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The semi-private BitTorrent tracker Demonoid returned from the ashes earlier this year and is slowly rebuilding its community. The site's founder, who's back in charge once again, is working on a new and improved version of the site and hopes Demonoid will one day return to its former glory.
Demonoid has been around for well over a decade but the site is not really known for having a stable presence.
Quite the opposite, the torrent tracker has a 'habit' of going offline for weeks or even months on end, only to reappear as if nothing ever happened.
Earlier this year the site made another one if its trademark comebacks and it has been sailing relatively smoothly since then. Interestingly, the site is once again under the wings of a familiar face, its original founder Deimos.
Deimos decided to take the lead again after some internal struggles. "I gave control to the wrong guys while the problems started, but it's time to control stuff again," Deimos told us earlier.
Since the return a few months back, the site's main focus has been on rebuilding the community and improving the site. Some may have already noticed the new logo, but more changes are coming, both on the front and backend.
"The backend development is going a bit slow, it's a big change that will allow the server to run off a bunch of small servers all over the world," Deimos informs TorrentFreak.
"For the frontend, we're working on new features including a karma system, integrated forums, buddy list, etc. That part is faster to build once you have everything in the back working," he adds.
Source: https://torrentfreak.com/demonoid-hopes-to-return-to-its-former-glory-170910/
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 11 2017, @04:20PM (2 children)
I got an account on Demonoid before it went down the last time. It had an excellent community and selection of e-books. I grab my movie/serial torrents off The Pirate Bay or what have you, but it was the books I kept going back to Demonoid for.
When it came back on line, the site appeared to be very similar, but there were some things that raised alarms in my mind. Can't recall exactly what at the moment, so I decided to err on the honeypot rumors being true.
I guess if TorrentFreak is reporting this, I may have another look.
Movies and serials are nice to get DRM-free, but it's the books and other rare works (collected works of Leni Riefenstahl for example, even if that also includes dread Nazi propaganda) that I really like to seed. It would seem to me to be a tragedy at the height of senselessness for these things to disappear to the sands of time when humanity for the first time has the technological capability to keep them accessible forever. Books especially take up such little space.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Tuesday September 12 2017, @03:47AM
The one I really miss for the obscure and hard-to-find is H33T.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 12 2017, @10:47PM
Clearnet torrenting needs to die. Between ubiquitous 5 eyes data collection and MAFIAA activity ALL clearnet websites running such services, as well as the users accessing them should be considered compromised. Contrary to popular opinion VPNs won't help you much longer (if they ever did) since Russia and China and other formerly infringing countries have started cracking down, so they too can double down on intellectual property as a cash cow.
I2P already has the peep to peer infrastructure in place. Many of the anonymity features as well. And thanks to SSU (a datagram protocol), torrent clients which use newer libtorrent releases, or had support natively added can operate entirely in-network without ever talking to clearnet servers.
But on the off chance you need *BOTH* Vuze has supported I2P as well as Tor for trackers/torrenting since 2015 or 2016.
geti2p.net for the original java i2p, or www.i2pd.website for the C++ i2pd daemon (less user friendly, experimental features, much lower memory usage, no java plugin apps.)
The network needs more users to grow, but already has IRC (Original the Invisible IRC Project, became I2P when the decision to create a new decentralized mesh network happened, around the same general time as Tor.), better hidden service support than Tor, a variety of services and websites, static outproxy support (It doesn't have built in outproxy tunnel hopping like Tor does.), and a variety of othre tunnelling services to allow projects that Tor would require a VPN to produce. i2pd even has udp tunnel support, although it does not have SOCKS v5 udp proxy support yet. Perhaps a project for some code monkey out in the peanut gallery here? :)
Give it a spin, or the protocol documentation a read. You might be pleasantly surprised.