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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The pirate bay really does do amazing stuff for the community.
I still think it’s a bad idea to centralize all our trackers in sweeden. I’d prefer demonoid come back on their own server.
Sure is nice of TPB though…
Perhaps Demonoid’s return will send all those retards back to Demonoid. Mainly, a bunch of immature nonseeding cry babies, who carry a 0.030 and below ratio.
“Ironically, however, The Pirate Bay is not hosted in Sweden or at PRQ”
According to a Geo-IP lookup, thepiratebay.org is hosted at a Port80 facility in Stockholm.
Unless… traffic destined to that IP address is rerouted behind the scenes to a servers outside the country. Clever!
As much as I miss DEMONOID I hope that they do what is best for them. I really hope they open another site if that is best for them!
Good Luck on whatever you decide to do.
well i think it’d be great it’s just that they may want to wait until _after_ the trial but it’ll probably go on for over a year so… as a “temporary” solution it’d rock!
TPB ftw !
TPB and Demonoid FTW!
i’m gay
while I never use or used demonoid since I’m on private sites, I can only hope demonoid takes up tpb’s offer, we need more sites out there
Deimos take the offer man. I can safely speak on nearly everyone’s behalf that we would all be really glad if demonoid came back after 2 months of it being gone.
We’re all waiting =]
He sucked my dick
long live the pirate bay. I miss you demonoid!
I don’t know how the pirate bay get’s away with everything.
The UN or some international trade organization is going to do to Sweden what they did to Russia over AllOfMP3.com
[quote comment="265155"]I don’t know how the pirate bay get’s away with everything.[/quote]
Because they are in a democratic country.
America should fight for democracy also.
In my view, _nothing_ will ever top Demonoid. Not even the private, invite-only, “scene” trackers. Not even TPB.
All hail the Demonoid!
The truth is Brokep is a Demonoid fan and he cant live without Demonoid.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Thank you very much Pirate Bay.
I love you.
I still say their are dark waters ahead. Beware of under toe.
[quote comment="265173"]I still say their are dark waters ahead. Beware of under toe.[/quote]
? What did I do ?
If Sweden doesn’t work out, Project Somalia is a good alternative.
*crossing fingers*
[quote comment="265029"]Perhaps Demonoid’s return will send all those retards back to Demonoid. Mainly, a bunch of immature nonseeding cry babies, who carry a 0.030 and below ratio.[/quote]
Actually, Demoniod is the only site that I knowof that holds it’s members accountable for seeding. That is why I love that site. Do alittle research before posting pal.
[quote comment="264839"]ALL HAIL PIRATE BAY!!!…
ALL HAIL DEMONOID AND Pirate Bay…[/quote]
You are a Nazi.
Allah hu akbar
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