Demonoid BitTorrent Tracker Blocked for Russians
Written by enigmax on August 18, 2009According to reports coming in to TorrentFreak and tests carried out by us, we can report that Demonoid has been inaccessible to Russian users for at least a day. It appears that for many other countries it is business as usual – Demonoid works just fine.
Demonoid, one of the biggest torrent sites around today, is hosted to the west of Russia in neighboring Ukraine, although relations between the two countries aren’t exactly neighborly at the moment.
In the past 24 hours, TorrentFreak received a flurry of reports that users of Demonoid in Russia could no longer access the site. After checking with some of our own Russian contacts and testing via a server located in St Petersburg, we are able to confirm that at least so far, accessing Demonoid is impossible from Russia. Reports suggest the problem started a day ago.
Traceroutes carried out from several locations across the country to Demonoid’s IP at 62.149.24.66 show that they are all terminating at ColoCall, the biggest data center in Ukraine – just one step away from Demonoid’s servers.
TorrentFreak’s tests from both European and Russian IP addresses both routed through the ColoCall IP 62.149.2.108 – the Russian test was blocked at that point while the European one completed perfectly. Tests by a Russian BitTorrent user on our behalf confirmed it was necessary to use a proxy for both the site and the the tracker to gain access.
It’s hoped that the blockage is temporary and a technical issue but of course, Demonoid has blocked countries before. TorrentFreak has contacted ColoCall but thus far, we’ve received no response.
We’ll update this post when more information comes in.
Update: Several reports coming in that Ukranian IP addresses may also be blocked.
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88 Responses
ya they do block some countries
Canada before now Russia??
sad sad day for p2p community
I bet Ukraine just felt like blocking Russia and that’s it.
Also, first.
Definitely unavailable from Vladivostok. I first noticed it yesterday when my Demonoid RSS stopped.
I hope its not the Russians blocking it because its hosted in the Ukraine. It’s bad enough we torrent downloaders get blocked for all the copyright crime in the world. Now we’re getting punished for Russia getting dumped by one of its USSR allies. total BS. anyone know what the hells going on with torrent-outpost?? been down for a week for me.
dammit i meant blamed not blocked
Demonoid has been blocked from countries before, but has never blocked countries.
In Soviet Russia.. Demonoid Blocks You..
oh come on you know it was coming.. lol
to the west, not east…
TF: doh! fixed, thanks :)
Looks like only from russia, sad , we must be together all, not blocke :(
I live in Romania, the south country from Ucraine and it’s working fine demonoid :)
>> Unconfirmed reports coming in that Ukranian IP addresses may also be blocked.
Guys, UA IPs ARE blocked, for a long time already.
Though some minority users still have access to it
Like russians dont have cencorship?
http://warez.sivu.be
I live in Ukraine, just checked demonoid.com – it is unavailable.
However, I can successfully open it using anonymouse.com.
hrenova, blin
Demonoid works fine for me, i’m from Romania
tracert 62.149.24.66
2 <1 ms 1 ms <1 ms 81.x.x.x
3 <1 ms <1 ms 1 ms 212.146.110.121
4 2 ms 1 ms <1 ms r10-gi12-0.buh7.ro.gtsce.net [85.9.32.53]
5 30 ms 30 ms 30 ms 195.39.208.77
6 60 ms 59 ms 60 ms de-cix.ffm.itsinternet.net [80.81.194.7]
7 60 ms 59 ms 60 ms 62.149.20.77
8 60 ms 60 ms 60 ms athena.colocall.net [62.149.31.50]
9 59 ms 60 ms 60 ms demonoid.com [62.149.24.66]
Demonoid are definitely available but not in Russia.
http://hostwisely.com
haha. russia and ukraine… best friends, especially since the gas crisises :)
sucks for them
I’m from ukraine- I got intrigued by this and checked it out (don’t really visit that site)- yeah it’s blocked. When I connected using the itshidden VPN service it worked like a charm- now that I disconnected doesn’t work. Strange that’s it’s available outside of the country that it’s hosted in and not inside. I wonder if my easily corruptible post-soviet government is to blame or just a tech issue
btw I’m using the Ukrtelecom adsl service if that’s relevant
Mother Russia, the home of bot spam and zombie computers, with China at its side.
We can only wonder why they were unfortunately blocked.
I can tell that this is more then likely a purposeful block. I’d be willing to bet that recent legal pressure from the Ukraine & Russia prompted demonoid to block the countries to reduce their liability in those countries.
Crap. This was my first choice for something to move on after TPB gets screwed…
Yep, Ukraine is blocked too, beacouse Demonoid servers now on Ukraine, and all Ukraine IPs blocked.
Sorry my eng.
Yep, Ukraine is blocked too, beacouse Demonoid servers now on Ukraine, and all Ukraine IPs blocked.
Sorry my eng.
Huh… Works here fine also in post USSR country. I wonder what’s behind it :) Highly doubt that copyright holders as those two countries have more important things to do…
In Soviet Ukraine cool story, bro. ;)
At least a day but started a few hours ago?! Also, Ukraine isn’t really to the “west” of Russia!
shits happens.loll
Hmm the plot thickens ???
russians (and anyone who understands russian) dont need that shitty laggy demonoid. THE GOT Torrents.ru Biggest private tracker in the world. It shits all over demonoid in content and quality.
russians (and anyone who understands russian) dont need that shitty laggy demonoid. THEY GOT Torrents.ru Biggest private tracker in the world. It shits all over demonoid in content and quality.
Use Tor, if it wasn’t for webproxies I wouldn’t be able to access torrentfreak and I just don’t know why and don’t care.
Use a proxy and you will be fine unless they block the whole world.
They can block a web site that is doing nothing wrong…and yet…they can’t do anything to shut the bot networks down.
Clearly you can see where their priorities are.
it is demonoid… come on… it aint like it is a decent site… im not arsed unless they block the big private trackers ( e.g. TL , SCC , SCT etc… )
yeah Ukraine’s fine for now though it has been blocked for a year. of course russians can live without Demonoid since torrents.ru is the best tracker in the world, but it sure is dumb to state that having 1 great site cancels the need to have another. though Demonoid could use dropping that stupid txt file rule. so retarded.
1-2-3-4 OK
5 20 ms 20 ms 20 ms xe-9-2-0.bar1.Stockholm1.Level3.net [213.242.69.37]
6 46 ms 46 ms 46 ms ae-5-5.ebr1.Dusseldorf1.Level3.net [4.69.140.198]
7 50 ms 49 ms 49 ms ae-2-2.ebr2.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.69.132.138]
8 50 ms 50 ms 52 ms ae-82-82.csw3.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.69.140.26]
9 50 ms 50 ms 50 ms ae-3-89.edge6.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.68.23.142]
10 65 ms 107 ms 52 ms IP-ZONE-SP.edge6.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [195.16.161.26]
11 52 ms 52 ms 52 ms 62.149.20.77
12 52 ms 52 ms 52 ms athena.colocall.net [62.149.2.108]
13 * * * Request timed out.
@#7
“Demonoid has been blocked from countries before, but has never blocked countries.”
Umm yeah, about that, go back through the TF articles and find the one talking about Demonoid blocking any and all traffic from Canada, it went on for weeks, until they moved the server i believe.
So yeah……..
FAIL
Ukraine IPs have been blocked for sometime… there is a thread about it at the Demonoid forums.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Business_Network
Good, we should block Russia entirely lol…
J.
to J.
you idiot
That is sad. I liked and used demonoid a lot.
Can’t connect to Demonoid now, from the States.
or from the uk.
C:\Documents and Settings\Bariski>tracert http://www.demonoid.com
Tracing route to http://www.demonoid.com [62.149.24.66]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms 2 ms 2 ms 192.168.2.1
2 31 ms 22 ms 10 ms 10.13.196.1
3 9 ms 47 ms 9 ms osr01maid-ge18.network.virginmedia.net [81.96.1.
41]
4 28 ms 11 ms 16 ms 62.30.243.65
5 62.30.243.90 reports: Destination host unreachable.
Trace complete.
C:\Documents and Settings\Bariski>
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/demonoid.com
It’s just you. http://demonoid.com is up.
Check another site?
Or Canada.
My mistake. Working now. Sorry.
What’s weird is I’m in Alaska (USA), and Demonoid is now blocked for me too as of today. Damn! Probably because we are so close to Russia, we got lumped in with the naughty kids.
And I agree with the comments above: Torrenst.Ru is a *amazing* site…<3
me too must just be server issues
Unreachable from France for a few minutes.
It works fine now.
http://www.itshidden.com ;P
works in india:
21 386 ms 386 ms 386 ms athena.colocall.net [62.149.2.108]
22 405 ms 404 ms 404 ms demonoid.com [62.149.24.66]
Doesn’t work for me in Ukraine :-(
works in japan:
traceroute demonoid.com
22 athena.colocall.net (62.149.31.50) 335.827 ms 337.467 ms 336.085 ms
23 62.149.20.77 (62.149.20.77) 311.162 ms demonoid.com (62.149.24.66) 335.128 ms 335.495 ms
Thanks Torrentfreak.
I was wondering what was up and it did not take you long to write about it.
Appreciate it!
Demonoid has blocked countries before
More like Demonoid has been blocked by countries before…?
torrents.ru can be quite severely moderated when it comes to games (both older and newer). They have agreement with copyright holders which regularly remove anything being sold in Russia by them (including English versions). Otherwise, it is indeed quite an impressive resourse.
oi torrentfreak! use your investigative skills and find out what the hells going on with http://www.torrent-outpost.com it’s been down for over a week and theres no word from the guys who run it.
Here is route from my French VPN:
1 273 ms 274 ms 186 ms (Internal)
2 281 ms * 272 ms rbx-7-m1.routers.ovh.net [91.121.3.253]
3 262 ms 261 ms * rbx-1-6k.routers.ovh.net [213.251.191.1]
4 290 ms * 260 ms 10g.fra-5-6k.routers.chtix.eu [91.121.131.81]
5 331 ms 257 ms 339 ms de-cix.ffm.itsinternet.net [80.81.194.7]
6 238 ms 265 ms 263 ms 62.149.20.77
7 279 ms 283 ms 417 ms athena.colocall.net [62.149.31.50]
8 338 ms 300 ms 310 ms demonoid.com [62.149.24.66]
@klitoratii
For Russians not for a week, i was able to access the site 3 and a half days ago
This is part of the world were they are testing new blocking technology , they have to make sure it works before the legislation is enacted , expect this everywhere in the next few months, THE B**TA**S.
same shit with filelist.org
Hah. Demonoid? hosted in Ukraine, blocked (or blocks access?) to Ukrainian IPs for a long time.
Demonoid rocks.
Thanks for the info! I was wondering wtf has happened to my favourite tracker. Sad, sad day.
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Hohly, poganye suki i mudaki. Tolko srat’ nauchilis’.
@2..
Demonoid was hosted in Canada that is why.. CRIA got pissed off and started firing flares at the hull.. So a temporary block for Canadian users was in order.. Just proxied it and all was well.. Still pissed me off CRIA got their way though..
It is one step to the Great Totalitarianism!!!And I Congratulate all Freaks in this Weird Country!!! God bless!! You doing well!!!
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it’s true – demonoid is blocked in Russia
Whatever the bastards do.They will never stop the people.Demonoid kicks ass and so do russians with the Best cams being made.
@8
LOL
But guys c’mon russia shouldn’t even have access to the web in the first place, now they will start another world war with their allies through communications and emails.
j/k
So has anyone figured out why demonoid is being blocked in ukraine?
nnnnnn, shut up.
Dammit, that’s what’s happened. I was wondering… Hope it’s temporary.
all from Russia!!! U can used http://www.kalarupa.com/ Be happy!!! Enjoy…
Hey, Russia and Ukraine! Use pirat.ca and torrents.ru and spit on fcuking demonoid.com
lol
Works from saint petersberg. : )
HOORAY!!! Demonoid is accessible again in Russia.
working now
Now it’s ccesible from Moscow, but just 1 hour before it was not))
http://www.torrentkit.com
friendly private Scene Releases site :)
Yup, working now. Yay!
Yeah, it works now, but it was no access during 4 days I think. Wonder, I tried to open this site throw web-based proxy servers vtunnel.com and mathtunnel.com but could not rich demonoid too, so I decided that something wrong with demonoid, not Russia.
But now I see that demonoid works here, but vtunnel and mathtunnel still does not open it. Who knows why?
Demonoid was blocked to Ukraine from the very start, since they settled in here.
hohlo-idiots
hey I have a bit of a related question.. it seems that all of a sudden most of the torrents I was downloading just stopped reporting an error with the tracker, mostly from Demonoid trackers or pirate bay.. I am not from Russian though and I wonder if it’s related..
any help?
I’m in the US and have not been able to access Demonoid (using Cogent). Anyone have that problem?
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