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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omgggg demonoydz bakkk! i move to dc now to get bettr torrentz or mayb3 malayzia in so anerikka roxxxxx!!!
Espero que regrese pronto!
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Ojala que vuelva pronto porque no hubo ni hay ningun traker mejor.
plz come back!!!
miss you guys…hurry back
[quote comment="301398"]plz come back!!![/quote]
please come back i miss you
[quote comment="303938"]please come back i miss you[/quote]
We all miss u Demonoid plz rise from the ashes
plz come back!!!
like the day it went down the IRC channel was saying it would be back
I really miss demonoid. In all the time I was a member, I NEVER got a fake or virus filled torrent. I had no choice but to move to tpb when demonoid went down. Now, I have to worry about the bad torrents (and yes, I’ve found many) - fuck it , I’ll wait for demonoid to come back online.
btw, who are you that anyone owes YOU an explanation of what they’re doing? Were you employed there? Did you do all the work? Did Deimos start the site just for you, then magnanimously decide to allow the rest of us to join?
No, you arrogant prig. It was all free. Oh, you donated? So?!? Would you demand that Goodwill return your dirty panties just because they closed their office?
Whatever it takes - however long it takes, I’d like to think that Deimos is more worried about quality versus length of time (with masses of bitching cheapskates ;) ) getting his site back.
How do we get to the new site????
Someone please post it!!!
http://torrentstorage.com/
I think they should locate in turkey where there are no copyright laws at all and everyone sells corrupt fake rolex!!!!
I can’t wait
Word has filtered down that the authorities tracked down Deimos when he tried to move the site to Malaysia. A front was allegedly set up in Malaysia and Deimos fell in the trap. Word is the tracker was never up legitimately, only to track IPs for demographic information for analysis of the nature of the BitTorrent problem, and to disseminate IPs to the authorities in those countries interested in prosecution. This info came from a knowledgable source on the official #demonoid channel on irc.p2p-network.net. Stay safe, fellow P2Pers.
I hope that comment 217 is a rumor. Demonoid was one of the best sites. I haven’t found anything quite like it. They just need to leave us alone. I’m tired of these governmennts ruining anything that is good. They spend how much time fucking with us? They should be going after the real criminals. Or maybe even going after their corrupt selves!!!! I am patiently waiting for the long overdue return of Demonoid.
Waitnnig for demonoid
We Are Nothing without him
waiting for his backup
thanks for good news
Knowledgable is a douche bag, was Matt Damon their too?
Mt BT client is seeing Demonoid as I type.
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