Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:16:00
It’s a trap! [/Ackbar]
If you are a torrent user, you may have noticed that Demonoid is back. It’s minus the site’s creator Deimos, and nothing but the torrents lists and trackers are working. The thing that makes me really nervous is the ratio never changes. No matter how much you upload or download, your ratio never changes.
Add the fact that the number of rejected IP numbers in my PeerGuardian logs *triples* when connected to a Demonoid tracker and I am suspicious. I think it’s a honeypot. I think any number of government or commercial entities could be running the domain, and Deimos isn’t telling us because they’ve threatened to jail his ass for piracy.
Maybe I’m crazy. All I know is I could put a tracker together in about ten minutes that updated ratios in real time, much less once a day like Demonoid. It’s been a week, and nothing has moved. I am staying away. Plenty of good trackers out there. No need to feed the beast.
Posted by JimK at 01:16 PM on April 18, 2008
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#2 Posted by Vic 
on 04/26 at 02:27 PM -
it is a honeypot. it really boggles my mind so many people blindly went back to using it. At this point, I really cant feel bad for anyone who gets stung cuz they should damn well know better. And its not entrapment if youre not being coerced to go there.
#3 Posted by annmargaret on 05/12 at 06:18 PM -
I need Bret Michaels to see that there are other people who want to know you like me and that can handle any thing that comes there way> Ilove you becouse you are great at what you do and you apprecate other peoples rights.
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Well… shazbot.
I went right back to them. Demonoid’s always been one of my favorite tracker sites, much more organized and much better seeded than practically anywhere else I’ve gone.
I dunno, it seems to me that it would be such a legal nightmare to try and use a site like that, with all the cries of entrapment and so on, that anything done with it would be almost worthless. If it’s one commercial entity, they’d be fucked if they ever got found out because they’d’ve been giving everybody else’s shit away to get at their pirates. If it’s the government, none of the content is illegal save that it’s “stolen”, and risking entrapment countersuits and looking even more big brother-ish seems an odd risk to catch somebody downloading issues of X-Factor.