The Pirate Bay: Demonoid is Welcome in Sweden
Written by Ernesto on January 16, 2008After two months of downtime, it is still uncertain whether Demonoid will ever return. However, if it is up to The Pirate Bay, it will. The Pirate Bay has recently offered 2 servers to the Demonoid team, in Sweden of course.
Will Demonoid ever return? That was the question we asked last December. There was some hope for the thousands of Demonoid users when Deimos, the founder of the site, said that he was looking for a new location to host the popular BitTorrent tracker. He said: “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.”
It now seems that there’s some good news for Deimos as The Pirate Bay is offering their help. In fact, they claim to have two servers lined up for Demonoid already. Pirate Bay’s Brokep made this public in a recent interview on the Subdemon techcast where he said: “We tried to contact the guys behind Demonoid and we’ve set up a tracker for them but they haven’t responded. But, we have two servers running for them if they want to set it up.” Brokep also says that he hasn’t heard back from Deimos yet, but it sure is a great gesture.
If Demonoid decides to take them up on their offer they will not be alone. In 2007 quite a lot of torrent sites moved to Sweden, and to PRQ in particular. Sweden is considered to be a safe haven for BitTorrent sites, and PRQ is popular because it is owned by TiAMO and Anakata, two of the founders of The Pirate Bay. Ironically, however, The Pirate Bay is not hosted in Sweden or at PRQ, which is probably a wise decision.
In the remainder of the interview Brokep and the interviewers discuss some of the recent news surrounding The Pirate Bay, such as the huge pile of paperwork they received last month, the new protocol they have been developing, and the explosive growth of their tracker. It is definitely worth listening to, and I’m looking forward to the next episodes of this podcast, and to more news surrounding Demonoid.
You can download the podcast, including the interview here, or stream (might be buggy) the torrent and listen to it right away, with Bitlet.
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i hope they take up on this offer and go there
Sweet. TPB FTW! Love those guys :) Next it will be Oink :P
It’ll be a sad day if Sweden enforces stricter p2p laws =[
what about our accounts??
ALL HAIL PIRATE BAY!!!… their slow torrents and billions of demonoid refugees have come to the rescue…
im not being scarcastic in anyway…
i’m glad they have the curtosey (ok and i cant spell) and stature to do such a thing… and i for one would be the proudest to see demonoid come back 2 life… without demonoid… there is no bittorrent… their rules where fantastic…
every torrent had Screens and most had a good discription and good speed and usually where the first on the net… even beatin a few of the most popular “private” sites….
weather they come back or not… DEMONOID we respect you and thank u for all the good standards u set in the bittorrent world… and actually gettin me to keep a a ratio above 1…. (it was 3 or 4 i think… probebly higher with lk more than 65gb upload)…
good luck to Deimos
ALL HAIL DEMONOID AND Pirate Bay…
Shazou and other geotools still shows piratebay is hosted in stockholm?:S
i fuckin love the pirate bay
keep up the good work ye fantastic four…….will the tracker be different?
That would be AWESOME! Go for it Deimois!
accept it Deimos!
shit was slated for mid-Jan, it’s on everybody’s mind nowadays…. the suspense is fucking killing me!!
btw if the logo was cooler, id rock a shirt, but i don’t care too much for the mascot…..
demonoid For the World!
Awsome!!
Come on demonoid!!!
Lets hope that by using pirate bay, demonoid doesnt lose its integrity, lets face it, that site always had…THE BEST CONTENT!…and it was always trusted.
Nothing against pirate bay because they are incredible, but private trackers GENERALLY have better content.
When content is leaked from demonoid onto public trackers and indexing sites, it doesnt really matter because at least demonoid still had the correct stuff, besides…it gave more seeders =D
Long live demonoid - We all miss you.
Are two servers enough for demonoid?
I feel that if Deimos doesn’t accept this (assuming TPB isn’t actually charging an arm and leg for them) then demonoid is really gone for good. I’ve been wondering for a while whether he is even trying to get it back up or just enjoying the break (which is within his rights). This forces the issue and brings everything to a clear ‘is demonoid really coming back’.
Long Live The PirateBay. !!
and Demonoid !!
HOLY SH!T
DO IT DEIMOS!
LOL.
Deimos is currently spending large amounts of donations on his new house and is unavailable for comment.
..but I’m sure he’s eternally grateful for everyones help
Please bring Demonoid back!
#14 sad but probably true…
[quote]#14 sad but probably true…[/quote]
Why do you think that? We’ve got no proof of that… No reason to think it…
@17 -anonymouse
Perhaps he’s busy wrapping presents in Lappland eh. :o
By the way, Is your cotton-wool lined box comfy? Time to wise up for a minute and smell the garlic
Demonoid always had the best content I could find anywhere. Since you had to register and there were few accounts, there were no bots or craptorrents. Demonoid always had the best selection of comics I could find. Nowhere compared. Since demonoid has passed, I’ve been scavenging for comics, and barely finding anything. I hope demonoid comes back.
Long live Demonoid!
and many thanks to TPB!
[quote] @17 -anonymouse
Perhaps he’s busy wrapping presents in Lappland eh. :o
By the way, Is your cotton-wool lined box comfy? Time to wise up for a minute and smell the garlic
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You don’t just randomly guess something (with no proof) and pretend it’s fact, or even a valid theory.
This is EXACTLY what I suggested when Demonoid “got attacked” the first time. People are slow. lol
“You don’t just randomly guess something (with no proof) and pretend it’s fact, or even a valid theory.”
So Demonoid’s coming back then is it?
Deimos, if you need (free) help with server-administrating (ssh only), contact me through; amsterdam@secureix.com
Hope you still have the databases backed up, your userbase is an exceptional one.
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