A severe DDoS attack has brought down one of the most famous BitTorrent trackers. Demonoid has been inaccessible to its millions of users for more than a day and is expected to remain offline for quite some time. The tech admin of the troubled BitTorrent tracker told TorrentFreak that the issues at hand are not easy to fix, and suggests that aside from the DDoS there might have been an attack from another angle.
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TorrentFreak got in touch with the tech admin of the site who informed us that they are in serious trouble. Demonoid was overloaded by a DDoS attack which hit the server hard, resulting in a series of problems that may take a while to address.“It started as a DDoS but then it caused a series of problems. These problems need to be fixed before the site can go back up, and it’s a complicated fix this time,” the Demonoid admin told TorrentFreak.Aside from the DDoS assault, Demonoid’s server may also have been compromised by another attack.“There might have been an attack from another angle, an exploit of sorts, but it’s hard to tell right now without a full check of everything,” the admin says.While Demonoid is determined to return to its full glory, it might take a while before the site is up and running again. After an exodus of staff earlier this year there is only one person available to work on server issues, so progress is slow.“Our human resources became limited in the last few months. All tech issues are handled just by me now and there is no one else to take the job,” the admin told us, adding that his time is also limited by real life issues that take priority.“I’ll fix the site as soon as possible, but it might be a while this time,” the admin says.In recent years Demonoid has been in the cross-hairs of several anti-piracy outfits. It was pressured to move out of Canada by the CRIA and most recently the MPAA and RIAA reported Demonoid as a “rogue site” to the U.S. Government. However, there is no indication that the current attacks at Demonoid are anti-piracy related.For the millions of Demonoid users there’s no other option than to wait, once again.
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Demonoid: Status
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A “rogue site” to the U.S. Government, huh? Best kind.
Thanks for the update. Best of luck to demonoid admin on getting the problem resolved. I wish I could help.
Will look back later for a status update. Thanks again.
:J
Definitely something that piqued my interest as soon as I realized what had happened. I wish you the best oh so infamous Admin. and send my condolences to all the demonoid users such as myself. (:
So if a goverment did shut it down how much trouble are us users in?
I suppose that depends on how detailed are the logs kept by Demonoid, and whether the Ukrainian government retains them or shares them with the US.
As a simple user, to possibly a contributor at times... End Users need not fret that much if their bootleg supplier sites get shut down... There are always more... The huge majority of people will never face consequence..
I sound so noobish, but i've been an end user on gov't raids on servers I've used and such and shut them down, for all intensive purposes end users should be ok typically as long as it isn't child abuse hosted on said servers, some internet abuses should be targeted...
I agree with Hippie. End users, i.e. people who downloaded from Demonoid, probably have nothing to worry about except in the worst of worst-case scenarios. Users who have uploaded thousands of torrents, e.g. me, might get noticed if the Demonoid logs get into the hands of the US government. Even then, in my case at least, I don't have much to fear unless Peter Schiff and/or Jack Blood decide they want to be a hardass. ;)
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