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Get PUMPed With VIPeers’ New P2P Search & Sync Tool
December 29, 2008 by sharky
VIPeers is busy again developing fresh peer-to-peer and BitTorrent ideas — this time with a brand-new P2P application called PUMP. Pump is a complete all-in-one P2P solution offering a robust array of features, including: PC/mobile media syncing; music, video and torrent searching; embedded media player; blog & podcasting content integration; and sharing capabilities implemented through VIPeers’ online filesharing and podmailing applications.
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Private Trackers Announce ‘Global Ban’ Of Romania
December 28, 2008 by sharky
Romania - a real hotbed for tracker activity - has yet again found itself on uncertain ground in amongst the private tracker community. This was recently rekindled a few days ago when Waffles.fm officially announced that Romania is "largely a cesspool of spam" and is thus now globally banned from the tracker. This includes all existing members, as well as potential future invitees. Today, ScT also announced plans to rid Romanian users from its tracker.
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Fixing Spotify Login Issues, Once And For All
December 26, 2008 by sharky
In an article published 4 weeks ago, we introduced how to Join Spotify from banned locations. If you kept up with logging in to your account at least every two weeks through UK web proxies (assuming you selected UK as your country of choice), you may still have received a notice upon logging in that says, "Your current location does not match that set in your profile. You may travel with Spotify, but only for 14 days". Worse yet, if you failed to login for more than 14 days the message becomes more dire, whereby you won’t even be able to gain access to the Spotify application, due to mismatched countries in your profile and home IP address. Here’s a few tips to get Spotify back in action.
Looking for an invite to Spotify? Here’s a site that has been known to post valid Spotify invite codes:
http://lakka.se/index.php?p=spot
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Find 100% Working Verified Torrents at Vertor.com
December 22, 2008 by sharky
Public tracker users often need to have their guard up when browsing through the vast selection of similar torrents at Mininova, TPB and others. Some torrents are password-protected; others contain malicious viruses, and there’s even fake torrents to lure in unsuspecting torrenters. Even a new torrent that contains an impressive seed-peer list may look ripe for the taking, but even these offer no security. Finally, for the first time ever, there’s a public tracker that actually checks & verifies their torrents before offering them for download. Introducing Vertor.com, a revolutionary next-gen BitTorrent site where every available torrent is checked for downloadability, viruses, DRM and passwords.
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New Online Utility To Find Trackers with Open Signups
December 20, 2008 by sharky
For those who are searching for an online service that checks private trackers for open registrations, we don’t have to look very far. You’re probably already aware of BTracs.com and TrackerChecker.org. While both of these sites adequately provide updated listings, they’re about as visually stimulating as a ham sandwich. Introducing OpenTrackers.net — a brand-new exciting online utility that puts sexy back in finding private trackers that are open for signups.
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Private Tracker Invites For Sale at TorrentInvites.org
December 17, 2008 by sharky
If it were April 1st, we’d put a lot more scrutiny into what we’re about to report. It would appear that TorrentInvites.org is selling private tracker invites. Just in time for Christmas, you can now purchase your very own favorite private tracker, for you or a loved one. And some of them are even on sale; such as What.cd which is going for $9.95 USD. Ironically, that’s much less painful than waiting to take their IRC invite quiz.
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Invites: The Top 50 Most Requested Private Trackers
December 17, 2008 by sharky
Experienced BitTorrent users know a thing or two about private trackers - some sites are just better than others. This could translate to fastest pre-times of new releases; trackers with the most diversity and number of torrents; community-focused trackers; and even the rarity of an account weighs heavily on what is deemed "in demand". We scoured high and low on torrent forums everywhere to find out what trackers are in hot demand, and tallied up the results - #1 shouldn’t be much of a surprise.
To compile this data we visited torrent forums and counted (really!) each and every tracker request that was posted, including ones that were ‘filled’. Our stats went back as far as July, 2008. Sites that were used included:
| ThePirateSociety | P2PTalk.org | TrackeReactor | TorrentInvite |
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Fight Throttling: Auto-Restart uTorrent With Random Ports
December 13, 2008 by sharky
A few readers have contacted us in regards to being throttled (or more specifically; sandvined) by their ISPs. As described in these instances, seeding is fine initially but then trickles down to under 10 KB/s. One solution that works well is a simple restart of µTorrent (with a random port number), which seems to temporarily unblock the connections. That is, until the sandvine hardware figures out the established new port number, and seeding winds down to a crawl once again. However, we can’t always be sitting in front of the computer, constantly monitoring the status of µTorrent’s upload speeds - this just isn’t practical. A better solution involves automated stopping & restarting of uTorrent.exe on a pre-determined schedule, each time with a randomized port.
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FileShareFreak Tracker Watch - Dec. 12
December 12, 2008 by sharky
There’s just two more weeks until Christmas, and trackers are full of holiday spirit. Many of the major players have already kicked off the festivities with Christmas competitions, contests, treasure hunts and holiday-related fun. In this installment of "Tracker Watch" we also present a slew of brand-new sites (17 in all), plus some tracker tidbits and info.
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Firefox Scripts That Integrate Torrent Searching on IMDb
December 11, 2008 by sharky
There are two tools that the average movie pirate regularly uses in his/her arsenal - IMDb.com, and torrent sites. You know what we’re talking about: cross-referencing actors, directors and films with ease at the user-friendly Internet Movie Database, and then head on over to Mininova, IsoHunt or ThePirateBay to seek out the flicks. Well, here are a few Greasemonkey userscripts for Firefox that facilitate the process so much easier, by integrating torrent searching onto a displayed movie title page on IMDb. No longer do users need to switch between tabs, type in or copy/paste titles into the search bar at various public torrent indexers - simply click and go!
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Pre-Times: Release Blogs vs Private Trackers
December 10, 2008 by sharky
Release blogs are fiercely competitive; some excel in quantity, or perhaps a certain specialty - others pride themselves as being a cutting edge provider for the quickest releases. But when it comes to pre-times, how fast are they, anyways? Are some better than others? In a word - Yes. We took a look at popular release blogs and compare them with pre-times from some of the best private trackers. And the results are surprisingly good. For example, RlsLog.net averaged a pre-time of 34 minutes over the last 10 (major) movie releases, when compared to the announce times of three private trackers (SCC, TL and RevoTT). The drawback? Unlike a tracker, you’ll usually need to wait a little longer for an affiliate to post RapidShare or other 1-click hoster links in the comments, in order to actually download it.
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Release Blogs - Finding The Latest P2P & Scene Releases
December 08, 2008 by sharky
Scene Blogs. P2P Blogs. Call ‘em what you will. Frequenters of release blogs know a thing or two about finding the freshest releases. Sites such as ZeroSec, RlsLog & ScnSrc are dedicated to bringing you the latest info on new scene releases; all without the worries of having to seed or keep a good tracker ratio. And without question; these sites beat out public torrent indexers (pre-times) by hours, and even hold their own with some of the best private trackers. Below, we take a look at an assortment of release blogs, and delve into what makes them so popular.
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6 Things You Can Do To Test Your ISP for BitTorrent Throttling
December 04, 2008 by sharky
The cat-and-mouse game between ISPs and bandwidth-hogging P2P applications is almost as age-old at the Internet itself. If you’ve noticed deathly-slow torrent downloads as of late, it’s probable that your ISP is manipulating (throttling, rate limiting, blocking or sandvining) your P2P / BitTorrent traffic. ISPs from all corners of the globe are desperately trying to decongest their networks, cut costs & maximize profits — all at the expense of torrenters. Here’s 6 things you can do to verify that your Internet provider is a Bad ISP.
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TorrentZEN - A New Real-Time Torrent Search Engine
December 03, 2008 by sharky
Recently-launched TorrentZEN.com is a brand-new torrent meta search engine that provides live search results from 18 different public torrent indexers. Not only are the results fast, accurate and fresh from the source sites, (not from cached sources found in some other meta searchers) T-ZEN doesn’t search other meta search sites; just the top public indexers.
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Is Your BitTorrent Throttled? Try uTorrent 1.9
December 02, 2008 by sharky
As first reported by DSLReports, subscribers of Comcast, Cox, Bell Sympatico or other unpopular BitTorrent throttlers & sandviners may now have an alternative solution with µTorrent’s new alpha version 1.9. Peer-to-peer communications have traditionally used TCP, including BitTorrent trackers, whereby ISPs can quite easily "see" what type of traffic is being forwarded. While still in its infancy stages of development, µTorrent v1.9 (current build 13582) includes uTP, which is a variant of UDP (billed as UDP torrenting or micro transport protocol). uTP is an entirely different protocol (transport layer) than TCP that doesn’t require handshaking, and is thus much harder - if not impossible - to throttle.
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