PirateFTP Selling Leech Slots For Scene Releases

May 30, 2009 by sharky

Under normal circumstances we wouldn’t advocate for P2L (pay2leech) sites; everything you’ll ever need to download is freely available on torrent trackers. But if you have a little extra money to burn, or aren’t able to use the BitTorrent protocol - PirateFTP can be your alternative to getting the freshest 0sec scene releases. PirateFTP is a scene FTP dumpsite (think: "topsite") that sells unlimited access leech slots for about the same cost as a moderate seedbox. All without having to worry about seeding and ratio.

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Comic Releech - Putting Fun Back Into BitTorrent

May 25, 2009 by sharky

In an Internet already oversaturated with 0day/general trackers that have no character and dead forums, more and more niche trackers with specialized content are breathing some fresh life into BitTorrent. After being in beta mode for months, the time has come to unveil Comic-Relee.ch - a fresh new tracker with a penchant for all-things comedic. Comic-Releech, or CoR, aims to be as much community-driven as it is unique. Find an invite, download some funny stuff and have fun! - today is the grand opening. Welcome to CoR, the land of laughs and fun!

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Tracker-Invites.us - Invite Forum Open For Signups

May 24, 2009 by sharky

Tracker-Invites.us is a lesser-known torrent invite forum that is rarely (if ever) open for public registration. With nearly 2,000 members and growing, T-I is a strong community with a focus on private tracker invites & related discussion. Doors are open for the next 24 hours. http://tracker-invites.us/register.php.

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SoftMP3 & SweDVDR Trackers Release ‘Source Code’

May 23, 2009 by sharky

In the wake of ThePirateBay trial and subsequent aftermath related to the risks of hosting a BitTorrent tracker in Sweden (or, even being a denizen and hosting it elsewhere), most major Nordic private trackers have now all but complied with AntiPiratByran. However, two such trackers are having the last laugh - SweDVDR and SoftMP3 have willfully made their tracker source code available for anyone who wishes to set up their own tracker. Just don’t do it in Sweden.

Ironically, the source code for both trackers is publicly available on BitTorrent.

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Awesome-HD: The Latest Gazelle Tracker

May 23, 2009 by sharky

EuReKA, a once-popular internal encoder for Bit-HDTV, has now migrated Awesome-HD over to become the first HD-only Gazelle tracker - and it looks better than ever! If you were a former member of the old Awesome-HD, you’ll want to check your email account for an invite, as it expires after just 3 days. Existing tracker members were invited to the new digs (about 6,000 original former members were notified via email), and all will receive 50 GB upload credit and 3 invites to compensate for lost ratio on old accounts.

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11 New Seedbox Providers to Speed Up Your Torrents

May 19, 2009 by sharky

More than ever before, seedbox usage is quickly becoming less of a luxury - and more of a necessity. Whether you’re simply looking to download torrents in your college dorm, or looking to amass giant buffers on your private tracker accounts, a seedbox can accomplish this - and a whole lot more. Here are 11 new seedbox providers; including a ‘free 24 hour trial’ seedbox, as well as a super speedy 2000 Mbit dedicated box for £75/mo.

UPDATE: 09/09/09. Seedbox providers that no longer exist have now been removed from this post. Stats and info regarding others have now been updated.

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Vibes.fm - A New (Small) Jazz Community Tracker

May 12, 2009 by sharky

The freshest torrent tracker on the block is Vibes.fm - a new music tracker devoted to Jazz releases only. First & foremost, Vibes is self-billed as a community tracker for Jazz enthusiasts looking to share & discuss the Jazz music scene. Vibes is a tight-knit group, and intends to stay small - open signups will be closing at 500 members (with another 500 allowable members through invites & recruitment).

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ThePirateSociety is Back Online, And Open For Signups

May 11, 2009 by sharky

Back on April 28th, ThePirateSociety teamed up with FSF to offer open registration - in which more than 1,200 new members joined the site. As bad luck would have it, at the same time TPS ran into an issue with their hosting provider ServerBeach who deemed the popular torrent forum to be against their ToS. Heaven forbid a site be allowed to discuss piracy & torrents (but not actually link to them). After nearly a week of downtime; indeed TPS now had some major scrambling to do in order to find another host for the site - and in the meanwhile all new members who registered during the promotion have been wiped out. (We’ve got the whole story.)

In any event, TPS is now again open for registration to those who previously signed up, as well as anyone else looking to get in on the torrent discussion action:

• http://www.thepiratesociety.org/register.php

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Bibliotik - A New Library Tracker For Comics, eBooks, Magazines & Scholarly Content

May 11, 2009 by sharky

"Bibliotik is a tracker for ebooks, comics, audiobooks, magazines and scholarly articles and journals - think library. As you’ll soon notice, we stand apart from other torrent sites in this way: We’re an online Library." The premise behind the idea for a Library Tracker was not new to the creators of Bibliotik.org, who’ve been working on the project for several months. After being in beta mode for several weeks, Bibliotik is now ready to open it’s doors to the waiting masses.

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InviteNation Returns to the Torrent Invites BT Scene

May 09, 2009 by sharky

Yearning for a new torrent community to find invites & private tracker chat? After a somewhat lengthy downtime Invite Nation has returned as version 2.0 - and looks better than ever. Invite-Nation first began back in March 2007 but ran into some funding and database problems earlier this year. The site & forum went through a complete overhaul recently (and a new domain) and current members mostly consist of mods, admins and VIPs from the old site - and has finally decided to go semi-public.

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Test Your ISP for Traffic Shaping with ShaperProbe

May 07, 2009 by sharky

There are good ISPs and then there are bad ISPs. A good ISP will allow you to virtually max out your Internet connection speed for any online activity including P2P/BitTorrent transfers. It’s no secret that bad ISPs - such as Bell Canada & its wholesale partners, are known to limit transfer rates to as little as 30 KB/s from 4PM - 2AM, essentially crippling many Internet apps for up to 10 hours each day. You pay top dollars to your provider for Internet access, yet can’t even use it to 10% capacity during the time when you need it the most - when you’re actually sitting in front of the PC. These practices are commonly considered to be net neutrality violations by ISPs.

The solution? Switch providers. But how do you know for certain that your ISP is meddling with your torrent transfers? Aside from the obvious clue that download speeds come to a crashing halt during peak-times, or seeding is all but impossible - there’s a clever new way to test your ISP for throttling & rate-limiting with the DiffProbe ShaperProbe utility.

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30 New Trackers to the BitTorrent Scene - May 2009

May 06, 2009 by sharky

What the Internet doesn’t need is another mundane general tracker with the same drab torrents that can be found everywhere else. If there’s one trend that we’re seeing is that private trackers are moving towards filling niche markets to capture a unique userbase. We present a list of 30+ new trackers (many of which are niche) including new HD, Anime, DemoScene, Audiobook & Music sites.

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Are You a Pirate? Take This BitTorrent Survey

May 03, 2009 by sharky

ShareA.org is conducting an impartial independent research survey of filesharing communities (torrent trackers in particular). The purpose of the project is to gather data pertaining to torrent usage, demographics, sociological information and other trends of BitTorrent users; in relation to both public & private trackers. You can find the survey at http://en.sharea.org (there’s no advertising, it’s private & anonymous, and not connected to any organization) and at just 20 questions - very easy to complete.

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SwePred - The Next Big Swedish Tracker?

May 02, 2009 by sharky

With over 20 (and counting) Nordic trackers that have either willfully gone offline or removed all of their torrents, it comes as a complete surprise as to why any new torrent tracker would want to be connected with Sweden. It would appear that brand-new SwePred.org aims to be such a tracker, but it isn’t without controversy. The revolution has begun - or is this just another beginning for a tracker already doomed for the same demise as its predecessors - evidently only time will tell.

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