Author Topic: Demonoid is officially dead, who knows the best alternatives? (Open or not) (Read 9768 times)

Sepukku · « **Reply #60 on:** October 03, 2012, 01:21:29 PM »

TPB is back up for a few hours now.
My alternative is Isohunt. I cant remember a single game that i couldnt get running. Yes, sometimes you get a non-working file, but i just delete it and start reading the most recent comments on other torrents.

kitamesume · « **Reply #61 on:** October 03, 2012, 01:35:39 PM »

Quote from: Logiick on October 03, 2012, 12:38:44 PM

Also; Make sure you're using Peerblock when downloading stuff from TPB. or any public tracker for that matter.

you're doing it partly wrong, don't block them, limit the upload. your worries about peers are swarming your upload and crippling download right?

to make it short, peers can increase your download speed, just set it up so that you'd upload evenly or less.
i've seen torrents with 0seeds but tons of leechers/peers, and to my surprise i could max my line on them.

TorturdChaos · « **Reply #62 on:** October 03, 2012, 02:01:02 PM »

I don't do much torrenting any more. Switched over to Usenets for my games, movies, music and ebooks. But Anime is a bit harder to find on most of the Usenet sites, unless its really new stuff or subbed (Have to find dubbed if I want my wife to watch it with me

). So I came here for most of my Anime, and everything I couldn't find here I turned to Demoind for. Been using Demoind for years tho. Long before I switched to Usenets, very sad to see it go. I hope it does its phoneix act again like so many times before

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Logiick · « **Reply #63 on:** October 03, 2012, 03:26:30 PM »

Quote from: kitamesume on October 03, 2012, 01:35:39 PM

Quote from: Logiick on October 03, 2012, 12:38:44 PM
Also; Make sure you're using Peerblock when downloading stuff from TPB. or any public tracker for that matter.
you're doing it partly wrong, don't block them, limit the upload. your worries about peers are swarming your upload and crippling download right?

to make it short, peers can increase your download speed, just set it up so that you'd upload evenly or less.
i've seen torrents with 0seeds but tons of leechers/peers, and to my surprise i could max my line on them.

Peerblock does not block people from downloading from you. Just blocks government, school, and company etc IPs.
I've been torrenting forever, I know how to limit bandwidth.

It's not to limit bandwidth, it's so that the majority of places that want to log your IP to see the things you seed/download etc can't catch you.

Quote from: Sepukku on October 03, 2012, 01:21:29 PM

TPB is back up for a few hours now.
My alternative is Isohunt. I cant remember a single game that i couldnt get running. Yes, sometimes you get a non-working file, but i just delete it and start reading the most recent comments on other torrents.

Oh okay, good deal. I just know that for the past couple days, the site was down.
Good to know it's back up, since there are some audiobooks I need to get from them.

kitamesume · « **Reply #64 on:** October 03, 2012, 03:36:14 PM »

^no, last time i checked most of peerblock does concludes to placebo effect when it comes to security. at worst all it does is hinder P2P performance.

if you want security, opt for encrypted VPN or proxy, now those work way better than blocking random IPs, even if theres a list, the eyes could just switch to another one.

Logiick · « **Reply #65 on:** October 03, 2012, 05:14:27 PM »

Considering I run Peerblock all the time, and can download anything from BBT with no problems, but if it's on, I can't log into WoW, I'm thinking it's not a "placebo" effect.

kitamesume · « **Reply #66 on:** October 03, 2012, 05:25:25 PM »

"when it comes into security"... yes its a placebo effect.

simply put, blocking IP's doesn't hide your trace, but masking your trace does and encrypting your line does it.

edit: ok think of it like these -
1) government A obviously knows about peerblock, so they have their IPs banned, so they just simply switch IPs, although after a while that gets banned too.
2) the person doing peer transfers with you is being monitored, coincidentally it saw your naked IP, busted?
3) the ISP itself is listening onto your connection, its bare naked so its like reading newspaper, block that and you're blocking your internet.

tl-dr: encrypted line for security > blocking random IPs for security. both? you're just hurting your P2P.
its been discussed around these threads a while back, yes it is possible to decrypt your line, but it takes time and money(equipment), unless you're hacking trillions of dollars why'd they burn thousands of dollars just to decrypt it?

Logiick · « **Reply #67 on:** October 03, 2012, 05:37:55 PM »

Either way it doesn't hurt your P2P unless what you're downloading has basically no seeds.

Also, my ISP doesn't care about what I do with my bandwidth. When they get an email saying this IP is doing this shit illegally, they send me one. Of which has never happened since I've used Peerblock.

The point is, using Peerblock is much safer than using nothing at all.

kitamesume · « **Reply #68 on:** October 03, 2012, 05:39:43 PM »

didnt you just say it blocks wow? it does hurt P2P and not only P2P.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110723154118AA0WXXf

edit: no actually not doing something shady is safer, otherwise you'd have REAL precautions.

Logiick · « **Reply #69 on:** October 03, 2012, 06:02:58 PM »

Yes, it blocks WoW because it's IP is on the list.
But I don't download things from WoW other than the updates.

What I'm saying is it doesn't slow down the downloads unless what you're downloading has no other seeds to be able to pull from.

It's still safer to use the (in your opinion) worthless Peerblock, than to just download without anything.

Like I said, I used to get multiple emails from my ISP claiming I was torrenting games etc, and since using Peerblock, I've never gotten another.

datora · « **Reply #70 on:** October 03, 2012, 07:32:13 PM »

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With TPB up and down like a yoyo this last week, I did a bit of searching and found:

- http://about.piratereverse.info/proxy/list.html

Instead of clicking through on any of those links, I just randomly copy/pasta URLs that look promising and am surfing TPB content withing 30 seconds on 1 or 2 tries. In particular, http://pirateproxy.net/ seemed quite fast & stable the past couple days.

Poking around to see if there might be such a 'Master' proxies listing that also covers other tracker services. If anyone runs across such, please do post.

megido-rev.M · « **Reply #71 on:** October 03, 2012, 11:34:47 PM »

TPB's slower than usually is, but it's online alright.

rivel0121 · « **Reply #72 on:** October 06, 2012, 11:30:09 AM »

its lucky we still have pirate bay although lots of there torrents are not of the same quality its usually good for the things you cant find on here. Lets face it sites like Baka BT and TPB are a beacon of hope in a dark dark world i was thinking that with the new laws in japan that anime uploads might slow down but that does not seem to be the case yet anyway.

megido-rev.M · « **Reply #73 on:** October 06, 2012, 04:36:52 PM »

It's not so much luck that TPB is still online, but they've been able to work within the present laws as well as influence. The MAFIAA can't take it though

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Also relevant.

megido-rev.M · « **Reply #74 on:** November 13, 2012, 12:31:57 AM »

Update

Hadouken · « **Reply #75 on:** November 14, 2012, 01:04:40 AM »

That's cool. Demonoid is a nice place to find completely random stuff that other sites wouldn't have.

kitamesume · « **Reply #76 on:** November 14, 2012, 05:17:27 AM »

Quote

When Demonoid went down at the end of July the site’s admin blamed a DDoS attack. This initial attack resulted in a series of problems that were not easy to fix.

wait what? i thought they were shut downed by a bunch of anti-piracy-law freaks.

Freedom Kira · « **Reply #77 on:** November 14, 2012, 06:43:23 AM »

Quote from: Hadouken on November 14, 2012, 01:04:40 AM

That's cool. Demonoid is a nice place to find completely random stuff that other sites wouldn't have.

Pretty sure the site is still down. You won't be able to find the "completely random stuff that other sites wouldn't have" for at least a little while longer. It's just the tracker that's back up.

vuzedome · « **Reply #78 on:** November 14, 2012, 08:49:02 AM »

Well it's up, their tech admin brought it back to life.

newy · « **Reply #79 on:** November 14, 2012, 11:41:16 AM »

The tracker is up (honeypot?), site and forum and whatever stays down for now.