Popular Shuttered Torrent Site Demonoid Returns 80
First time accepted submitter AudioEfex (637163) writes "Demonoid has emailed all registered users that it is back online — at its original site — in a new "cloud based" back-end. There have been various attempts in the past (including one accused of simply being malware), but so far this appears to be the original site admins and a legitimate resurrection. User registrations are also open at this time, but as a semi-private tracker, it's unknown how long that will continue."
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Re:Great site, if one is a warez hound... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Great site, if one is a warez hound... (Score:5, Insightful)
I thank goodness I downloaded what I did before it went down the first time. Curious to see how much of that stuff is reseeded.
Well, if you have some of the original content, hop in and help.
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Old comics? You want DC++ for that - there are a few hubs that specialise in that sort of thing.
I'm a Marvel. -- And I'm a DC. (Score:3)
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They were ( are? we will see ) also good for obscure books that you couldn't buy even if you wanted to, after the 'library' closed.
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Laugh if you will, but having virtually the entire run of Wonder Woman, for example, from the 1940's on is very valuable to someone like me that does research in popular culture studies.
Wonder Woman! lol, it's made it back to TV (MeTV) I just won't watch it. I remember reading the comics, the invisible jet, the lasso of truth, and the bracelets did something.
Now your turn, my vintage comics are Donald Duck, the best works were by Carl Barks who was both writer and illustrator. The new stuff is junk so I just stick to Carl Barks era comics, which I have almost all.
jones_supa has a point, I should start scanning what I've got. That's a lot of work for me though, scanning one page at a time.
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I managed to get in, and have never been "on the scene". Granted I had a very specific interest, and was part of that community, and got my in through a friend-of-a-friend.
Demonoid was awesome though. At one point I felt like I was missing something not having seen Un Chien Andalou, and had a hard time finding it anywhere until I did a little search on demonoid and a few results finally came up. It even had a decent number of seeders, unlike all the other places.
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Demonoid was never an exclusive club, they always had open signups once a week.
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Deomonoid? At least for years and years before it was simply by invitation and you could be a complete leach.
Other sites I have seen simply keep a limited number of people, with normal registration, and force you to keep a decent ratio.
Guys, it's totally not a honeypot! (Score:1)
Really!
Re:Guys, it's totally not a honeypot! (Score:4, Insightful)
Yeah... I'd be happier if they just released the source code for the site so that everyone used the same format. Demonoid had the best organization for files... no one has gotten close to it.
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I concur, and they used their moderator staff to actually take care of wrongly filed torrents as well. They didn't just take a back-burner approach when it came to keeping everything organized the way it should be.
Most torrent sites out there you'll find shit like lame-assed Pokemon torrents filed under Sci-Fi or other such stupidity.
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seems functional (Score:3)
Granted, I'm not a moron and the passwords I use for sites are unique, so there's not much to be gained from my attempting to log in.
Interesting.
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Huh, hosted in France [he.net]. See how long this lasts...
Re:seems functional (Score:5, Informative)
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My old password still works. I have no intention of actually using it to download anything mind you, mostly because I trust it as far as I can throw it.
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Kickass has never had the seeder community for old and archival stuff that demonoid had.
Kickass is pretty damn good, but I doubt you would find half the pre-internet-age stuff on it that you could on demonoid.
Old news (Score:2, Informative)
Slow News (Score:5, Informative)
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That was my thought too.. this ISN'T news at this point.
"Demonoid has survived 2 months after returning and is going strong" might have been a better story line.
Reopened since April 15 (Score:2)
Looking at the complete torrent list, the oldest torrent was uploaded April 15 2014, which means that the site has been running for the past month and a half without anybody finding out about it.
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Anyone finding out ? Strange, I have been using it since ~20th April, so its not exactly a state secret folks, and before the 'successor' tracker using the same code that vanished just before its return.
But to repeat, old news is old.
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I trust this about as far as I could shot-put a lead-filled Buick after you've torn off both my arms and legs, superglued me to a bed and put me into a coma.
Sounds Too Good To Be True? = IS!
By that definition, *you* don't trust it, but Chuck Norris would be able to trust it for about twenty kilometers.
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Well yeah. Even if you COULD cut one of Chuck's legs off before he killed you horribly, the dettached limb could STILL roundhouse kick you to death.
... a new "cloud based" back-end... (Score:2)
What the hell does that mean? Where else would an Internet website be hosted but on the Internet?
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The Outernet?
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Traditionally that just meant some other people hosted it for you and they did the hard work.
So... exactly how websites have been done for any company that doesn't have their own in-house web development team and servers.
I didn't get any email (Score:5, Informative)
No, they have not.
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Seconded
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Who signs up for something like that with their real email?
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Who doesn't have a "throwaway" email they use for sign up verification notices?
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like mailinator or spamgourmet any other throwaway email addresses.
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Not that it matters, "real" email or not, I haven't received anything from them.
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Neither did I on my catchall. I was able to login (after resetting my PW) and revive my 8 year old account. Second time they went through this rebirthing thing me thinks.
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I came here to wonder whatever original users had got their stats back.
Suck when they go away or remove old users - I'm looking at you gc-tracker!
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And it would stay that way if everyone had your attitude.
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It would be nice if Demonoid removed all the dead torrents and went private with a user limit. The best trackers I am on are all private. Public trackers (hi KAT) are toooo slooooowwwwwww and it seems like hit-and-run is more prevalent.
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It's unfortunate, but hit-and-running makes a lot more sense on public trackers: not only do you have no positive incentive for seeding, because nothing is tracking your ratio, but you also have a stronger *negative* incentive to seed, in that you're more likely to get caught the more you seed something.
So yeah. Private trackers are all kinds of better.
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Only if you can afford a seedbox, because seeding a private tracker can mean to even get a 1:1 ratio requires seeding for years. Yes, years because all the s
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Or you just need to find a private tracker that isn't dumb? I only really participate with any frequency in one, but between the occasional site-wide freeleech holidays, the fact that full-season or full-show tv packs are always freeleech, and the bonus for idling in their irc channel, I don't have any problem maintaining a proper ratio even though, sadly, most of my torrents haven't reached 1:1, even the years-old ones. Doesn't change the fact that there's still an *incentive* to seed as much as possible,
It has the most awful captcha I've ever seen... (Score:3)
Since the US shut down Lavabit I don't have my old email for Demonoid, so I'm trying to create a new account.
I've spent 40 mins trying the damn captcha, and I just can't read any of them. I so far got it only once, and then the site came back saying my username was invalid.
They have successfully thwarted any bots from registering, by successfully preventing humans from registering as well :-/
And their audio option doesn't even work, most annoyingly. Am I the only one having trouble with it?
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Its either a clunky authentication process or an attempt to discourage those with the correct login information that, in fact, actually belongs to someone else.
I can't ever decide whether its broken or social engineering when that happens...
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I was beginning to think I'd been replaced by a robot copy of myself without even knowing it.
Obviously not a honeypot (Score:2)
No magnet links (Score:2)