Pirate Creates Music: Razor1911’s “dubmood” Kickin’ It Chipstyle

January 31, 2009 by sharky

Fellow Gamers, unless you were raised by wolves and live in a cave, you probably know about Razor1911: the never-say-die oldschool release group with roots all the way back to 1985. Convalesced and still going strong, likely you’ve seen some of RZR’s recent exclusive PC releases: "Grand Theft Auto IV", "The Lord Of The Rings Conquest" and "Far Cry 2" - to name a few. One Razor1911 member "dubmood" who’s been an orchestrator of many cracktros in RZR’s demodivision since 1999 - has also been busy in the real-world music scene. If you haven’t heard dubmood’s stuff then you’re in for quite the listen, including "The Mighty Pirate Sessions Volume 1".

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1,000 New Spotify Invites Handed Out Daily At Lakka.se

January 29, 2009 by sharky

Looking for a quick invite to Spotify? A Swedish website up at Lakka.se has been freely handing out Spotify invites at a torrid pace for the last two weeks. We’ve been keeping a keen eye on this site for the past few days, and it would appear that Lakka somehow obtains approximately 1,000 new Spotify invites each day - and then doles them out unconditionally via email. So what’s the catch? Nothing whatsoever - you just need a valid email address. But you need to act fast (or come back the next day), since all offered invites get snapped up rather quickly.

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10 Really Great Sites For Free Magazine Scans

January 28, 2009 by sharky

A common request among torrenters is for a private tracker that caters to magazine scans and torrents. While the idea would likely be a raving success, to the best of our knowledge, nary a one exists. Even the top eLearning trackers carry just a tiny iota of magazine-related content (BitMe.org carries a paltry 176 mag-related torrents) and even mega-tracker Demonoid with just 658 doesn’t fair much better. Until someone comes out with a magazine-only tracker, mag freaks will have to settle for some of these great sites.

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Pre Database, Scene Release and Dupecheck Websites

January 26, 2009 by sharky

Unless you have hundreds of accounts at various private trackers, you’re most likely missing out on the majority of what is being released (leaked) from the scene. Even so, it’s been estimated that 90% of scene releases don’t make it to BitTorrent at any level; whereas IRC, Usenet and even eD2k offer much more variety for those who seek out hard-to-find scene stuff. If you’re looking for something specific, dupecheck and preDB websites contain a wealth of information for the latest 0day and 0sec releases.

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TopBT on Vuze - A Topology-Aware BitTorrent Client

January 23, 2009 by sharky

In an article published back in October, we reported about a new technology for BitTorrent called TopBT. TopBT was originally built on LH-ABC, an open-source BitTorrent client - but it has been vastly improved into a new version of Vuze. Unlike most currently existing popular BitTorrent clients such as Vuze, BitTorrent™, and µTorrent, the unique feature of TopBT is, it actively discovers its network proximity to its connected peers. It does so through actively sending packets to those peers, and inspecting their responses. Besides the topology-awareness, TopBT also considers network transmission rates to its peers, so that it can download fast. Not only that, but TopBT also saves unnecessary BitTorrent traffic that clogs up the Internet, which is great for those who are bandwidth-capped by their ISP. But is TopBT faster than µTorrent? In our tests: Yes.

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uRemote - A Browserless Remote GUI for uTorrent

January 22, 2009 by sharky

µRemote is a program that you can use to remote control your µTorrent installation on another computer. This can be µTorrent on a home computer from work or school, another computer in your network, or even a seedbox. While there already exists a native WebUI for µTorrent (and you’ll need to install it for µRemote to work) but unlike WebUI, µRemote doesn’t require an Internet browser, and can even be run on a USB pen drive - so it’s lightweight, versatile and resource-friendly.

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LimeWire 5 - Is It Any Good, Or Just More P2P Junk?

January 20, 2009 by sharky

Tech-savvy torrenters snicker at anyone who continues to use LimeWire and similar-style P2P applications. Ever tried to convert your LimeWire-Luvin’ friend into joining the world of torrents? Not an easy task in most situations - you either get it, or you don’t. Having said that, for P2P’ers who can’t wrap their head around seeds, peers, swarms, ratios, H&Rs and other torrent-techie jargon, making the switch from version 4.18 to the all-new & drastically improved LimeWire 5 offers some substantial benefits over its predecessors. Take for instance, automatic file & folder sharing - this is disabled by default, so you won’t end up like Jammie Thomas.

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The Wait Is Over - TehConnection v2 Gazelle Is Here

January 19, 2009 by sharky

Good things come to those who wait. TehConnection’s coders & staffers certainly took their sweet time getting everything just right, and now TC has been officially reborn using a highly-customized (and sophisticated) version of What.cd’s Gazelle codebase. Aesthetically pleasing as it is user-friendly, forget what you used to know about the old TC - version 2.0 will rock your movie world!

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Complete List Of Torrent Seedbox Services - Part II

January 19, 2009 by sharky

A continuation from the last article, here are 20 additional seedbox providers. We personally tested many of these seedbox providers, and give our personal opinion where applicable - much of which can be found here. Configurations and services vary greatly, due to the fact that most seedbox hosts offer shared systems & resources. However; some offer dedicated seedboxes, whereby you’ll be the only one using the server.

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Complete List Of Torrent Seedbox Services - Part I

January 19, 2009 by sharky

This is likely the most comprehensive assembly of torrent-ready seedbox companies and services you will find on the interwebs. Whether you’re looking for a ready-to-go dedicated or shared seedbox with TorrentFlux, uTorrent WebUI, or even rtorrent - you’ll find a solution here. There are pros and cons to what each provider offers, in which we try to address - many packages come with unlimited torrents, although the tradeoff is a monthly bandwidth usage cap. Others have limits on the number of active torrents, but the bandwidth throughput is uncapped/unmetered.

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Auto-UnRAR Your Torrents in uTorrent The Easy Way

January 17, 2009 by sharky

Scene-release torrents getting you down? Looking for a simple solution to tackle all those troublesome archived RAR files in µTorrent? AutoExtractor takes all of the hard work out of having to manually unpack multiple RAR files. Finished torrents are automatically extracted - by default to the same path - and the original RAR files are left intact, so that the torrent happily continues to seed as though nothing happened. What could be more clever?

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The ‘Private Tracker Metasearch’ Becomes A Reality

January 16, 2009 by sharky

Public torrent metasearch sites are almost as popular as torrent indexers themselves - why search just Mininova when you can search MN, TPB, IsoHunt and others - all at the same time. It makes good sense, although this idea has never been all that successful when transferred over to private trackers, to say the least. We’ve all been dreaming for a way to simultaneously search our private accounts without the hassle of having to launch each tracker in a new browser tab, and then have to search them one-by-one. Let us present the Web’s first publicly accessible private tracker metasearch site.

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10 Really Cheap Seedboxes That Anyone Can Afford

January 15, 2009 by sharky

With the spiraling popularity of private trackers, dedicated servers from OVH, LeaseWeb and other providers are being snapped up at breakneck speed. As you’re probably aware, many of these buyers split up the box into multiple accounts, and throw on a torrent client such as TFlux, uTorrent WebUI or even wTorrent - effectively becoming ‘resellers’ of the original dedibox. Competition for your dollars has never been higher, which is why seedbox sales & services have popped up around just about every corner of the interwebs. The old adage YGWYPF still applies, but there are some sweet seedbox deals if you know how (and where) to look. Here’s 10 inexpensive seedboxes that just about anyone can afford, starting at under $10 a month.

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TorrentInvite Debuts Sister P2P Site At FileHoard.com

January 14, 2009 by sharky

Earlier this week, TorrentInvite.com officially launched a brand-new P2P and BitTorrent discussion board at http://FileHoard.com. FH is a place to talk about File Sharing, BitTorrent, Computers & Technology, and Entertainment. Additionally, T.I. is running a contest on FH, in which members can ‘win’ torrent invites of their choice.

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NeonScene.net - The Newest Torrent Invites Forum

January 13, 2009 by sharky

Another exciting new torrent invites forum that recently opened their doors is NeonScene.net. NeonScene is designed a little differently, and is divided into three distinct forum segments. There’s the Main Forum for announcements, general discussion and news; then there’s the Torrent Invites section for tracker recruitment, torrent news, requests & giveaways; and lastly there’s the Off-Topic Chat area for tutorials, release discussions (movies, TV, etc) and everything else. NeonScene has already amassed almost 500 members since their official launch in December, and there’s been more than 160 giveaway threads.

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FunFile Fail; Spinoff Sites That Are Good For BitTorrent

January 12, 2009 by sharky

We could only speculate on the future for FunFile.org, albeit it would appear somewhat dim. Absentee ownership; the last-minute cancellation of the highly-anticipated CDN, squandered funds, and the recent mutiny (and not-so-recent) of members & staff departures alike, have at the very least, spurned some incredible new private trackers - overall, this is good news for the BitTorrent community.

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FileShareFreak Tracker Watch - January 09/09

January 09, 2009 by sharky

The holiday season is all wrapped up for another year, and it’s business as usual for private trackers. In this edition, TorrentLeech celebrates their 4th birthday; Funfile cancels their CDN plans; TehConnection, Torrent-Damage & FreeTheScene migrate to Gazelle; RevoTT adds 27K new members - plus, we have 18 new trackers for your torrenting pleasure!

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1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Torrent Edition

January 08, 2009 by sharky

Trendsetting PassThePopcorn is a movie tracker that’s doing things a little differently. Aside from having amassed an impressive 3,300 3,400 torrents running coolly on Gazelle, PTP is attempting to complete a collection based on Steven Jay Schneider’s popular book "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die". Staff and members alike are on a mission to fulfill the thousand-plus movie torrents that make up this remarkable collage, which has turned into quite the obsession around PTP.

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How To Switch What.CD Theme To Look Like OiNK.CD

January 05, 2009 by sharky

Ever wanted to take a stroll down memory lane and revisit the beloved music tracker OiNK.cd? We can’t exactly do that, but if you have an account at What.cd you can do the second-best thing — and that’s customize What.cd with a few tweaks to get it (mostly) displaying torrents just like how the old OiNK did. Just follow these three easy steps, and you’ll be OiNKing in no time!

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Coda.FM - A Fresh New Torrent Site For Music Albums

January 04, 2009 by sharky

One thing that’s always been missing from the torrent world is a public tracker that focuses strictly on music, and nothing else. Welcome to Coda.fm, the world’s first public music-only torrent indexer! While there’s plenty of music to be found on Mininova & The Pirate Bay, Coda.fm offers a refreshing approach to how music torrents should be displayed; there’s music genre categories, album art, metadata, track listings, album reviews and even artist information. While Coda.fm won’t replace your What.cd or Waffles account, we can assure this will become a hit among public torrenters.

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TCP-Z - The Best TCP/IP Patcher for All Windows OSes

January 04, 2009 by sharky

If µTorrent is bogging down your high-speed Internet connection - whereby web browsing becomes extremely slow or either stops altogether - symptoms point towards an unpatched TCP/IP half-open limit. Most patchers directly modify the TCPIP.SYS file, which usually results in undesirable MS security issues and/or false positives from antivirus software. TCP-Z is different, as it alters the TCP/IP limit in memory, for a safe & fast solution under any Windows OS environment (including x64 Vista and the new Windows 7). Release the power of your network; download faster, and run more Internet tasks simultaneously - all without the side-effects of other patchers.

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Oscar-Season Movies You Shouldn’t Have Access To

January 03, 2009 by sharky

Tirelessly, the MPAA continues to target torrenters who are sharing their films. Realistically, we can’t blame them for wanting to protect the digital rights of their precious copyrighted content. But the bigger issue stems from the direct "leaks" from Academy members, some of whom are more than happy to provide release groups with inside movies that just shouldn’t exist (yet) at the P2P level. There are more DVDSCRs than ever before; and Russian R5s, CAMs & Telesyncs have taken a backseat to high quality, Academy "only" DVD and VHS screeners that are being released (leaked) well before scheduled theatrical dates. Below is a list of films that are available on P2P; most of which can’t be found in theatres.

Defiance

• Theatical Release Date: January 16, 2009
• P2P Leak Date: December 31, 2008 (torrent)
• P2P Release Name: Defiance DVDSCR XviD-ORC
• P2P / Rapidshare: [RlsLog] [ScnSrc] [SceneReleases]
• IMDb Link: www.imdb.com/title/tt1034303/

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New Torrent Community ‘Because Change Happens’

January 02, 2009 by sharky

Looking for a fresh new torrent forum? Look no further than Because Change Happens.

Some of the biggest names in BitTorrent chat and tracker invite giveaways have banded together at BCH - a new tracker (and scene release) discussion board & community. Registration has currently been opened to the public; except this to change soon.

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RevolutionTT Open For Signups

January 02, 2009 by sharky

Looking to get into one of the better 0day trackers? RevolutionTT.net has reopened their Good Will Weekend / Happy New Year promotion. Doors are wide open from Jan. 1st to Jan. 4th (pending they reach their maximum account limit) so now’s the chance for everyone to get into a great tracker! Get in soon, since there’s already been 15,000 new members added.

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