Demonoid To Be Resurrected Under New Admin
Written by enigmax on April 11, 2008Deimos, the administrator of Demonoid has announced that he is stepping down for good due to his preoccupation with ‘real-life’ issues. For those tearing their hair out with dismay, you can stop now. The site will be resurrected under a trusted new admin and Deimos is asking the community to give him support.
Ever since Demonoid had to leave Canada, there has been speculation about the future of the site. Although the tracker has been returning periodically from various places - the latest being Ukraine - no solid news has been coming out about a proper comeback. Deimos, the Demonoid admin, has been very quiet - until now, that is.
In a message on the SubDemon forums, Deimos breaks his silence:
Hello Everyone,
It is with great sadness (and not a little relief) that I announce that I will be stepping down as admin of Demonoid, with effect from today.
Demonoid is currently suffering from a number of things, prime amongst these being my distraction with real-world issues, and so I have handed the reins over to a new administrator - a close friend of mine, which I trust completely and has the knowledge and time to take care of the site.
He will, in due course, be making his own announcements about the future of Demonoid. Of course, speculation over the future of the site is fun, but it is ultimately fruitless - you will all, in the near future, become aware of what the future holds. I trust that you will all give your support to the new admin as he finds his feet while he resurrects Demonoid.
Thanks again for your support in making Demonoid what it was and is.
Goodbye and good wishes - it has been a blast!- Deimos
It’s great news for the BitTorrent community that the future of Demonoid is in trusted hands and for some, quite a surprise after such a long wait. But it just might be worth it if one of the world’s most popular trackers does indeed come back with a bang.
Update: The Demonoid RSS feeds started to work again.
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canada = not safe for trackers
fuck en kool cant wait luv the site <3
i thought it was gone forever now its back godbless teh new admin.
Godspeed and good luck Deimos.
All my Demonoid torrents I made are intact. And will be soon seeded in full.
Demonoid was great and I sorely miss them; its been gone for a while in my mind. Suprnova has to take my vote for the /greatest/ tracker/site, and there are very adequate and massive trackers now, not the least of which is TPB but the list is longer than my more than adequate phallus. Also, my writing is very small.
It was a decent site. The speeds were not always great but I found almost everything I was looking for. There are trackers with way better speed but they have limited selection such as TL.
I have been using bittorrent since version 3. Never in my life i have ever used a “private” tracker.
In case i need something something “rare”, i turn to the ed2k/kad network.
IMO a “private” tracker is a big point of failure, something you will become addicted, until the day it goes dowm…
Furthermore, i have never accepted the term “leecher” in the bittorrent protocol. There is no such thing as somebody getting and never giving *anything* back (a real leecher) _unless_ there is excess offer, in which case i would not matter as that upload bandwidth would have remained idle otherwise (Those who give to peers, always get from said peers first).
When “private” trackers came, so did cheating clients. What they do is bother the statistics, trying to overcome some artificial rule. But its painful for public trackers; i especially hate the ones pretending to be seeders when they still need to get pieces (humans & clients think the swarm is seeded and stop seeding!)
Private trackers also break the most important thing: Availability. By forbidding dht, or multitracking, they are the single point of failure. If you put something in a public tracker, it doesn’t matter much if one or two trackers go down, the content keeps flowing. Its in the hands of the community of peers.
All i see with “private” tracking are disadvantages, things the bittorrent protocol was not made for. If you like ratios, why not go with Direct Connect then?
Bittorrent shines most when lots people have access to the content, restricting this access only works against the protocol. Yes, even what you call “leechers” are helping in a moment of release. Say, they shared 20% of what they get, who cares when there are so many? If there was a limitation with supply, they would have gotten the content last anyway.
Availability is the most important, speed is second. This needs at least a single REAL seed. All this seed needs to do is give a different block to each peer and let them sort the rest. “Private” tracking endangers availability for a flawed promise of speed.
Yeah … bring back the 128 rips and transcoded flacs … :-(
Never got a fake torrent ever from Demonoid. And I used it for over 3 years. The thing about Cemonoid was that due to it’s community spirit, it encouraged leechers to think about their behaviour. Which usually meant they became seeders.
Demonoid ruled.
End of.
Good by Deimos and thank you for everything!
Thereis no question that Demonoid was in a class of its own…..no other provider had the culture and personality that Demonoid had.
Good Luck Sir, and we look forward to the return.
Thanks
@ kuroneko
While I understand what your saying private trackers do go against the protocol’s of BT. However the advantages of the outway the disadvantages. Speed is always better than public. The content is alway good and what you expect. and it will be labelled correctly (on scene trackers). the public ones are unsecure (you dont know who is in the swarm monitoring your ip.) Full of crap rip’s, fake files, virus etc.. Thats why I dont use public trackers any more. not because i like ratio’s but because public trackers are very frustrating.
The mere variety provided by Demonoid was the best. Though bt-chat has about the same variety it is certainly not the same quality. All of the private sites I belong to seem to not even compare in variety or longevity of torrents. Sure they have better download speeds.
My demonoid feeds updated for the first time in what seems like a century - this is too weird…………
lmfao Demonoid sucks, only n00bs use it because they don’t have axx.
fuckin lamers go use feedthenet, scenetorrents or sceneaccess then reply u newbies.
good now i can stop using funfile!!!
if demonoid comes back will i have my same account?
So if you were a member before, does that mean that you’ll automatically have a spot saved for you when/if it comes back online? Or will you have to rush in to get a new account?
Yes yes yes !!
Demonoid ftw!!
I think Deimos decided that he could not bring back Demonoid but did not want to be the one to finally say that because so many people were wanting Demonoid back and he didn’t want to disappoint all those people so he quit and left the job of disappointing everyone to someone else.
goodbye Deimos and thanks for the ride
for all the guys like myself who were there from day 1 on Demonoid it genuinely hurts to see this happen today. when you grow up with a site admin you know who he is, what he does, why he does it. Deimos was trusted
the most recent history of Demonoid has been chaotic and full of confusion and uncertainty. Demonoid has not been acting in the interests of members, Demonoid has been busy with its own business. the people who watch that business indicate a difficult negotiation and handover after a sale
none of us knows this new admin. Deimos selling the site has to say “a new administrator - a close friend of mine” because the site would be worthless if he did not. after all the strange jumps of the past year, who do you trust?
i will be watching, along with others, and we will out the new owners. we already know who was interested to buy, only now we need the evidence. what is interesting is that they have gone so far to place the servers out of MAFIAA reach in an attempt to dodge confrontations with MAFIAA country organisations e.g. CRIAA, when it was not necessary
one thing torrent site operators can do is attempt to rent a server from the ISP hosting the Demonoid boxes. go try it and see what happens
keep very aware of the huge profits available in the USA from tracking filesharers and sending the $20,000 cease and desist and pay up or go to court letters. it is a multi-million dollar business
everything about the letter from Deimos and everything surrounding events stinks of corporate action and activity
warning: they have all your logs. do NOT login to the new Demonoid with your old nickname. if you must then re-register and use a proxy. you have been warned
DO USE sites with communities in a relationship with their operators. do use sites you can trust
http://www.h33t.com
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