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“New” Demonoid Fools Public with Cheap Copy

More than half a year has passed since Demonoid went offline but many of its former users still haven’t lost faith. They cling on to every string of hope and this has led some to believe that the site returned as a meta-search engine under the new domain Demonoid.mk. While most people who are familiar with the old Demonoid know that the new site just trades on the brand of the famous torrent tracker, quite a few believe it’s a legit incarnation.

demonoidAfter the popular BitTorrent tracker Demonoid suffered a DDoS and hacker attack July last year, the site’s servers in Ukraine were pulled offline.

Local authorities explained that Interpol asked them to take action as part of an investigation into the site’s alleged owners in Mexico. An arrested Demonoid admin has since been released and the case was stalled, but the BitTorrent tracker remains offline.

With more than half a year of downtime Demonoid has already broken the previous record it set in 2007/2008. But with a reputation as a “comeback kid” many of the site’s former users haven’t lost hope that it may one day return. This also leads some to see things are aren’t there.

Over the past weeks TorrentFreak has received dozens of tips about a “new” Demonoid that is believed to have thousands of daily visitors. The site in question, Demonoid.mk, uses the Demonoid logo and favicon, which leads some to believe that this may indeed be a legit successor.

However, Demonoid.mk is nothing like the old Demonoid. The new site functions as a meta-search engine and unlike the real thing is not a semi-private tracker where users can upload content. There are absolutely no signs that there’s a connection between the two, other than the name and logo.

Those who look closely will see that the new site isn’t very original either, to say the least. It is built using the fairly popular Torrentify X script through which anybody can easily setup their own torrent search engine in just a few clicks.

There are hundreds of other sites that run on the same script, with several carrying names of popular sites. Thepiratebay.mk, h33t.im, btjunkie.mk, isohunt.me, isohunt.mk 1337x.us, i-torrent.net, torrentformac.com, axxotorrent.com, torrentcenter.us, exatorrent.org, sharingtorrent.com, to name just a few.

We don’t know who’s behind the Demonoid.mk, but the site appears to be operated by the same people who run thepiratebay.mk, isohunt.mk and btjunkie.mk. All these sites use the same Google analytics code.

The Pirate Bay version appears to be the most popular, with tens of thousands of visitors a day, which is not bad for a cheap script.

Bottom line is, however, that the sites are simply trading on the names of popular torrent sites to get more traffic. Those waiting for the real Demonoid to return will have to wait a little longer.

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  • Meh

    all the while this site is now driving extra traffic at all of those scam sites :P

    • JackRaiden

      Why would I visit the site if I read the article. I clearly do not want to visit or help them in any way. It’s an interesting read and a warning.

      • Not Your Classmate

        So this is the classroom TF 101?
        Well, that must be the case for those ones

        who only visit TorrentFreak and TPB everyday
        and sometimes visiting the sites suggested here.

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  • timmyozone

    oh how I miss you demonoid : (

    • http://twitter.com/EnriquetaBrasin Enriqueta Brasini

      before I saw the check saying $5701, I be certain …that…my sister had been realy erning money in their spare time from their computer.. there great aunt started doing this 4 less than twenty months and just cleard the morgage on their mini mansion and bought a great Chrysler. this is where I went…………. BIT40.ℂom

    • http://twitter.com/CreightFrazee Creight Frazee

      Yeah, true! Forgot about DHT! still need a link from somewhere though. Would be cool if you could search within uTorrent (for example) based on torrent name. No more websites to get harassed by copyright……… http://www.youtube.com.qr.net/kfZm/watch?v=QZEpDqP3IrQ

  • RoestVrijStaal

    I wonder if those scammy sites are really profitable.

    A .mk domain costs already $75+ per year
    A license on Torrentify LX costs $45 (likely also per year)
    The cheapest (likely) VPS they use on OVH is ~$80 per year.

    I hope they have a lot of dumb visitors who insanely click on the ads placed on the sites, if those ain’t blocked by AdBlock Plus :”)

    • Andrew Lee

      Sadly there are plenty of ads on those sites that are malicious and paying a good lick to be there. They would not be running the sites if they were not making any profit.

      Then you have to think a lot of people do not use ad blocking software. I use abp & ad muncher just for the fact that it does a good job of killing those CPAlead assholes.

      On sites I like I adjust the ad space size so they load but I still don’t have to look at the shit lol.

      • djnforce9

        Isn’t ad-muncher redundant if you already have adblock installed (plus a few good subscriptions) or do you use multiple web browsers and therefore need all of them ad-free?

      • Hicks rules

        “Congratulations! You’ve won!”

        I’d listen to that ass hole’s voice a few more times if I could get the old Demonoid back.

    • funny

      Only Macedonian citizens can register a .mk domain, or a company with a point of contact in Macedonia. The fee is like 8 euros a year or 16/18 euros a year for foreign entities with a point of contact.
      It is safe to assume that the people running those sites reside in Macedonia.

      • w@s

        is not true!anyone can reg.any domain!depends on plan and ofcourse costs!

    • WCK

      Torrent LX is probably nulled, you can download those too. But, good point.

  • Helper

    LOL,
    Still Missing Demonoid.
    They are Lot Better Trackers Than Demonoid LIke Torrentday, IPTorrents, Torrentleech, SceneAccess & More.
    To Get Free Invite, Join Torrentinvites.org.
    A Place For Free Invites.

  • bhkre

    Torrentfreak, can you write an article on the scam of vpntunnel too?

  • hellper

    LOl,
    Still Missing Demonoid !!!
    They are lot better trackers than demonoid like Torrentleech, IPtorrents, Torrentday n More.
    To Get Free Invites, Just Join Torrentinvites . ORg

  • finder

    LOl,

    Still Missing Demonoid !!!

    They are lot better trackers than demonoid like Torrentleech, IPtorrents, Torrentday n More.

    To Get Free Invites, Just Login Torrentinvites(dot)ORg

    • Backends

      Yes.. true

    • teenygozer

      Why have you posted this exact message on this site using THREE separate names: finder, hellper, and Helper? I’m going to assume you’re a spam robot for torrentinvites, which is probably a great place to pick up a computer virus.

  • bobmail

    Funny to watch pirates that pirate each other too. No honor among thieves I guess!

    • ITakeAPotatoChipAndEatIt

      Lol Failmail.

      They aren’t pirates, only simple scam artists, and bad ones at that.
      Nice try though.

    • Typhoid Mary

      The doctors did say you were easy to entertain. “Just put him in front of a wall and he’ll do the rest”

      • bobmail

        Fuck off twat.

        • Typhoid Mary

          Is that all Bob? You really should try harder. Twat just makes you sound like Elmer Fudd.

          Maybe you can ask around the hospital and see if anyone is more creative. There’s no depth to your insults. Its like popcorn without any butter and salt. Or better yet, like your life, empty and pointless.

        • bobmail

          All I can say is that it’s funny as fuck that you guys and girls (and twats) are spending more time talking about me than the subject. It’s an incredibly job of circling the wagons and trying to troll me out of here. Too bad you fail. Maybe you should just go back to posting with your usual handle instead.

          You can’t win, because when you are talking about me so much, I have already beaten your sorry ass into the ground.

        • Anyone

          there is not much to talk about the topic
          scam artists abusing a popular name. the end.

          so we rather enrage you :p

        • ITakeAPotatoChipAndEatIt

          That pretty much sums it up. lmao.

        • IDIOCRACY

          woehahaha pissed my pants (depend slip) again…. bobby owns me a lot of money by now (those slips ain’t coming cheap you know). But …. I’d gladly pay that for this priceless entertainment..hehe (not mary bobby!!)

        • Anon

          “”All I can say is that it’s funny as fuck that you guys and girls (and
          twats) are spending more time talking about me than the subject. It’s
          an incredibly job of circling the wagons and trying to troll me out of
          here. Too bad you fail. Maybe you should just go back to posting with
          your usual handle instead.”"

          That comment being said by the person who does exactly the same to people on here now that is priceless.

          “”You can’t win, because when you are talking about me so much, I have already beaten your sorry ass into the ground.”"

          Neither can you win bob as you are doing exactly the same top people on here too. We people win again. Now that is priceless yet again.

        • Zapper

          Replying to even just one single troll post is all it takes to lose. They laid out some bait and you went for it (yet again), which is all they really want. That’s the whole point of bait and it doesn’t matter what the content of your reply is either; you lose, they win. Think of it in terms of setting up a snare with a bit of yummy food; the smart animal that passes it by survives and gets to keep it’s fur. Considering you’re a troll too, I’m surprised you utterly failed to realize that. Oh wait, FAIL makes up more than half of your name. Never mind then, carry on. :-p

        • Typhoid Mary

          Silly Bob. Its not about winning anything. Its just about getting you to babble, that is the prize. Is that not the reason you’re here?

          You know your not going to win your crusade against file-sharing, nor does it effect your meaningless life in any way, yet here you are, which leads us to believe you’re either a complete mental case or just an asshole.

          You either get it or you don’t. Replying to you over any subject here is as pointless as trying to hit the wind with a straw, yet nice people still oblige you with a conversation and you reward them with an argument every single time.

          The very fact you can’t help but reply to me is all that needs to be said. That is the state of your existence. Your the type that shows up to parties where you’re never wanted, then shits his pants, wondering around to stupid to understand why everyone finds you so repulsive.

      • Rand

        it’s clear that you’re a busy person (as you said before),
        I’m surprised you can still find time to come here
        and just insult bobmail every time he posted something,
        what a great cause and contribution to humanity,
        we can’t expect anything less from you, Dr. Mary Fay Ling.

        • Typhoid Mary

          Its easy. Its called a smartphone. I can find and insult Bob anytime, anywhere, doing just about anything, and it only takes a few seconds. Truth be told, I cant take all the credit.

          And as far as a contribution to humanity, I don’t think that could be said of any of my guilty pleasures, but if you insist.

          Is there something more going on here between you two you want to talk about?
          Don’t be shy, your talking to Dr. Mary here.

    • bobmail

      It’s all about avoiding fake site, nothing to do with pirating each other.

      Nice try me. I’m a fucka

      bobmail

    • Ape

      You and that site are simple seen as SPAM.

  • ScrewEwe2

    You’d have to be a fool to be fooled by this foolish demonoid.mk site.

    • Trespass22

      People on this site really believe this is the original Demonoid! PT Barnum was right!

  • Gloomfrost

    Question: Is it possible for there to be a torrent tracker with no website or domain? With only a Bittorent command to use it (up and down)? This way, they could never be sent take-down notices, nor will it be easy to prove they are ‘infringing’ anything…

    • boral

      In that case how will people search for contents ?

    • turnip

      It doesn’t matter if there is no tracker. You still have to connect to your peers and your peers could be an anti-sharing group baiting you.

    • Pling

      Already exists something like that, it’s not hard to think
      how it works, instead of searching for torrents on sites,
      you find and search for torrents in other peer computers,
      who are using the same bitorrent client.

      • eee

        tribler

        • Idsignupbutdisqussucks

          I looked at tribler lately, but the client is monstrous, I mean why do you need a 50 meg client if it is “native windows”. I understand the source code is available to look at, but I don’t know python so that is pointless for me.

        • Prophet Zarquon

          It leaves a bunch of junk in your Torrents folder too. Not a major hassle, but it’d be nice if they kept it all in a central folder instead of cluttering up my Inbox.

        • Pling

          That’s right, Tribler.

    • Anyone

      there is DHT, torrents don’t require trackers anymore, trackers just speed things up in the beginning

      • Gloomfrost

        Yeah, true! Forgot about DHT! still need a link from somewhere though. Would be cool if you could search within uTorrent (for example) based on torrent name. No more websites to get harassed by copyright

        • Pling

          As I said, already exists that,
          I just forgot to write the name, try “Tribler”
          and check out if it’s good for you.

    • Prophet Zarquon

      You can use https://btdigg.org/ to search the torrent cloud directly by DHT. It’s pretty easy to set up your own DHT search script as well, and a few modern Torrent clients support DHT search right from the Search box. Tribler works, but the interface is sparse and the Channels layout is clunky.

  • http://www.facebook.com/forkingham.melle Forkingham Melle

    wise men says lizards tail wiggles without lizard. when lizard tail stops wiggling doesn’t mean lizard stops living. not sure about the meaning? you don’t need a lobotomy then. somewhere, in some hidden corner in some unknown place is a box. demonoid’s contents lay there, waiting for a supply of electricity and a few other cables. that day gets closer……

    • John

      Agree mate . I tried to talk to umlauf in the official IRC channel but I couldnt get him talking . As a matter of fact most member of that channel tried to talk to him . But as you know the site admin is a quiet guy . The point of asking the site operators is useless cause even if they know something they wont give you a hint . But one thing is for sure is that the day is coming closer when it will be back . I was even told that the admin was busy fixing the site code and the database . Since its a one man job thats why its taking too long . Keep your fingers crossed . It will work soon enough. :)

  • 1hhh1

    Old news this,same thing happened in 2007/2008 when they went down for about 6 months.

  • sketch

    lolz, poor demonoid, how i dont miss you, the way you went down like a cheap .50 cent whore, how you swallowed hard and swooped low, always giving the customer back his change……..never spitting a snowball into my face, and always stinking like the dirty dirty slut that you are…….i miss you so much.

  • John Doe

    Rapidshare has a massive stain on their reputation after their actions this week. They used to offer unlimited storage. They informed users this week that they had 8 days to either sign up for 250GB plan, 500GB (overpriced plan) or have their extra files above the threshold deleted. I have no problem with them making business decisions that they must make to turn a profit… but this was a serious slap in the face to users to only give us 8 days notice. Nobody should ever trust them again (if you even trusted them before)

    • eee

      you can remote leach to another host if you want, at least you didn’t find out too late..

    • djnforce9

      I never liked them even before this. That’s the same company who said they would severely cap their free service as a deterrent to pirates and by cap, they ended up meaning a maximum download speed of about 40Kb/s, no resuming support, and the download will drop to 0 at regular intervals. In short, THEY SUCK and I am not sure why anyone even still uses their services when there are far better alternatives.

    • JordanKratz

      Maybe Torrentfreak will do a News Story on the Alternatives to Rapidshare.I do see a lot of folks whom I think are using a place called Rapidgator ?
      What are the decent ones to use ? I am done with Rapidshare and will just let my Account Expire.
      Now, If I could only EXPIRE PayPal !

      • Drum

        Heh, do a research, TF student,
        there are sites on the net that TF never mentions.

      • Darkhog

        mega.co.nz

      • http://twitter.com/beatsandblood ḆỄÆϟ ἆᾕḓ βḸỐỖÐ

        I have used Mediafire for a few years and have had no problems at all. They have sent me a few emails telling me they removed files, but that was my fault for uploading albums and not masking the names.

      • Ophelia Millais

        Wow… anything-Gator … what a horrible name for something on the Internet … at least for those of us who remember Gator, the spyware/adware. (See the Claria Corporation article on Wikipedia if you don’t know / don’t remember).

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=500213831 Jason Dailey

        JordanKratz:: Never been a fan of rapidshare…. These are far better alternatives: Zippyshare, Mediafire, 4shared, and Filefactory. Those 4 are amazing for uploading & downloading

  • DemonoidFanbois

    Keep the faith demonoid members, our logins will work one day soon™!

  • Andrew me

    Well this could cause a bit of confusion when the law starts trolling the real demonoid. One thing from this story that i did not realize was how easy it is to set up a search site for torrents, if anything this just proves that the law is losing as it is made easier and easier to share content.
    With the monopolists wanting to have full say about changing copyright laws this year(hopefully they will be forced to rethink this) i think we could be in for a very interesting time.

  • JordanKratz

    I also miss Demonoid ! I had a decent Ratio there for a lot of years.

  • LR

    That .mk crap is not demonoid. Demonoid never allowed all that pop up crap and porn bs. So this new site is just crap and NOT Demonoid

  • http://techfleece.com/ Richard Gailey

    Here is some information and traffic stats on the site. Servers that host are via OVH Systems in UK. IP: 94.23.153.234

    http://www.ip-adress.com/whois/demonoid.mk

  • 1hhh1

    Demonoids IRC channel is also due to expire this week,date of registration: 2006-06-01 04:55
    registration expires at:

    2013-03-23 18:00

    • ninini

      I don’t know what fake channel you’re going to, but the official channel is at:

      irc.p2p-network.net/Demonoid

      Registered: Nov 30 13:11:52 2005 PST

      And it isn’t scheduled to expire.

  • JohnnyTemple

    I will admit I miss Demonoid terribly, but I just did some quick browsing through Demonoid.mk and it isn’t a bad site for what it’s worth…granted definitely not the Demonoid reincarnation, but still worth some time in my opinion..

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=589676199 Courtney Harold Barker

    an important chunk of the internet is gone…

  • Blake

    I still respect Demonoid and how they did the No XXX tolerated, That fake site is a disgrace.

  • tom

    rapidgator is terrible — lots of trickery/malware downloads — AVOID!!!

  • fdfsdf

    its an indexer. look at any torrent and you’ll see. its not the original demonoid torrents. the best thing for that is http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7572207/1245_Seeded_Torrents__Demonoid_w_DHT
    http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7549021/900_Demonoid_Torrents

  • Al

    This new Demonoid site is just trash. Google can do what it does as well as many other search engines. It also has anywhere from 2 to 5 pop up windows come up when you click on the screen. TRASH!

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  • scholar

    i miss demoid :(

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  • pickaname

    demonoid, I want my shit, NOW!

  • MrNobody200

    LOL Bobfail is getting clowned on! You mad bro?

  • tennyodora

    no on in their right mind would believe that the new site is the original Demonoid. They have porn ads right on the page, which is something that was NEVER allowed on the site. **sigh** i do hope it comes back. Demonoid was the only place you could be guaranteed to get a good torrent that wouldn’t take 3 weeks to download. i live in hope…

  • Visions

    There is a new general tracker in the works running on a modified Gazelle + Ocelot platform. This tracker is being built specifically with the intent to help help the hole left by demonoid. I have asked when it will be open and it sounds like withing the next month.

    If you want to know more they just opened a temp IRC channel at:

    irc.p2p-network.net

    #MWB

  • http://twitter.com/cyrione corey

    i use h33t.com for now but i do miss my Demonoid. h33t is ok just not very many seeds

  • http://www.facebook.com/frank.lucks Frank Lucks

    The Demonoid.mk site is definately a fake!!! Try downloading something! Movies don’t have .exe extensions!

  • TPB 4 Ever

    Some people are saying Demonoid was supposed to relaunch on April 21st. Wel… April 21rst has passed, just like Demonoids time. Stop crying over it, stop blaming the hackers & stop pissing and moaning.

    Demonoid wasn’t the best, if they were, they’d still be here.

    The Pirate Bay {TPB} is the best. TPB is the unsinkable ship. Cry me a river about catching a virus or about ads. Every site has them, you just have to be a moron or a noob to catch them.

  • Prophet Zarquon

    Simple solution:

    Stop using Private trackers.

    They may tend to have higher seed:peer ratios, but you are lowering the pool of available peers and thus hurting the overall torrent cloud.

    Leechers may be a pain, but I’ve never seen a popular torrent that didn’t finish eventually. Public sites work perfectly well (especially KAT) and believe it or not, having more peers than seeds is a GOOD sign for the health of a torrent.

    As for security and privacy… Don’t get on the internet. Or don’t care. Either works.

    I’ve gotten 1 (one) DMCA notice in six years and that was from a file I didn’t have. VPN? Nope. I2P? Sometimes. I use ABP and https everywhere, push as much of my browsing traffic through encryption as possible and Force encryption in the Torrent client. No, it guarantees nothing. Yes, my downloads run great and I’ve uploaded… 2.9tb and download 1.0tb in the last 30 days over residential Comcast cable.

  • fırat

    it ‘s fake not original demonoid

  • reskew

    I just received an email that claims to be from a new home. It was sent to the email address I used with demonoid so maybe…

    • thwartme

      Me too. Just got an email directing me to “d2 dot vu”. ANyone know if it’s legit or not?

      • joss

        got the same

      • Rory Quinn

        Just went there. Seems to have all the content in place

        but when I tried to log in it took me to a Capcha page

        and wouldn’t recognise my log in. Not sure if I was foolish to try it. What can my login info be used for if its
        not a legitimate site?

  • ten

    Its the real thing – there may be malware in the torrents, but I haven’t found any. The passwords are random alphanumeric strings so it cant be used for phishing – It’s real guys

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