Over the next few days, the website continued experiencing intermittent downtime[20] until October 2, 2007. The explanation as widely speculated[21] was that they had received a letter from a lawyer for the Canadian Recording Industry Association threatening legal action.[20] Demonoid began blocking Canadian traffic,[22] a strategy similar to that taken by isoHunt and TorrentSpy in blocking American traffic to avoid RIAA complaints.[20][23] Visitors from Canadian-based IPs would be redirected to the downtime version of the website, which contained an explanation of the legal threats.