so, there was some bad news concerning a court decision and some torrent sites earlier this week, and there was talk of a certain hosting company pulling the plug on a specific site, and since they host a large number of other torrent sites, the other sites, anonymously, are moving on to greener (and less legally intrusive) pastures.
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and then, in the last few days, we’ve lost demonoid.com as well as the ever useful oink.me.uk

now, demonoid claims the timing is a coincidence, and has ‘blog’ messages updated daily on their status of migrating to a new system.

oink, on the other hand, does not resolve at all.

why should i be worried about this?

shit like this happens to metafilter all the time.

well.

metafilter doesnt host torrents to pirated content.
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on a semi-related note. exxon (this is an assumption as to who did it.) got the exxon parody site the yes men set up taken down, and had their main email shut down. it was over a ‘complaint’.
unfortunately, at the moment, i cannot find the original article. i am also tired, so i will instead direct you to the vivoleum site.
note that theyve been required to remove any mention of exxon from their page to be able to have their email reinstated. the domain they had registered for the vivoleum website, however, has not been released or re-enabled.
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on a more similar note to the subject we just touched on:

http://yesmen.org/ (link)

this web address is owned by ‘netster.com’ and seems to be ‘parked’ for advertising. this means that the domain is possibly up for sale.

should we detourn the modern detourners?

or perhaps the yes men have been sitting on this opportunity for some recuperation retaliation.

EDIT: nevermind, after a quick check of the WHOIS database, this domain seems to be parked specifically for advertising. it is owned by these guys. they buy domains based on traffic generated from ‘mistaken identity’ web traffic. props to the yes men if they sold yesmen.org to them to generate traffic.

boo, if its some other jerkhole who owned yesmen.org and decided to make a quick buck off of it.