Demonoid Is Back Online
Written by Ernesto on April 12, 2008Yesterday, we reported that the popular BitTorrent tracker Demonoid was to be resurrected, under a new administrator. Now, less that a day later the site has made its comeback after exactly 6 months of downtime.
A message posted on the Demonoid frontpage confirms that Deimos, the former administrator, left the Demonoid staff. The site seems to be working properly, as does the tracker, but there could be some downtime in the next few days. All the people who had an account at the time the site shut down can still sign in with the same username and password.
The resurrection of the popular BitTorrent traffic marks the end of a tough year for the site. The trouble for Demonoid started back in June last year, when the Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN started to put pressure on Demonoid and their ISP, Leaseweb. Deimos decided that the Netherlands wasn’t the safe haven it used to be and he to moved the site to Canada, which resulted in a few days of downtime.
Deimos never really told the administrators or members of the site exactly what was happening. Initially, most members assumed that there was some hardware failure, but after a few days it became clear that Demonoid was more or less forced to move. Maybe there could have been hardware failures too, who knows, but the outcome was the same - Canada here we come.
Relocating the servers to Canada initially solved the problems, but, by the end of September Deimos took Demonoid offline for the second time. Again, nobody knew what was going on until we found out that the CRIA was responsible for the downtime, which was later confirmed by Deimos. It turned out that Canada wasn’t the best choice after all.
After 5 days of downtime the site returned, now blocking all traffic from Canadian users in an attempt to calm down the CRIA. At first it looked like the storm was finally over, but on November 9th Demonoid’s users were welcomed by a disappointing message on the frontpage explaining that the CRIA was indeed responsible for the downtime.
The site never came back after November last year, up until now that is. Let’s hope it lasts this time.
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you could always download “NEW” torrents without being a member. Thats why it’s considered to be “semi” private tracker. I logged in my ratio is pretty screwed up but demonoid always had ratio accuracy issues thats why they are lenient with issuing reprimands for low ratio.
Glad to see them back and rolling.
!!!it´s back baby fuck the heaters!!
can old memebers get invite codes?!?!?!?!?!
Regardless of what you think of Demonoid or how 1337 on not 1337 it is , This is a big deal. This is a kick to the balls of all the “anti” groups. Maybe now they all go fk themselves.
Simply the best site ever, bar none.
After wanking away for 6 months
with BTjunkie and PBay, we
have nothing less than Return of the King.
THe IP address is showing a Ukraine
web resolver, btw.
for you intrepid souls that think
Demonoid is a trap or honey pot, I very much doubt it.
for the paranoid:
Get Peerguardian, use Utorrent with
encryption, run your torrents at a
high port number, and don’t download
the very latest stuff, and you’ll be fine..
for the rest of us YAHOO!!!!!!
This Demon just found his Oid…!!!
WELCOME back Demonoid…!!!!!
The Double A’s can kiss my ass…!!!
I belong to many elite sites and Demonoid is still the best for the obscure and old stuff. Only KG beats it.
Crappy speeds, but you can’t have everything. My ratio and s/n is intact as is my donor status. Class act giving me that back.
Thanks all
yeah I just created an invite code no problem. The site is lacking content but that will change fast I assume
nvm. lol i didnt login. i was so excited like a virgin girl on prom night in the back seat of her boyfriends car.
rock, rock on.
“Besides what other users may think of you for not sharing, there is no punishment for having a low ratio.”
FAILS!
Fuck Yes!
just me or is it alot faster now.
COCKS COCKS COCKS COCKS COCKS
It is not a trap… Deimos has turned the site over to his underlings. I pinged the Domain to be absolutely sure and it comes back as 62.149.24.66, which accordingly is located in Kiev, Ukraine.
The tracker is up and working so far and I saw no MPAA [or their bulldog gustapo crews...] activity. I am sure this is only because they have not become fully aware of the site’s resurrection. Hopefully it will remain online forever now!!!
Long live Demonoid.
no offence ppl, im still hesitant to login in again, remember the shareaza story, and as well more recently the dreamcast site. So im going to wait it out a bit.
watch this Uploaded: 67.33 GB
Downloaded: 16.47 GB
Ratio: 4.09 (Updated once a day)
be this Uploaded: 267.33 GB
Downloaded: 50.47 GB
Ratio: 15.09 (Updated once a day)
i cant wate to start the uploads again.
woohoo!
great news but it’s down?
Life is good and so is sharing it!
its up, went down for maintenance
it’s not working
This was a triumph,
I’m making a note here: Huge success..
it’s back
Set firewall
intusion prev.
tcp udp port range 49152 through 65535
for your bt client
personal firewall
do the same for port that you use
A guide to do this is at portfoward.com under firewall
Also use Phoenix Labs » PeerGuardian 2 Doing these things should go a long way to keep Anti p2p off
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