Good point. The article mentions pressure from Interpol as a reason for their outage. Is copyright infringement actually illegal anywhere in EU? I thought it was a civil issue in most countries.
Also, I don't remember any of the previous articles about Demonoid mentioning Interpol. As I recall their hosting company pulled them pulled due to the DDOS attack..
INTERPOL was involved in taking the site down. That's definitely reason enough to verify it wasn't bugged before hopping back on their tracker, and it doesn't sound like there's evidence that things _weren't_ tampered with, either.
Sure, it's still speculative, but better safe than sorry. I take the default-deny approach for things that are likely to get me sued.
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 86.9 ms ] threadTorrent sites should just have an "export to XML" feature for all of the existing magnet links, in case of a site outage.
Hell due to the simplicity CSV would also be acceptable.
I get your point, though, but it's rather obvious that they may have been bugged, so just stating it does not contribute much to the conversation.
Had you had some insider info, it would have been useful to share it, but this, not really.
Edit: I thought you were new, but your account is almost 4 years old... Whatever, you should know better.
Who are you to define user experience anyways.
Also, I don't remember any of the previous articles about Demonoid mentioning Interpol. As I recall their hosting company pulled them pulled due to the DDOS attack..
Sure, it's still speculative, but better safe than sorry. I take the default-deny approach for things that are likely to get me sued.