The Swedish Invasion: The Return of the Nordic Trackers

June 29, 2009 by sharky

Don’t count the Swedes out just yet. While Antipiratbyrån’s late-April scare tactic forced more than just a handful of private sites to either close up shop entirely or legalize/remove torrents - Sweden has rebounded en masse, stronger than ever. TTi.nu regrouped and began to offer a regular staple of 0day torrents once again, others released their source code for future aspiring startups - proof that Sweden has officially made a triumphant return to the BT scene. And if trends can tell us anything, the number of new Swedish torrent sites can only suggest that it’s business as usual for Nordic private trackers.

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Featured Forum: PTInvites.com Open For Registration

June 28, 2009 by sharky

Looking for a fresh torrent forum serving up invites? PTInvites.com is a lesser-known private tracker invite forum that’s managed to keep a low profile. Starting up as early as last August, PTI began very privately but only this year has taken strides to increase the membership - which now stands at 738 - not bad for a torrent forum that no one’s even heard about. Registration is currently open.

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How to Create a Torrent Tracker with PHP & XBTT: Part 1

June 24, 2009 by Hangman

Our good friend Hangman over at Valadiléne.org is writing a series of tutorials beginning with Part 1 on How to Create a Torrent Tracker with PHP and XBTT, and wanted to share his knowledge with FSF readers. If there’s enough demand, the series will be expanded to include future coding goodies including ratio system, upload form with torrent validation, and search engine. We recommend all aspiring tracker developers to stay tuned into his blog; surely there’s more interesting tidbits to come. Hangman is also the brain behind the new tracker vgmTorrents.net, which is actually based on WordPress as a frontend…

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The New PianoSheets Tracker: A Musician’s Paradise

June 22, 2009 by sharky

If there’s one private tracker that musicians need to be a part of, it’s PianoSheets.org. Their invite system has virtually been nonexistent for what seems like forever, without offering the opportunity for aspiring new members to get in - but that’s all about to change with their official relaunch. Since recently switching over to Gazelle after months of painstaking beta testing, PS.org is now finally ready for the masses - here’s how to find an invite.

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CoExist Breaks the Curse of the No-Ratio Music Tracker

June 21, 2009 by sharky

There’s a tongue-in-cheek joke around the private tracker circuit that any music tracker trying to make it as a no-ratio site is doomed to failure. Certainly this holds true with last year’s disastrous iPWN fiasco, which nary a soul was surprised about. More recently, it was FaceTheMusic’s turn - while promising; it too, inexplicably dropped off the radar. Even CoExist hasn’t been exempt from the curse, and never seemed to make it out of beta. After a fresh new domain change - CoExist.biz v2 has launched a new era in music on BitTorrent - raising the bar for ratioless music trackers.

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The Essential Guide To Getting Into Private Trackers

June 18, 2009 by sharky

Whether you fancy obscure films, architectural software, XBOX games, iPhone apps, BluRays, HD documentaries, anime, 80’s cartoons, porn, textbooks, magic tricks or just about every audio recording ever made - there’s bound to be a private torrent tracker out there that carries it. With even a minimal amount of perseverance, just about anyone should be able to find a way into at least 95% of these private trackers - if you know how & where to look. Here’s a few tips devised to set you on the right path to tracker enlightenment.

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Etiv.in - New ‘Tracker Invite’ Site Open for Signups

June 16, 2009 by sharky

No one can deny the legacy left behind by P2PTalk on the private tracker invites circuit. P2PTalk spawned spinoff sites that include Digital Raider and the impossibly popular Pirate Society - to name just two. Now, ex-P2PTalk staff have reassembled and created a slick new BT forum at www.etiv.in (in.vite, get it?). Etiv is a forum completely concerned with invite giveaways, recruitment and tracker news & discussion.

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AnimeByt.es - A New Anime, J-Music Tracker

June 15, 2009 by sharky

After more than two months of intense work, AnimeByt.es has finally launched. AnimeByt.es is a community-oriented site that doubles as both an Anime tracker and a Japanese music tracker - all rolled together into one. Because Anime is mostly episodic, most trackers have a difficult time keeping content well-organized. That’s where Gazelle comes in, with its advanced tagging system and grouping features. Combine this with exceptional custom coding which serve to link both the anime & music torrents, and you’ll see why AB is an anime tracker unlike any other.

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TorrentInvite.com - Tracker Forum For Invites & Chat

June 12, 2009 by sharky

For more than two years now and still going strong, TorrentInvite.com has established itself as one of the leading tracker invite & discussion boards. Like many torrent boards, TI is considered semi-private (that is, registration is generally not open to the public). But for a limited time, Omega and the rest of the crew over at TI are running a FSF promo for aspiring new members.

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Private Tracker Account Theft On The Rise: The Danger of Shared Seedboxes

June 11, 2009 by sharky

Just about everyone starting out in the world of seedboxes usually begins on a shared seedbox. They’re much more affordable (when compared to a dedicated box), they come pre-configured with a BitTorrent GUI & client, and there’s usually no setup fee. Simply pay, login to the box, and start adding torrents. Recently, however; there’s been an increasing trend whereby users of shared seedboxes are having their private tracker accounts hijacked. We explain how & why this is happening - and what you can do to prevent it.

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InspireThe-Net (iTN) A New Ratio-Free Tracker

June 08, 2009 by sharky

After repeated requests for the full name of iTN, we decided it was time to do a proper tracker review. After contacting staff, iTN disclosed that they’re not trying to hide their URL or remain a ’secret’ tracker; thus gave us the go-ahead. InspireThe.Net is a new 0day/general tracker that just so happens to also be ratioless (that’s right, no ratio). But iTN also comes aptly armed with some very special features including a kick-ass bonus system; customizable default browse pages; auto-upload engine for fast pretimes; and a shoutbox that is binded with their IRC channel.

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Find 2009 R1, R5 Movie Release Dates at TorrentGeek

June 05, 2009 by sharky

Aside from browsing through the latest releases in the Movies/XviD category on your favorite 0day tracker, wouldn’t it be nice to know when you should be expecting that torrent for R5 of Terminator Salvation to appear on P2P? http://torrentgeek.net has assembled an updated listing of future R1, R5 and even theatrical release dates for 2009. Unsurprisingly, DVDRips often appear sooner than the scheduled R5’s.

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SceneSound - The New SoftMP3 Scene Music Tracker

June 02, 2009 by sharky

If you think the tracker logo below looks somewhat familiar, you just have to scroll down about 6 articles before realizing that it’s the same as SoftMP3’s old logo. Ever since SweDVDR and SoftMP3 decided to do their part for the BitTorrent hydra by offering their tracker sourcecode, at least two brand-new trackers have now emerged. SceneSound.org is based on SoftMP3’s code, and is shaping up to be one hell of a scene music tracker (signups are currently open).

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25 New Private Torrent Trackers: June 2009 Edition

June 01, 2009 by sharky

Two short years ago, we’d be lucky to find even two or three new private trackers opening each month. Flash ahead to 2009, and there’s a new tracker being launched just about every day. Here’s 25 (mostly great) new trackers to the scene.

http://refux.us

• — Category: Audio Software/Production
• — Signup URL: http://refux.us/register.php

Refux.us is a brand-new Gazelle tracker for audio production software such as Cubase, VST’s, VSTi’s and all kinds of SampleCDs. Feel free to make a request - they have access to tons of archived stuff. Membership closes at 5,000.

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