Anyone here use Demonoid?

I have for a number of years but since installing Vista it won't let me log on. I also try and join and now apprently they are not taking new members. It's is saying I am not a member when I know for a act I am.

I have heard a few rumours on how you can join, one was that you need an invite and other was that at certain times you are allowed to join.

Anyone know the true situation?

oh thanks for the heads up. i am using it now and having so much fun.

Demonoid accepts new members on Fridays and Saturdays, if I recall correctly.

I heard that Pan but I tried last Friday and no luck, maybe I try this Saturday.

Demonoid rocks.
It has been having server issues lately.

The invite system is also still active, I believe.

Demonoid rocks.
It has been having server issues lately.

The invite system is also still active, I believe.

Yep.

Really bad server problems today alas..

I think they have a quota of members or something to keep from over running their trackers. Im not sure though. If youre sure youre a member send them an email with your logon issue. Demonoid is a good site. Theyre pretty good about filtering bullshit files out of the torrents they post.

demonoid is by far the best torrent site out there today.
my ratio is .20...............anyone here have worse?

I love demonoid I've been using it for 2 years. Does anyone have any idea what happened to demonoid? CAn't access it for the last 2 days

Indeed.

Demonoid has been down since Wednesday, due to the fact that they are geographically relocating. There was some legal pressure from the Netherlands Government, so they are relocating to Canada ( :-) ).

Run a tracert on their IP... you'll see the site. Don't know when it'll be back up however....

Anyone here use Demonoid?

No, why what are you stealing at the moment?

No, why what are you stealing at the moment?

It's cheap and you can get away with it.

No, why what are you stealing at the moment?

lol

Oooh... moral chastisement...

No, why what are you stealing at the moment?

nothing, as i wont be home to enjoy it.
demonoid will be free of my ravaging for a month or so.

Holy crap! Demonoid was forced to block Canadian traffic. This is what I get when I try to access the site:

"We received a letter from a lawyer represeting the CRIA, they were threatening with legal action and We need to start blocking Canadian traffic because of this. If you reside in Canada, that is the reason you are being redirected to this message. Thanks for your understanding, and sorry for any inconvenience. "

Holy crap! Demonoid was forced to block Canadian traffic. This is what I get when I try to access the site:

"We received a letter from a lawyer represeting the CRIA, they were threatening with legal action and We need to start blocking Canadian traffic because of this. If you reside in Canada, that is the reason you are being redirected to this message. Thanks for your understanding, and sorry for any inconvenience. "

To avoid this you can use a proxy server that is somewhere else in the world. Most public ones are very slow through... there are some commercial ones but those are probably not worth it because of the costs. Or you'll just use another Torrent site. I'm not sure how they detect where your coming from? Probably your IP, if so, your fucked and you can only see the website through a proxy. Maybe you can use a proxy to download the torrent file and then download the contents of the torrents with your own connection. Maybe you can try changing your browser settings to the united kingdom or something, that probably won't work.

Yes, but how would I proxy my BT traffic? Anyway, I don't want to sacrifice browsing speed by using a proxy. Damn, I would donate a significant amount to help them fight or relocate their servers.

I would donate a significant amount to help them fight or relocate their servers.
A significant amount? More than what you would spend actually buying the software?

Yes, but how would I proxy my BT traffic?
I think that torrent content data is sent from you directly to the other guy and vice versa. Then again, you probably need their tracker to initialize the downloads/uploads. Maybe they still allow access to that...

Anyway, I don't want to sacrifice browsing speed by using a proxy. You'd only have to use the proxy while browsing demonoid

Can someone send me an invite?

Can someone send me an invite?

I'll PM you one

Thanks a bunch!

Hi s0meguy, can you send me one too?
Thanks.

Update:

For those of us from Canada....... we're pooched.

Despite using a proxy... you won't be able to login.

I'm trying to think of a workaround. So far all I can come up with is to re-register with a different Country location in the profile.

Have you tried The Pirate Bay instead? It's big and it's fast - doesn't have the specialist content of Demonoid but it's great for most purposes.

LOL theres a site called the Pirate Bay? They're not even trying to hide this stuff anymore.

The pirate bay is one of the largest if not the largest site for torrents of any kind. The speeds mostly suck compared to some other websites. And Demonoid isn't really specialized, it has everything as well. Because the Pirate bay doesn't require any registering and ratio building, there are more people that just leech and upload as little as possible. Mostly it's kinda slow. For my standards :p

So far all I can come up with is to re-register with a different Country location in the profile.

It is possible to know where someone is by just using his IP. They probably use that.

The Pirate Bay is reasonably fast for most uses - often quicker than Demonoid. So if you're using Demonoid you should certainly be trying TPB too.

The Pirate Bay is reasonably fast for most uses - often quicker than Demonoid. So if you're using Demonoid you should certainly be trying TPB too.

I have used many torrent sites, the smaller, more restricted ones are usually the fastest, such as Bitsoup. But from all the large, more open torrent sites I'd definitely say that Demonoid is the best. It has almost anything and the speeds usually rock. I sometimes use Piratebay when demonoid is down for example, and some others such as mininova. And many others that don't exist anymore.

It is possible to know where someone is by just using his IP. They probably use that.

Nope.

Definitely not when using proxy jumps.


And with respect to TPB: while I don't mind using this in extreme circumstances, it's more often than not a crapshoot. On Demonoid, there is always vast amounts of commentary on the quality of the data.

Nope.

Definitely not when using proxy jumps.


Duh, thats the whole idea behind using a proxy server.

There was a misunderstanding.

Duh, thats the whole idea behind using a proxy server.

There was a misunderstanding.


The proxy would only be of use to him while he surf's the website, should he have a user account and it's linked to his ratio's the likelihood is it can check what IP you are Torrenting from. For the most part people don't use proxy tunnels for torrenting because bandwidth costs money.

It's not just Canada being hit by it, on other site's they've adopted a US Blacklisting of torrent trackers, which means people in the US are less likely to find trackers accepting them.

Admittedly this means there is a lot of change brewing, especially in regards to legislation about control over the internet by countries which are obviously being pressured by their purse strings.

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Admittedly this means there is a lot of change brewing, especially in regards to legislation about control over the internet by countries which are obviously being pressured by their purse strings.


Indeed. A number of people I know fear that this is the 'beginning of the end'.

Nevertheless, it has always been the case that if something can be built, it can be undone. I have no fear that control of the internet will fall to those Corporations who have a vested interest therein. It just may become much more difficult to wrestle some of that control back.


What irks me in particular about this activity of late however, is that under current Canadian legislation, it's completely legal for individuals to copy legitimate data......

and yet here we are...

The proxy would only be of use to him while he surf's the website, should he have a user account and it's linked to his ratio's the likelihood is it can check what IP you are Torrenting from. For the most part people don't use proxy tunnels for torrenting because bandwidth costs money.


I was thinking of something like download the torrent files with the proxy, and download the torrent content without a proxy. I'm not sure exactly how the tracker system works, but maybe the tracker does not block Canadian addresses, and if it does, maybe you can try to gather seeds with the proxy and then turn it off or something.

As for internet falling into the hands of corporations... thats very difficult because there's a lot of different countries with different laws and agendas. Plus if the they limit the flow of information too much, maybe the internet will get divided once again, like it was before the internet came into existence, which was basically a bunch of large networks connected to each other globally.

I was thinking of something like download the torrent files with the proxy, and download the torrent content without a proxy.
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Exactly what I do.
However, recognize that as soon as you begin file transfer, you're connected, peer to peer, revealing your IP.



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As for internet falling into the hands of corporations... thats very difficult because there's a lot of different countries with different laws and agendas.
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Remember, Corporations have more power to sway any countries' legislation than any other relevant body (i.e., the people).



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Plus if the they limit the flow of information too much, maybe the internet will get divided once again, like it was before the internet came into existence, which was basically a bunch of large networks connected to each other globally.

Bring it on.

:-)

Remember, Corporations have more power to sway any countries' legislation than any other relevant body (i.e., the people).

Wrong. Corporations have power as long as people buy from them.

Wrong. Corporations have power as long as people buy from them.

Wrong.

That assumes that people have a choice in who they buy from.

I've been thinking that the amount of downtime that Demonoid has been having lately is suspicious.

Also, I noticed a while back that torrentspy blocks US ip addresses now.

Thank Moloch for the Pirate Bay.

Demonoid has been down since Wednesday, due to the fact that they are geographically relocating. There was some legal pressure from the Netherlands Government, so they are relocating to Canada ( :-) ).


Wait. So. They move to Canada and then block Canadian traffic? Isn't that a bit odd?

Wrong.

That assumes that people have a choice in who they buy from.

Mostly they do.

People respond to incentives.

Mostly there is far more than one supplier that they can choose from.

Here is another site I find this almost as good as Demonoid for content on some things it might even better. To me this the only thing this site lacks that would make it as good as demonoid is that you don't get many feedback comments.

http://btjunkie.org/

I have to admit I'm a little apprehensive about people advertising their favourite torrent sites, mainly because the powers that be seem to clamp down on the ones they see as 'popular' and well as you know this forum and others like it get spidered for their content (There is a number of network 'Research' companies that exist purely to datamine for what ever firm [or department] funds them to 'investigate'.)

I don't think depts. or firms need to hire 'Research" companies to find out which sites are the most popular. These sites are not hidden and a 10 second google search will result in dozens of articles and/or stat charts displaying the "best" or "most popular" torrent sites. (or they could simply ask their 16 year old nephew).

Stryder I think things here are okay as no one is advising or claiming to use these sites to download illegal material. I myself do not use it for these illegal purposes I am sure my use is legal.

I have made a home movie that shows my elbow over the course of a day. But using make-up, special effects and carefully chosen music, it appears that my elbow has aged two days as opposed to just one.

I have uploaded the file to a bittorrent and at the same time I am also downloading it. This has created an amazing event very close to that of shezers (sp) cat, where the torrent is in two states at the same time.

I can then sometime imagine the circular motion of the data as the children program magic roundabout and I can see dougal and zibberdy joyfully riding the data.

I am sure others here use the site for a simliar purpose.

I don't think depts. or firms need to hire 'Research" companies to find out which sites are the most popular. These sites are not hidden and a 10 second google search will result in dozens of articles and/or stat charts displaying the "best" or "most popular" torrent sites. (or they could simply ask their 16 year old nephew).

Okay rather than being clandestine about what I was trying to say, A few of the worlds government's 'Snoop' websites/protocols via 'Research company' fronts. The reason for this is the Echelon project as well as 'National Security' (Which for most is just some wacko conspiracy that people talk about.)

In the UK there is usually legislation followed that if someone is found doing an illegal activity while being questioned or under surveillance for another reason they can prosecute even if that crime (no matter how minor) had gone undetected. So basically if you have a hard-drive full of downloaded media that you didn't pay legally for they could take your equipment away and allow it to lead on to investigation of other parties that you'd shared with.

Lucky the law hasn't been so anally followed through... so far anyhow.

Stryder I think things here are okay as no one is advising or claiming to use these sites to download illegal material. I myself do not use it for these illegal purposes I am sure my use is legal.

I have made a home movie that shows my elbow over the course of a day. But using make-up, special effects and carefully chosen music, it appears that my elbow has aged two days as opposed to just one.

I have uploaded the file to a bittorrent and at the same time I am also downloading it. This has created an amazing event very close to that of shezers (sp) cat, where the torrent is in two states at the same time.

I can then sometime imagine the circular motion of the data as the children program magic roundabout and I can see dougal and zibberdy joyfully riding the data.

I am sure others here use the site for a simliar purpose.

Some of us do have legitimate reasons for using torrents, some of us are clever enough to suggest that we have legitimate reasons, some of us still however do flaunt the downloading of material contrary to it's licensing and do so with great pleasure like it gives them satisfaction. However those people undermine the whole sharing community as their flauntation (Flirtation) comes back on that community rather than those flaunting.

Simply use demonoidproxy.com to access demonoid

Simply use demonoidproxy.com to access demonoid

Looks interesting...

But i've yet been able to figure out how to get to Demonoid via this proxy....

There's no option via this site...

D'oh.

My mistake....

One must enter the demonoid url in the Search bar.


Wicked.

ta

Ah. So that's who he is/was.

Another piece of the jigsaw falls into place.

It's hard being a n00b. :(

Weird. 'n00b' just got changed to 'noob'. Wonder why that is.

Edit: Oh look. It did it again.

pardon
i am lost
is this the thieves hideout?
the place where revolutionaries seek to undermine the american way of life?

pardon
i am lost
is this the thieves hideout?
the place where revolutionaries seek to undermine the american way of life?


lol

Yes, you are lost.

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/1775/clipboard08qw7.jpg

for posterity

mmmhmm
thats right nigs
terabyte

mmmhmm
thats right nigs
terabyte

And there was me thinking I'm addicted to downloading, lol

Could one of you demonoiders help me out with an invite.
Thanx ;)

Apparently they're accepting new members on a monthly basis..
http://www.answers.com/topic/demonoid

Apparently is the word, I've been trying for 3 months and I've yet to see anything but CLOSED on that page :bugeye:
www[dot]demonoid.com/register.php

ahh
another one bites the dust
deimos, thanks for the service
you were a breed apart

god, i am so happy i saved my stats ;)

thievery will never be the same again
the content was unique

http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/3836/clipboard09mw7.jpg

/rip

Gustav, were you the spookz on this board that was banned?

of course not
whatever gave you that idea?

naya zindagee naya jeevan

Too late! Your identity has been revealed and the authorities have been notified. :D

Seriously though, sorry to see this great site put down. RIP

That's harsh. I just downloaded stuff from them last week. Now it's gone...
Looks like Pirate's Bay is about to get a whole lot more popular.

Or, they could move to Switzerland. After all, the move to Canada was recent. Not sure where they were before. Interesting that it was the CRIA that shut them down. Does anything actually come from the Canadian Recording Industry? It's like being threatened by the Keebler Elves or something.

netherlands

i need to add more to the homage
i'll seed in a bit

of course not
whatever gave you that idea?

naya zindagee naya jeevan
Hmm, your id on demonoid - we had an interesting guy called spookz here.

Soch raha tha ki useeka naya jeevan Gustav tho nahee hai :p.

Hmm, your id on demonoid - we had an interesting guy called spookz here.


really?
interesting? how so?

:)

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/2029/demonoidbackzq1.jpg


/happy eek

YES!!!!!

Man, I've been HATING the Pirate's Bay.

This is an awesome day... assuming, of course, that it's not a honeypot.

An example of the awesomeness of Demonoid.

For the past few weeks now I've been trying to find and download Wagner's Siegfried Idyll. I went to see it (along with two other pieces) at the symphony a while back and wanted to have the piece before and after to become more familiar with it.

I could not find it.

All the searches I performed led me to... Demonoid. Demonoid's non-working torrent list.

So.
The first thing I search for when Demonoid comes back?
Yup. The Siegfried Idyll.
And wham! There it is.

Not only is it there but it's there.
After all these months of inactivity, a piece of music that I could not find anywhere is still available for download at Demonoid.

Demonoid fucking rocks!

Wow This Is Way Too Amazing
<happy Dance Happy Dance>

Just tried the site and it is down but they warn of that. Yes, this is very good news, demonoid is the best. However, to me the current torrent king is Mininova which has very good content and now has a thank you button that makes it easy to rate a torrent which in turn make it easier to see if a torrent is to standard.

Wow.

I cannot believe this. Amazing news. Life has been hell since Demonoid went down...

You're totally right Invert; Demonoid was always a place I knew I could find great stuff like Wagner or Rimsky-Korsakov, to say nothing of excellent old flicks..

Mininova is just one of those sites that searches other bittorrent sites, yes?
Many of my 'mininova' searches led to nonfunctioning demonoid links.
Then, you have the issues with viruses. Demonoid is good about weeding out bad files.