDoS attack, government investigators arrived at ColoCall to shut Demonoid down.

“Investigators have copied all the information from the servers Demonoid and sealed them,” an anonymous ColoCall source confirmed. “Some equipment was not seized, but now it does not work, and we were forced to terminate the agreement with the site.”

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[poisomike87]

I think the DDOS is what kinda pulled the hosting company that demonoid used away from backing the site. it was one less thing that they had to worry about and now it is out of their hands and into the hands of the united states and mexico's government.

[Project-Buckfast]

The domain names are now up for sale also. Demonoid is gone forever.

[RacknRail]

Sad, I will miss Demo. It reminds me of when Suprnova died.

[cassie]

Anonymous has vowed vengeance on those who took it down... (read more...)