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After three and a half months of downtime Demonoid’s tracker is now back online. The unexpected revival of the tracker is the first sign of life in weeks and suggests that the Demonoid team is working to bring the full site back online. While the index and forum remain offline, the many thousands of torrents tracked by Demonoid have been brought back to life.

Today it’s been three months since Demonoid was driven offline by a massive DDoS attack at the end of July. In the days after the raid things went from bad to worse and the site’s Ukrainian hosting provider eventually pulled the plug. This action followed a request from Interpol, who assisted Mexican authorities in their [...]

A few days ago Demonoid showed the first signs of life in weeks when the domain’s nameservers were updated. Unfortunately, this doesn’t mean that the site is preparing to make a comeback. The site’s tech admin informs TorrentFreak that the Demonoid crew is “not looking into putting the site back up at the moment.” However, the troubled BitTorrent site is not giving up entirely just yet.

Demonoid is gone, for the time being at least. Last month the servers in the Ukraine were pulled offline and an investigation into the site’s alleged owners is ongoing in Mexico. Demonoid’s admins have yet to release an official statement on the future of the site, and the authorities haven’t been very talkative either. What [...]

Today it’s been one month since Demonoid was driven offline by a massive DDoS attack. In the weeks that followed things went from bad to worse and the site’s Ukrainian hosting provider eventually pulled the plug on the site following a request from Mexican authorities. Despite the legal trouble, many of the site’s former users are refusing to give up hope that Demonoid will live up to its reputation as the comeback kid.

Earlier this month the U.S. Government’s public consultation on the future of U.S. IP enforcement closed. We already covered a few responses including those from the RIAA, MPAA and RapidShare. However, there are still a few gems that we haven’t mentioned. The submission of Norwegian songwriter and producer Sigurd Rosnes is a good example. Rosnes [...]

After several turbulent weeks with DDoS attacks, the shutdown of its servers and a criminal investigation into the site’s owners, trouble continues for the Demonoid BitTorrent tracker. After the site’s domain names were put up for sale last week, domain market place Sedo has now delisted them citing “legal issues.” As time progresses the hope of a comeback for what was once one of the largest BitTorrent communities continues to fade.