Demonoid, Will it Ever Return?

[Bolt_Gundam510]

by Ernesto

Ever 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.

Source: Torrent Freak

[JunkInternetMail]

Think about this...

A popular site is shut down with legal actions.

The people who used the legal actions think they won but are aware it MAY come back.

Do you think it would be wise to use a site like demonoid IF it ever came back? I don't. Nor will I.

I'm now realizing that Newsgroups are the only frontier remaining for steady and reliable content.

Demonoid was getting too popular, hosting some fake torrents there at the end on its tracker, and invitations were going out like the trash; non stop.

I wish that staff the best of their luck; I appreciated what they did for everyone but now they are under the radar and should avoid further attention.

The name at least ought to be changed and whatever mistakes lead to them being shut down before, should be avoided again in the future.

[Jman123]

Demios Says:

"the real problem at the moment is finding a suitable place to host the website and there’s some personal stuff I need to take care of that takes most of my time at the moment"

so essentially hes looking for another location to host the website that isn't real expensive

Now, I refuse to kiss peoples asses to get into private trackers, nor am I willing to pay a fee for newsgroups(basically for features I can get for free with using bittorrent,wtf?) so demonoid is the best thing to use right now for me.

[dock98]

demonoid has been up and down since thier inception.i am sure they will be back some way or other.too many peeps use it not to.

[SokraT]

i think demonoid took too long to come back & if it came back,it's tracker shouldn't have the same popularity.

on the other side,i hope that CRIA and like organizations keep things local and don't unite themselves against filesharing and make a worldwide agreement to ban filesharing!...can something like this happen?...it may be a disaster......

[mivanx77]

They should join The Pirate Bay to make one massive ass kicking teams agianst the MPAA and all the fuckers that want to bring down P2P.

LONG LIVE P2P / TORRENTS!