The ever so popular website and torrent tracker Demonoid has been going through rough times in the past year. These freedom fighters fought nail and tooth to keep their servers up, they relocated to several countries, they were harassed by lawyers, and their administrator, Demios, stepped down. It’s no wonder the Internet rejoiced to the news that it’s back! Life is beautiful again :)

Well maybe it’s beautiful again for everybody except the Saudi pirates! King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, the governing body that censors the Internet in the country, have so foolishly decided that Demonoid’s content is not suitable for +20 million of it’s citizens.

One has to wonder about the city’s policy regarding torrents. The Pirate Bay has been always been a distant dream for Saudis, only for it to be unblocked a couple of month ago. On the other hand, Mininova has always been attainable. I mean what’s there on Demonoid that’s so corrupting that couldn’t be found on these two mega trackers? The answer currently escapes me.

Thank god that we have some headless chickens regulating our tubes!

Update: Demonoid is back, the censorship seems to be so arbitrary :S