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 hacked Ben too, thats why His guide will stop publishing, hahahahahaha I hacked Btal and Ben, and I hacked his helpers, I admit it, hahahahahahha.
I am a powerful god, I am hacking Bens Guide and his helpers, Brian That’s what you get for helping filesharers, Should I put him in prison for helping filesharing criminals.
Bye Bye, just thought I admit to you after you hate Him, hahahah.
Is Revenger on drugs or what?
raving lunatic.
I have been hacked, This is a nightmare, I am sure I’ll be banned because he took my IP Address and said a bunch of junk and he took control of my PC and started uploading anti-demonoid hate torrents, I want you to know thats not me, I been hacked and somehow maybe the moderator was hacked too.
I didn’t say all that stuff, believe me.
;’/zcx m. cxklv2;ldfv fsdklpcx;lc2/.,sw
Anyone want to fuck my sister?
She was an uploader to demonoid, she would upload pictures of her panties.
All the little kiddies that FILLED demonoid loved her uploads.
DEMONOID BLEW. get over it you little kids. GROW UP.!
I want to fuck Deimos so bad I can smell his sweaty nutsack from my room.
I am so hot for Deimos, I want to lick his asscrack and cum in his nose. ewwwwwwww deimos, I lub you. Please come back and bring dribble shit to my face.
plzzzzzzzz!
[i]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.[/i]
As far as I’m aware we still only have Deimos’ word that this is what happened. I have yet to see a scan of a threatening letter from CRIA or anything else to back up the claim that they were “forced” from Canada. CRIA can no more pull a website than can any other lobby group, and ISPs in Canada do not simply roll over when asked to, and as there is legal precident against it I’d be surprised that a provider would open themselves up to a lawsuit so wantonly. This is all a smoke-screen as far as I’m concerned.. the real story, we may get it someday, but it sure hasn’t been written on any blog I’ve seen…
Demonoid was a good example of many of the positive aspects of p2p, atleast in 2004-05 when I was envolved. There were a great many community contributors, and by that I mean people with limited bandwidth but who used to the best of their abilities; and these were the people who created the community and gave the site its importance. In watching the trail-end of the site’s decline it was sad to see Deimos piss on all the Canadian content providers and effectively ban them. These actions spoke volumes to me, and to all those moaning the loss of this site, I say reconsider your position, and go find a real community that appreciates security and respects its membership - afterall, what is a site without its members?
[quote comment="238524"]Anyone want to fuck my sister?
She was an uploader to demonoid, she would upload pictures of her panties.
All the little kiddies that FILLED demonoid loved her uploads.
DEMONOID BLEW. get over it you little kids. GROW UP.![/quote]
I do!!
I really want my Demonoid back :( That was the best torrent site for me period. I used to go no where else but there when it shut down I found myself lost :( DEMO GET WELL SOON!
Thanx everyone for understanding I was hacked, thanx for not hating me.
Unfortionately mininova mods removed my Bens Guide torrent, I am so angry at that hacker, I feel like commiting suicide, Really I do, he ruined my life forever.
Bens guide got over 2,000 hits and now it’s over, Should I stick a gun to me head and die?
My lifes over, the mods of mininova can’t just change the statistics, I’m doomed forever, I hate myself.
http://www.seedmore.org check it out
[quote comment="238541"]www.seedmore.org check it out[/quote]
ooooo ben the mods on mininova are dicks no worries can i put it up on my site we got all most 10,000 users drop me a msg ther
[quote comment="238542"][quote comment="238541"]www.seedmore.org check it out[/quote]
ooooo ben the mods on mininova are dicks no worries can i put it up on my site we got all most 10,000 users drop me a msg ther[/quote]
Thanx, Demonoid was a great site, I wish they never banned me, and I wish they Never got shut down by the CRIA because I loved their site, and maybe someone when they come back, they will unban me, I feel like people hate me. I know I sound gay but I’m not but I am tired of being hated, I just want filesharing to be legal, I just wanted to be treated with respect.
I never hated demonoid, demonoid was why I got the Super Mario Bros. Super show, now thanks to the CRIA I will never see that show again.
I am getting attacked for trying to help filesharers.
You all understand don’t you! I am a victim, not a crook, well I did help people the RIAA hates.
Who let the primary school children out ? kids posting all over this forum.
[quote comment="238542"]
ooooo ben the mods on mininova are dicks no worries can i put it up on my site we got all most 10,000 users drop me a msg ther[/quote]
You think your pissant site can compete with mininova?
You think that you can hijack a discussion on demonoid with your spamverts?
Think again.
P.S. Perhaps I’ll swing by when your literacy level improves - doubtful tho’.
fuck you
we need a way to edit and as far as my site we have many ex dem users that say stuff like and i “Found you guys on Friday,and i have to say i am very impressed.
I was a regular on Demonoid and didnt think there was another site out there to compete.
But SeedMore has everything in place to do just that.
Great Site keep up the good work” right out of the seem more forums
I hope that it goes back online.
http://www.abigarcade.com
Help me, people not DL enough pon the Zshare –>
http://dagenstorrenttips.blogspot.com/
I’m really missing Demonoid. It was the the best semi-private site in my opinion, and the best place (next to Oink, so I’ve heard since I don’t have an invite) to get OS X software. I hope Demonoid doesn’t die, that would be a very sad day for me as well as many others.
demonoid comes back, im sure every user should pay $1 or something, and he should be able to run the site at no harm and get his work done so everyone can enjoy
Demonoid was OK.
The best it was Oink.
I belonged to both, now I feel like an orphan.
I wish they could come back. There is nothing out there as good as both, specially Oink.
Who says this article has no news?
It was news and newsworthy to me to read that Deimos has not retired or surrendered, and that if he can find a reasonably priced hosting server, he will reopen.
I got to like Demonoid a lot.
I didn’t hold it against Deimos when I got blocked as a Canadian. I just used a proxy. No one was ever actually blocked. So I don’t understand the venomous grudges some people hold.
I bet Demonoid rises from the dead, resurrects, by Easter time, which will persuade me there is a God!
As a long time member of Demonoid the thing i miss most is the community and site layout, easy to navigate and search for what you wanted. To this day no-one did it as good as Demonoid did. :/
Come back PLEASE!
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