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.
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=-O Please say it is going to return!
i have demonoid boxes on my google homepage telling me of new releases the same old ones day in day out.then all of a sudden i wake up this morning and i have new info about new releases on the noid when i click on torrents it takes me to sub demon fourms thats cool with me just the fact that new torrents are showing up is promising to me
YES! That would make things so much simpler again
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It’s cool that one of my favorite trackers is going back up again. I’ve been dying to put music and movies onto their site, but didn’t get the chance when the site went down in November.
Since it’s disappearance, I’ve been forced to float from torrent site to torrent site trying to find a replacement. ThePirateBay is “sufficient”, but it can never beat Demonoid.
I’m glad Deimos did not settle for taking up server space with the guys from ThePirateBay either. I think all of this media attention and popularity is beginning to get to TPB’s head and they’re forgetting the pirate code.
All of this “consolidation” of torrent sites and trackers to Sweden and TPB allowing sites to join up with them is not the pirate code. The first thing I learned was to decentralize.
It’s harder to stop a million spiders.
I dont think it will come back to many law problems but if it does then it would be nice….
thanks and congratulations to the demonoid squad for returning.
Such an occasion needs booze. Cheers.
You plums bitching about subdemon, is only because you’re too stupid to follow the rules. It’s gimps like you that bring things on top, and bring the heat to sites, cos you can’t follow basic rules and keep your fat mouths shut. The mods at subdemon are the fairest around, but if you are an ignoramus, and have no respect for the rules, then you get warned. Hopefully they’ll ban you dicks from demonoid when it returns too ¬_¬
Help me Deimos, you’re my only hope.
i hope it come bk online.
I hope they are back i miss ya Demoniod !!!!!
its a trap .
Keep your fingers crossed.
:)
LOL!!
Wohooo!
[quote comment="293298"]You plums bitching about subdemon, is only because you’re too stupid to follow the rules. It’s gimps like you that bring things on top, and bring the heat to sites, cos you can’t follow basic rules and keep your fat mouths shut. The mods at subdemon are the fairest around, but if you are an ignoramus, and have no respect for the rules, then you get warned. Hopefully they’ll ban you dicks from demonoid when it returns too ¬_¬[/quote]
couldn’t have said it better myself man ;D The rules aren’t hard and so what if there is moderation, give me one decent site that doesn’t have some moderation. None of it is asking too much IMO.
i wonder if it do come back, will Canadians be blocked? Anyways i hope not, i love the site to much.
And what about http://www.brokenbones.cn ????
It’s like a trap!
http://proxy4school.blogspot.com/
[quote comment="293356"]i wonder if it do come back, will Canadians be blocked? Anyways i hope not, i love the site to much.[/quote]
probably not since its being hosted in malaysia
Fucking rights, I hope this is the real thing, the filesharing community lost a lot when we lost demonoid. I don’t care if I have to access the site via proxy, it’s still the best.
The best bit of news I have had in absolutely ages!
singapore is not a part of malaysia right? or hav ei missed something?
WE LOVE YOU DEIMOS!
canada was not the problem with the move that demonoid made, it was the isp who caved into the pressure from the CRIA. other sites still operate successfully in canada with no major issues.
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