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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Demonoid était le meilleur tracker semi public. Reviens nous vite
A bientot
> Why is this article here? It does absolutely nothing. We all know Demonoid is down, and this sheds no light on wether or not it will come back.
Sometimes no news is news. Demonoid was the best community tracker: people actually posted on the torrent threads so we knew if a post worked, and if not how, etcetera. Nothing else out there I’ve found is like it and has a community on that scale.
We can live without Demonoid, but I’ll like to see it back too.
@ 120
ENGLISH MOTHERFUCKER! DO YOU SPEAK IT??
I have 3 things to say about Demonoid:
1. demonoid is the best
2. Demonoid IS The Best
3. DEMONOID IS THE BEST
sorry for throwing such personal feelings, and you might recommend me some other torrent trackers, but in the end, i will turn back to demonoid, regardless its downtime…
brein, riaa, cria, mpaa, bsa, etc they are the REAL terrorists, far worst than Ben Laden.
How could leaseweb let them have their way ? Bunch of cowards !
“” 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!””
>3
The homos can’t break DHT.
[quote comment="238338"]demonoid was a trash can. RIP[/quote]
Sez you. I’m back to frigging Soulseek. Sure there are nice people on there, but if you want a trash can of poor quality, just fire up slsk.
[quote comment="238831"]why doesn’t anyone ever try mexico? everything is corrupt there. I doubt anyone would care.[/quote]
I second that, I mean why not try a third world country like Kazakstan or Siberia?
We support you Deimos
long live demonoid
[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 think you mean SWE.
[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]
Tiny and small. That is you.
[quote comment="238854"]CRIA and MPPA paid around $5,00,000 UAD to The owner of Demonoid.com in order to take the site down forever.
Site admin just want to hold their members together thats i why they started a forum.
No, demonoid will never return as they got PAID to take the website down!
My uncle is a member of MPAA and it has been confirmed.
Thanks
San[/quote]
Yeah, heard the same..
First:
The CRIA indeed forced demonoid to go down. Why and how? Not so clear, but the fact remains, hosting torrent files that are links and hashchecks to copyright infringing material is now illegal.
Yes it sucks ass, but those are the facts, anyone trying to say no Canadian group has the ability to do that is not only misinformed, they appear to be retarded.
The only way demonoid might have stayed up was if all the torrents were removed from that host. See how the forums are there? Yes, the site could still be there too, without torrents.
The only way he could have kept the site alive in Canada is to actually move the torrent files themselves to a different host, and that just adds a bunch of expenses and stress.
Torrents are dying friends, it’s too open and too public and far too easy to be caught, until the new p2p format is launched, more sites will go down, more letters will go out.
P.s.
CRIA = Canadian Recording Industry Association
What does that mean, NOTHING TO DO WITH PORN / GAMES / APPS / MOVIES / TV SHOWS
CRIA = music.
It’s like saying the RIAA came and busted you for selling dope, it’s completely out of their realm, cria deals with MUSIC. So technically, any music DVDs would also be their territory.
[quote comment="238976"][quote comment="238854"]CRIA and MPPA paid around $5,00,000 UAD to The owner of Demonoid.com in order to take the site down forever.
Site admin just want to hold their members together thats i why they started a forum.
No, demonoid will never return as they got PAID to take the website down!
My uncle is a member of MPAA and it has been confirmed.
Thanks
San[/quote]
Yeah, heard the same..[/quote]
Sounds like bull$hit…
and even if it is true, why cant they just take the server and move?
Meeh… I think it will be back.. eventually
[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]
WHAT? Hear that sound? Mr. Goodwrench couldn’t fix it.
[quote comment="238504"][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 :))[/quote]
WOW. You told them. You’re right, you are teh win.
[quote comment="238506"]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.[/quote]
Nothing makes me more angry than someone who uses the plight of children to bolster their nothing argument. You’ve already states that you use to try to help them. Apparently as part of your pre-born-again life.
The real crime here is that you can glibly soil the name of 99.9% of d/lers..
You’ve already mentioned that the mods are your problem. That’s not the whole website, that’s just the comments and fora. And the only way a person has a problem with mods, is when they beak off. THAT’S what mods do. I can’t see you being more than eleven or twelve. Time sorts out all the wangers in life. You shall be no different.
[quote comment="238506"]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.[/quote]
Yeah, right. Treason. Buffoon.
[quote comment="238509"]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 :)[/quote]
Ernesto, can we get particulars on this guy. He has admitted to Computer Trespass on here. I, for one would like to add him to my blocklist. ;)
As the guy says money is part of the problem, is there somewhere we can donate?
Demonoid going down is the worst thing to happen to the BitTorrent community. There wasn’t a close second to that site anywhere on the net when it came to the variety of downloads and an actual community.
It will be missed…
Demonoid was truly the best. I loved the eclectic mix you could find on there, everything from UNIX how-to manuals to Rachmaninoff playing his own pieces (in FLAC!) to the latest scene rip of some new pop album, and everything in between. A nice community of people, great selection, and non-intimidating for n00bs.
We miss you, demonoid.
i miss Demonoid and OiNK… :(
guys, Revenger had nothing to do with any of this, it’s just some little punk kid trying to make himself feel better about his pathetic excuse for a life.
Mpaa / riaa / cria have NOTHING TO DO WITH CHILD PORN. There are special task forces that deal with that, in canada it’s the SOLE REALM of the RCMP, for the us, not so sure but I’ll assume fbi.
Don’t even bother with this idiot, or better yet, ask him how exactly he “hacked” these people, cause I’ll tell you this much, not only did he have nothing to do with demonoids problems, he has absolutely no clue what hacking is.
And in closing, someone post him a link to the wikkipedia entry for the term “Treason” as the 12 year old moron doesn’t even know what it is.
Learn english, then MAYBE someone might be dumb enuff to think you could hack your way out of a wet paper bag.
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