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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."
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.
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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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.
I've decided to stop wasting my time responding to AC trolls/sockpuppets... so if you want a response from me... login.
"Demonoid has emailed all registered users"
No, they have not.
The Outernet?
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.
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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Technically the servers were seized so it could potentially be a honeypot. But that seems unlikely, I can confirm the files themselves are not malicious, and if people are worried about the torrents being monitored, keep in mind they don't need control of the tracker for that, they simply need to load up any torrent they want to watch.
But what about Marvel fans? Do they have their own counterpart to Direct Connect?
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?