p2pnet - rss feed: Demonoid tracker back online
p2pnet news | P2P:- "The site is currently down," says Demonoid.com.
"If you wish to visit the forum created to keep the community together, click here to continue. Please note that the forum is NOT FILE SHARING RELATED IN ANY WAY. Please read the rules before posting."
The site may be down, but the BitTorrent tracker Demonoid tracker is back.
Says TorrentFreak:
"The frontend of Demonoid is still hosted in the US, together with the popular Subdemon forums. Interestingly, the tracker - which has been offline for months - is now hosted in Malaysia, and has started to respond again, approximately 30 hours ago.
"It is of course not clear what this all means, but without an official message from the Demonoid team, speculation has started. Could it be that the site has found a new host, and preparing a return? Many former Demonoid members are secretly hoping that this is indeed the case."
Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s Canadian RIAA clone, the CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association of America), is normally about as noticeable as a fart in a thunderstorm. But it found a way with Demonoid.
"The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online," its said on November 9 last year.
In a Reader’s Write to another p2pnet story on the shut-down, "Just to clarify why it’s only the private sites that are being shutdown, in publicly accessible sites (like piratebay) all peers can see your IP and therefore can directly threaten you with legal action or notify your ISP and let them threaten you," said Digital_Debauchery, going on:
I recently found this out when Demonoid went down and I downloaded a copy of Adobe Creative Suite CS3 Professional from piratebay. Being as I own a licensed copy of the software it is legal for me to download an electronic backup copy of said software so long as I destroy any non-legitimate serials upon downloading, so I did so without a care.
I destroyed the keys that came in the file as the laws demand. I received an email from my ISP (comcast) 2 days later saying that Adobe had notified them of an illegal download. I told them that I downloaded the program legally and they retorted with a ‘do it again and we’ll shut off your connection’ reply letter.
I suppose this is what I get for being lazy and not using a proxied connection but this is also the reason that I hate using public torrent sites. The guys at demonoid faced a shut down about a year and a half ago or so, then they were located in Sweden, 3 weeks later they were back up and running after relocating to Canada. I can only hope, like the rest of you, that they move as swiftly to relocate the servers again this time. We can only hope that they are back up before Christmas.
This is one group of administrators that I would say your registration information is safe with. They will destroy the registration information files before they allow the data to fall into the wrong hands. Have faith, we are many and can not be silenced forever.
Stay tuned.
Also See:
TorrentFreak - Demonoid Tracker Is Back, Will the Site be Next?, February 19, 2008
CRIA threatened - Demonoid offline. Again. CRIA. Again, November 9, 2007
p2pnet - Demonoid update: forum online, November 16, 2007
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February 19th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Nothing wrong with public trackers. I use piratebay etc without any problems (i’m in uk). As far as demonoid is concerned, what is the point? It’s such a pain in the arse to get an account, I would rather just use mininova, piratebay etc. Besides, most of the demonoid torrents get reseeded on the other public trackers anyway.
February 19th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
I have NEVER had a problem with ANY torrent from demonoid. I’ve seen multiple virii and fakes in tpb and mininova torrents. The great thing about demonoid is their community, a fake appears and within hours someone will have it removed.
February 19th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
demonoid is awesome. shut the fuck up.
February 20th, 2008 at 3:11 am
f4te said
“The great thing about demonoid is their community, a fake appears and within hours someone will have it removed”
If someone reports fakes at tpb they will get removed within minutes if reported via official IRC channel and someone with modpowers is hanging around or within hours if reported via the designated section at the suprbay forum.
You know if the users do not report fakes, the only ca. handfull of TPBmods can’t do the moderation faster on all fakes since the open structure of TPB makes it easy for antip2p and other lamers to shit the tracker full with fakes and it is simply impossible to look at each torrent file uploaded.
Many fakes the users are not even get aware of since they are gone before that they could be find via the search.
That the MOD’S at tpb do an outstanding jop at removing fakes was even “certified” if you believe the stats from MediaDefender’s leaked mails about their effectiveness at TPB (mean average of 0(zero)% effectiveness) if google cached results are to be trusted
Fakefinder
TPB-Mod
February 21st, 2008 at 5:46 am
As has been said again and again, one of the very best things about the ‘Noid was that the range of content was far more interesting than can be found on almost any other tracker. Obscure music not in the top 40? Check. Highly specialized CG training video? Check. Cool-Ass films with limited audiences? Check. And the site regularly had open sign ups. Here’s hoping they’re back soon.
April 13th, 2008 at 10:23 am
Its back!!!
LONG LIVE DEMONOID!!!!!!!!!
April 14th, 2008 at 5:25 am
u fkin wankstains u think this is a good site little u know its been spyd upon good luck u nerds the truth is behind the mappin u nob heads
April 16th, 2008 at 5:45 am
I recieved this on 15 - 04 - 08….
We are pleased to inform you that Demonoid.com is finally back online Your account (’*******’) is back and ready to be used again. If you have problems accessing it, please use the forgotten password page at http://www.demonoid.com/password_retrieval.php?
We hope to see you soon!- The Demonoid.com site staff *** You received this email because you registered an account at Demonoid.com
You won’t be receiving another notification from us, no action is needed on your part.
Main site IS backup & running, havent logged in yet, Dont know if its legit or not, am abit Iffy to log-back into my old account.
April 16th, 2008 at 11:50 am
its back for me too and im in canada, our traffic has been blocked for months now….is this too good to be true
April 17th, 2008 at 4:18 am
Its definitely back. My old stats were there too when I logged in. But Forums are not working.
April 28th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
best torrent site…
woo-hoo
April 30th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Well, I myself am a bit skeptical. I mean, why haven’t they taken the time to restore the forums? You’d think that by now with them being active for like over a week that they’d have the forums up by now. Something’s fishy here. I don’t like it. Perhaps the CRIA legally stole the website but was unable to get the forum because it was hosted on another server that wouldn’t give in to them.
June 30th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
Someone Hook it up with an invite! ive been tryin to get into Demonoid forever
if you can help me out my email is BrianKulpeksa@gmail.com thanks