Demonoid Tracker Is Back Online

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."

Private tracker.

[Anonymous Coward]

One of the things that made/makes Demonoid so great is that the unwashed masses aren't permitted to ransack and abuse the system in the same way that they are at TPB.

You need invite only registration if you really want to be able to enforce ratios. Otherwise people just create disposable accounts, leech to the cap and never seed.

On Demonoid, people seed or their ratio goes to shit and they can't DL.

Anyway, I'm glad it's back. TPB is great, but it doesn't always cover all the bases for me.

no catch?

[B5_geek]

After all the fuss & muss (with no court-based legal rulings) how are they back up?

They did not goto court (the innocent admins would have shouted it from the roof-tops), they must have had an out-of-court settlement. Considering all the old account are still available, this stinks of a setup.

I am from Canada, and as we are aware there are several laws that 'allow' me to d'load. There is even one that I can think of that allows me to upload. BUT that said, I will not log back into demonoid, I will not create a new account.

I will continue to use the private trackers that I am currently on, and most importantly continue to use Piratebay to search.

Re:Wha?

[RKBA]

So what day of the month do they allow new memberships? How does one get an invitation?

Re:Private tracker.

[Anonymous Coward]

I've gotten tons of Demonoid torrents through places like isohunt. Never needed an invite or registration for anything. The only thing that keeps my ratio decent is my own free will.

If there's something on a site I want but need a registration for, I will spend a comparatively ludicrous amount of time and effort on getting around the forced registration on principle alone. Unless you can enforce these things absolutely perfectly, you can't force people to not be dicks. Look at DRM.

Re:Wha?

[p0tat03]

I'm not sure about Demonoid, but my preferred tracker is also invite-only for a good reason: ratios. The tracker stays fast because people are forced to give back. The thing works on a credit system - downloading costs credits, uploading gains credits. To avoid people signing up over and over for free credits, EVERY single account that is opened needs to have credits donated from an existing member, such that credits never magically materialize out of nowhere. It's a good system - and the only tracker I've ever been on where I can always max out my pipe at all times.

Re:Wha?

[SacredByte]

I would be careful to only give them out to people I trust, as it is my understanding that, should someone you invited get banned, you will as well.

Re:Wha?

[eat here_get gas]

and here i thought AC was for people who wanted to talk shit and not lose precious all-important Karma

Re:no catch?

[base3]

Or that prosecutors made them an offer they can't refuse. I wouldn't be sure at all that the resurrected Demonoid isn't a honeypot.

Re:One rule for houses, another for creation

[Anonymous Coward]

It's likely because those people haven't considered the eventual outcome. However, far from supporting the idea that copyright should then be made perpetual, the opposite is the true case: If you own substantially more than your "share" of land (that is to say, the total value of all land divided by the population size) then you should be paying substantial property tax on the value in excess of the average. Note that this is separate from structures and other labor requiring operations -- only the value of the land should be considered, because that is what you did not create and that is what no one can create more of if other people desire the use of it. (Obviously the same should logically be applied to all matter and energy, but for most matter the accounting cost would exceed the benefit and I think the oil companies would have something prohibitive to say about applying it to energy.)