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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apparently the tracker is down again according to the subdemon forums
o.o
i cannot wait to see it !
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demonoid i love you
Hope it returns best site for obscure stuff like Korean movies and stuff, really miss Demonoid it had a great community too.
Whoever runs Demonoid strikes me as not too reliable. I mean if he doesnt even tell his Admins that the host is being threatened why would i trust him to tell me they might be some impending legal or other probs for us users..
tracker is down again! :(
yeah it’s down again :(
maybe it was just a test of the new servers or something.
either way, it was encouraging.
[quote comment="293790"]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[/quote]
lol.. so funny :D
Malaysia is in south east asia. Goddamit, have u all not check the map before
Yeh, I learned my lesson. Even if it comes back, I will never regard any torrent tracked with a demonoid tracker as reliable again. It was a good lesson into not putting all your eggs (torrents) in one basket (on one tracker).
I’ll attend if it comes back, but it won’t be the hub of operations it once was for me.
malaysia is part of south america millions of years ago…
Philippines is my 1st choice when it comes to server location. NO Cyber piracy laws, RIA, MPA, cheap internet and even Microsoft cant demand a lawsuit because 90% of software that filipinos uses are PIRATED. And if youre in trouble you can bribed your way out of it if you got the $.
[quote comment="293790"]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[/quote]
oh the irony..
TIME PARADOX.
” 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”
THIS IS A WINNER!!
Might make use of it as a signature after a dumb post.
Put your hands together and let the Holy light resurrect Demonoid :D
Sad the tracker is back offline.
As reported http://tftb.net/2008/02/20/demonoid-tracker-online/
But this could be a good news,Maybe they are testing the server before starting off fully.:D
Pray…!!!!
well malaysia is in south asia….and also the tracker was also up for 55 mins 5 days back too and then went offline….well surely they r working on something behind the scenes
Poster 74:
The only one here with some sense AND FACTS.
Ernesto, check your sources. Try and find some that AREN’T Deimos. Don’t reprint lies and hearsay. You’re not doing the P2P community a service by just sucking up to one unscrupulous Admin. He owes a lot of people explanations. You could help clear this situatiopn up. Instead you’re just further muddying the waters.
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Superman Bless Deimos !
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the russian says:
Long live Demonoid and all other torrents shearing sites!
Otherwise this fucking capitalists gonna own their money with out end!
I am since 25 years professional musician and played a lot in some famouse russian bands& but never seen money from copyright!
thanx for your detailed response, ensamgud.
shame that my slight relief lasted for less than 48hrs.
however, i have laughed out loud four times (each noisier than the last) at the beautifully idiotic sequence of misunderstandings of geography, nationality, tectonic plates and syntax.
sometimes, dumb = fun!
Im wondering if torrent storage shutdown, and demonoid tracker coming back online have something n common?
Seems that all of the sudden TS went down and is no longer a website. Yesterday it said upgrading server, today its gone.
hmmm, was Deimos involved with torrentstorage?
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