Ukrainian authorities appear to have raided the hosting company behind Demonoid, according to reports from TorrentFreak. Demonoid is one of the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker sites, and it had previously been chased out of Canada five years ago. More recently, Demonoid had been under a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, first reported on July 27.
The United States Trade Representative mentioned Demonoid by name (PDF) on its Notorious Markets List in a report as recently as December 2011. That report said that the site’s administrator had been arrested “recently” on the authority of the Mexican attorney general—the admin has reportedly been operating out of Mexico.
Media representatives of the USTR did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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