Demonoid Confusion

[ticchen]

I am fairly new to the torrent world and am a little confused about private trackers. Every forum I visit claims that "so and so tracker is hard to get into." Among them is Demonoid. I've heard mixed messages about Demonoid. One is that its very hard to get into similar to bitme and only by invites. However, maybe its my luck, I got an account on Desmonoid today. From what I read, Demonoid is a semi-private tracker.

Can someone clear this up for me? I want to learn more about this and have searched everywhere.

Thank you in advance.

[anon]

Demonoid is one of the easiest trackers to get on. They give invite codes like candy and open registrations semi-regularly.

[A]

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)

[ca_aok]

Technically it's "semi-private" because you can also post .torrents from other trackers on their site (labeled as "external" torrents).

[anon]

You can download their torrents without an account also.

[Spillage]

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 .

[TraLaLa]

Stop downloading illegal things or you'll go to hell.

[ticchen]

Okay thanks everyone for the help.
Though, another question. Is it true that ratios are not a big thing on Demonoid?

[anon]

Is it true that ratios are not a big thing on Demonoid?

Ratio is absolutely meaningless there, not to mention they use an IP system to keep track of it, which isn't very accurate at times. Unless you care about that icon next to your nickname or what people may think of you for having a low ratio, don't give the matter further thought.

[Wwwildthing]

There is alot of mis-information in this thread.

Semi-Private = the forums are private (registered members only), the Demonoid tracked torrents are private, the 'external' torrents are public.
Ratio is not meaningless, but it is not enforced... it's mostly a 'ego-thing'.
They do not track by IP address... they track by 'member number'.

For example - White.Collar.S02E04.By.the.Book.HDTV.XviD.FQM.269XXXX.6834.torrent

269XXXX.6834 is a member number... edit that number out of the torrent name, and it becomes a 'public' (non-ratio) torrent.

Anyone who tells you differently, is mis-informed.