After quietly bringing its tracker back online in February, dormant BitTorrent tracker Demonoid appears to be back in business: A tipster forwarded along an automated e-mail he received from the site today: "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." And going to the site reveals that there's been a change in adminship:
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The BitTorrent tracker Demonoid, which went offline in November after threats from the Canadian Recording Industry Association threatened to deplete its resources, appears to be back online—sort of. While the Web site, which is hosted in the U.S., doesn't yet have links to it up, the long-dormant tracker is responding to requests—and hosted in Malaysia, according to TorrentFreak. The exclamation points and googly-eyed smiley faces popping up on the "no filesharing discussions allowed (except in extreme cases, I guess)" Demonoid boards would further bear out the news that the tracker is back in some form. [TorrentFreak]