The Pirate Bay: Demonoid is Welcome in Sweden

Written by Ernesto on January 16, 2008 

After 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.

demonoidWill 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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151 Feb 16, 2008 at 16:32 by 7damian

Deimois! GOgogOGOGOgoGO

152 Feb 16, 2008 at 23:49 by JoshingUsAll

Man, I really want Demonoid to come back…was trying for a few months to get in. After a couple glory months of Demonoid, they get canned. HURRY UP AND TAKE UP THOSE SERVERS!

153 Mar 04, 2008 at 12:55 by equiumcharmer

well i for one would love to see demonoid come back, best site ever, no dis-respect to pirate bay, but at least demoaoin`s torrents worked.
lots of times i got something from
pirate bay, it needs a fucking password, at least demonoid, NO PASSWORDS.

LONG LIVE DEMONOID

154 May 09, 2008 at 04:29 by Anonymous

Everyone who says Demonoid is a private site….please stop, it was not private…

155 May 14, 2008 at 19:03 by Adileader

DID you CHECK? DEMONOID IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!! yay…everyone thank god..and the new admin :)

156 Jul 21, 2008 at 20:39 by Anonymous

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