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| Demonoid Returns, Website Now Back Online Posted: 30 Mar 2014 03:18 AM PDT
This changed abruptly August last year when a series of troubling events took the site offline. When it was still down after a year, many gave up hope that it would ever return. Today, however, the site appears to have made a glorious comeback on Demonoid.ph, which the .com and .me domains are also linked to. TorrentFreak contacted the team behind the resurrection who confirmed the relaunch. “We are running a pre-launch today,” TF was told by the admin, who added that the site could go offline again for a while if something breaks. A message posted on the site’s homepage explains that Demonoid made some changes to the backend, and that there may be some glitches. However, several Demonoid users confirm that they are able to login using their old credentials. “The site is now cloud based and there have been many changes to the code. As a result, you might see some weird glitches here and there. We’ll do our best to have everything working smoothly as soon as possible so please bear with us,” the Demonoid team writes.  The above is good news for those who hold Demonoid dear. Several of the former staffers are still involved according to the announcement, but for now it’s unclear whether the site’s management is still in the same hands as before. However, the current resurrection is linked to the old domains, which suggests that it’s indeed the real thing. Previously there were concerns that the user database may have been “compromised.” For example, last year a mysterious replacement surfaced, using a copy of the Demonoid user and torrent database. The operator of the spin-off claimed not to be related to the Demonoid owners, but he did have a copy of the site’s database. Perhaps in the future the Demonoid team will be willing to explain a bit more about what happened over the past two years. For now, however, it appears that the comeback kid has pulled it off again. Source: TorrentFreak, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing and anonymous VPN services. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pirate Bay’s Longest Surviving Torrents Turn 10 Years Old Posted: 29 Mar 2014 11:42 AM PDT
At the time the notorious torrent site had just launched. It was available in Swedish language only and hosted just a few hundred torrent files. Needless to say, the site has evolved quite a bit since, but interestingly enough several of these early uploaded files are still alive and well. In fact, the oldest Pirate Bay torrent with at least one seeder turns ten years old today. TF asked the Pirate Bay team to find out what the oldest surviving uploads are and a “Top Secret Recipes E-books” torrent come out on the top of that list. As can be seen below, the torrent in question was uploaded March 29, 2004 by a user named Wallis.  At the time the file was uploaded The Pirate Bay looked more like this, and it’s quite remarkable that the file is still being seeded after all these years.  The second oldest Pirate Bay torrent that’s still actively seeded is an “Italian Teens Home Video.” This file was uploaded on March 30, 2004 and currently has three seeders. The third place goes to a pirated copy of “Revolution OS”, a documentary covering the history of Linux, GNU and the free software movement. Revolution OS director J.T.S. Moore previously told us that he has mixed feelings about this achievement. He doesn’t support the unauthorized distribution of his work, but said that it’s good to know that so many people are still interested in it. "It's definitely a problem, but I guess there's some satisfaction in knowing that REVOLUTION OS still has appeal for some people twelve years later," Moore told TF. Below is the top five list of oldest torrents on The Pirate Bay with at least one confirmed seeder at the time of writing. It will be interesting to see is any of these are able to survive another decade. That is, if The Pirate Bay is still around by then. —
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