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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Btw, the main site (demonoid.com) also seems to point (at least on my end) to the same ip range as the tracker, in malaysia (124.217.253.33)
Wow.
Demonoid.com is now registered out of Malaysia.
Yesterday it was registered out of the USA.
Could be only a matter of days now.
Pls! Pls! Bring me back my Demonoid!
torrentportal ftw
demonoid is da shit
Plz come back
i lub u demonoid
Oh, yes! I love you Demonoid. Hope to see you soon!
damn! I am kinda of proud of being a malaysian right now.
[quote comment="293398"]singapore is not a part of malaysia right? or hav ei missed something?[/quote]
no, it s not. it s just very close to malaysia
Powerscene hacked my interwebs and stole all of my warez (and my base) so dont use powerscene if you know what is best for you.
Whoopdi-do.
Privater sites ftw.
Demonoid was shit. All they had was crappy re-encodes of superior releases.
JAMGOOD-KVCD? Yuck.
Well, the laws against piracy is really strict in the Malaysia region since they have so much trouble with it down there. Probably one of the largest piracy zones on earth. Putting a server like this down there is just asking for trouble. Sweden or Russia are both better choices, making this deal look more like a joke/fraud than anything else. I hope I’m wrong.
Go to any of the public trackers and search on Demonoid… isohunt will have the highest hit count… who needs invites and all that drama?
Gone to Usenet, see ya.
Public Trackers are good but Demonoid was sooo much better. I believe some think its dumb only cuz of the fact that they were never invited. There was very little that was not shared on that site.
i feel a slight release of tension… hope the next post can be a full-blooded “woo-hoo!”
(how real is the ‘info’ about malaysia from ensamgud? - anyone know for sure what their regs/enforcement are like?)
neah, demonoid was cool
stop bitching fool
kilgore
I have a friend who lived down there several years and the busts made by authorities weren’t exactly with silk gloves. The overall piracy problem is still huge, but they go very hard on individuals and small/medium businesses who can’t afford original licenses or know the right people to pay off to stay out of trouble.
I don’t know about hosting trackers like this one, but it all seems dumb considering the enforcements made against piracy in Malaysia, not to mention there are countries where this could be achieved pretty much legally.
Looks like the site is coming up any minute now! Because if you go to its website, you will get a ‘page not found’!
or ur internet just went down
Malaysia is a heaven for a pirated cd/DVD. But I never heard someone put the torrent hosting tracker here. Even the local torrent tracker using outsider web hosting
lol, there is still a redirect to the subdemon forums, id assume it will be a few days or even weeks before the main site is back up.
Ajde Srbine!!!Pokazi ovim susljacima od koje se drvo prave lozice!Najbolji si bio, najbolji ces biti.
No place like Demonoid !!Period!
Will us canadians have access to the website since its hosted in the states now? thats if it does come back.
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