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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yes, demonoid please come back!!
T___T
Wouldn’t that be really cool!!!!!
The boys down at the CRIA and Brein are gonna s__t!!!!
[quote comment="293633"][quote comment="293607"]Will us canadians have access to the website since its hosted in the states now? thats if it does come back.[/quote]
What the fuck?
Malaysia isn’t in the United States.
Goddamn, talking about Americans being dumb.[/quote]
Oh the irony
[quote comment="292980"]woah, is the demon truly rising?
And on the day before a full lunar eclipse no less.[/quote]
Thanks for the heads up ;)
[quote] 21 Feb 2008 - Total Lunar Eclipse, total: 03:00:34 UT to 03:51:32 UT)
A total lunar eclipse will be visible over the Americas, Europe, Africa, and western Asia.[/quote]
Glad it’s coming back, was handy (like TPB) when other sorces faild me.
FL, TB, VIP2, FTW!
Demonoid was one of three sites I relied upon for 99% of my torrents. The other two were TV exclusive sites though so Demonoid was my favourite source for almost everything else - it was particularly great for comics, books & movies, with fewer fakes than the widely used public sites, and when it went down nothing else *adequately* filled the void it left. Some sites tried but Demonoid left big shoes to fill.
Hope it returns!!
Tracker down again….. dammit
The very best “General Purpose” tracker ever. This is right up there with BitMe. PLEASE COME BACK DEMONOID!!! WE MISS YOU
hope it comes back
hope it comes back
…..
#SpikedTeaRadio
X-D Place to be.
Twat…
I think i almost died twice when they went down twice… *holds breathe* I…am…freaking out…now.
[quote comment="293652"][quote comment="293633"][quote comment="293607"]Will us canadians have access to the website since its hosted in the states now? thats if it does come back.[/quote]
What the fuck?
Malaysia isn’t in the United States.
Goddamn, talking about Americans being dumb.[/quote]
Oh the irony[/quote]
Gave me a giggle that one :D
anyone got an OiNK invite?
[quote comment="293701"][quote comment="293652"][quote comment="293633"][quote comment="293607"]Will us canadians have access to the website since its hosted in the states now? thats if it does come back.[/quote]
What the fuck?
Malaysia isn’t in the United States.
Goddamn, talking about Americans being dumb.[/quote]
Oh the irony[/quote]
Gave me a giggle that one :D[/quote]
Nah its the Canuk that made the commend not an American…deeeerrrr
wow.it backs !
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[quote comment="293491"]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.[/quote]
If piracy laws in Malaysia is strict it wouldn’t be one of the worlds largest piracy zones.
FUKIN A RIGHT!!!!
No! Demonoid coming to Malaysia means our “peace bay” here are will be targeted by the MPAA/RIA too.
Then, they will start discussing with gov, I’m sure the gov will respond to them.
I guess sooner or later the our gov will react to denied access to all considered illegal stuff on the internet.
I believe it is different with pirated CD/DVD issues. In the torrent case, the gov just need to CUT THE LINES.
[quote comment="293709"][quote comment="293701"][quote comment="293652"][quote comment="293633"][quote comment="293607"]Will us canadians have access to the website since its hosted in the states now? thats if it does come back.[/quote]
What the fuck?
Malaysia isn’t in the United States.
Goddamn, talking about Americans being dumb.[/quote]
Oh the irony[/quote]
Gave me a giggle that one :D[/quote]
Nah its the Canuk that made the commend not an American…deeeerrrr[/quote]
*slaps em *
YOooShhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
umm i think you guys are confused. malaysia is in south america, not north america.
i can see where all the confusion comes from though
goddamn, talk about people on the internet being dumb
i think the site’s server should be located a place where thepiratebay ’s server is located, n site must take action against all those whose ratio is below 0.5 & it should be more & more provate.
we are just hoping that or most fav site will b come back soon.
@hank lepstein
Malaysia is in southern Asia.
o.o
i can see where all the confusion comes from though
goddamn, talk about people on the internet being dumb
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