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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not going to happen
“Ironically, however, The Pirate Bay is not hosted in Sweden or at PRQ”
hmmm nearly all of there webserver are hosted in Sweden! and trackers in the Netherlands with nforce(leaseweb) I don’t doubt they’ll have other servers but 2 of there ranges are allocated to the same kit/servers.
oh god i just wish dmnd would be back up :(
@ People talking about the servers not hosted locally in Sweden, if you listened to our cast at all you would know that he said the servers were scattered all over Europe and the like, he’s the only one who know’s where they all are. And apologies for people who did actually listened to it , for my horse shit quality mic, I DO have a better one now, and we ARE recording a new one tonight and this weekend, we also have another interview with another very big admin from another torrent site… All I can tell you is his name is Erik ;D
Ron Paul 2008!
bring back oink i say.. :(
Don’t care where the servers are. TPB must stay active. No matter the cost.
Demonoid? meh.. I do miss it.
I don’t thing deimos wants this stress anymore.
“The Pirate Bay is not hosted in Sweden or at PRQ”
I’m pretty sure you’re incorrect. The Whois database lists them as located in Stockholm sweden, with prq.se as the mail domain name.
@Cracker Jack, interesting interview, some of the questioning from the bloke with the good mic won’t too good! but I guess they came from your forum users! there infrastructure setup, if true seems interesting. I’d be interested to know of he charged you for the interview? I look forward to your next admin interview :D
haha yes! RON PAUL 2008!!
[quote comment="265256"]I’d be interested to know of he charged you for the interview? [/quote]
I bet you would be.
Oink, please go to Sweden! we miss you
Yeah good job TPB
please demonoid, take this offer. we want you back!!!!
Allthough I dislike demonoid I still think its cool that TPB would do this and I hope they take them up on the offer. Also @ TPB do the same for oink :D
i hope demonoid come back.
gr8 work TPB
First of all, big thanks to Ernesto for covering our podcast, it really generated some hits for us…
To address some of the things mentioned here would be a waste of time, as every form of media will always receive negative criticism.
The only thing that I will address is the “mystery” location of TPB’s servers. This isn’t some claim that we made up, in the podcast Peter himself asserts that THE BULK of TPB’s traffic is handled elsewhere, the fact that “whois” points to PRQ is basically null..
But again, big thanks to Ernesto for the coverage, hopefully our work can parallel in the future, TF does a great job.
I had almost 1 TB upload on Demonoid please please come back!!
[quote comment="265200"]Actually, Demoniod is the only site that I knowof that holds it’s members accountable for seeding.[/quote]
You need better sites.
Time to get over Demonoid kids. Everything dies, that’s life. Go find a new community and build it up with people you can trust, lest you find yourselves in this exact same situation again.
Who is a Demoinod ?
[quote comment="264968"]Deimos,
Hope you still have the databases backed up, your userbase is an exceptional one.[/quote]
Yes, everything is backed up, don’t worry. And new hamsters are being cloned and trained already! (I’m personally teaching HammyC-53 to HammyC-58 the works as we speak.)
Run, little friends, run! Smell the hamster munchies I got ya!
Every time I hear of someone making an apparently altruistic offer I think 3 things. 1 who has the gun2where is my wallet3 will they at least wear a condom when they try to f**k me.
TPB may just be the exception but I won’t believe it until I see it. Think of it this way, what better way to give the Swedish prosecutor an ulcer than to have two or more giants to go after.
Another point that was made in the original posting was that Deimos said that he was having RL stuff that was making things difficult. And if I’m not mistaken there was a financial consideration too.
I’d love to have Demonoid back and I’d be ecstatic if TPB was to help out with the resurrection. But I won’t lay out any bets on it. If you don’t hear anything in a month or so I’d say “stick a fork in it, it’s done”.
@59 (Anon) We did not get charged for the interview, we used our leet sources to track him down and force him to join us ;) not really, he likes interviews.
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