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Demonoid returns

13 April 2008 16:43 by Andre "DVDBack23" Yoskowitz | 55 comments

Demonoid returns After being shut down by the CRIA last November, the popular public torrent Tracker site Demonoid has seemingly made its long anticipated return.

The greeting message at the site reads as follow: "Welcome back!

Since a few months ago, Deimos, the site administrator, lacks the necessary time to take care of the website, because of personal matters he's been needing to attend to. For this reason, he has decided to leave the site staff.

Before leaving, he assigned a new site administrator from among his friends to take care of the site. The old moderator team will continue helping with the site, unchanged. We will try to keep running everything just as it always has been.

The trackers and website seem to be working properly, and should any issues arise, they will be taken care of as soon as possible. The site might be going on and offline over the next days as we work out any problems.

Welcome back, and enjoy your stay!


The new reopening is also coming with conspiracy theorists however. Many point out the example of ShareReactor, the large eDonkey site which was closed down by raids in 2004 but made a return in 2006. It was revealed that the site was under “new management” and traffic declined so low that the site was taken down again.

Time will tell whether Demonoid can make a true comeback.

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    7thsinger (Senior Member) 14 April 2008 17:56 Send private message to this user   
    Holy crap...^^ you didn't read any of this thread, or the rules before posting...did you?







    "Sir, i would not harm thee for the world...but thou art standing where i'm about to shoot."
    binkie7 (Moderator) 14 April 2008 18:05 Send private message to this user   
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    you didn't read any of this thread, or the rules before posting...did you?

    lol
    And since my guess would be they didn't - they get a few more days instead of the automatic 2 day ban :)



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    BluRay (Senior Member) 15 April 2008 9:03 Send private message to this user   
    Finally Demonoid comes BACK! IN YOUR FACE CRIA, go cry on the toilet.

    And all the old torrents are still there! WOOOHOOOO!
    JDRinTNT (Newbie) 19 April 2008 10:22 Send private message to this user   
    I'm glad to see they are back. While they were down I felt like I was wandering in the wilderness for 40 years... oh wait, that's where The Pirate Bay is!

    No Seriously folks, The Pirate Bay doesn't police its members like Demonoid, but they seem to be dodging the Black Hats better.. Maybe Demonoid and the Pirates should team up.

    Welcome back my Demon Friend! You have been missed.
    LSUnum1 (Newbie) 19 April 2008 10:35 Send private message to this user   
    So glad to see that the Demon is back!! My account is still working and my ratio is right about where it was when it went down. Great work getting it back up guys and thanks!
    pmshah (Newbie) 19 April 2008 23:10 Send private message to this user   
    A while back membership was by invitation only. I was lucky to get in on a day when it was opened for a couple of days to general public.

    They are so nice I got their email informing me that they were back. Love this site !!!
    ZooGrA (Newbie) 20 April 2008 11:45 Send private message to this user   
    Demonoid is a torrent tracker yes?

    so you have to be a member?

    its not like piratebay where you just grab and give?

    how do you become a member, is that what everyone is asking for invites for?

    hmmmm, possible better pirate bay?
    tripplite (Senior Member) 20 April 2008 12:29 Send private message to this user   
    Quote:
    Demonoid is a torrent tracker yes?

    so you have to be a member?

    its not like piratebay where you just grab and give?

    how do you become a member, is that what everyone is asking for invites for?

    hmmmm, possible better pirate bay?


    demonoid has yet to lick its wounds clean but once its back up to full strength we will be seeing speeds of 300kbps and up again;}

    Quote:

    hmmmm, possible better pirate bay?

    its clean of porn and all those pesky passworded rar files:)

    -tripplite


    This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 20 April 2008 12:30

    ZooGrA (Newbie) 20 April 2008 12:43 Send private message to this user   
    hmm, sounds a lot faster and better than the pirate bay...

    but what the member thing?

    is it hard to become a member?
    tripplite (Senior Member) 20 April 2008 13:39 Send private message to this user   
    Quote:
    hmm, sounds a lot faster and better than the pirate bay...

    but what the member thing?

    is it hard to become a member?

    registration is opened every now and then, it used to be Friday and probably still is....i dont know if they have changed the date:P

    -tripplite


    wolf123 (Member) 20 April 2008 15:58 Send private message to this user   
    Quote:
    Quote:
    hmm, sounds a lot faster and better than the pirate bay...

    but what the member thing?

    is it hard to become a member?

    registration is opened every now and then, it used to be Friday and probably still is....i dont know if they have changed the date:P

    -tripplite
    it was open friday saw it my self.
    ZooGrA (Newbie) 20 April 2008 19:30 Send private message to this user   
    so all in all is it worth getting?
    wolf123 (Member) 21 April 2008 4:56 Send private message to this user   
    Originally posted by ZooGrA:
    so all in all is it worth getting?
    It's the one place you can get something that is not in a rar or you know it won't have a virus in the file that's a no no.

    So is it worth getting a file without a virus and having a community that likes sharing and seeding not like some other places where people download and go.

    It is too live life too the fullest then never lived at all.
    LSUnum1 (Newbie) 21 April 2008 9:10 Send private message to this user   
    Definitely worth getting if you can get in during the reg period. I have used the Demon for a long time, if you can't find it on the Demon good chance that no one has it going at present.


    There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
    o0cynix0o (Newbie) 21 April 2008 20:20 Send private message to this user   
    Originally posted by ZooGrA:
    Demonoid is a torrent tracker yes?

    so you have to be a member?

    its not like piratebay where you just grab and give?

    how do you become a member, is that what everyone is asking for invites for?

    hmmmm, possible better pirate bay?
    Hhhhhmmmmmmmmmm.....aaaaaaaa....Nope.
    Tpb is only beter if you have real good virus protection....or your feeling real lucky.
    BluRay (Senior Member) 22 April 2008 12:21 Send private message to this user   
    Originally posted by ZooGrA:
    Demonoid is a torrent tracker yes?

    so you have to be a member?

    its not like piratebay where you just grab and give?

    how do you become a member, is that what everyone is asking for invites for?

    hmmmm, possible better pirate bay?
    If you think The Pirate Bay is better than Demonoid, then you use that. Only the members of Demonoid know what you are missing out on anyway. Besides most of Demonoids torrents are upped onto Mininova anyway, and they dont mind, you can download those and leech. Demonoid is like membership only with a semi-open tracker, that allows anyone to leech so long as the seeder(s) seeds.
    ZooGrA (Newbie) 22 April 2008 18:51 Send private message to this user   
    word brah
    wolf123 (Member) 22 April 2008 20:50 Send private message to this user   
    Quote:
    Originally posted by ZooGrA:
    Demonoid is a torrent tracker yes?

    so you have to be a member?

    its not like piratebay where you just grab and give?

    how do you become a member, is that what everyone is asking for invites for?

    hmmmm, possible better pirate bay?
    Hhhhhmmmmmmmmmm.....aaaaaaaa....Nope.
    Tpb is only beter if you have real good virus protection....or your feeling real lucky.
    he never said it was better brah

    This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 23 April 2008 4:09

    ZooGrA (Newbie) 22 April 2008 22:28 Send private message to this user   
    haha true dat, but its way too much work
    godmind (Newbie) 23 April 2008 6:54 Send private message to this user   
    i was introduced to the torrent world just about when the legendary demonoid was shut down. i just had mininova and tpb ad my source but then traces od demonoid and its legend stil lurks on those sites. i wondered how good that community was and now, luckily, i'll have a chance to get a taste of it.

    i can't wait 'til friday. :) i'll ne up all day. :)
    qazwiz (Junior Member) 2 June 2008 22:17 Send private message to this user   
    demonoid isn't 100% virus free but the uploaders need to be registered so if you find a virus file there is an email linked to it (A REAL email) and likely the IP address but you saw that when you first latched onto the torrent as it was the only uploader

    It took me a few tries to find when the ol' demon was accepting public requests (no one told me what day to look, I just looked every day) then when they cleaned out their database of all the dead wood (many trackers allow about a month between login's before deleting you) then I signed up. took me a while to go positive, but I've been in the black ever since... those hungry users keep sucking Azureus's teats.

    there is more trouble with the warez than the audio and visual and if there is a "Serial generator" be sure to run your anti-virus befor you run the exe
    varnull (Senior Member) 2 June 2008 22:28 Send private message to this user   
    Lots of gens give false positives because of the way they work.. better to read the comments first ;)



    Free open source software = made by end users who want an application to work.... #1 image again.. check it out ;)
    fate123 (Inactive) 2 June 2008 22:35 Send private message to this user   
    spam removed

    This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 2 June 2008 22:50

    tripplite (Senior Member) 2 June 2008 22:35 Send private message to this user   
    some give false positive when the user doesn't follow the rules.....there was one where if you didn't put the .dll in the right location the serial key would say "are you kidding??" when you tried to generate it.......it got bad comments and was removed....isohunts rating system is top-brass, the sites quality is constantly increasing.....and with the new user interface it seems people are more willing so seed:)

    -tripplite
    paso a paso


    varnull (Senior Member) 2 June 2008 22:37 Send private message to this user   
    Watch out... banned subject ;)



    Free open source software = made by end users who want an application to work.... #1 image again.. check it out ;)
    qazwiz (Junior Member) 7 June 2008 14:21 Send private message to this user   
    Originally posted by varnull:
    Lots of gens give false positives because of the way they work.. better to read the comments first ;)
    so if the hacker says "this will give your Anti-Virus a false positive" you are going to believe them? a real gen is just a specialized adding machine that knows what the zero equivelant is.... it should do nothing that would look like a virus or spyware etc because it should keep it's hands inside it's own program.....

    and NO MATTER WHAT PROGRAM YOU GET FROM A PUBLIC SOURCE, even a "private" public source like Demoinoid and others in the news... you should protect your system by having it scanned before you try to run it or you will get what you deserve for your stupidity

    I have run suspect files before and everytime I wasn't disapointed.... my reimage disk was close at hand and I needed it as I thought I would.

    qazwiz is qazwiz everywhere. If you see me say HI!

    This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 7 June 2008 14:26

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