Demonoid Confusion

Demonoid is a semi-private tracker with huge diverse content.If you are in a country where downloading pirated stuff is pain in the ass then stay away from it.
IPTorrents is a private tracker,also with a huge amount of content.Its better if you join there.(Its safer than demonoid)
If you want specialised trackers then you need to ask/search for them yourself.

FYI
1.Hard to get into does not mean the tracker is better w.r.t content/speeds etc.It just means it is hard to get into,nothing more,nothing less.
2.Trading/Cheating is a big no-no in private BT.Dont do it and 50% is already O.K
3.Seed your files to a ratio of 1:1 or till whatever the tracker says you to need to seed and dont hit and run.The rest 50% is covered as well.
4.When you have joined several trackers and you need to get a positive ratio in trackers where you want to download then use a Cheap seedbox and buffer every tracker for one month and for the rest of your life you wont have ratio problems.(kinda douchebag advice but this is how many survive)
 
Wwwildthing, I'm sorry but you're talking out your ass here. You cannot edit the filename of a .torrent file and expect any sort of change. I could rename my torrent to "thisfilesuckscocks.torrent" and the torrent will work, regardless. The name is irrelevant. Editing a filename has nothing to do with whether a torrent is public or private, nor does it have any effect on the ratio reported to the tracker. Even external torrents will generally have the demonoid tracker in their tracker list, which will cause stats to be reported to the tracker regardless of whether the peers you're connected to were obtained from demonoid's tracker or openbittorrent's tracker.

The "member number" is just a generated number, it's irrelevant. Your ratio is tracked based on your IP, since demonoid doesn't use passkeys. It's mostly irrelevant though since the demonoid staff team doesn't give two craps about your ratio.

By the way, your "member number" that you describe is not your member number. You can view your userid by checking your torrent list from your profile, it's a completely different number.

AND I just checked and an external torrent also had that number appended.
 
Demonoid torrents will work no matter where you download them from. You're connecting to the Demonoid tracker, it doesn't care where you found the .torrent file.
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As I posted earlier... I download 3 copies of the same torrent from Demonoid... one while logged in, another as a 'guest' and the third while using TOR.

Now using this info... tell me why my ratio never changed?
 
Actually it should have read...

....they use the wildly inaccurate method of tracking ratio by IP address (or member-numbers), rather than using passkeys.
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To which I would have replied... "now your beginning to get it".
 
Wwwildthing said:
@P2PDog - It's been this way since they were knocked off of Leaseweb (to my knowledge, that's when I noticed it)... given that it's been under new management since then, they either don't know or don't care.
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I was attempting to be facetious.

Everyone in this thread, and even the staff of Demonoid know that they track stats by IP address, and you're still not willing to admit you're wrong?
 
Wwwildthing said:
As I posted earlier... I download 3 copies of the same torrent from Demonoid... one while logged in, another as a 'guest' and the third while using TOR.

Now using this info... tell me why my ratio never changed?
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http://fora.demonoid.com/index.php?topic=107626.0

My ratio isn't updating correctly, how can I fix it ?

To ensure your RATIO is properly recorded, two conditions must be met.

1) The Demonoid Tracker MUST have your PRESENT IP Address, associated with your Demonoid Account.

To associate the current IP with your account


  • Log out of your Demonoid account
  • Clear your browser's cache & cookies
  • Log in to Demonoid

To check that Demonoid has your current IP, look in your profile. The Last visit: should display a few seconds ago, like so~

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2) Once the Demonoid Tracker has your PRESENT IP Address, you must send the "event=stopped" message, for each torrent tracked by Demonoid.

To send the event=stopped message from your torrent client


  • After you've associated your IP with your account on Demonoid, DO NOT EXIT your torrent client.
  • First you have to press STOP on each of the torrents in your torrent client that are using the Demonoid tracker.
  • This sends the "event=stopped" message to the tracker with your ratio stats for that particular torrent (since you last stopped the torrent).
  • Wait a short time, then you can restart the torrents if you want to continue seeding or exit the torrent client if you have finished.

Hopefully your ratio should be updated within 24 HOURS.
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If those two conditions were met, then your stats would update. If they weren't, they won't. Also note that Demonoid only updates stats once per day.
 
Technically it's "semi-private" because you can also post .torrents from other trackers on their site (labeled as "external" torrents).
 
P2PDog said:
I was attempting to be facetious.

Everyone in this thread, and even the staff of Demonoid know that they track stats by IP address, and you're still not willing to admit you're wrong?
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Ok, so here's my question...

When I download the exact same torrent (verified by MD5 check) from The Pirate Bay... how does Demonoid know my IP address?
Then tell me how they know it when I'm using TOR?
 
Demonoid is indeed semi-private . As has been pointed out, non-members have access to the torrents (with restrictions, i think), plus they include external public torrents in their index . The forums are Private , which makes it worthwhile joining .

Will you be happy with your Demonoid account ? ..... that depends on what you want from torrenting/file sharing .
 
ticchen said:
Alright, completely confused =/
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Don't worry about it mate... you'll find this happens with about 99 out of 100 threads posted. Just wade through what's posted and try to take info out of it that answers your question.

Threads on here start of addressing what you originally asked, then they take a complete tangent as other people jump in and start to converse with each other. It's not a slight on you, just look at any other threads :lol:

Also, don't worry if you don't understand some stuff... you'll notice some members knowledge is greater than others, and their 'base level' if higher than a lot can understand, again it happens :) If you're really lucky, you'll get some idiot pretending to be an expert only to be shot down in flames... those are the good threads :)
 
When you download or seed a torrent using the Demonoid tracker using the IP address that is currently associated with your account, they will track the stats for that torrent. If you log into the site with one IP, then download the torrent with a different IP (for example: using a seedbox) then the stats will not be recorded on your account.

Edit: If you don't believe me, then go have a look at the numerous posts in the Ratio Help subforum of the Demonoid forums.

I'd recommend starting with this one: http://fora.demonoid.com/index.php?topic=107626.0
 
P2PDog said:
When you download or seed a torrent using the Demonoid tracker using the IP address that is currently associated with your account, they will track the stats for that torrent. If you log into the site with one IP, then download the torrent with a different IP (for example: using a seedbox) then the stats will not be recorded on your account.
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If you download a torrent, and remove the 'member-number' from the file name... it won't count toward your ratio... regardless of what IP address you are using.
 
I downloaded the same torrent 3 times... once while logged-in, once as a 'guest' (same IP address on both) and finally while using TOR... the only difference between the 3 files, was the 'member-name'.

This is why it also works when you download the same torrent from The Pirate bay (verified by MD5 check).
 
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