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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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facty facts!
I'll get right to downloading and shop on Silk Road while I wait.
This is great news because for the last few years the media has done their best to demonize torrents and related activity as nothing more than a pirates' leisure time activity. There are truly legitimate uses for torrents and it is great to see that there are good folks working to keep such sites active.
kindly roll over and die in a fire
You can't stop the signal
Yo-ho, Yo-ho, a pirate's life for me!
I remember a disk copier for the Commodore 64 that used to display a flaming golden skull while playing pirate themed music. I didn't own a computer at the time, and my buddy had, of course, pirated the pirate software. :P
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
The question is: what can we do to permanently remove illegal filesharing from the web? It's offensive to everyone who creates digital media for a living that these kinds of sites operate with impunity.
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www.demonoid.com uses an invalid security certificate.
The certificate is not trusted because it is self-signed.
The certificate is only valid for americanstoner.net
(Error code: sec_error_untrusted_issuer)
American Stoner? I guess it'll be a real buzz-kill if the copyright cops get them for possession with intent to distribute.
I read it as "big nigger donkey kong," but when I looked at it again it was actually written, "big nigger donkey dong." Very confusing indeed. It was, however, a most hilarious first post, and in fact posts like the grandparent's first post are the only reasons why I visit Slashdot nowadays. Well, at least I can be thankful that it didn't force me into the Beta this time.
By the way, the Chargers will win the Denver game today. You know why? The system is being rigged so that the Chargers will finally win their first Super Bowl. Know why? Because here in San Diego(where I live) they tried to get the taxpayers to foot the bill for a new Super Bowl worthy stadium, and they failed because the Chargers were goddamn losers who couldn't manage talent, hence the public opposition for shelling out a billion dollars to a bunch of losers. Nevermind that the NFL are so goddamn rich they can buy their own goddamn stadium in San Diego, but that's besides the point. A super bowl win would make a proposal to force taxpayers to pay for a new stadium much more palatable to San Diegans. Mark my fucking words - the Chargers will win.
-- Ethanol-fueled
*whi-TISH!*
It had all the problems of being a 'public' site. Shit seed ratios and all that low speed public leechers stuff. Crap descriptions. The same useless crud uploaded 50 times when a current active good version existed. No comments on the QUALITY of the files. Just completely useless "thanks for uploading" repeated for pages.
Along with all the drawbacks of being a 'private' site. Requires logins. Don't say anything to anyone important or you might find your account banned. Don't mouth off. Don't express unpleasant opinions on anything anywhere or you're gone. Offend the wrong person and you're gone.
Plus they had the habit of drawing unwanted attention to themselves as some sort of 'industry spokesman'. And nobody elected them to a damm thing.
I was glad to see it go. It was a kiddy site one tiny step up from the old malware ad infested 'warez' sites. It has been replaced and surpassed by far better sites now. And even the totally public pirate bay beats the crap out of them now.
Until someone gets the bright idea to store X.509 certificate fingerprints in Namecoin. Instead of paying a commercial CA for a TLS certificate, a .bit site owner would do something analogous to what's done with DNSSEC: self-sign a certificate and store its fingerprint in the domain name registry.
copyright that isn't in the names of the actual human creators is null & void.
This is not currently the law in Slashdot's home country; I'm assuming it's a proposed reform of copyright. In such a system, who is the author of a work whose creation involves thousands of people, such as a feature film or a AAA video game? And what happens to the copyright should this author die a day after the work is published?
As a musician, what steps have you taken to make sure that you have not unwittingly incorporated substantial portions of non-CC music into your CC music? George Harrison got in trouble for this (Bright Tunes Music v. Harrisongs Music).
demonoid.com [...] happens to be hosted on [a] server [that] doesn't seem to support SNI.
At least on the client side, every major desktop web browser supports SNI except for Internet Explorer on Windows XP. With security updates for Windows XP ending in three months anyway, why aren't more web server administrators installing SNI to use valuable IPv4 addresses more efficiently? (Disclosure: I moved my web site from another shared host to WebFaction about a year ago primarily to get SNI.)
How deep does the rabbit hole of government hijacking go? The government could be running a man-in-the-middle attack on all five of your senses to keep you in a honeypot that is the only existence you've known since birth. How can anyone be sure that this isn't the case?
Do you think that's air you're breathing now?
The tracker is the least important part of demonoid. The interesting bit was their website that had such a great catalog of stuff AND such a great system for search it.
SUB CATEGORIES! Oh man. There were so many sub categories. Which meant if you wanted something you could search just that sub category. Honestly, Amazon.com often has an inferior search system to what old Demoniod had.
If the resurrected the site but kept the tracker offline it would be nearly as good as the old days... assuming anyone ever used the new demoniod again.
I've decided to stop wasting my time responding to AC trolls/sockpuppets... so if you want a response from me... login.
Sports don't matter. Like celebrity gossip, they are a time-sink philistines and other dull people, in much the same way that state lotteries are a money-sink for the same. None of these distractions warrant any discussion by people who think about things that do matter.
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.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
I couldn't agree more. Seems like all the advocates of copyright infringement are those who've never created anything worth paying for.
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It seems those who resort to presuming things [and misconstruing arguments being made are compensating for a lack of good counter-arguments. Granted, there is that possibility that those who DO outright advocate it are in such a position, but I would be careful, as you gotta assume that there is the possibility that this is untue, and you also gotta make sure the people you reply to are actually advocating copyright infringement - too often I see it made against people who are arguing for toned down - not eliminated - copyright laws, and whose extent of advocating infringement at most if any is towards stuff still under copyright but not marketed in forever - a far cry from those advocating full all over infringement unrestricted.
Shocking, I know.
inferno.demonoid.com points to d2.vu