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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I (and many, many others) donated on a regular basis to Diemos, so I’m sure that mere capital ain’t at the root of the problem…
It sounds like he’s busy with RL stuff (& perhaps a little jaded with the BT scene. After all, who wants to be persecuted for their hobby? A martyr he ain’t…)
R.I.P. Demonoid - I’ll never forget ya!
many demonoid refugees landed at h33t.com and we are really happy to see them, they are all quality uploaders
these refugees will ultimately return to demonoid when it finds a new home, and there will be a bigger community as a result of all the new friends everyone has made in the interval
you are right, we all owe a lot to Deimos
Demonoid was the best. The BEST!
If Deimos isn’t going to bring it back online, maybe he can hand over the riegns to another eager Admin-to-Be.
I knwo that they were rivals in P2P tracking, but could it be a possibility for Deimos to hand over the reigns to ThePirateBay crew?
Why can’t Demios just move the servers to Sweeden??
[quote comment="238423"]Why can’t Demios just move the servers to Sweeden??[/quote]
you know any hosting company in sweden? :x
they are really expensives
I got revenge on demonoid, I contacted the CRIA telling them I hope they shut down subdemon, I will get revenge on demonoid, and make sure their life IS A LIVING HELL, even if the RIAA has to send thousands of DMCA letters.
They banned me for helping them, now I don’t care if hackers put illegal porn on their forums and they get shut down and the admins account of filled with computer worms
haha, yeah.. TPB is hosted in Sweden fellas.
not switzerland
Please come back!
[quote comment="238429"]I got revenge on demonoid, I contacted the CRIA telling them I hope they shut down subdemon, I will get revenge on demonoid, and make sure their life IS A LIVING HELL, even if the RIAA has to send thousands of DMCA letters.
They banned me for helping them, now I don’t care if hackers put illegal porn on their forums and they get shut down and the admins account of filled with computer worms[/quote]
Dude. GET A FUCKING LIFE! GO f YOURSELF!
Demonoid was (not one of the best, it was THE best) bitorrent trackers out there.
Good luck deimos on finding a new host.
@31
ppl like you are shame for P2P community.
Let’s hope demonoid will be back on track soon.
I hope people in Canada will be able to access Demonoid when it returns! I miss it!
Fuck you Revenger, what did demonoid ever do to you? Oh, what ban you? pfft You’re the only one that caused you to get you banned, it’s not anyone else’s fault… Follow rules and you won’t get banned, not that hard either.
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Yea, I wish demonoid would come back too. I got in the site awhile ago and didn’t really pay much attention to it while I was a member, not really sure why. When it comes back I will be an active member for sure.
We really need to find a way to fight back against these organizations like the CIRA OR BREIN and show them that they can’t just take these sites from us the ones who support the media industry. We still are the customers on some level and all they are doing is pissing us off so we need to show that they cant do that and just expect for things to go there way.
Demonoid we will miss you and we will keep the fight alive
I will never buy DvD movies, books or music CDs from now on and untill Demonois is back online.
[quote comment="238413"]I (and many, many others) donated on a regular basis to Diemos, so I’m sure that mere capital ain’t at the root of the problem…
It sounds like he’s busy with RL stuff (& perhaps a little jaded with the BT scene. After all, who wants to be persecuted for their hobby? A martyr he ain’t…)
R.I.P. Demonoid - I’ll never forget ya![/quote]
indeed zara, long live the poser community ;)
I sense a revival @ some point.
http://paidandpopular.blogspot.com
Actually, I’m just tired of hearing you all bitch and moan about Demonoid and when it’s coming back. I can’t get a break on any damn forum that I log onto for the infamous “When is the “d” coming back?” You all need to get out of that little black hole you’re stuck in and get some invites to higher level trackers. Places that don’t have time for sorry ass leechers who CLAIM to have had an account there.
FTW!
[quote comment="238482"]Actually, I’m just tired of hearing you all bitch and moan about Demonoid and when it’s coming back. I can’t get a break on any damn forum that I log onto for the infamous “When is the “d” coming back?” You all need to get
out of that little black hole you’re stuck in and get some invites to higher level trackers. Places that don’t have time for sorry ass leechers who CLAIM to have had an account there.
FTW![/quote]
It is not just the fact the demonoid is down it is that the copyright orgnizations where able to take down one of the most popular torrent trackers out there that really hurts us.
Well demonoid was the only torrent site from which i used to download.Since its down im hoping it will come online.I love demonoid and thanks to deimos for making such a perfect torrent site
[quote comment="238451"]Fuck you Revenger, what did demonoid ever do to you? Oh, what ban you? pfft You’re the only one that caused you to get you banned, it’s not anyone else’s fault… Follow rules and you won’t get banned, not that hard either.
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Yea, I wish demonoid would come back too. I got in the site awhile ago and didn’t really pay much attention to it while I was a member, not really sure why. When it comes back I will be an active member for sure.[/quote]
That’s It, I Will ask the RIAA to Shut You down :)) you faggots, in fact lookie here: img88.imageshack.us/img88/2162/demonoidhatemessageilovqm4.png
This image I made for Demonoid. hahahahahaha :))
In fact I will make a Statement, Demonoid is a Satanic Child Porn Contraband bandits, anyone who supports demonoid follows the antichrist and should be arrested for TREASON.
In fact btalex is not a hater, I hacked his account, because I’m the reason hes banned off of demonoid, Get angry at btalex1990 because hes a real loser, hes banned waaa waaaa demonoid will NEVER unban him, I wanted him banned off of there, I used his computer as a zomebie, Just thought I admit hes not a hater, hes a Victim :)))))))))) hahahahahahahah
I Admit I hacked his computer, what you’d gonna do, ban him, that make me :)
I hacked btalex’s digg account, hahahahahahahah Go ahead Hate Him, Hahahahaha I love you hating people, I hacked some other people as well, I hacked his Wifi and his IP Address, I will make him and you all suffer.
I got bt banned, why don’t I get you all banned from demonoid, hahahahahahahaha and get the mods to ban you.
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