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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I have invites for you..
Again, I see PG2 blocks their tracker IP. Be careful. Even this site (torrentfreak) seems in on it (they just deleted my former comment about it).
anyone got an invite, please?
my email is kura931@gmail.com
I still have my 1.37 ratio! :D
OMG
[quote comment="341694"]Who gives a crap, their always closed and new members rarely get in. And Cubic you’re a doofus.[/quote]
Yes, he is a doofus, but no one wants you on Demonoid.
[quote]Who gives a shitt? Getting an invite to that site is like trying to get a bible in Iraq…. Fucking impossible.[/quote]
Impossible? It’s extremely easy.
[quote]Again, I see PG2 blocks their tracker IP. Be careful. Even this site (torrentfreak) seems in on it (they just deleted my former comment about it).[/quote]
You’re so stupid.
WB Demonoid
you have been truly missed.
[quote comment="342299"]You’re so stupid.[/quote]Really? I’m just being careful. People always have their price, you know?
Here’s a hypothetical concept:
Deimos suffers from a disease. The MPAA offers Deimos 5 million dollars and a new identity, as long as they may take over the entire site and database. Now you’re all carelessly logging in with your old accounts, proving uploads, proving your net-identity, proving your status, proving your email-addresses, and so on.
Would be quite the revenge of anti-p2p, wouldn’t you think?
Also, I don’t trust this website anymore. I’ve seen more of my comments mysteriously disappear.
[quote comment="342312"][quote comment="342299"]You’re so stupid.[/quote]Really? I’m just being careful. People always have their price, you know?
Here’s a hypothetical concept:
Deimos suffers from a disease. The MPAA offers Deimos 5 million dollars and a new identity, as long as they may take over the entire site and database. Now you’re all carelessly logging in with your old accounts, proving uploads, proving your net-identity, proving your status, proving your email-addresses, and so on.
Would be quite the revenge of anti-p2p, wouldn’t you think?
Also, I don’t trust this website anymore. I’ve seen more of my comments mysteriously disappear.[/quote]
Dolt…
Finally, has been my homepage for years, now finally the white screen is gone!!
Tnx Umlauf for bringing it back!
it’s not a trap.. idiots.
It might be.
Still glad its back
It’s so cool that demonoid is back now we have 2 very good trackers 1st is the TPB and now demonoid man i am so excited with this news also all my old account is working .
Currently downloading 7 movies from it
Cheers!!!!!!!!!!!!
fuck yeah!!!
[quote comment="342312"][quote comment="342299"]You’re so stupid.[/quote]Really? I’m just being careful. People always have their price, you know?
Here’s a hypothetical concept:
Deimos suffers from a disease. The MPAA offers Deimos 5 million dollars and a new identity, as long as they may take over the entire site and database. Now you’re all carelessly logging in with your old accounts, proving uploads, proving your net-identity, proving your status, proving your email-addresses, and so on.
Would be quite the revenge of anti-p2p, wouldn’t you think?
Also, I don’t trust this website anymore. I’ve seen more of my comments mysteriously disappear.[/quote]
Man your one big conspiracy theorist guy u from US of A?
because ppl from there only this much stupid.
[quote comment="342321"]Dolt…[/quote]Wow, I’m impressed by your counter-arguments!
What surprises me is that they needed all this time to decide on this, to host in the Ukraine, and then somehow nobody worries about what happened in Canada, nobody worries about the collected proof on ALL its registered users. If the FBI would want it, they could try and pursue each and everyone of them, as long as it is in their power. A demonoid profile is quite revealing; It tells you what the user uploaded, and its IP-address. How secure do you feel with that?
Of course, you can say “who cares” and go about your half illegal business, but don’t say it doesn’t have a strange smell to it.
YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:D
Re: “Finally, finally, finally, the universe rights itself.”
Couldn’t have said it better myself mate. Ha ha! LOL!
Seems a bit dodgy to me!!
best news ever nice one , thanks for torrent news for keeping up to date, ur beautiful :D
Great. My ratio n everything working..
[quote comment="341720"]Sweet!
Although, NEVER use Demonoid for Movies and Music…
Join a PRIVATE TRACKER for those…
Demonoid is best for the hard to find little apps that don’t attrack too much attention.
I am thrilled to see my Ratio and everything still working !!
Yippee !![/quote]
do you have any invites for private trackers?
i would appreciate it a lot
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