Another BitTorrent tracker has bitten the dust. Canada based Demonoid has gone off line after action by the Canadian Recording Industry Association against the company who rented the tracker their servers. A notice on what was the Demonoid website admits it was CRIA action that has put the service on hold, though it is unclear whether those behind the tracker are hoping to find new servers or whether they will just give up. The notice reads: "The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding".
As much previously reported, BitTorrent trackers help users find BitTorrent sources of content, usually illegal music and movie content. One popular tracker, OiNK, was closed down by British authorities last month, and the music and movie companies seem to be stepping up their action against others, though there are many, and users of a tracker service that is closed down tend to migrate pretty quickly to others, with many blogs out there in P2Pland offering guidance on which trackers to choose.
One of the most high profile tracker services is, of course, The Pirate Bay, mainly because they are more blatant about their disregard for copyright laws and the major music and movie companies. There were reports this weekend that authorities in that service's home country, Sweden, are about to arrest one of the people involved in it, though The Pirate Bay continues to claim that Swedish copyright law does not support such action.