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Popular Shuttered Torrent Site Demonoid Returns
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."
Really!
Those private, invite-only torrent communities don't usually require you to provide brand-new stuff. It's often enough if you upload old stuff that no one else has made available yet. If you e.g. have a collection of classic vinyl and a means to rip it to FLAC, or can upload a few arthouse films that got a limited DVD release a decade ago, then you're in.
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.
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
Actually, the biggest thing I missed about Demonoid was archival stuff like complete ROM sets and entire runs of vintage comics. 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. They simply don't make that stuff commercially available - small runs here or there, #1's, etc, but not like that. And that stuff is available to torrent elsewhere mostly, but it's spotty - you can find chunks but not those curated archives. 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.
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.
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.
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Demonoid has been back since March...
It came back two months ago, in March. I know Slashdot is slow with news but this is a little ridiculous.
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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.
Hey, they have a new host!
Demonoid was never an exclusive club, they always had open signups once a week.
What the hell does that mean? Where else would an Internet website be hosted but on the Internet?
"Demonoid has emailed all registered users"
No, they have not.
The saddest thing about all this is all of those dead torrents.
Demonoid used to be a great place for me to grab folk music from around the world for my collection, but it's like a wasteland now, and most of it's probably not coming back.
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.
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.
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
Old comics? You want DC++ for that - there are a few hubs that specialise in that sort of thing.
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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But what about Marvel fans? Do they have their own counterpart to Direct Connect?
but all the good seeds are gone. So why bother now.
It has been dead too long. Everyone has moved on to find a new seed box or tracker.
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.
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.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
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?
"Decent?" Most other sites, in my experience, force you to keep at least a 1:1 ratio, and just meeting it was considered bad. I understand, they need to add incentives to keep torrents seeded, but if one actually thinks about it for more than a few minutes, they should realize that strict ratio restrictions actually hurt more than they help. It makes popular torrents more popular, and unpopular torrents less popular. It's a nice idea, giving incentives to seed and to upload new content, but there has to be another way to do it.
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. :}
I have been a Demonoid member for many many many years and heard about them being up awhile ago. After seeing this slashdot reminder I decided to log in. The site remembered me, my password, and my start date. It didn't have my share ratio which was quite high with high volume. I never got an announcement email of their return. The forums still require another login which I never understood but mimics a funny foible of the old site. Their forum html is readable but the formatting is bad. This might be from the old code not being compatible with the newest browser (Firefox 29 in my case).
I have no care for the story, but what's with the use of word 'shuttered'? It's a horrible word. I hate it.
Firefox says:
High Risk Website Blocked
Location: http://www.demonoid.ph/
Access has been blocked as the threat Mal/HTMLGen-A has been found on this website.
Return to the page you were previously viewing.
demonoid.ph is running on IPv6. Those MAFIAA guys are technophobes, and we all know they wouldn't touch IPv6 with a ten foot pole.
the past few months? it was there for you.
It means to close the window shutters on something, like when a shop closes that metal grate over the entrance, it is being shuttered.
While its full of nostalgia. They don't have magnet links implemented. The site kind of shows its age.