Not that much clearly as it got reactivated about 2 years ago and you still haven't noticed

 

Definitely not this. I had the same issue by only starting off with small downloads in the matter of MBs. If what you download is not in high demand, you are screwed. The system doesn't work. At all.

 

Demonoid best flea market ever

 

hmmm speculation, speculation. people are so lazy on forums these days. it's blocked by all russian ISPs. meaning you don't need a proxy/vpn. it's a slow battle against piracy in russia, started by mpaa and other copyright cu**s some years ago. they were supposed to shut down all the big sites within a few weeks or months from a certain date. 2-3 years passed and only a few got blocked. but anyway, you only need a browser extension to ignore it. they promised a lot to mpaa, but they only needed to show SOME progress for them to fuck off till next time. so yea, instead of bending over and believing in a ressurection of a dying market(new religion, anyone?).... that's how it's done.

 

I remember long ago getting access to the site thanks to a friend's account and later on (some time before everything got screwed) I created not one but two accounts for myself just in case.
Now that dude put this link here and tried to log in and worked, so if you want I wouldn't mind sharing one of the accounts with you, I barely use it (just checked a bit the site after so long and seems a bit abandoned regarding seeds).

 

agreed AoN, i miss it too (yes, i know its back open). i was thinking about asking around for an invite, but honestly not sure if i would put the time into it that it really takes

 

That's right. The reason I waited for an audionews membership was to download something that I couldn't find else where. It wasn't large, but I didn't even finish before the seeder disappeared. Nobody wanted to leech my incomplete file so I had no chance of fixing my ratio. To be fair, I should have downloaded something more "in demand" but I didn't expect the rules to be so unforgiving.

I wasn't really bashing audionews in my post btw, I was more joking about how I waited so long and ended up being "limited". It's fine though, you can probably find most things elsewhere like AZ or rutracker

 

Yes, you need a strategy for any ratio sites

 

It's not like it once was. If you haven't noticed that, you must not be there much...

 

I am on the Demonoid site right now.

 

Sort of. Read my post right above yours.

 

I check it pretty often. Still has lots of releases. There's a guy there who uploads a VST bu dle every few days/weeks with latest plugins, presets, sample libraries etc. If you know what to look for, there is still gems to be had here

 

Yeah I know it is not as active as it once was and on that point I miss Demonoid also. I was using the original Demonoid for years and was active right up until it was taken down.

 

It does. I never paid a dime and have TBs worth of ratio. I could download the entire tracker 3 times. But I don't approve of their way to run things.