Ukrainian authorities have shut down BitTorrent tracker site Demonoid.com, through which users share movie, TV, music, e-books and other files with BitTorrent peer-to-peer technology.
Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs carried out a raid on the data centre, ColoCall that was hosting the website’s servers and shut down the sites.
Demonoid has been operating from ColoCall since past few years, which is the largest data centre in Ukraine.
Sergei Burlakov of Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs was quoted by TorrentFreak as saying that the Division of Economic Crimes [DEC] received an international request from Interpol to send a request to the company ColoCall.
"DEC sent the request to the provider, after which the ISP decided to stop working with Demonoid," Burlakov said.
"In Mexico a criminal case against the owners of Demonoid has been initiated and the tracker is charged with intellectual property rights violations," Burlakov said.
In October 2011, Mexican authorities carried out a raid in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon targeting Demonoid’s staff and completely blocked access to the site in the country.
The Demonoid site shut down is the latest crackdown against file sharing sites following closure of Megaupload in the US and other European ISPs blocking ‘The Pirate Bay’.