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Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on Demonoid

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Piyush
Piyush Original post #1
Aug 5, 2012 at 7:16 PM
Demonoid, one of the biggest torrent sites around, was taken down on July 25 after a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. The website is now completely unresponsive, although its administrator says he says he will bring it back eventually.

"I don't plan on shutting down, but if Im going to fix it I have to do it properly," the administrator told TorrentFreak. "That means upgrading a lot of our 7 year old hardware and maybe bringing up the beta only. You know how it goes with demonoid. It might take a while but it will come back."

Demonoid admin: We'll be back | ZDNet
R
Aug 5, 2012 at 7:26 PM
I hardly use Demonoid, TPB and Kat are the greatest. Period.
sumonpathak
Aug 5, 2012 at 7:31 PM
so who made the attack?
M
Aug 5, 2012 at 8:22 PM
Kat ftw :d
Usui1811
Aug 6, 2012 at 10:57 PM
Any idea whose hand was behind it ?
baccilus
Aug 7, 2012 at 7:10 PM
What's Kat?
Never mind, found it. It has recently come out that Ukraine has confiscated all of Demonoids hardware as a way to please the USA.
Ukrainian police bust BitTorrent tracker Demonoid | ITProPortal.com

Ukrainian Officials Shut Down Demonoid BitTorrent Tracker | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
tkin
tkin #8
Aug 7, 2012 at 9:09 PM
KAT sucks, spread malware, demonoid was good for anime, now where the hell am I supposed to get Anime from, POS USA, can't wait for the day china brings hell down that country :x
Piyush
Piyush #9
Aug 7, 2012 at 9:21 PM
KAT sucks, spread malware, demonoid was good for anime, now where the hell am I supposed to get Anime from, POS USA, can't wait for the day china brings hell down that country :x

yea...same anime problem here :(
Theodre
Theodre #10
Aug 7, 2012 at 9:36 PM
Don't you guys read???? The site is taken down by the local authorities of ukraine where the site is said to have the server!!!! :(
Source

And this is the latest update being the site admin facing criminal investigation in mexico :|

Source
tkin
tkin #11
Aug 7, 2012 at 9:37 PM
^^No, its you who doesn't read, look a few posts above.
Theodre
Theodre #12
Aug 7, 2012 at 9:40 PM
^^No, its you who doesn't read, look a few posts above.

Oops, my bad.... :D But the thing is that it now faces criminal investigation too :( It's so sad.... I hope they will spring to life again!!!
I don't like saying R.I.P to such an awesome site :(
SunnyGamingHD2
Aug 7, 2012 at 9:44 PM
Hope Demonoid should up again soon!:)
C
Aug 7, 2012 at 9:44 PM
Hmm never used demonoid.
Hollywood controls USA's anti-piracy thingy.Soon anyone who defies them will go the way megaupload went.
Can't keep their noses out of others business :-x
Theodre
Theodre #15
Aug 7, 2012 at 9:52 PM
:evil:Yes, you are correct :mad: they think they are the gods... But well they are not!!!:evil::evil: I hope anonymous does something about this!!!!!:evil::evil::evil::evil::evil: If i was a h4cker..............:evil::evil:
W
Aug 7, 2012 at 10:35 PM
being a superpower has its perks & china no matter how hard it try will never have influence like USA has now or in the past.anyway @tkin & @piyush what anime problem you are referring to.my cousin never used demonoid but his anime collection is still decent(~2000gb i think & growing).
tkin
tkin #17
Aug 7, 2012 at 10:49 PM
being a superpower has its perks & china no matter how hard it try will never have influence like USA has now or in the past.anyway @tkin & @piyush what anime problem you are referring to.my cousin never used demonoid but his anime collection is still decent(~2000gb i think & growing).
Your cousin must be using private trackers, next time I go to NCR I'll take a few TB HDDs with me :wink:

And USA is a military superpower, not economic, china took that place long back.
W
Aug 7, 2012 at 11:12 PM
not true.china holds biggest amount of US debt(~$2 trillion i think) in world.what this means is if US economy collapses & $ become worthless so will be the chinese economy(US being biggest buyer of its products) & its forex reserve($2trillion now worth nothing).no country can maintain military superpower status without also being economic superpower(former USSR is a perfect example).the day US loses its economic superpower status its military superpower status too will be gone soon after.

btw US defense budget is ~$600 billion per year(officially) compared to china's ~$100 billion(officially but claimed to be ~$160 billion in reality).
tkin
tkin #19
Aug 7, 2012 at 11:23 PM
not true.china holds biggest amount of US debt(~$2 trillion i think) in world.what this means is if US economy collapses & $ become worthless so will be the chinese economy(US being biggest buyer of its products) & its forex reserve($2trillion now worth nothing).no country can maintain military superpower status without also being economic superpower(former USSR is a perfect example).the day US loses its economic superpower status its military superpower status too will be gone soon after.

btw US defense budget is ~$600 billion per year(officially) compared to china's ~$100 billion(officially but claimed to be ~$160 billion in reality).
But usa will collapse first, watch castle tv show episode "Pandora"
W
Aug 7, 2012 at 11:33 PM
i have seen that & again another good point to prove why hollywood/US TV shows should not be taken seriously.if you really want to grasp economic concepts try reading nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman articles in THE HINDU paper.that castle episode theory was like reducing 3rd order differential equations to simple multiplication division.
tkin
tkin #21
Aug 7, 2012 at 11:44 PM
i have seen that & again another good point to prove why hollywood/US TV shows should not be taken seriously.if you really want to grasp economic concepts try reading nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman articles in THE HINDU paper.that castle episode theory was like reducing 3rd order differential equations to simple multiplication division.
I know that tv shows are superficial, but just saying, some how I feel USA's economy is about to tumble, europe is gone already.
d6bmg
d6bmg #22
Aug 8, 2012 at 2:34 AM
Who uses public tracker nowadays?
tkin
tkin #23
Aug 8, 2012 at 2:49 AM
Who uses public tracker nowadays?
Everyone who has less than 1 mbps connection, can't keep ratio and get kicked out.
Liverpool_fan
Aug 8, 2012 at 9:08 AM
KAT sucks, spread malware, demonoid was good for anime, now where the hell am I supposed to get Anime from, POS USA, can't wait for the day china brings hell down that country :x
Meanwhile you lose your job. But yeah Anime > Jobs :lol:

Demonoid was a good tracker. But can't defend it at all to be honest. It was used for piracy and nothing else. Pity though the mafiaa had the power to buy Ukranian police.
tkin
tkin #25
Aug 8, 2012 at 11:51 AM
Meanwhile you lose your job. But yeah Anime > Jobs :lol:

Demonoid was a good tracker. But can't defend it at all to be honest. It was used for piracy and nothing else. Pity though the mafiaa had the power to buy Ukranian police.
Anime any day.
R
rajnusker #26
Aug 8, 2012 at 7:12 PM
KAT sucks, spread malware, demonoid was good for anime, now where the hell am I supposed to get Anime from, POS USA, can't wait for the day china brings hell down that country :x

Please stop spamming. KAT is the best torrent site. (no offence)

Who uses public tracker nowadays?

Good joke.
Theodre
Theodre #27
Aug 8, 2012 at 9:18 PM
:shock:I'll be damned!!!!!:shock: My torrent from demonoid is responding!!! The tracker is responding and it is seeding!!!!:shock::shock::shock: But sometimes shows dead!!! Does this mean it's coming back like in another month or so???:)
tkin
tkin #28
Aug 8, 2012 at 10:01 PM
Please stop spamming. KAT is the best torrent site. (no offence)



Good joke.
I use to think that as well, till I was hit by a nasty bug, from a high seeded torrent which was supposedly clean, my av detected at after it wiped all my external hdds, cleaned, but the directory was destroyed, lost a lot of data back then.
baccilus
baccilus #29
Aug 8, 2012 at 10:14 PM
Can you people suggest some more alternatives to Demonoid other than Kat.
skeletor
skeletor #30
Aug 8, 2012 at 11:13 PM
Demonoid was a good tracker. But can't defend it at all to be honest. It was used for piracy and nothing else. Pity though the mafiaa had the power to buy Ukranian police.
Actually a lot of bands used it to distribute their music as well. Legally. :p