Demonoid back online?

Demonoid is back! Demonoid, which is considered one of the best torrent trackers in the world of bittorrents. Having a huge selection of everything from music to movies and everything in between. Unfortunately, the site is shut down due to legal issues a few months back. Demonoid admin 'Deimos' himself confirmed this uncertainty in SubDemon forums: "Money is an issue, but the real problem at the moment is finding a suitable place to host the website. There has been no luck there. And there’s some personal stuff I need to take care of that takes most of my time at the moment, and that does not help.”

However there may be some good news for Demonoid members. World's largest torrent tracker The Pirate Bay has offered two of their servers to Demonoid. Pirate Bay admin Brokep confirmed this rumor in a recent interview: “We tried to contact the guys behind Demonoid and we’ve set up a tracker for them but they haven’t responded. But, we have two servers running for them if they want to set it up.”

Apparently the two new servers are in Sweden, which is considered as a relatively safe heaven for peer to peer file sharing. If Deimos is able to solve his other problems we might (hopefully) see Demonoid back online soon.

Having said that, The Pirate Bay has had its share of legal issues. The police investigation after the infamous 2006 raid have come to a close and the prosecution has sent 4000 pages of legal paperwork to TPB admins. Admins are confident that TPB is not breaking any Swedish law. Even if they lose the court case, it's is highly unlikely that the site will shut down. After the raid, TPB admins took precautionary measures and added redundant servers in multiple countries to prevent any future downtime and disruptions of service. Over the years the number of servers has grown and the site has spread across many countries thus making a court order in a single country technically useless unless the admins themselves are jailed. This was confirmed by Brokep himself in a recent interview with Slyck.com; Slyck.com: Let’s assume a worst case scenario for a moment. If The Pirate Bay loses the initial trial round, what does that mean to the end user? TPB: Nothing. The Pirate Bay is not in Sweden any more. We don't know where ourselves, so it's gonna be hard to prove where the site is. For the sake of file sharing community, let's hope Brokep is right.

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