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Merry Christmas, torrent fans: Demonoid is back up

by Jay Hathaway on December 14, 2009 at 08:00 AM

Demonoid, one of the most popular torrent sites on the web, went down due to hardware failures and data loss back in September. Although this left a hole in the hearts of many torrent aficionados, there was a glimmer of hope in November, when Demonoid's tracker came back online. Now, more good news: as of yesterday, Demonoid's website is back up, and registered users can sign in. Servers are busy, so the site might be inaccessible at times while things stabilize again.

The site is reportedly back to the way it was in early September, when it went down, except that a couple hundred new torrents have already been uploaded. Old torrents are still there, and users' upload:download ratios seem to be intact. RSS feeds are still down, and the site isn't taking new registrations right now, but it does seem to be alive and well. Happy holidays, torrent fans!

[via TorrentFreak]

Tags: bittorrent, demonoid, torrents, tracker

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PS_4Dec 14th 2009 8:41AM

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lol I just visited the site yesterday; had no idea it's been down for moths.

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darwinsurvivorDec 14th 2009 9:00AM

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Wow, actually checked it earlier today and it was still down. But now it's up.
They were predicting a few months data loss (not sure on actual numbers), but when I went to the site, I didn't even lose my session cookie!

LONG LIVE DEMONOID!!!

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YoranDec 14th 2009 10:30AM

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Great to hear it’s online again! Over here in Holland it’s still a blank page, though. Thank you Foxyproxy ;)
My account is gone too. If anyone feels inclined to send me an invite, it’s greatly appreciated and I will return a Google Wave/Voice invite for those interested. My e-mail address is: yoran@aol.nl

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