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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[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]
You do that and you will have some serious computer security issues buddy. Not from me, but from a lot of people who spend time building a community and working to help other people. Do yourself a favour, step away from your keyboard kthx.
he needs to hook up with a decent isp in canada. the country has yet to set a precedent for violating a torrent indexing site. mainly since torrents are illegal. he should find a canadian torrent admin (who’s a canadian citizen and) is willing to be the front, the responsible one, for the service.
and he should Definitely find a hosting isp which has the balls to stand up for this fully legal (torrent indexing) service.
I miss Demonoid because most of the private trackers I am a member of are specialty and I don’t like browsing totally open trackers like TPB….plus Demonoid had an amazing selection. Hopefully they will return!
[quote comment="238525"]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![/quote]
+1
Rofl pathetic torrenters.. learn some things about the internet and maybe you will find a better way.
Banning canadian users was one of the best things he did. Whenever I see that little “Maple” shit flash up on my client I just whack it . Kind of like playing “Whack the Mole”.
At the end of the day why should I waste valuable upload on a country whose only achievement is that even Amerikkka couldn’t be bothered to take them over?
Yep, most Canadians are fakin leechers who have brought nothing to the torrent scene apart from pi-sexy…
[quote comment="238600"][quote comment="238525"]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![/quote]
It took me bloody years to get a bloody invite, and when the fun starts it shuts down.
Why is the world conspiring against me?
I mean it has so much rare cool stuff.
+1[/quote]
what was demonoid?
If you are getting the “CRIA threatened us” message, it is a browser hijacker that the CRIA put out to stop traffic to the site. The fucked up part of this hijacker, is that it logs your IP address and automatically sends it to the CRIA as well.
I have a way around this problem. Just message me and I will fill you guys in with all the details!!
It can’t be that hard to find a host. It’s called Sweden!
“” 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 wanna fuck him too! Anyone got pics?
Damn, Demonoid was the best semi-private tracker around. I hope Demios gets is back up and running someday.
If you do read this Demios and need a hand setting something up, I’d be glad to lend a hand. You can reach me via my site.
[quote comment="238619"]“” 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 wanna fuck him too! Anyone got pics?[/quote]
http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/6553/44677048ez1.th.jpg
Just so you know;
Deimos has a very strenuous testicular disease issue, which is not something any of you men would like to experience, I assure you. So please, don’t be so hard on him just because YOU are still so young and healthy, or have always been blessed with health all over the place. Just wait until you’re in your thirties or forties..
#81, your a dumbass.
Based on what I read I would think that the best place to host would be Venezuela right now. Although I don’t like Chavez, I think he would love to stir up some trouble. It may be even cheaper since their currency is falling faster than the US.
Goodbye, dumbass. Enjoy your stay in hell. I won’t miss you and I will not believe that CRIA was responsible until I can view the alleged documents. And that means the date-stamped original, not something cobbled together on a computer and puked out on a printer. Then and only then will Deimos have any credibility amongst the people who have supported him for years.
Decibel, poster #86, states that Deimos has a very serious testicular disease. I knew it all along, by the way he caved in to an alleged letter from CRIA, that he had no balls.
[quote comment="238688"]Decibel, poster #86, states that Deimos has a very serious testicular disease. I knew it all along, by the way he caved in to an alleged letter from CRIA, that he had no balls.[/quote]
That was harsh… But funny.
demonoid was my favorite (semi)private tracker
what other (semi)private trackers is there?
is this the end of (semi)private trackers?
all the best to deimos
Heaps of semi private trackers.
What’s that? you don’t know how to find them ?
Well stiff. I for one would like to see piracy move back underground, that way we can pirate in peace without the wankers in the world shoving their opinions on everyone.
On the IRC network, it tells everyone that they should expect Demonoid to come back, unless they hear otherwise from deimos.
All the best to Deimos, the owner and best admin of a great tracker.
God bless u Demonoid for helping the community.
[quote comment="238358"]It’ll probably come back after xmas… once things have settled down for deimos or he hands it off to someone else. I also recommend either moving to switz. with TPB, or perhaps even partnering up with TPB.
It’ll be back somehow.[/quote]
I recommended on their own forums that they should partner with TPB if at all possible…seems no one cares for that idea
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