What Happened to Demonoid, Will it Ever Return?
Written by Ernesto on December 13, 2007Ever since Demonoid decided to pull the plug following pressure from the CRIA, thousands of members are wondering what happened. Perhaps even more importantly, they are asking themselves this: Is Demonoid ever going to come back?
Nobody really seems to know what the future holds for Demonoid, however, Deimos, the founder and main admin of what used to be the most popular (semi)private BitTorrent tracker, has given people a little hope.
He writes: “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.”
Deimos is right, it’s getting harder to find a suitable host. However, it is far from impossible since all the BitTorrent sites that were kicked out by the Dutch ISP Leaseweb found a new home within a week.
So what started the chain of events? The trouble for Demonoid started back in June, when the Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN started to put pressure on Demonoid and their ISP, Leaseweb. Deimos decided that the Netherlands wasn’t the safe haven it used to be and he to moved the site to Canada, which resulted in a few days of downtime.
Deimos never really told the administrators or members of the site exactly what was happening. Initially, most members assumed that there was some hardware failure, but after a few days it became clear that Demonoid was more or less forced to move. Maybe there could have been hardware failures too, who knows, but the outcome was the same - Canada here we come.
Relocating the servers to Canada initially solved the problems, but, by the end of September Deimos took Demonoid offline for the second time. Again, nobody knew what was going on until we found out that the CRIA was responsible for the downtime, which was later confirmed by Deimos. It turned out that Canada wasn’t the best choice after all.
After 5 days of downtime the site returned, now blocking all traffic from Canadian users in an attempt to calm down the CRIA. At first it looked like the storm was finally over, but on November 9th Demonoid’s users were welcomed by a disappointing message on the frontpage:
“The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding.”
The tracker was still working for a few days, but after a while it died as well. At the moment Demonoid.com redirects to the temporary forums, which have an active community but any filesharing is strictly forbidden.
So will Demonoid ever return? Apart from the message posted by Deimos there’s not much to go on. It would be a shame to see it go down like this. Demonoid was one of the most widely used trackers and Deimos has done a lot for the BitTorrent community.
Being a BitTorrent administrator must be a very stressful experience, not to mention time-consuming. When the pressures are finally lifted for someone like Deimos, it will take all the addictive properties of BitTorrent to bring him back. Let’s hope so.
I guess time will tell.
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ohhh Demonoid my lovely old friend i hope u come back 4 us ASAP
u hav given us all alot and u gaved the bittorrent world alot god bless u!!!!
demonoid best ever!!!!
need it back ASAP”"”
Just found a great new site, wanted to share it. http://www.Torrentstorage.com The site is set up just like Demonoid, now we just need some uploaders to join and we can have Demonoid back, sort of.
Fuck The CRIA!! I Want Demonoid Back For Good, Fuck Those Damn Motherfucking Assholes From The CRIA.
my god, that layout is disgusting. i miss demonoid even more now.
hello world.
The demonoid is shotdown by the CRIA.. hmm..
I think demonoid will back online soon. Becouse I know trackers like this - no one can destroy biggest p2p networks even CRIA (like our “K” department).
do not lose hopes. Russian pirates and legal users with you :)
blame canada
blame canade
its not even a real country anyway!
it was a great site
i hope it returns..
[quote comment="261885"]blame canada
blame canade
its not even a real country anyway!
it was a great site
i hope it returns..[/quote]
haha lol @ its not even a real country anyway.
hahaha so true!
hi guys i am a dutchy but i hate these idiots from the netherlands called brein that make things hard for demonoid i love the site i was always trusting their info
i do really hope things will work out for demonoid soon as possible
i miss the site very much
most of the otherones do suck
fake after fake
Demonoid kicks ass. It is the best tracker period. My guess is that after things cool off and his personal business is dealt with and done, demonoid will find it’s self in safe place where deimos can finally put the tracker back online and let everyone reap the fruits of his labor
:) Viva La Demonoid
Demonoid was the place to get good old Jazz records (flac).. I miss it so much !!
Demonoid has to return! These other torrent sites are pissing me off! All fake torrents. At least demonoid was reliable with all torrents.
Demonoid was the most gorgeous of the torrent sites. elegant useful and organized. I pray it comes back.
Mr Sifuentes. i couldnt have put it any better myself. demonoid had it all. great looks, and most of all it had a huge libary of goodies. from music to film, demonoid had it all. it will be surly missed, and i like you all hope that the ‘DON OF SITES COMES BACK TO US ALL…
I don’t meet this CRIA but, they can’t turn off the Demonoid, cause it’s the better site of the world… fuck this son of a bitch. I hope that Demonoid comes back.
get demononoid back online NOW !!!!
I am one of the admins on torrentstorage.com. Although it is NOT the new demonoid, it is a fair replacement for now. We are indexing over 30,000 torrents, and currently get over 1000 new registered users a DAY. Tell your friends. Enjoy.
TORRENTSTORAGE RULES!!!!!!
http://www.torrentstorage.com is a pretty good replacement for demonoid its got the same backgrounds just not the green devil but RED. This site really makes you feel like your back at home.
downloading torrents hasnt been the same cause there was only ONE site that never put fakes up
so….
All we need now is the good old users back from demon
TORRENTSTORAGE ROCKS!!!!!!!
We need users please
http://mktorrent.pizzaweb.spacesocket.com
Enjoy
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