Three Demonoid domains including, demonoid. me, demonoid. com, and demonoid. ph, are now up for sale after the popular BitTorrent website was brought down in a coordinated effort.

Interpol and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry said that they joined forces to bring down the site. The Ukraine-based website went down when authorities urged its Internet service provider, Colocall to close down the service.

Demonoid were among the U. S. "Notorious Markets List," that tracked markets including on the internet that are linked to infringed good and promoted piracy. The site ranked in the top 600 Web sites in global traffic and the top
300 in U. S. traffic. Colocall said that it has taken a decision to terminate the services to the site on its own accord.

"Demonoid was a leading global player in digital music piracy which acted as unfair competition to the more than 500 licensed digital music services that offer great value music to consumers while respecting the rights of artists, songwriters and record companies. The operation to close Demonoid was a great example of international cooperation to tackle a service that was facilitating the illegal distribution of music on a vast scale," Jeremy Banks, director of anti-piracy for the IFPI, said in a statement.

Meanwhile, international hacking group, Anonymous has said that it will target Ukrainian government and use "any means necessary" to restore Demonoid.