Demonoid Tracker Is Back, Will the Site be Next?
Written by Ernesto on February 19, 2008It has been three months since the popular (semi)private BitTorrent tracker Demonoid went offline. Since then, there has been a lot of speculation about its future, and many feared that the site would never return. Totally out of the blue, however, the tracker is now responding again.
The frontend of Demonoid is still hosted in the US, together with the popular Subdemon forums. Interestingly, the tracker - which has been offline for months - is now hosted in Malaysia, and has started to respond again, approximately 30 hours ago.
It is of course not clear what this all means, but without an official message from the Demonoid team, speculation has started. Could it be that the site has found a new host, and preparing a return? Many former Demonoid members are secretly hoping that this is indeed the case.
Last December, Deimos, the founder and main admin of what used to be one of the most popular BitTorrent trackers, posted a message on the Subdemon forums on the possibility of a return. At the time he wrote: “Money is an issue, but the real problem at the moment is finding a suitable place to host the website. There has been no luck there. And there’s some personal stuff I need to take care of that takes most of my time at the moment, and that does not help.”
For those who forgot, here is a recap of what has happened so far. The trouble for Demonoid started back in June, 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.
So will Demonoid ever return? The fact that the tracker is back online, in a different location seems to suggest that there is something happening.
Update: February 20, tracker offline again after 3 days uptime.
Previously: Yahoo! Filters Pirate Bay From Search Results
Next: Most Popular DVDrips on BitTorrent (wk7)
239 Responses (Add yours or TrackBack)
Pages: « 1 [2] 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 » Show All
I really hope they do comeback bcoz demonoid was the best no fake shit only pure gold.
Hesitant to get too excited, but fingers X’ed.
(Time of posting 13:37. Bodes well… :P)
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG yessss please!!!!
AMAZING!!!
This is great news! I’m keeping my fingers crossed for them.
It would be great for a site with some decent OS X offerings to come back!
The best site out there, no doubt, even better than TPB or any other single tracker COMBINED.
Heres hoping….
http://www.Ripvision.com for none scene release info
I would be very weary.
We arent the only ones that have this info.
long live the green demon!!
we need you!
I hope so, was a great site. Hope he still has the member database there so I don’t have to get another invite.
Two good things arose from Demonoid being shut down:
(1) I realized ho good a collection and collective Demonoid offered…
(2) I learned what else was out there for the torrent-minded…
WHEN it comes back, I think they should keep it a little more private and enforce the ratios to edge out the leechers a bit more…
Two good things arose from Demonoid being shut down:
(1) I realized how good a collection and collective Demonoid offered…
(2) I learned what else was out there for the torrent-minded…
WHEN it comes back, I think they should keep it a little more private and enforce the ratios to edge out the leechers a bit more…
Yep private trackers are the way to go imo. As good as places like TPB are theres nothing better than being on a well seeded private tracker. Ive never once maxed out my speed on TPB, yet other private tracker sites im on I always get max speed. People are more willing to seed back because of the ratio limits.
The argument is there about not having a fast upload speed etc, but lets face it. If your on anything but adsl/cable nowadays then you shoulden’t be downloading massive files. I haven’t got an astonishing up speed but I make sure I give back at least 1:1 of what I take.
this is excellent news. looking forward to contributing again!
to the new demonoid!
cheers
land ahoy!!!
lets rape and pillage them ratios!
Aye really good news! I’v suprisingly really missed the place, was lots of rare an good stuff to be had on there
*sings* “a little less public tracker, a little more ratio ” :P
i really want demonoid back !
I loved Demonoid. I continued seeding long after us Canadians got blocked out of the actual site. They’re also the only site that had anything from Ima Robot back in 2006.
sure it will be back, baiting all of you. you ever thing organizations are working together to bust
i think so, all of you should be watching your backs
Demonoid was BY FAR the best place of it’s kind on the net. Here is to hoping they are able to pull together. If they do come back, I will surely be donating to them!
http://www.livingwithanerd.com
honeypot
I allmost feel sorry for the anti-piricy organisations =\ They can’t do anything right :(
I really really hope that the site comes up soon, it was easily the best torrent site alive.
Pages: « 1 [2] 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 » Show All
Add your response