Demonoid BitTorrent Tracker Blocked for Russians

Written by enigmax on August 18, 2009 

According 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.

demonoidDemonoid, 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

1 Aug 18, 2009 at 16:37 by theman

ya they do block some countries

2 Aug 18, 2009 at 16:39 by Anonymous

Canada before now Russia??
sad sad day for p2p community

3 Aug 18, 2009 at 16:40 by Anonymous

I bet Ukraine just felt like blocking Russia and that’s it.

Also, first.

4 Aug 18, 2009 at 16:49 by Dash

Definitely unavailable from Vladivostok. I first noticed it yesterday when my Demonoid RSS stopped.

5 Aug 18, 2009 at 17:00 by klitoratii

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.

6 Aug 18, 2009 at 17:02 by klitoratii

dammit i meant blamed not blocked

7 Aug 18, 2009 at 17:05 by Anon

Demonoid has been blocked from countries before, but has never blocked countries.

8 Aug 18, 2009 at 17:07 by Reasoned Mind

In Soviet Russia.. Demonoid Blocks You..

oh come on you know it was coming.. lol

9 Aug 18, 2009 at 17:13 by EC665

to the west, not east…

TF: doh! fixed, thanks :)

10 Aug 18, 2009 at 17:19 by shadow

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 :)

11 Aug 18, 2009 at 17:19 by kitty

>> 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

12 Aug 18, 2009 at 17:33 by suomiliitto

Like russians dont have cencorship?

http://warez.sivu.be

13 Aug 18, 2009 at 17:34 by Ell

I live in Ukraine, just checked demonoid.com – it is unavailable.

However, I can successfully open it using anonymouse.com.

14 Aug 18, 2009 at 17:40 by Ps1_Gh0sT

hrenova, blin

15 Aug 18, 2009 at 17:47 by ceyron

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]

16 Aug 18, 2009 at 18:00 by Hostwisely

Demonoid are definitely available but not in Russia.

http://hostwisely.com

17 Aug 18, 2009 at 18:12 by viktor

haha. russia and ukraine… best friends, especially since the gas crisises :)

18 Aug 18, 2009 at 18:17 by wooshring

sucks for them

19 Aug 18, 2009 at 18:20 by ytb

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

20 Aug 18, 2009 at 18:22 by ytb

btw I’m using the Ukrtelecom adsl service if that’s relevant

21 Aug 18, 2009 at 18:28 by ar2

Mother Russia, the home of bot spam and zombie computers, with China at its side.

We can only wonder why they were unfortunately blocked.

22 Aug 18, 2009 at 18:41 by anonymous

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.

23 Aug 18, 2009 at 18:46 by xentar

Crap. This was my first choice for something to move on after TPB gets screwed…

24 Aug 18, 2009 at 18:57 by Anonymous

Yep, Ukraine is blocked too, beacouse Demonoid servers now on Ukraine, and all Ukraine IPs blocked.
Sorry my eng.

25 Aug 18, 2009 at 18:57 by Stradi

Yep, Ukraine is blocked too, beacouse Demonoid servers now on Ukraine, and all Ukraine IPs blocked.
Sorry my eng.

26 Aug 18, 2009 at 19:01 by wonderwhy-er

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…

27 Aug 18, 2009 at 19:06 by basement dweller

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!

28 Aug 18, 2009 at 19:25 by sk

shits happens.loll

29 Aug 18, 2009 at 19:56 by Hmm the plot thickens

Hmm the plot thickens ???

30 Aug 18, 2009 at 20:16 by lol

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.

31 Aug 18, 2009 at 20:16 by lol

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.

32 Aug 18, 2009 at 20:16 by Anonymous

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.

33 Aug 18, 2009 at 20:31 by diarRIAA

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.

34 Aug 18, 2009 at 20:38 by James

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… )

35 Aug 18, 2009 at 20:47 by Armoreska

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.

36 Aug 18, 2009 at 20:53 by Tracert (Moscow)

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.

37 Aug 18, 2009 at 21:17 by phishybongwaters

@#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

38 Aug 18, 2009 at 21:26 by mister_playboy

Ukraine IPs have been blocked for sometime… there is a thread about it at the Demonoid forums.

39 Aug 18, 2009 at 21:55 by jack

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Business_Network

Good, we should block Russia entirely lol…

J.

40 Aug 18, 2009 at 23:13 by qwerty

to J.
you idiot

41 Aug 18, 2009 at 23:43 by Almo

That is sad. I liked and used demonoid a lot.

42 Aug 18, 2009 at 23:49 by monkeysee

Can’t connect to Demonoid now, from the States.

43 Aug 18, 2009 at 23:53 by bob the slob

or from the uk.

44 Aug 18, 2009 at 23:54 by bob the slob

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>

45 Aug 18, 2009 at 23:56 by bob the slob

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/demonoid.com

It’s just you. http://demonoid.com is up.

Check another site?

46 Aug 18, 2009 at 23:56 by Brian P

Or Canada.

47 Aug 18, 2009 at 23:57 by Brian P

My mistake. Working now. Sorry.

48 Aug 18, 2009 at 23:58 by Ruh Roh

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

49 Aug 18, 2009 at 23:59 by bob the slob

me too must just be server issues

50 Aug 18, 2009 at 23:59 by kal

Unreachable from France for a few minutes.

It works fine now.

51 Aug 19, 2009 at 00:09 by Cujo

http://www.itshidden.com ;P

52 Aug 19, 2009 at 01:40 by aXXo

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]

53 Aug 19, 2009 at 02:04 by raidz

Doesn’t work for me in Ukraine :-(

54 Aug 19, 2009 at 03:29 by Anonymous

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

55 Aug 19, 2009 at 03:30 by monster_mack

Thanks Torrentfreak.

I was wondering what was up and it did not take you long to write about it.

Appreciate it!

56 Aug 19, 2009 at 03:46 by Gordon Freeman

Demonoid has blocked countries before

More like Demonoid has been blocked by countries before…?

57 Aug 19, 2009 at 05:15 by xentar

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.

58 Aug 19, 2009 at 05:40 by klitoratii

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.

59 Aug 19, 2009 at 06:51 by Mauri

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]

60 Aug 19, 2009 at 09:08 by ruslan

@klitoratii
For Russians not for a week, i was able to access the site 3 and a half days ago

61 Aug 19, 2009 at 10:48 by gambler

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.

62 Aug 19, 2009 at 11:15 by monster_mack

same shit with filelist.org

63 Aug 19, 2009 at 11:45 by Scorry

Hah. Demonoid? hosted in Ukraine, blocked (or blocks access?) to Ukrainian IPs for a long time.

64 Aug 19, 2009 at 11:58 by Darren

Demonoid rocks.

65 Aug 19, 2009 at 12:53 by UL

Thanks for the info! I was wondering wtf has happened to my favourite tracker. Sad, sad day.

66 Aug 19, 2009 at 14:04 by ????

????? ????? ?? ????? ??? ??? ???????? ??????. ??????, ????? ??????? ??? ???? ? ????? – ????????!

67 Aug 19, 2009 at 14:06 by Alex

Hohly, poganye suki i mudaki. Tolko srat’ nauchilis’.

68 Aug 19, 2009 at 14:12 by Petfoodz.info

@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..

69 Aug 19, 2009 at 15:52 by just a freak

It is one step to the Great Totalitarianism!!!And I Congratulate all Freaks in this Weird Country!!! God bless!! You doing well!!!

70 Aug 19, 2009 at 16:03 by VEKS

?? ???? ????? ?? ??????? ??????????

71 Aug 19, 2009 at 17:43 by xen

it’s true – demonoid is blocked in Russia

72 Aug 19, 2009 at 20:22 by Buck Satan

Whatever the bastards do.They will never stop the people.Demonoid kicks ass and so do russians with the Best cams being made.

73 Aug 19, 2009 at 21:29 by nnnnnn

@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

74 Aug 19, 2009 at 22:33 by raidz

So has anyone figured out why demonoid is being blocked in ukraine?

75 Aug 19, 2009 at 23:03 by Maru

nnnnnn, shut up.
Dammit, that’s what’s happened. I was wondering… Hope it’s temporary.

76 Aug 19, 2009 at 23:27 by no_n@me

all from Russia!!! U can used http://www.kalarupa.com/ Be happy!!! Enjoy…

77 Aug 20, 2009 at 10:47 by n1md4

Hey, Russia and Ukraine! Use pirat.ca and torrents.ru and spit on fcuking demonoid.com
lol

78 Aug 20, 2009 at 11:10 by Dmitry

Works from saint petersberg. : )

79 Aug 20, 2009 at 11:12 by ak_alex

HOORAY!!! Demonoid is accessible again in Russia.

80 Aug 20, 2009 at 12:08 by monster_mack

working now

81 Aug 20, 2009 at 13:16 by katletta

Now it’s ccesible from Moscow, but just 1 hour before it was not))

82 Aug 20, 2009 at 18:47 by sonic

http://www.torrentkit.com
friendly private Scene Releases site :)

83 Aug 20, 2009 at 21:55 by UL

Yup, working now. Yay!

84 Aug 21, 2009 at 11:52 by Anonymous

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?

85 Aug 21, 2009 at 15:04 by Dereks

Demonoid was blocked to Ukraine from the very start, since they settled in here.

86 Aug 23, 2009 at 10:17 by e

hohlo-idiots

87 Aug 27, 2009 at 16:18 by DarknesS

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?

88 Aug 31, 2009 at 19:40 by dave

I’m in the US and have not been able to access Demonoid (using Cogent). Anyone have that problem?

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