Demonoid: There’s Still Hope, But We’re Not Coming Back Soon

Ernesto
September 14, 2012
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A few days ago Demonoid showed the first signs of life in weeks when the domain’s nameservers were updated. Unfortunately, this doesn’t mean that the site is preparing to make a comeback. The site’s tech admin informs TorrentFreak that the Demonoid crew is “not looking into putting the site back up at the moment.” However, the troubled BitTorrent site is not giving up entirely just yet.

After the popular BitTorrent tracker Demonoid suffered a DDoS and hacker attack last month, the site’s servers in Ukraine were pulled offline.

Local authorities explained that Interpol asked them to take action as part of an investigation into the site’s alleged owners in Mexico.

In the weeks that followed the Demonoid team remained silent. All this time the site itself showed absolutely no sign of life. However, a few days ago something changed.

All of a sudden Demonoid.me’s nameservers switched from demonoid.com to demonoid.me. Could it be that the site was preparing to make a comeback?

We decided to ask the tech admin of the site, who hadn’t responded to our inquiries for a few weeks. This time he was quick to reply, explaining that the DNS change was made to fix issues with the mail server.

“The DNS change was so the mail started working again,” Demonoid’s tech admin told TorrentFreak.

When we asked the admin to shed a light on the future of the popular BitTorrent site we were told that there is “nothing interesting to report yet.”

“I hope there will be one day, but it might not be soon,” the tech admin added.

Demonoid will remain down for the time being and there are no plans to bring it back anytime soon. “We are down, and we’re not looking into putting the site back up at the moment,” the admin said.

In other words, Demonoid might return at some point in the future, but it’s more likely that this will take months, rather than days.

In many ways the current situation is reminiscent of the downtime Demonoid suffered half a decade ago. During the summer of 2007 the site shut down its servers after receiving legal threats from the CRIA. After being offline for six months the site eventually reappeared in full glory early 2008.

Time will tell whether Demonoid can make a comeback once again.

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http://expedition-megacosm.blogspot.com/ Aditya Iyer

hope it comes back soon!
- http://torrentfreak.com/ Rob8urcakes
  
  I too hope our beloved Demonoid returns all fresh and free from any problems, and that it wont take them 6 months again.
  
  Wouldn’t it be GREAT if they came fully back online in time for Xmas?
  What a terrific present that would be for all of us.
  - Whatever
    
    The first thing that needs to be done if it comes online is to copy as much of the site as possible as a backup/ressurection copy. Hope that someone knows how to go about doing such a thing. Or maybe demonoid should start a mirror action something that has been done before.
    
    The ironic (and annoying) thing about all of this is that all the “popular” MAFIAA media isn’t what is missing on the internet now. It’s actually the more rare things that are unavailable. They MAFIAA probably didn’t even stop one MAFIAA related download.
    
    Anyway, also hope it returns very soon.
    - Elkinsj210
      
      Agreed, one course of action which I believe may have originated with TPB would be to create a torrent of all of your torrents thus having a compact file serving as the back up, although if the files are only hosted through demonoids tracker then that may cause a problem.
    - http://twitter.com/MarlynDThomas Marlyn D. Thomas
      
      Isn’t that the least you can do to defend yourself against these situations? http://Ace16.com
    - http://twitter.com/RonanFerer RonanFerer
      
      Anna explained I am inspired that a student able to profit $6240 in four weeks on the network. have you seen this(Click on menu Home)
    - http://twitter.com/RonanFerer RonanFerer
      
      …
      goo.gl/xS5Sh
    - http://twitter.com/RobertMessi5 RobertMessi
      
      Josephine answered I’m surprised that someone able to profit $5395 in 4 weeks on the network. have you look this(Click on menu Home)
    - http://twitter.com/RobertMessi5 RobertMessi
      
      …
      goo.gl/Te9EB
  - TC
    
    Oh yes, lets all cross everything else off our Xmas lists and just ask Santa to take care of this.
  - Ronanenkids
    
    check demonoid.mk
    gr ronan1
- Oneloop
  
  How is it possible that they haven’t made a torrent containing all the torrents in the website? Isn’t that the least you can do to defend yourself against these situations?
  - Aa
    
    Not all torrents there had DHT allowed. No idea how much of them, but most likely they would be unusable since the tracker’s down…
    …I think.
- Robotsex
  
  If and when it comes back I hope they change their policy to strictly private to help avoid problems like this in the future and help regulate who can post and view torrents on the site. Maybe in this way they can help keep prying eyes at bay.
- gozando
  
  i understand, i really miss demonoid too
- Nicktika
  
  I hope they return soon..thnx to Demonoid i have over 1 TB of Training Courses!
- Chirs
  
  Better come back! WE MISS YOU DEMONOID!
- Mike
  
  Sites are static, and therefore can be shut down.
  
  – The solution is for new torrent utilities in which “sites” is built in to the software. (Then there’s no way to “shut down” a “site”.)
  
  Since everything trades DHT/magnet-link now, you don’t even need a site tracker anyway.
  - Tyler
    
    Yeah, and we can call it Limewire!
    - No
      
      But limewire is horrible!
- Isus
  
  come back demonid… I cant live without you
- AnotherHuman
  
  I hope it comes back too. Correct me if I’m wrong. But demonoid just provides hosting for torrent files. They don’t host the actual files (books/movies/audio) them selves. Nor do they create the torrent files them selves. They are not solely responsible for the files people share? If that’s the case then surely demonoid are not infringing on copyright? So going on that premiss, its the people sharing the files. But as torrents take partial amounts of data from different sources. Then surely the people concerned about there copyright being violated. Must find all the sources the down/up loader has come from? This of course a massive job. If i,m right about this then there is no legal right to stop sites such as demonoid? Plus the way copyright works. Its classed as a negative right, what that means is you can only stop copyright infringement. There for you have to stop the unloaders/downloaders? On a case by case basis? This is of course if I am right about the above. My personal opinion is when ever I have seen a “free” film or book or song, and i like it I went out and bought it anyways. I personally am fed up with tons of shit Hollywood churns out and glad I don’t spend £10 per film to see it at the cinema to see the same story repeated and done badly again. Maybe Hollywood should raise there game so we want to spend money to get the originals again? what do you think chaps?
  - Funkmeister88
    
    The issue here is not “Is there a legal way to shut them down?” Nor is it solely “Copyright Infringement”, altho piracy no doubt has made the crappy movies Hollywood churns out these days a little bit less lucrative. What you’re seeing is power being exercised, and the Hollywood bully being paranoid and the US Government backing them up. I believe in supporting artists who create real art. I go to see them, buy their books, music, etc. The other crap is entertainment and usually not worth the money…and if you don’t like the product, you can’t return it…OR get back the time you wasted on it. I hope Demonoid comes back. I love them, and I support them, and I will give them more money to help them. I have bought music I like in many ways over the years…vinyl, CD, cassette… So why do I need to pay for some of it yet again? Why is it legal for me to take a CD I own and make an MP3 from it for my iPod, but if I download the same MP3 from Demonoid I’m breaking the law?
    - AnotherHuman
      
      I’m digging what your saying Funkmeister88. I would like to discuss what i think your two main points in your reply. I would like to take the second point first. The purchasing of music (copyrighted data) and putting it on your itunes/ipod (dubbing).
      Once again I could be wrong on this. But the way I understand it. When you buy a “CD” lets say, what your actually paying for is the “right” to the music. Once you have done this you have the “right” to copy it for reasons of backing it up. In case the original medium get damaged i.e the cd don’t play anymore. After all you have paid for the right to listen to it. This is why its ok to use mp3 players and branded ones like itunes/ipods (which I love btw). But although you have the “right” to “dub” for personal use. You have not paid for the right to play in a public performance, nor have you paid for the right to distribute or manufacture the song/album (copyrighted data). I believe this is a closed secret. As Pink floyd (which i love) and Dire straits wouldn’t make so much money every time there’s a media change, vinyl to tape to cd to mp3. To which i think the record labels have often take the piss. “Here is the new remastered version on space cube with 12 seconds of extra content!”. Catching my drift? Your first point “bullying”. If this is the case the major Hollywood studios and the US government, are acting like this. Then I believe they are acting illegally. There for subject to prosecution (did you like how i turned the tables then?). Plus then it should be open up to the public in the EU and US why these bodies have requested the servers was turned off, and on what grounds. Just leaning on a smaller country and hopping nobody wont say anything. Wont work so long as people will openly talk about it? After all the EU spanked Microsoft’s botty for internet explorer. Bullying answer 2A. “Hollywood bully being paranoid” If it is the case then I am proper pissing myself with laughter. Because they are finished. If Hollywood is so scared of this then it shows how weak they are. After all you don’t hear Asian cinema or European or Indian cinema doing this. They must be really frightened that there market share is shrinking (which it is). Hurrah for torrent sires. Hurrah for people that share. Hurrah for people that supports artists. I guess its that thinking that makes Hollywood shake in there boots?
- Dragonbrad5
  
  look at the website today… not much but it is all the hope we need
http://twitter.com/MAFIAAFire MAFIAAFire

We miss you D! We miss you bad! :(
Artist

I hope MPAA and RIAA will get them jailed for life..

Thiefs…
- ObviousTroll
  
  I hope they give artists more money one day.
  - muzzleloader27
    
    Seriously? you want to give the artist more money…? the people that are millionare a few times over??? and you want to pay an arm and leg on itunes for the music/movies? isn’t that the point of downloading, to get you want when you either cant afford it or you dont want to pay all the money to the artists ??
- Guest
  
  I bet you’ve never created anything in your life.
  - Danny
    
    Everybody creates things all the time whether they like it or not.
    
    I assume that you have never created anything useful in your life.
    - Pelham123
      
      I see what you did there. haha
- Giriofod
  
  What?
  
  Did they “steal your precious”?
  - http://twitter.com/MarlynDThomas Marlyn D. Thomas
    
    I hope they give artists more money one day.
  - RenZ0
    
    copying is different from stealing lol
- meowmix
  
  i don’t give a fuck if i get block or censured, but for now: FUCK OFF AND DIE FROM AIDS, you corporate bitchboi cunt.
  - Popehat
    
    You wont get censored mate. Your fighting the Nazis with you comment.. I’m not using some wierd sarcasm there, im just drunk. wheres this man with my weed? Oh yeah my dealers at a funeral. Some little girl was murdered, hes at her funeral. sad stuff. FUCK!!
    - meowmix
      
      murdering little girls and boys is just plain wrong and evil. luckily the little girl and her sister survived the asassination of the rest of her family in france.
      
      don’t have any weed, just some hash and a pollen for the weekend. pluss i have a load of rum and vodka.
  - ScrewEwe2
    
    Damnitt, I got here after the Artist’s comment was flagged, but it looks like he pissed a lot of people off. meowmix, did you and your buddy go see Judge Dred yet, and if so, how was it?
    - meowmix
      
      i’ve not had the chance yet, i’ll be doing it next week. i have to wait for the mrs to get home from a visit back home to sweden first. so i’m hoping to go on wednesday or friday.
    - ScrewEwe2
      
      Is she there to help Anakata break out of jail? maybe make him a cake with a file or hacksaw blade in it. I suppose that only works in cheesy movies. Have a great weekend and enjoy that hash. :-)
  - Anoynmousgoat
    
    ya artist get a new job.
  - http://twitter.com/XNEWF Bobby Ryan
    
    Nobody dies from AIDS anymore.
    - Kacey
      
      In Africa they do.
- Fuckthisasshole
  
  “Thiefs”?
  
  I hope one day an illiterate like you learns the English language if you wish to express yourself in it.
- Mreudaimon
  
  Twat!
- Boxxy
  
  Thiefs! Thiefs I tell you!
  - Anon
    
    You’re not Boxxy!
  - Grammar Nazi
    
    Thieves Theive Theives!!! Quit stealing my language and butchering it.
  - SpellingPolice
    
    And again with butchering the language. Spelling tests must have been horrible in grade school for you.
- Cher Hair
  
  Gypsys, Tramps And Thieves
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOSZwEwl_1Q
  - 123
    
    Chering is caring?
  - Popehat
    
    Wtf i this video, why did you share it ???
  - Pelham123
    
    Or in this case, Gipsees, Trampf and Thiefs
  - Ophelia Millais
    
    LOL … Whenever I hear any of those three words, I always think of this song. Glad I’m not the only one.
- Popehat
  
  I’m an “artist” and i couldn’t give a shit that demoniod existed. in fact they probably helped me get the software i make music with now. So fuck you other artist. You don’t speak for me..
  - Alanis Morrisette
    
    All anti-piracy rhetoric is people speaking for artists without the artists’ consent. Isn’t it ironic?
    - Glazdham
      
      don’t you think. ;) As a side note, In delusional fantasyland, when you were on weeds, you should’ve married poor Andy…Also, I realize you are prolly not A.M. Good day to you!
    - http://www.facebook.com/chris.kratzke.9 Chris Kratzke
      
      ya it really is and to top it off the actual artist gets paid shit on the dollar whale the company that contracts them (record label or what ever – but certainly not the artist and has absolutely nothing to do with the actual production of the song itself) gets paid a fortune,and then speaks All anti-piracy rhetoric for artists without the artists’ consent, to top it all off.(the artist only gets paid 5% to 8% of the profits and the record labels keep the rest for downloads from iTunes and stuff),(Artists are paid royalties usually somewhere between 8% and 25% of the suggested retail price of the recording) . ( ” http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/music-royalties6.htm ” )after knowing how the artist get paid shit on the dollar it’s no wonder why ,All the anti-piracy rhetoric is record labels and stuff speaking for artists without the artists’ consent.because before a artist even could consider that they need to first correct the issue where they are being shitted on by the record labels who are making all the real money here and not only are they shitting on the artist but they are also shitting on all the rest of us too with their net censor ship campaigns and their All anti-piracy rhetoric when they have their product priced so expensive that nobody can afford it anyway,(people have family’s to feed and bills to pay ya know,why the fuck would someone chose to buy a couple of songs over keeping the heater on in winter,is that really even a ethical question to ask someone(hey do you want to freeze to deaf listing to my song because you know you will never be able to afford it without some sacrifices or do you want to chose to pay the heating bill in order to keep the heat on and not ever get to listen to my song?are you sure about your choice because if you chose to pay to keep the heat on you will be depriving of this great music )is this really a ethical question to ask someone,because it sounds like a really fuckedup thing to ask to me
  - John Spartan
    
    Whoever flagged this comment is no better than the Mafiaa themselves
    
    ohh the irony.
    So what he called us theives, you should fight back with words, not censorship.
  - Bongotz
    
    I luv u Man
  - Berberticus
    
    It is not the artist that I believe is a victim here but those greedy money hungry people that live of the work the artists does. It is them who fight against these sites and the losses they suffer, the artist never used to get what they deserved even before the internet.
    it is the managers, producers, labels, advertisers and everyone else that does not perform the art who rakes in all the money.
    
    there for I believe Demonoid is not a bad thing, it gives artists a name and eventually gets people in to spending their money on them if they truly like their work.
    Now those that collect that money should be less greedy and pay it to the artist and only keep a small commission.
- Kadogoo
  
  Wat r u doing on Torrent sites if u care ’bout copy right! Stupid Artist
- Andrew Dunn
  
  The thief was one of your fans that wanted to let the world know how good you are Artist.
  
  Don’t blame the site, Blame the person who uploaded to it
- Biggy
  
  Up your own arse and a tosser thats all.
- Funwithpyro123
  
  Thieves*
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000453717855 Bobby Barrins
  
  oh come on with that crap . are you kidding me i hope MPAA RIAA stop there b.s singer, actor, studios don’t loose a fucking dime from online downloading .what were the box office sales for The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises , Hunger Games and Men in black 3 again
  - Vincent Clarke
    
    And the studios continue to gouge the public by releasing 10 versions of a flick to home media… Theatrical cuts, extended cuts, directors cuts, ultimate packs, etc. They’re still making boatloads of cash and don’t believe otherwise.
- Isa
  
  Take some time to research before commenting. There have been numerous studies showing that MPAA and RIAA have grossly overstated their profit loss.
  At the Same time there can be a case made that file sharing can benefit some one’s bottom line more than hurt it. Brandon Sanderson, author of the Mistborn Trilogy and the man selected to complete the wheel of time series actually offers a free copy of his book Warbreaker for download from his personal website, and yet the printed copy is still selling as well if not better in some places than his other works.
- StopFeedingTheTroll
  
  …Does nobody understand how the internet works? He’s an obvious troll and made the account name Artist. You’d think people that were into torrenting would know about things like this.
Jeff Knight

Just upload the torrents to tpb, no need to come back.
- Santosh K
  
  TBB is good… but both r unique in its own ways… we miss demonoid very badly! :(
- http://truth-and-opinion.dyndns-blog.com/ The Peripatetic Apostate
  
  The effectively state-run ISP of Turkey blocks TPB, but had not blocked Demonoid or KAT or others.
  
  So no, there is a need to come back.
  - n00b
    
    The onion and other proxies are the way to go then (for the moment)
- Stevanbg
  
  Idiot..People are one that matters..
- DemonRaiser
  
  because TPB is a shitty web page, It doesnt have all the categories Demonoid has, and TPB have the same movie 40000 times in different torrents with many fakes and a community of stupid people that doesnt give a shit to seed, public trackers are the only places where you download a torrent with 10 seeds and 15 leechers and your download speed is like 50KB/ps or less, when in demonoid a torrent with like 3 or 5 seeds give me speeds from 500KBps to 4MBps
  - Oneloop1984
    
    I don’t know why you’re complaining that people don’t seed. Go to any hollywood movie, you won’t find one with less than 100 seeds. Isn’t that enough for you?
    - http://www.facebook.com/chris.kratzke.9 Chris Kratzke
      
      rares are hard to find and if you are lucky enough to find them in the first place they usually don’t have many seeds at all,if any (dead torrent) ,besides some people don’t like hollywood movie’s anymore i mean after all how many times do they need to make a new “Men in black” or a new “bat man” movie, before they get a new idea for a original movie instead of just using the same old idea’s and creating squeal after squeal after squeal after squeal and just continuing that same cycle. on that “Go to any hollywood movie, you won’t find one with less than 100 seeds”-try to find a torrent for the movie “The Vagrant (1992)” that’s a hollywood movie it might be a little old but its a great movie and it dose not have any seeds in fact you can’t even find a torrent for it right now,its a almost perfect example of a rare.however i myself am a big anime fan because the writers for anime are much more creative and original than hollywood,check out “gantz ” , “crystal blaze”,”tokko” or “Mermaid Forest”,and see what i mean,you wont find originality or quality story lines like that in hollywood anymore,a long time ago back in the days of the show ” the twilight zone” good graphics did not exist and the movies and shows relied on the story lines to make their shows good,but not any more now its just all about a stupid idea that more explosions and better graphics make movies good and the story line dose not matter at all anymore.i think that a good movie has a good story line (most important part of a movie) and the graphics are not important,but better graphics can help do a better job of telling the story(the least important part of a movie,it only aids in telling the story hence if the story is crappy the movie will be crappy no matter how good the graphics are).
Cray

Hope is Kindled. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, But we who Live will wait… in teh Darkness.For the Return of Demonoid.
- Toasterenvelope
  
  it was touching until you used the word “teh”
  BAH
  - Cray
    
    Very sorry. It was an actual typo on my part. I detest these “humorous” misspellings normally. Will try not ot let it happen again.
    - Cray
      
      Dammit… Just saw that I misspelt “to”. What is my typing coming to?? (Or coming ‘ot’ ?…)
      Regards
    - Darkhog
      
      *misspeled
    - Darkhog
      
      *misspelled
    - Jason Risner
      
      Lifes to short too be a pedant.
      “Misspelt” is not incorrect.
    - karthik
      
      no problem… forget it bro !!!
- karthik
  
  YAY!!!!! please come back demonoid!! :D
http://twitter.com/ZDRuX TTMike

It really sucks to have something destroyed that you’ve worked on for so long.
- Anon
  
  I’d say the recording artists whose work you’ve been ripping off for a decade might agree.
  - Giriofod
    
    Who are these artists?
    
    You mean the artists who steal riffs from other songs and remake as their own?
  - Danny
    
    Anon, the only people ripping off the artists are the record labels.
  - philoarchea
    
    From the looks of it, you really have no idea at all of what your beloved record labels do with the money they win in lawsuits against “pirates”. Artists never get a cut from it, that’s for sure. Be better informed next time before you go and enter trolloland.
    - Guest
      
      Yeah, I’m an artist. Made a tune whilst whistling yesterday. WHERE’S MY CUT???!!!
  - Guest
    
    lol @ Anon
    
    So we’re destroying artists’ work now? I thought we were only “stealing” it.
    
    As his propaganda escalates, at some point Anon is going to claim we’re literally causing artists to die.
    - tremor
      
      What? You’ve never heard of starving artists?
    - Guest
      
      @tremor I suggest they get a job then as they are obviously shit. True musicians would earn money from actually playing places. 5 nights a week. If they were good they’d have no problem. Some could earn £250 a night easy. Yet they still complain??? Lazy mother fuckers I say, or shit as stated above.
    - http://profile.yahoo.com/MVK2O4ZZBJDI472PNL4XN5Y44Y brice
      
      anon why don’t you RIP Dee’s nuts
  - Guest
    
    They could just play for money. If they don’t want their shit shared then don’t share it to begin with i.e selling CD adverts that people can copy.
  - Pelham123
    
    You know you can make up a clever name, right? You don’t have to just be Anon.
    
    But no … you lack even the most basic understanding of how the Internet works. The text in your post confirms that.
    
    Or maybe you understand it perfectly. You make a stpupid post because you want the abuse. You like to pretend to be dumb because ti gives you release, like hiring a dominatrix to drip hot wax on your testicles.
    
    Ah troll, ah troll. Mysterious creature in the night.
  - http://profile.yahoo.com/MVK2O4ZZBJDI472PNL4XN5Y44Y brice
    
    Anon why don’t you RIP on Dee’s nuts
  - Josnchaper
    
    LOL Are you perhaps addressing Bob Dylan?
  - Cherubim25
    
    you can go and fuck yourself….the “artists” i rip of off either A. do not care that we download the music/movies B. are no longer even alive or C. i buy it after i realize it is not total shit.
  - Madmikeyyyyy
    
    no I don’t agree ,I have made 375,000 from 1 song that I uploaded myself for free. I still am receiving royalties even tho it has been out there for free for over three years.
    Artist m
- meowmix
  
  that’s what the redskins said when the honkeys arrived in ameriKKKa.
Partially-Relieved

@ Artist why don’t you go jump off a bridge you sob
PirateForLife

While I do miss Demonoid, I do prefer fully private trackers. They are smaller and have much less active seeds, but they also are not under scrutiny/investigation by the authorities, so are less likely to have their servers/databases seized and analyzed, and therefore possibly having member information then under investigation.

As to artists getting their share, when I do find a movie or album I like, I *do* purchase it, as a matter of fact I ordered about $200 in DVDs this week. What I like about torrents is to be able to preview movies before paying out my hard earned money (scarce as it is), instead of paying up front just to find out the movie is total crap!

Demonoid’s best thing was being able to find rare/obscure stuff which is rarely found now, even TPB and other good sized sites just don’t have the same volume of seeded items.

PirateForLife
- meowmix
  
  i’d have said ‘seeded treasures’ myself as i’ve found stuff there that was not available anywhere else or comercialy buyable.
- NoBrainer
  
  You idiot did you actually realize that you had just contribute $190 to those MAFIAA scumbag and they could easily benefit from YOUR money to hunt your silly ass down any moment from now for downloading pirated material from the net.
  
  You just paid for your own downfall…
  
  Peace.
  - NoBrainer
    
    And oh I forgot to mention that the missing $10 had gone to artist pocket
  - Toasterenvelope
    
    Being a dick does not help matters, especially when it comes to
    someones ethical considerations. The poster you are replying to is behaving in a way that is responsible to themselves- not everyone consumes whatever they want and shrugs off the idea that maybe some really good stuff should be paid for..
    - Guest
      
      They might donate through other channels to get the money to the artist though and not through the pointless middleman.
- Toasterenvelope
  
  Try Before You Buy is a boon to individuals who do not want their disposable income to be needlessly wasted. Some people do not seem to realize that though.
- Oneloop1984
  
  Can I make a request? Put all your rare/obscure torrents together and make a torrent of it. Then come back here and share the magnet link with us. Lets try to salvage as much as possible. Thanks.
- Bookworm51485
  
  That’s definitely my main reason for downloading, though I don’t really download music anymore (since most of it sucks) or movies (*see previous reasoning). Most of what I download now are TV shows or anime that I can’t easily find here, and ebooks. I learned my lesson after buying like $50 worth of books (which really didn’t add up to as many books as you might think, given the price) and finding that they all SUUUUUCKED!! I’m tired of reading published books that make it clear the author wasn’t even trying. I mean, really, how many misspelled words did we find in that chapter? Wow, didn’t even try to fix the ridiculously poor grammar there. It’s absurd.
  
  I don’t have much money and I’m not willing to waste it on something that I don’t know is good. Once I’ve read it and seen that it’s good, then I’ll buy it (and have more than once).
  - Cherubim25
    
    damn right, i do not downlaod new things often, but when i do i always buy the game/movie/book/whatever if i enjoyed it even slightly. sometimes i do not even play the game or watch the thing again and it will just sit on a shelf until a friend or family member wants to use it for a night or two.
    
    i downloaded 300 gigs of books a couple of years ago..my lil “give credit where credit is due” moral crap cost me out the wazoo that summer lol i even had to buy a new bookshelf….ahwell something for the children to read when they grow up, if people even read by the time they are adults.
- Cherubim25
  
  ..wish i could even find a private tracker worth a crap, somebody got me into one the other day..half the torrents were either broken, non seeded, or contained infected files.
  - agogohome
    
    Try TheBox.bz
  - It’s just me myself and I
    
    Torrentleech!!!!!!!
Manky goes to Bollywood

Come back Demonoid. I miss you!!
PirateForLife

Oh, I forgot…
Even if Demonoid does come back up, I am not sure I will use it again. Sudden changes to the domain’s DNS servers and all, conflicting reports as to it coming back or not.

The Site admins (supposedly) replying (by email I presume) to TorrentFreak, what if the authorities have already taken control of the domain and now have control over the email and are posing as the real site owners/admins??

And even if it is the real deal and it comes back, I’m pretty sure that there are tons of people who have already stopped seeding many of the torrents from before. So I do fear that it just would not be anything like it was before
- Simon
  
  What information does Ernesto have to think that he’s communicating with the real owner after the site was put up for sale and then forcibly removed from sale by authorities? And why are they suddenly responding quickly by email? Honeypot?
  - Pelham123
    
    Occam’s Razor suggests that Demonoid simply went the way of BTJunkie. This article would seem to confirm that.
    
    I loved Demonoid for the DJ sets and mixtapes … but they’re now popping up elsewhere. Even the out-of-print audio and video were on blogs long before Demonoid went public and those are now making a big comeback too.
    
    Bottom line is that the Internet remains the greatest library in the history of our species. Demonoid is just one librarian who found a better-paying job.
    - meowmix
      
      and like the library of alexandria, if the copyright whores get thier way it’ll go the same way: up in flames.
- Anon
  
  Not me. I used to buy tons of cds for my collection. About ten years ago I downloaded my first album. A year after that I stopped buying cds entirely. Maybe I’ve bought 3 in the last ten years. I just sold all my cds for $1 each, or at least I tried to. Same with dvds. I had a huge collection, but around the time I discovered axxo movies that all stopped. After a few years I dusted the dvds off and took them to a pawn shop. For every person who still buys cds and dvds there’s a thousand people like me.
  - anon
    
    Sorry, I was responding to your other comment.
    - Pelham123
      
      Anon apologizes to Anon about responding to the wrong comment from Anon. And Torrentfreak has made me smile once again.
  - damaged
    
    You live in a fantasy land. For every thousand people like you, there are 10 thousand who like physical media.
- troll hunter
  
  show some respect, stop being a wiseass
- meowmix
  
  i have mine stopped and are ready to restart when its back up.
- Aspasia
  
  Lots of loyal people would reupload their files again. And add new stuff. D would not be what it was at once but given a couple of months it would recover.
- toasterenvelope
  
  Maybe/Maybe not. You do not have the details to make an informed decision.
  - Guest
    
    Yes he does. If the site did come back, all the users would make it what it was again like they did last time.
    
    What other info does he need?
    
    It could be a year or two and there would still be vast amounts of people that flood back to it once they hear the news. Those people would be mostly the old members. They will never forget and will be back there at a drop of a hat, whenever that may be.I feel like saying it’s a fact but it wouldn’t be true. It highlights how much I believe this though.
    - Guest
      
      Apologies Toasterenvelope, I thought you were replying to Aspasia. Don’t I look the fool.
    - Keebler2583
      
      very true guest if and when demonoid comes back I’ll be there doesnt matter if it’s 2 months from now or 2 years I’m loyal to demonoid and everything i have recieved from site ie books,movies,music,programs,etc
    - Weeesy
      
      Has anyone got an ivite code to torrent cafe? weeesy at hotmail.com
- Stonecold
  
  I never stopped seeding. ;_;
- joshua kit
  
  I’m not an expert, but I’m not sure that would be legal. I think it could be considered entrapment.
- Cherubim25
  
  i will still use it, most of the things i download are things that are either offered free but torrents are faster, or they are no longer sold anywhere….not sure you can be “busted” for downloading something that has not been available anywhere else for 10+ years. maybe, but i doubt a judge would be that prickish..
anon

So now, you know it, they have backups, and they can come back.
Just wait month after month and see, time will tell.
Jake Murphy

Theft implies taking something away from a source or sources that results in that thing no longer being in possession of the source from which it was taken. Torrenting, therefore, is not theft. In fact, those that ‘steal’ music are more likely to support the artists themselves as well as local record stores, as opposed to these giant corporations that own nearly every facet of the industry. They’re also the people who (by and large) attend more concerts, music festivals, and other artistic performances than most.
- meowmix
  
  like my oldest daughter. she goes to lots of gigs because she prefers to hear the music live.
- Dirty_Bear
  
  “Theft implies taking something away from a source or sources that results in that thing no longer being in possession of the source from which it was taken.”
  
  In legal terms, yes, this is correct. But not in coloquial terms. Even the law uses the word theft to describe theft in a coloquial sense. Look up “Theft of Service” for example. That term alone proves you wrong.
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft_of_services
  - Guest
    
    Jake is correct according to both the law and the English language itself. Your “colloquial terms” are bullshit overruled by a dictionary and law school 101.
    - Dirty_Bear
      
      That was an interesting attempt at an argument.
  - Toasterenvelope
    
    Data replication is reality, Dirty_Bear and all who read this. The File-Sharers are increasing the availability of works, not reducing them. The only thing that reduces, as far as I can tell, is the perceived monetary value of the source material. That is a good thing for people in general but not collectors.
    
    About theft of service; often as the earnings surpasses the cost of developing, producing and maintaining the things which allow services to be rendered the cost to consumers remains the same or increases along with “market conditions”, without adjustments, unless there is dire need for competitive action. Refer to proposed “level the playing field” legislation in reference especially to municipal Internet Services who planned to offer (for instance) fiber optic capability to an area previously ignored by the private sector, likely because of profit motives and definitely b/c of an inherent disregard for people in areas that are not economically viable. Anyways, the large providers whined and complained about not being able to “compete” in area where they had no desire to occupy until then. Essentially, those who offer services that can be “thefted” are often unfair and care only about their profit margin. They screw people over every day. Who is really in the right? nobody?
    /Rant
    - Dirty_Bear
      
      I don’t mean to be rude Toasterenvelope but, in all that text, I don’t think that there was an explanation of why Theft of Service isn’t theft in a non legal sense. I feel that you perhaps went off on a bit of a tangent or perhaps made thing more complicated than they need be.
    - Anoynmousgoat
      
      the only reason you can get away with calling cable tapping “stealing” is because of the electricity being sent through the lines that forms the signal. the same does not apply to a satellite dish or antenna, too bad. .-.
    - Dirty_Bear
      
      “the only reason you can get away with calling cable tapping “stealing” is because of the electricity being sent through the lines that forms the signal. the same does not apply to a satellite dish or antenna, too bad. .-.”
      
      It’s called theft of service because what is being stolen is the service which requires payment. Nothing to do with electricity (Although you can steal electricity). It doesn’t have to be cable TV either. It indeed could be satellite TV.
  - Toasterenvelope
    
    Yes i was off-topic. Complication is king.
  - Pelham123
    
    Theft of service implies taking something away from a source or sources that results in
    that thing no longer being in possession of the source from which it was
    taken. The thing in this case is services, or if you prefer, labor.
    
    By definition, any term of law is not colloquial.
    
    http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/colloquial
    
    Jake’s bit about supporting artists is misplaced, too – it’s a moral argument for torrenting but it has nothing to do with law.
  - Stonecold
    
    NO. Incorrect!
    
    Theft of Service is also theft, because it assumes a service is something where there is a finite ability to supply it, so for example if I were to somehow steal your lawn-mowing service to keep my grass short, I would be reducing the availability of the service and causing other people’s grass to grow out of control. I’d be a thief of your service. Downloading movies, etc isn’t thief of service because there is an INfinite supply of the data, assuming you’re paying for the internet bandwidth which is a FINITE service.
    That term alone proves you don’t understand what a service is.
    - Dirty_Bear
      
      “Theft of Service is also theft, because it assumes a service is something where there is a finite ability to supply it”
      
      The fact that obtaining cable TV without paying is considered Theft of Service invalidates your argument.
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_theft
    - chronoss chiron
      
      there is no theft when something does not exist in reality….so sorry i do not follow that line of crap….that is hollywood mentality and i for one am not biting….the more we say imaginary property the better….
Nostalgic1

Looking forward to getting an e-mail from “the gatekeeper”, just like the one in 2008… It made everyone so happy back then. :)

Take as much time as you need, guys.
me

If they come back, I hope they won’t censure Germany again.
Flubaluba

I wonder if this is not a way to get rid of some threats to be taken to court, move servers to another country , put it under different names , make it more secure from ddos attacks, wait a few month’s or up to a year to get the trolls of your back and open up again, nice and new and fresh. Starting with only those people who were really sharing and committed to the site, then slowly allowing others to join. Rinse and repeat every few years. :)
Guest

There’s gonna need to be some explaining about what really happened!
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Anonymous

has there actually been any true info released as to what the charges were, who brought them, who to and why now? i know we can all speculate but i dont recall reading the whole truth about what has happened. the information that was stored through Demonoid, if now lost from there, will be lost forever, all to fuel some greedy arse holes egos
- ScrewEwe2
  
  I’ve tried reading different online Mexican News sites to see if I could find anything related to the admin(s) being busted and haven’t seen a word about Demonoid.
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Matrixxer

When you resume your services, im ready to upload all that i have in my 2 TB hd
Mosssteve

Demonoid we miss you!
As you can see the members are still here and hoping for the best.

Don’t give up on us and we will not give up on you!
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tmc8080

Not really speculating, but is this about the money or legal threats– or other issues related to the coming storm of anti-piracy measures..? Right now, trackers from the (allegedly) UK are picking up the slack (no, I won’t say which ones, hehe), amid various censorship cat & mouse games… which is comical to say the least..
Awaiter

We all are waiting for you’re comeback.
Faster the better.
Tomorrow will be fine to revive.
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Bookworm51485

Crossing my fingers. The site was great for a lot of things, even more than just downloading, and I miss it :’(
Bill

I’ve still got you bookmarked Demonoid.

And I allways will.
Adam Salinas

Corporate thieves, hippocrates & liars!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLCZhQX_Fm0
- ScrewEwe2
  
  Good tune man.
Kernel

Nobody can take our Demonoid away. I know it will come back, hopefully with the same domain so I won’t have to update my bookmarks.
Anon

”the downtime Demonoid suffered half a decade ago.”

wow, this is making me feel old. been a member since 2005, hopefully the site will be back someday.
Trelew

I sincerely hope that Demonoid will make a return and that all the corporate-bought politicians are charged with some heinous crime and are forced to share a small cell with an amorous low-life that won’t take no as an answer. Just saying…
Guest

Once a day I read news and comments about demonoid. Which other torrent site could you get books and videos about parrot behaviour. Come back!
Trolloid

He is Trolling us!
xz

THE WORLD STILL NEEDS YOU DEMONOID, PLZ COME BACK!?!?! :’(
Halfheat

Just lovely, this is why I love Demonoid so much, it never quits, just keeps coming back, be sure to show your support and donate as much as you can once it comes back up my Demoniod community peeps.
Stevie Wonder

‘Ive never seen a dime of my royalties !’
- Ray Charles
  
  Word!
- ScrewEwe2
  
  Stevie, let’s collaborate, you on harmonica, Ray Charles’ ghost on pieanno, and I can whistle Dixie out of my Ass.
  - Anouncers Voice
    
    LADIES AND GENTEMEN,
    WOULD YOU PLEASE WELCOME…
    STEVIE…
    RAY…
    CORN
    (crowd goes wild).
- ScrewEwe2
  
  Ive never seen a HumperDink or an Engleburt. Must have sucked having that name as kid.
http://twitter.com/JennyTaylier55 HumperDink

Really hope Demonoid comes back for Christmas,its left a massive gap and is sorely missed
Violated0

Let us just hope he backs up the site code multiple times. Then even if they do get busted they can turn this site over for others to manage. We all wait to see the return of Demonoid.

Anyway good luck to them with the law conflict they face.
- me
  
  The source code is not the problem. Everyone can set up something similar. It’s the community that was the soul of Demonoid. The longer they are offline, the less of this community remains.
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GreatKitsune

OMG WTF??? Come on seriously? You are in a place for torrents what you think you are going to change us in our sinful ways? I am an artist and I make money with my art. Do I get upset when someone takes it? No not really.. For whatever culture you sell to there will ALWAYS be a culture underneith that pirates it. These are the people who don’t pay for anything. Feel happy they took an interest in your craft. These are also the same people that give you free promotion if they like it. So MAKE SOMETHING GOOD! These people will never buy your art, but they might mention you to someone that will.

When I was a musician I made ALL of my tracks Free to the public just had to sign up to my mailing list. I made more money selling merch and actual copies of the CD which I produced cheap since they were free tracks. Than I used to on CD sales alone. The market is freaking changing and those artists that don’t change with it are getting left behind. Oh yeah and torrents? They got me out there in the hands of people and I got a serious rush of traffic to all my websites and social media. Quit making your art expensive, roll with the punches. Quit putting multi million dollar artists on your tracks that cost a fortune to produce. Make it yourself, find a studio that will work with you.

EVOLVE
- GreatKitsune
  
  Also… Quit making excuses for why your stuff doesn’t sell. Go out there and push your brand. If you have no idea what I am talking about you will be lost in the shuffle anyways!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Lucia-Matias/100003264870238 Lucia Matias

DEMONOID FOR EVER!!!!!!
I miss those guys…
Stevanbg

All right now..Baby… I Have some good torrents to seed, manually chosen and Im waiting for…On the Road Again
foff

Yes come back! Long live file sharing fuck the suits!
Stewart

I hope demonoid will be back one day, I don’t care if they even start from scratch again. I would reupload all my book scans in a second. Demonoid had the best search engine that I had ever used. You could upload and search for ebooks by any genre, sci-fi, fiction, non-fiction, mystery, horror, etc. Kickass and Piratebay both have horrible search engines.
- meowmix
  
  my mrs and i where talking about that the other day, she spends all her free time reading. she’s really missing demonoid because it was the best place she knew of to find books and was easily searchable. it also had an amazing library to choose from.
MC_Screwdriver

Well you could always try searching on the Dark Web for rare stuff.
- MC_Goat
  
  Or we could just put demonoid back up.
Kitlope

hopefully when the ‘noid comes back it supports udp tracking.
underfire

I hope it will launch in 2013.
Boblenton3

well its good to know thats its not entirely gone and I know we’re maybe talking at least over a year (or more) till we hear more news from Demonoid…..its just too risky to come back online what with MAFIAA going around shooting every poor soul who cant afford the next Chicken Royal
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A Demonoider

Demonoid Freedom Song

We don’t need no copyright,
We don’t need no thought control,
No gate keeping to our knowledge,
MAFIAA leave Demoners alone.
Hey! MAFIAA! Leave downloaders alone!

All in all its just another byte of control.
All in all you’re just another bit under control.
SuckMyWIWI

this article has incorrect info., demonoid’s nameserver WAS demonoid.me stupid!! And it was the Ukraine gov’t backed by the USA to shut em down!! Go do something else, you are bad at this!!
Guest

The authorities will never allow the site to go back up. And all the users are going to jail for 10 years. So if did come back up there’d be no one to upload shit!
guest

*Wonderful Demonoid Uploaders/Seeders*:

Many of the old demonoid torrents are still running, even those only on Demonoid’s tracker, but uisng DHT and Peer Exchange instead of the tracker. Please offer seeding for a while on your previous demonoid torrents for the folks who still need to finish things or will also help seed. I had a backlog of things about 8 months long to complete later when it went down. About 1/2 of those are still working now when I try them and get to them! But also have about 10 things at 95% or more now stuck. Need the seeders and those who completed torrent downloads to help out here and then others will assist! The original torrent files will work if you seed (turn on DHT and peer exchange).

If you don’t want to do that, please consider re-upping the exact same torrents to TPB or KAT but not as ISOS or RARs. List all the files separate in the torrent. Then anyone stranded can pick up from where they left off, and just get the remaining files they need to finish and then can help seed! Keep the scene going and the great demonoid legacy till it comes back later on!

I agree with many others here, demonoid was great for rare, out of print, or otherwise non purchasable stuff. The kind of stuff that ought to just be free at the Smithsonian or similar to increase human knowledge. Let’s keep it going.
- soldier
  
  I’m still seeding…
chronoss chiron

from the united hackers association ….no self respecting hacker would ever harm a site that gives you stuff for free….EVER…it was not a hacker but a govt cockknocker or some asshole paid by hollywood….
retaliate

Come back with a darknet/decentralized indexing and tracking system… make the futility of Hollywood evident.
onedumbcommentafteranother

This comment was flagged for review. no not really i just think the headline said it all ….. if you stood all the torrents on the internet side by side, the world would collapse due to the weight of paper created by the various governments prosecuting us all for littering with illegal intent.
Thedude

The fact that no one is in jail is worth all the downtime in the world, I have been a member since 2004 and a lot of what I know has been because of the ease of access to the information Provided by Demonoid.
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Iamafuckingguest

waiting EAGERLY
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Anoynmousgoat

come on big D fly…
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Dongs

The Demonoid admins and site ops were always huge faggots. They never ran their shit right. Same with ISOHunt I can’t believe it’s still around.
Guest

I hope the site never goes back up. Bad enough I had to deal with the psychiatrists for UNCRONTROLLED downloadz. In a funky fuge I’d download anything and everything and delete it and down it again. For no reason! As least with it down I don’t do this shit anymore and cruise the legal route like itunes and am a happy camper!
Ashutosh Tiku

i love u . i miss u , come back………..
Mills471 Rm

I am lost without demonoid, come back soon
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I miss my Demonoid!

I would love to send them some money to help. Although I donated before as a member, I don’t know how to send them money now. Any ideas?
Anon

I imagine the reason it will take so long to return is they will have to find some way to host the site without legal problems. They could follow what.cd and incorporate anonymously in an offshore location. It is expensive but would provide some legal protection for the administrators.
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http://darkstarjamblog.blogspot.com/ Darkstarjamblog

Hope Demonoid comes back soon! Anyone know where to download boards of Furthur shows in the meantime? Let me know http://darkstarjamblog.blogspot.com Thanks!
pal2002

Lost my torrent virginity at demonoid. Wishing it well and hope it will be back someday.
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http://www.facebook.com/aerokossa Shane Cormier

POWER TO THE PIRATE!!!!! WE HAVE YOUR BACK DEMONOID!!!!!!
http://www.facebook.com/aerokossa Shane Cormier

Same people who file charges against the torrent use are the ones who created and supported the torrent. funny how they arent getting arrested
1hhh1

rumour has it they’re trying to buy the Demonoid.eu site
- Nicktika
  
  I hope they return soon..thnx to Demonoid i have over 1 TB of Training Courses!
TBolt

I will gladly wait patiently for Demonoid’s return.
DirtyWonders

VIRTUALIZE IT NEXT TIME BOYS!
http://www.facebook.com/dschreib87 Daniel Schreib

RIP Demonoid……….
jc

I don’t see it being legit hackers going after demonoid…this attack was by the you know who as always going after people in the name of secur-a-tay and ensuring stability in the proper distribution rights reserved and forthcoming
FirstClassDemonoid

I never would have passed my Compting university degree had it not been for Demonoid!

I’ll start working on a new site this evening!

;o)
FORRESTNUMMY

I have been a singer/songwriter for over 20 years, and Demonoid and places like it have helped me more than hurt me. If you are claiming to be an artist and you say that places like Demonoid have made you broke, then your either are not that good and noone wants your product anyway, or you are lazy and you dont do any shows and you rely on your cd sales to pay your bills, which pretty much means that you are a worthless artist that only sounds good in a studio after all the tweaks to your voice and fuck ups have been fixed. Places like demonoid get your stuff out there for people to see and hear and enjoy. Thats what making music is all about anyway, right. Letting people relax, remember and enjoy. People that would of never listened to my music have heard it. I owe that thanks to places like Demonoid. I will also add, with all the crap, lazy music and movies being produced today, it serves the labels right that people have figured out how to pirate and share for free. If you make a crap product and then overcharge people for it, then you can ALWAYS expect the people to figure out a way around. Labels have forever screwed the people and the artist, and now they dont like it when it is being done back to them. LIVE WITH IT!!
Aipple

Deminoid will never die ……free the demon!!!
Asd

This article makes no sense. It was Demonoid.me long time ago. Demonoid will come back in another format i guess.
Asd

Apparently a Brazilian company bought it. Chances are they will revive it in Brazil.
http://www.facebook.com/E.TekCustom Eric Beadle

Whats going to happen when torrents go from sites like the bay, and demonoid to cloud computers. Where its not in a single location but strung across multiples.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Torrent sites are like medical and gun manufactures. They produce some good sources of material, yet there are some copyright discrepancies with what is uploaded.

Medical, Oxycontin ring a bell, it was great yet it was and still is being abused. Why not go after the company that produces it and the places that store it….. We do not do that because it does not make much sense.

Gun Companies. Long time court disputes with guns kill people etc etc. No we dont throw the Smith and Wesson in jail. We throw the person who used the weapon in jail.

So why are the people who host the servers getting charged when instead they should charge the people who upload it. By going after the single source on the server side, it just allows another person to come up with another server site and they have to start over.

Example Napster lawsuite, resulted in
Kazaa, limewire, frostwire etc etc.
You take away one object it will just be replaced by another.
The uploaders are parasites that need a host.
And we will go from host to host.

but if go after the uploaders. I gurantee it would help reduce the copyright issues.

On an offnote category
What bout bootleggers across the countries?
what bout people who record off the tv/audio files then sell them?

i barely see people getting locked up for these? but they still break the law…

finaly say:
Leave the people who create a good source of material alone and go after those who choose to download the illegal material/upload the illegal material. Its not the host/owners fault how their service is being used.

They have legal agreements that each user signs upon creating a membership to prevent them from being shut down. SOOO Why the cuss is this going on?
Apa Khabar

I hope the a-holes in the USA, Interpol and Ukraine who took down Demonoid all get dick cancer.
Harry

Demonoid please come back!
I’m writing this with tears in my eyes
Ft4_org

I saw a Demonoid logo on h33t.com……
ARP

I miss Demonoid most for its Ebook collection.
Don123roushansingh

plz come back…demonoid…
AZBOLIVE

I want my beloved demonoid back!
all you haters are dicks!, if you dont like the site,,,
DONT USE IT!
and stop googleing for demonoid info.
crawl back under your rock n stop moaning like a bitch
sharing is caring
get a life.
Ghanhams

I thought Id take the time (since demonoid was down) to go back to my roots and visit the local HMV (music store). Here is what I experienced: Rude Staff, the albums I WAS going to buy, they didnt have them in stock. Also the staff told me that Id have to order them and in a few weeks come back and pick them up. NOW here I am going into a music store to BUY music instead of downloading them and they should of welcomed me with open arms. Now im not saying they should of rolled out the red carpet. so all in all I wanted to say I MISS YOU DEMONOID !!!
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZR75SZTAKTX7ICZVKNZ6ZPCHPQ Mr Zox

i love demonoid! he makes me CUM!
- Zebra52
  
  Immature at best.
demonoid lover

please come back again. domonoid is a real legend.
Keebler2583

we miss u demonoid!!!!! please come back!!
joshua kit

Can’t they just hand their database to someone else, to re-launch the site under a different top level domain?
Atlag2000

I really don’t get it…..you go to public library and you can borrow these media…..if you’ve got the right equipment and software you can copy it……we are all just sharing………
Thebusdriver

Myself and another longterm old-school demonoid user decided to open a tracker to help fill the hole left by our favorite tracker. Everything is still in testing but already the word is spreading and our community is growing and many of those coming are Demonoid lovers. We invite you to join us in these early stages and watch as our tracker and community grows and evolves!

filesinabus.me
- Headalwaysinabook
  
  Tried to sign up. Never received the confirmation email. Can’t even find contact info on site to let admin know.
IBBT

Demonoid I miss you. You were my go to site for everything!!! It’s like my right hand’s been cut off. Thank you for all the time you put into the site for all of us! It sounds like there are a lot of difficulties right now, but I sincerely hope you’re able to overcome them. Whether now or in the future. Thanks so much! Miss you lots and lots!!!
No Email

I hope it comes back. They were the only tracker for two files I’m trying to download and have over 90% of both—I can’t find these -anywhere- else on the Internet because they’re foreign, and I hope to complete my downloads.

Many of my favorite downloads I found demonoid’s credits with them. Thank you; please return!
Bob Bobson

I just want to know whether if it comes back, it will start over or will pick up where it left off, account-wise. That is, will we have to re-register or will our accounts and ratios be preserved? If not, then I will finally delete the stupid files that have been taking up space on my drive for so long solely so that I can seed them to increase my Demonoid ratio.
Kstudley

I hate to say it. I have been a Demonoid User since 2009. It switched in 2010 to the .me from .com, so you really do need to check your information more carefully.

I do hope Demonoid comes back, and will pray the it happens soon, until then, I will keep checking the news reports.
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=533900880 Ashleigh McKown
  
  whats the difference?? .me and .com?
zeaun

please come back demonoid miss you like you would not believe
Mademoiselle_rose1

I was using Demonoid to download ebooks, which was just unreal. Now it’s down I found another site recommended by someone some time ago on here for ebooks MIRC IRCHighway. I used it for a couple of weeks and it was just brilliant but now everytime I go I get thrown off. I’ve tried reading their instructions but being a techno no-hoper I can’t work it out. Does anyone use MIRC IRCHighway for books and can explain in basic terms how I can keep using it?
- makarios
  
  Try kat.ph for books. At this writing they are down but probably not for long. IRCHighway doesn’t accept new members.
Bartbob182

i dont feel bad pirating content cuz when i see an episode of mtv cribs obvi they arent losing out that bad when theyre showing off multi million dollar houses and fancy cars and shit like a one million dollar bugatti bunch of rich fuks
- fllshdws
  
  So true, years ago I remember on one episode that idiot Russell Simmons and his wife Kamora were showing off their gold plated, jewel encrusted toilet that cost over $100,000. Have they no shame.
Naggingregent

Can they at least put up the forums until the site is ready.
MissAnnThrope

This disappoints me. 99% of what I downloaded on Demonoid wasn’t even available on CD. If it was, then I’d find it used for some outrageous price, because it was discontinued years ago. I live in a town where there is really nowhere to buy music, other than Target and Wal*Mart. Like I’m going to find anything that isn’t top 40 in either of those places. Oh, order the mp3s? Sorry, but I am one of those sound quality snobs that wants flac files. Maybe if iTunes ever admits their formats are inferior and start offering flac, I might consider it.
Chrubim25

demonoid was my go to site for old movies, ps1/ps2 games…series that i had missed on tv and anime that you cant find in the store…the pirate bay works, but honestly demonoid to me was 2000000000000 times better for this. never worried about a virus, never worried about issues from my ISP (especially since i downloaded old stuff mostly) and there were no bogus torrents, they all worked, i miss demonoid :( …….its almost impossible to find a lot of the torrents on any other site.. /sigh well i guess i dont really need movies from 1940′s and video games from 1990′s anyhow..wait..yes..yes i do
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jpcguy89

Despite having many people who strongly disagree, I still think the argument: “Downloading copyrighted media from the internet that you wouldn’t otherwise have bought is still okay” holds clout. Downloading torrents can be a pain. Especially when your dealing with The Pirate Bay or the likes, where speeds are crawling at best, its the people who can’t afford, or simply pay the money for, the media that use it. It’s a fairly small percentage of the world that pirates media. I have done my fair share, but as soon as I got a job, I started buying media again. Now that I’m out of a job, it’s back to looking for torrents.

Take from this what you will, flame if you’d like, and have a..nice…day?
Thusbabylane

demonoid. why? im lost without u.
Riven Keenan

Thepiratebay is more like a backup car. Something you use because you have to. Because you’re everyday car is in the shop.
Demonoid was the best site up there. Very very tight community despite the fact the had open registration for a while. Which is how i got an account back i 08 i think. And i seeded TB of data because i felt safe. But never movies and games for long periods of time.
But the really rare gems you could find on demonoid that you could never even dream of finding on any of the other sites.
Demonoid was a trophy rooms of rare unpopular books that you just can’t easily find anywhere else.
As for music production software / VST’s. Incredible. Demonoid was stockpiled with amazing VST effects. that you can’t find on TPB.

In my opinion. And i’m sure many will agree with me. Taking demonoid down wasn’t just taking down a site. It was almost a massive book burning campaign.

PS: Maybe someone should look into a loop hole for torrent sites. Maybe have section of the website that has the entire text version of the bible or some other religious scripture on it. So if any government entity or agency takes down the site, it can be said in court that shutting down the site destroyed or interfered with belief. It could be like burning the american flag almost. A government agency, taking down a site with religious information on it. Especially with that video that disrespected islam that was on youtube. They would most certainly think twice about taking a site down if it somehow had some kind of belief system intertwined in it. But what am i saying. lol. I’m an atheist.
http://filesinabus.me/ Thebusdriver

Riven Keenan that is a very interesting idea!
TeQu

I MISSS Demonoid It Hurts so bad!!
Damn it
AntonLiv92

Hope they’ll get back soon…
Kohly69

I think that this really stinks butt!!! I am in the US and I am totally lost with out Demonoid!! I waited over 5 years to get an invite, and they saved me a lot of money on very necessary programs I needed to get my business off the ground! I am a disabled woman with poor credit and very limited income, and with out Demonoid, I would have never been able to go into business for myself! Because of Demonoid, I was able to download and evaluate software to make sure it fit my needs before shelling out thousands of dollars. 90% of the software I downloaded from there, I later purchased legally, so I don’t understand why sharing is such a big deal! Prior to siteslike this, people used to share things all the time! No one complained then! Please come back!!!
fllshdws

If this is true I’m sure they’ll come back one day, maybe next year, but they’ll want to make certain when they do reemerge it will be in a country where Hollywood can’t buy the law.

It was the best site for e-books and audiobooks.
Ann

Oh how I miss my demonoid… :-(
Nike

Finally scored an invite to it a month before it went down. I’d been waiting about 8 years! You’ve got to laugh haven’t you..
Riathenors

rooting for you demonoid, don’t let government and corperate assholes keep you down
Dragonsrkule

Please Demonoid! We all miss you! I miss being able to search for anything and get excellent quality!(And I miss my ratio!) :(
Agogohome

I don’t get it. I’ve connected to demonoid using ‘demonoid.me’ for more than a year now. I don’t see anything has changed.
- Rob alan
  
  No. no you haven’t.
  - http://www.facebook.com/wooders92 Jake Woodman
    
    some people are full of shit…..
Abiigaelim

Pls come back……………
http://www.facebook.com/NolAnimeKidz Rhonda Wheeler

PLease come back Demonoid!! W e need you!
Andre

Can TOR be the solution for Demonoid?
1zgirl3

What is up with Kickass having a dl for demonoid on there site? I am guessing it is just bs and not to dl.. RIGHT??
prashidha

OOh Ya! Come Back SooN !!
darkeyes

i miss you demonoid, it’s always been you…you’re my first tracker…come back soon please…
Getthefuckon

Fuck the Law Fuck all the legal bullshit, Entertainment is a human right, its my fukin right to download movies and software for FREE the government tax us on every fukin thing in life why can we get something so small so simple for free you good for fucking nothing legal mother fuckers, its cocks like you who fuck the system up in the first place
Heystoopidone

Hmmm, just got an email warning, attempted hijacking/hacking on my old demonoid gmail account source ip 178.22.219.210 (madnet.rs) Location: Pan?evo, Serbia.

Oh well, something is not quite right in the state of demonid.
Psgone55

I been long time member of Demonoid, let’s do everything to get it back on track, regards from psgone55
nycgirlie

come back demonoid!!!!!!

I miss all of my cooking/occult/history/language/animals/DIY, etc books you have there!
Fcktheworld

Its back !!!!
- Ghostly
  
  Not quite yet.
  @Andre – TOR is suitable but not for speed. When it comes to the deep web, things get a little slow.
  
  Demonoid, will be back, along with my and others hundreds of gigs+ of uploads. Long live Demonoid.
  
  Rebel, Reform, Revolt.
BerkeleyGuy

I have a long term commitment to my Demonoid torrents. I have seeded them for over 6 years now and counting. I am not going anywhere. Demonoid will be back.
http://www.facebook.com/aroldo.victa Aroldo Victa

it will be back soon , it’s all usa government fault they are bunch of bastard , tryin to control everthing , but they are so stupid to realized there is no stop to piracy mainly because it’s worldwide everybody does it , and because they are so stupid to realized that everybody is already givin up on the idea against piracy , that’s why we got netflix, hulu , others webstream companies tryin to survive sellin their huge media center for a short amount of money monthly, and everybody can watch it anywhere , because watchin tv in your living room , rent dvds that is so in the past we all watch it online anywhere, anytime , I think it’s bad when ppl sell like if I download a tv show and record on dvds to sell , I think that person should be punish . but I if I download only for my own entertainment
that’s not bad plus isn’t harming anyone , plus the networks should focus their media online aswell there are few that does it but most of them don’t , plus the audience would be amazinly huge , and with commercials , merchandising , they could profit much more than they do today ….
Boyetdelmundo

miss you demonoid…….
the dirrty scottsman

i can’t wait for demonoid to come back! was number one site to go :(
Bading

puta eh na nyo mahilig kayo sa libre ayan nawala tuloy
Dockboj

Why not take a proxy like piratebay? works perfect
http://twitter.com/coldelectric Mike Weatherl, Jr

I self-released my first album in 2008, posted it on demonoid, and of course included my opinion in the description about the great potential for bit-torrent to be used as a tool for musicians to gain exposure and exploit its massive distribution capability… The global admin posted my torrent’s description, with a link, in the news section – top & center of the homepage. 20,000+ downloads, and counting…
It gave me the encouragement I needed to stick with my music, more than just as a ‘hobby’. Almost 500 people commented, with (priceless) constructive criticism & compliments. I’ve treasured the ability to browse through those comments, over the years, whenever I needed a bit of inspiration. Now, its all gone… Of course, my stuff is on all the major trackers, but Demonoid had a real sense of community, which is lacking on the other sites. They’re all just hit-and-run.
I WANT MY DEMONOID BACK, GODDAMMIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol. NOW.
http://www.soundcloud.com/djColdElectric
frank

i hpoe it can goes back so i can get more great torrents.by the way who can tell me how to sign in the ab torrents?
email:nucleareffect@gmail.com
Annabell Chun

i tried to pull up the site today and it says that it could not find it so I guess its still down? Demonoid was the only site that I really trusted

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