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rebirths

Demonoid Welcomes BitTerrorist Hordes Back Into Its Adorably Decorated Fold

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: More »

9:15 AM on Fri Apr 18 2008
By Maura Johnston
1,425 views, 4 comments

Latest by Halfwit: @jopari: Ninja edit: Basically, people who like to pretend that their piracy is different than Limewire because their piracy is more efficient and fairly distributed have regained one of their options. more »

rebirths

Demonoid Raises Its Cute Little Head Once Again

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]

11:30 AM on Tue Feb 19 2008
By Maura Johnston
186 views, Comment

shutdowns

Another BitTorrent Site With A Cute Icon Bites The E-Dust

The Canada-based BitTorrent tracker Demonoid, which has been a target of the Canadian Recording Industry Association for a few months now, has apparently decided to give up the fight. The site's front page now simply reads "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." More »

11:05 AM on Fri Nov 9 2007
By mjohnston
2,876 views, 4 comments

An update on the Demonoid downtime from an Idolator reader who ventured into the site's official IRC channel: "The mods in the official #demonoid irc room (yes, I still rock the irc) have stated that this is a hardware issue. They have repeated time and time again that Demonoid has NOT been shut down by anyone." There are also other reports of the downtime being a result of hardware failure. [Earlier]

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downtime

Demonoid Latest Target In Recording Industry's Endless Game Of Whack-A-Mole

Popular BitTorrent tracker Demonoid has been offline for about 24 hours now, apparently because of action taken by the Canadian Recording Industry Association against the site, which is currently the second-most-popular tracker (the litigious Pirate Bay is No. 1). Demonoid's servers are currently located in Canada, which was thought to be a "safe haven" for their operations; they moved there from the Netherlands earlier this year, after action was threatened against the site and its administrators by the Dutch antipiracy outfit BREIN. According to TorrentFreak.com, the CRIA isn't commenting on the situation.

Torrent Tracker Demonoid.com Taken Offline [Monkey Bites]

1:01 PM on Wed Sep 26 2007
By mjohnston
656 views, 3 comments

Latest by KinetiQ: @so1omon: Boy, apparently your comment's been here for 20 minutes before I posted. I don't know how that happened, but in any case, nevermind. more »