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Demonoid BitTorrent Tracker Apparently Back Online

Freshly Exhumed writes "TorrentFreak has broken the news that after more than a year of downtime the Demonoid tracker is back online. 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. As the single largest semi-private BitTorrent tracker that ever existed, Demonoid used to offer a home to millions of file-sharers. Note that this is apparently the original Demonoid and not the d2 site that claims to be using the Demonoid database."

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  1. Re: Great news by dotancohen · · Score: 4, Informative

    Are you NSA?

    GP is a karma whore, not (necessarily) NSA. Very easy to identify as they post "the slashdot line" without saying anything substantial.

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  2. Re:Sounds safe by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 4, Informative

    DNS was decentralized at first as well (at one point Microsoft was getting blackholed so often that had a $50k bounty for the contact info of anyone running a DNS server, not exactly public knowledge). At some point the US government decided DNS was actually important, and the DHS got involved and so on.

    I can't tell if you are joking or not. But for anyone else reading along who takes what you wrote seriously -- it is total bullshit. DNS has always been hierarchal with root servers under the control of a central authority. There have been bugs that could be exploited to corrupt lookups, but it has never been decentralized.

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  3. D2 Site claims.. by nurb432 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, it knew my old login and password. So at least part of the database was there.

    Still, no way to know any of these things are not an *AA honeypot now.

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