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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fuck it, twas a waste of time…better sites are out there.
[quote comment="241831"]I’m just glad I don;t have to read that fag Sabin’s posts anymore. Ugly greasy vampire-wannabe mother fucker.[/quote]
Yeah - what a know-nothing, egotistical, cluebie cunt he was.
Good fucking riddance…
i used this all the time but with the danger of jail time and loosing computers and time. maybe i will just have to start buying stuff!!!
LoL.. Shocked fan is that copyright defender idiot lerking about still.
I miss Demonoid, greatly. For all the popular downloads, there are tons of trackers available, but Demonoid was one of the few sources for the “golden oldies” (including e-books, tutorials, and old TV shows).
Standing by waiting for the moment when we can breath life back into you through awesome torrents.
Guess you never got in or had an invite, cause you obviously never entered the site you silly boy!
if you got banned you must be an a55hole, by your post we see why.
D.
Good luck whet-ever you decide! The true demonoid users stand with and behind you all the way!
Merry Christmas to all!
why dont they host there site in india? hiihheeehiii is that a good idea?who care abt piracy here if then why cant they stop video piracy here..it’s all a matter of bribe…
DEMONOID must LIVE FOR EVER AND EVER!!!!
Oh how i miss demonoid.. so so so so so so so much.. torrents are just not the same anymore
This sort of thing will continue until we get a sort of Tor meets Pirate Bay untracable BT protocol.
Yeah, it’ll be slower, but at least it’ll stick around.
For the time being, these options are a very very decent demonoid replacement:
http://www.torrentscan.com/
http://www.torrent-finder.com/
I’m not a joiner, but i joined demonoid and made sure to keep my ratio at 1.2 or better.
the members of demonoid werte for the most part good caring and sharing neighbors. the comments relating to each torrent guided my every decision.
now i am lost. pirate bay, mininova, btjunkie are just nothing like the familiar home i had for a while at demonoid.
EAST OR WEST !!! yo yo
DEMONOID IS TE BEST !!!
I don’t understand how money is a problem when Demonoid had been selling multiple advertising spaces on each page for months…..
I’m all for doing what I can to get the site up again, but I don’t think members should have to keep paying unless its gonna be advertisement free
Dammit, Demonoid was the only place I had a really good ration.
Its very maddening
a lot of files were being tracked by demonoid, and they are still being hosted in many places. its pretty frustrating to find a file you like only to find that it was being tracked only by demonoid.
damn i do hope demonoid comes back or someone finds an alternative
Demonoid is set to return January 10, 2008!!
http://digg.com/tech_news/Demonoid_is_set_to_return_January_10_2008
[quote comment="238392"]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.[/quote]
ROTFLMAO!!!
I thought exactly the same thing!
No offense to the geographically challenged commenter- I’m American too- and I know I need to look up stuff on maps all the time because our education sucks in this way. It’s really embarrassing…
In my comment above, I meant to quote this comment:
“Piratebay in Switzerland? Let me guess, you’re from the US, right?”
doh.
I hope they shut down subdemon cause those fuckers banned me for no reason.
For two years I sent money to demonoid every month.
They were keeping their over head as cheap as they could, and soon as they collected enough millions of dollars to last them for the rest of their lives, they shut it down. The CRIA had nothing to do with it cause I know people that work there.
Demonoid was taking in over ten million dollars a month tax free in ads and donations.
They won’t be back. So go to pirate bay and other crap.
hockpooh ejaculated: “Demonoid was taking in over ten million dollars a month tax free in ads and donations.”
ROFL. You should lay off the crack, buddy.
Demonoid 2 - http://www.torrentstorage.com
Acording to subdemon forums it’s NOT deomonid 2
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