Demonoid BitTorrent Tracker Blocked for Russians

Demonoid, one of the biggest torrent sites around today, is hosted to the west of Russia in neighboring Ukraine, although relations between the two countries aren’t exactly neighborly at the moment. In the past 24 hours, TorrentFreak received a flurry of reports that users of Demonoid in Russia could no longer access the site. After checking with some of our own Russian contacts and testing via a server located in St Petersburg, we are able to confirm that at least so far, accessing Demonoid is impossible from Russia.

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Demonoid BitTorrent Tracker Blocked for Russians

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Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 Net News

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