Demonoid Tracker Is Back Online 211
Crymson4 writes "We discussed the shutdown of the Demonoid torrent tracker last fall. For those who don't already know, Demonoid is back up. Looks like they found a new host for the Web site and the tracker is functioning properly as well. For those with old accounts, all the old data has been saved. It's almost as if they never left."
Re:Wha? (Score:5, Informative)
though off the top of my head i can also see how a 'closed' system could be a legal defence, your not distributing to the public everyone is a member of your 'private' club.
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Re:no catch? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Suprnova never came back... (Score:3, Informative)
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Some of US are in.....
and some of YOU are not.....
BWAAAAAA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
But seriously, the point is actually to keep ratios and user habits consistent with the standards of the site. When you are a member, you are responsible to keep your seed ratio at a certain level, as well as your behavior and actions. When you invite someone, you are also responsible for THEIR behavior, actions, and ratios. The thought process is that you will not give an invite to just anyone, if you know that their behavior can potentially get you suspended or expelled.
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Re:no catch? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:All file shareres are leechers (Score:4, Informative)
Quite a lot of the content here is likely to originate from people who bought the whatever and uploaded it. Another major source is where the content was broadcast to a significent chunk of the planet.
without them, the stuff would not get made,
This is the "every pirated copy is a lost sale" theory. Which has been completly debunked. Quite simply the vast majority of the people involved are not "potential customers" in the first place.It's also very possible that the "pirate" version, which tends to be "Available worldwide and DRM free", will be the only version available to people. Possibly for months/years even forever.
Re:no catch? (Score:2, Informative)
Citation needed, or STFU with the FUD, RIAA-troll.
Re:canada back online (Score:4, Informative)
Traceroute shows they're not in Canada anymore. The web server is in the Ukraine, the domain registration is in Brazil. So I'd guess that those legal threats are no longer a problem.