Bittorrent tracker Demonoid is shut down

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http://packetstormsecurity.org/news/view/21340/Bittorrent-Tracker-Demonoid-Is-Shut-Down.html

The web site is now offline for good after government investigators turned up at Colocall, the datacentre where Demonoid was hosted, and pulled the plug.
"Investigators have copied all the information from the servers Demonoid and sealed them," an anonymous Colocall source confirmed to Torrentfreak.
"Some equipment was not seized, but now it does not work, and we were forced to terminate the agreement with the site."
It is thought that the DDoS attack was also succeeded by an additional exploit.
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Many trackers get taken down, but more usually pop up in time. There are many other protocols besides torrents to download anyways...
 
Crowley said:
Torrents are so 2008
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Unlike newgroups which are so 1979.


Freakboy said:
Another one? Just start using NZBs, much better :D
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Theyre kinda the same.. Except its harder to get complete collections and older stuff on nzb`s. Torrent clients are also better at getting around firewalls (like utorrent). NZB`s are great for latest series or if you have shaped bandwidth. Though to get the best experience from NZB you generally have to pay for a private newsgroup server.
 
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For each one they take down a few more pop up meanwhile each time something like that makes headlines more people are exposed to the idea and go in search to find out more about it. You can find examples of exactly this, when they attacked the Pirate Bay and blocked it the amount of people connecting to it only increased as more people became aware of it thanks to the news.

So it's at best counter productive taking such things down.


Freakboy said:
Another one? Just start using NZBs, much better :D
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News servers have advantages and disadvantages, any good service costs money rather than being free and news servers often get hit with DMCA takedowns which doesn't work with torrents. Also with news servers old things are often incomplete which means you can end up downloading things that turn out to be useless. Also the service providers themselves are not beyond being put out of business just as with Demonoid, it's been done before and could just as easily happen again.
 
Demonoid Returns, BitTorrent Tracker is Now Online

http://torrentfreak.com/demonoid-re...tm_campaign=Feed:+Torrentfreak+(Torrentfreak)

After more than a year of downtime the Demonoid tracker came back online today. The tracker is linked to nearly 400,000 torrent files and more than a million peers, which makes it one of the largest working BitTorrent trackers on the Internet. There is no word yet on when the site will make a full comeback, but the people behind it say they are working to revive one of the most famous file-sharing communities.

demonoidAs the single largest semi-private BitTorrent tracker that ever existed, Demonoid used to offer a home to millions of file-sharers.

This changed abruptly August 2012, after a series of troubled events took the site offline. The unexpected downtime was followed by more than a year of silence, until the Demonoid.com homepage showed signs of life two months ago.

The site owners put up a notice suggesting that they were planning to restore Demonoid to its former glory. This uplifting news was later confirmed in a short statement that was sent to us by the people behind the site.

“I can’t give you any specifics at the moment, but yeah, we are planning to bring the site back,” TorrentFreak was told.

This glimmer of hope got many former Demonoid users excited, and today we can report further progress as the site’s tracker is now back online.

A few hours ago http://inferno.demonoid.com:3396/announce was revived, and at the time of writing the tracker is coordinating the communication of 1.3 million people scattered across 388,321 torrent files. This means that Demonoid has instantly settled itself among the five largest BitTorrent trackers on the Internet.

What appears to be new is that all torrents are tracked by a single announce URL. Previously, Demonoid used various tracker addresses and ports for its torrents.

The hosting location has also changed as Demonoid have traded in their Ukrainian provider for one in Sweden.

While the above is good news for those who hold Demonoid dear, there are still plenty of uncertainties regarding the comeback. For example, it is still unknown whether Demonoid users can still use their old accounts, as the database may have been compromised.

Last year a mysterious replacement surfaced, using a copy of the Demonoid user and torrent database. The operator of the spin-off claimed not to be related to the Demonoid owners, but he did have a copy of the site’s database.

The tracker that was revived today uses Demonoid’s original .com domain, so it’s presumably backed by part of the old crew.

Time will tell whether Demonoid can make a full comeback, and what the site will look like if it does.
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