What happened with Demonoid and Deimos? (found on fora.demonoid.info)

statik · May 22, 2019

Some members have been a part of Demonoid, some members have only heard of the site and some members wont know what Demonoid was. But i thought some people will want to know.

I was a long time member, for over 10 years and every time it was taken down i would keep checking to see if it was back up again, which happened several times, even after a year of downtime. Today i thought of checking it again and to my surprise it was back up, atleast so it seemed. The first page has 2 news posts on it, 1 answering the question if demonoid is back and the other with the tittle "What happened with Demonoid and Deimos?". Writing this post is turning out to be more difficult than i thought, although i never knew the man behind demonoid, so i'll keep it at this and copy the message from phase1G who seems to be working on the site currently.

From where to start..what to write? The more I think, the more it hurts, and the harder it gets to accept it even though months passed, it's still a fresh scar.

Before I start, I hope that there is a 1% chance that this is incorrect and not true, as the local news in the report wrote one detail incorrectly.

With great sadness, I want to announce that Deimos, the founder of Demonoid known as someone who was one of the earliest and influential people on the torrent scene since it's beginning has died in an accident back on August, 2018. Everything happened so fast and so unexpected, one moment I was speaking with him, next moment I found out that he died after I went to sleep and told him good night. For days I blamed myself and thought what would happen if I didn't go to sleep that day and continue speaking with him before he went out and the accident happened.

The hardest thing is that this falls on me to tell and knowing how big fan base there is for Demonoid, it is really, really messed up to tell people something like this.

The family members rejected any form of contact and I respect it as they had a traumatic experience and lost the person they care about.

There is a commemoration page which was made months ago, but I never got enough strength to release it and I'm not good with words, so you can read there a farewell message.

https://www.demonoid.info/commemoration/index.html

After Deimos death, someone was using his cheapo laptop to visit Demonoid as I was seeing activity over his Demonoid profile several times until servers were wiped out to default apache page (That laptop is the only thing which can access Demonoid backend and his Demonoid profile along with cloud backup servers). It was someone with enough tech skills such as friends or Umlauf himself, so currently there is at least one person who holds the database of Demonoid and if it ever comes back that person will not be Deimos.

Edit: As some people messaged me worrying about their privacy, the login happened around four days after accident happened, and there is no way that someone could break custom made cryptography and get on the server that fast, let alone get the laptop and do stuff. That was someone who already had access. My guess would be Umlauf, someone from close family, or a friend who was lending several servers for Demonoid.

What now?Staff will try to rebuild Demonoid to what it once was, there is no promise of success but it will be an upcoming task. [/b]

Deimos had big expectations for Demonoid before he died, he spent over 8 hours a day coding and improving Demonoid for months and wanted to deliver what he promised to the community. Many things were happening behind the scene, he cared so much about users privacy and replied almost to everyone who private message him and asked how he was and stuff. He was really a friendly person. I'm glad that I had a chance to know him and I will miss him dearly, not because of Demonoid only, but because of the person, he was.

Edit: As for the end, here's the highest traffic peak of Demonoid with multiple millions of visitors per day, where it was in pair with mininova, piratebay and torrentz at the time
https://i.imgur.com/01z0ffd.png

So many comments and so many questions..thanks to everyone who were part of this tracker and journey through the years. I will answer some questions and get some insight as fans deserve to know a bit more.

For starter , I cannot disclose the information about the death and Deimos' real name as we should all value people's privacy and we shouldn't put the people who suffered a loss in info hunt.

Demonoid original name came up as a demo site for music tracks which was the original purpose at start. So it reads DEMOnoid.

Deimos nickname comes from the Greek deity and Deimos had a strong passion for mythologies, beliefs in gods, ancient stuff, bible and would speak for hours about it when asked.

Deimos had a very big passion for hard metal music and used to ask people to link him their country metal as it was never ever enough for him. He had a collection of some rarest flacs, unrelease to public songs and much more stuff, he was really into it.

As a teenager he used to play acoustic guitar at local bars and was very good at it.

His favorite youtube channel was 'Life of Boris' and wanted to travel to European countries just to see the culture.

He never had a chance to know that his favorite magician which he showed me Shin Lim won the America's got talent.

Deimos used to get irritated by me on regular basis as I used to spam him with Despacito and Justin Biebers song with clickbait texts like 'mate have you seen today news?! And link to youtube song' to the point where he embed into my demonoid account song from justin bieber which plays whenever I visit Demonoid. I would insert here laughing smiles..but it doesn't feel right anymore.

There were so many stuff happening behind the scene which were both fun, sometimes sad, and also interesting and I will miss all of that. And lastly not to forget he also liked animes and comics.

Hopefully with this, fans can learn a bit more of the person we lost.
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Rest in peace Deimos, you will be missed.

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MrPew · May 22, 2019

Wow, sad news indeed, thank you Statik for relaying this insight and history of what happened to the site as well as its founder… R.I.P Deimos!

DrumHead · May 22, 2019

Damn. thats terrible to hear such sad news. I loved that site for years--the best place to trade awesome music! #1 Torrent site forever

Thanks for UPdate. I always wondered what happened over there.

R.I.P. Deimos.. Much Respect

Last edited: May 22, 2019

waverider · May 22, 2019

Man I had no idea about this. There's so many things that go on behind the scenes. To think that this was happening over the years while I had no clue makes me sad. Much respect for people who follow their passion in this manner.

Sam Mathew · May 22, 2019

We never know how long we've left to live. RIP Deimos. One of the 3 tor sites i used to visit.
I used to look up TorrentFreak if they had any updates, but to no avail.
My condolences to his family on such a great loss!!
May Deimos' legacy live forevermore.

The-RoBoT · May 22, 2019

Greets Fozzy

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