A few months ago, the site administrator (known as Deimos), lacked the time necessary to maintain this website. And for personal reasons, Deimos decided to resign his position as a member of the site staff.

Before leaving, Deimos picked a new site administrator from among his friends. The old moderator team remained unchanged and will continue helping with the site. The Demoniod team will try to keep everything running just as it always has been.

The trackers and website seem to be working properly, and should any issues arise, they will be taken care of as soon as possible. If we work on any problems over the next few days, the site might be going on and offline. We apologize in advance if this should happen.

"Personal issues" being code for "getting really sick and tired of fielding e-mails from the Canadian Recording Industry Association," obviously.

Demonoid [Official site]

Demonoid moved its hosting company from the Netherlands to Canada in the summer because of the Great White North's slightly more lax copyright-infringement laws. But that didn't stop the CRIA from getting into a snit, and the organization pressured it into temporarily shutting down. Upon its return, it blocked Canadian users from the site, but this apparently didn't placate the recording industry, which decided to go the tried-and-true "threaten the hosting company into losing lots of money" tactic that's shut controversial Web sites of all kinds down through the years. Anyway, if the post-OiNK landscape is any indication, about 10 "new Demonoids" will be up and running within a week, and they'll all somehow manage to have even more irritating userbases. Hooray!

Demonoid [Official site; hat tip AbsolutePunk.net]