November 22, 2010 by sharky
With Winter just around the corner, BitTorrent fans usually expect to witness a spike in activity regarding new tracker development - and this November Edition is no exception. Lots of new trackers to report about; including 2 amazing new scene trackers; 2 new HD/Blu-ray trackers to hit the scene; and even some niche sites worthy of mention.
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November 09, 2010 by sharky
After more than a full year of intense planning and continuous development, TorrentLeech v3 is finally ready to be unleashed. Get excited - this isn’t just some quick paint job thrown over an old engine; TL has been entirely gutted & reinvented into something to behold. Not since What.CD’s iconic Gazelle has any tracker undergone such favourable modifications to improve user functionality. Developed 100% from scratch, the new TL offers an impressive array of improvements over their previous aging sourcecode.
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November 08, 2010 by sharky
What if the BitTorrent community got together and pooled their information to catch invite traders, sellers and ratio cheaters? The concept itself isn’t a new one; in fact a system already exists between private trackers. It’s known that What.CD offers resources to tracker sysops & admins to catch & remove bad torrenters, available to those of the "Torrent Celebrity" userclass. That’s great for trackers, but bad BT behavior often begins well in advance of finding tracker invites. Unfortunately most Torrent Forum staffers are unable to access those tracker-to-tracker blacklists. Yet, as often is the case, bad members on torrent forums are the same as those found on trackers themselves - and are banned for exactly the same reasons. Is there a similar system set up that caters exclusively to torrent forum staff to share internal info amongst each other? Not until now.
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November 01, 2010 by sharky
This is Part II of the Most Popular Private Tracker Invite Requests of 2010. From the first 25, there are only 3 trackers that were not listed at least somewhere within the top 50. From the these last 25, almost half are brand-new entries for 2010. Since we publish this "Top 50" series quite late in the year, it gives newer trackers a fair chance to be listed. That is, if they aren’t open for registration most of the time. Having said that, here are a few interesting statistics from the entire 50:
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October 29, 2010 by sharky
Due to popular request, it’s that time of the year again when FSF takes a peek into the year’s most requested private tracker invitations. We uncovered some surprising statistics - FtN is no longer on top, plus we have 15 new entries to this 2010 edition (3 in Part One; 12 in Part Two).
FSF made a best effort here to provide data as accurate as humanly possible, with no bias towards one forum or another. We simply counted requests (and filled ones) as best as we could do. Forums included in the statistics are listed below.
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October 25, 2010 by sharky
There’s a history between private trackers and Halloween that goes back a long way. It’s that one special holiday when sites come out with unique themes, contests and special events. For some trackers, Halloween also represents an occasion of substantial growth - especially so for horror movie trackers such as The Horror Charnel. For THC, it usually signifies the time of year when they open their doors for registration, such as right now.
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October 23, 2010 by sharky
From all the innovative ways in which BitTorrent can be efficiently employed to distribute files (legally & otherwise), you’d think that by now someone would have come up with an effective solution to stream video torrents in a browser. The concept of torrent streaming is as age-old as the BitTorrent protocol itself, although it’s never been successfully developed to include public torrents on a grand scale. Until now.
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October 22, 2010 by sharky
After nearly two solid months of downtime, BitTorrent’s favorite (and only) pack tracker is finally back in action, jack! This time around though, PackMe.In (yep, same URL as before - and now open for signups) is running on a smooth new server using Gazelle’s codebase. Also known as The Donkey, PiN’s purpose is to serve up their own breed of unique torrent "packs". For those not in the know, packs are similarly-grouped torrents bundled together into one large torrent - this includes music discographies, movie box sets, TV series & seasons and everything else in between.
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October 20, 2010 by sharky
Thought we’d fill you in on a monumental newsflash - just in case you haven’t heard, SCC has just now granted free invites to all members (everyone should have received between 1 to 3 invites). The catch is this: they must be used up within 48 hours.
Update: October, 22nd 20:11:54 - 7 hours ago. Due to unforeseen downtime, the 48 hours has now been extended until October 24th ~14:00 GMT.
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October 17, 2010 by sharky
After dozens of emails asking us, "What happened to ThePirateSociety?" - we’ve just now received the official word from the proud new owner. Sorry folks, there’s not a lot of juicy gossip in this one, but what’s very clear is that TPS has indeed returned true to form - minus a few staff members. Since being offline for nearly two full weeks now, what exactly transpired between October 5th and October 16th? For starters - a new domain, new server, new (and old) staff. But what’s really important is the site, its contents, the user database - these have all been rescued from what would have been a total loss if it weren’t for quick action on the part of TPS’s new proprietor. FSF spoke with the new owner - bubbl3 - who shed some interesting light as to how & why these events unfolded. Plus we have the exclusive info regarding TPS’s official announcement.
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October 16, 2010 by sharky
In the competitive world of torrent forums to which the ‘net is grossly overburdened with these days, it almost seems foolish that any tracker discussion board would restrict the influx of new members. Many forums are indifferent to who signs up; others are wisely a touch more selective. Etiv.in is one such community that prides itself on quality over quantity, and they simply don’t offer much in the way of open registration. Never has, never will - simply put, Etiv has essentially remained a closed-community throughout the past ten months.
This story has a happy ending, though - it took yours truly a little bit of coaxing (and a 6-pack) to get Etiv to open the gates for the first time in more than a year. Rare it is that an opportunity should arise such as this, and just in time for Halloween - although it won’t last long. FSF managed to secure an exclusive offer: open registration to Etiv through a special signup link, available to the first 200 FSF readers:
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October 14, 2010 by sharky
We thought it be obligatory to pass along exclusive information: New BitTorrent is officially a ghost town. It’s painfully clear that private BitTorrent has hit its crescendo and is bottoming out - what’s scarier is new trackers can’t even find cool domain names to use these days. Despite the impending death of BitTorrent, a few new trackers still try to beat the odds. Here would be October’s answer to what’s new. Look if you dare.
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October 11, 2010 by sharky
Everything starts with an idea. While it’s clear that the original Mulve music downloading client isn’t coming back online anytime soon, that hasn’t stopped new developers from producing their own Mulve-based applications. Just a few days ago, Mulve’s own sourcecode was released to googlecode where it can still be found in subversion only - this got the ball rolling on what will probably be a long line of future Mulve clone successors. ThePirateApp and Mulve Phoenix are two new apps based similarly on Mulve’s code and principles.
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October 10, 2010 by Buddhas Son
The world of private BitTorrent trackers revolves around basic principles of trust, friendship, and sharing. To break into the world of private trackers, it all starts with one invite. One account made where you realize what it takes to seed a torrent to a 1:1 ratio, what a pre-time is, what an announce channel is, the works. What happens when you are ready for a new tracker, when you have sucked the current tracker bone dry? Well the answer is that now it is time to go scrounging for an invite. Hmm, how do I get an invite? Well a normal person would get their invite from a thread in their tracker’s forum, or they would ask a friend, or they would start working their way up in one of the million tracker invite forums, or they would try to jump into a recruitment irc and get in to a tracker that way.
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October 07, 2010 by sharky
Within the seedbox industry, the well-known drawback to 1Gbps lies within the limits of how much monthly bandwidth is allowable: you get great speeds but it’s generally not sustainable. Reading the fine print, capped throughput limits of 3TB to 5TB per month are considered the norm, and can be consumed rather quickly on this superior pipeline. As the overall cost of premium bandwidth continues to plummet - especially for those who purchase it in bulk - more and more providers are beginning to offer unmetered 1Gbit seedboxes.
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September 30, 2010 by sharky
After more than a month of intense development, BitTorrent’s hottest new movie tracker is ready for public launch. The Swarm, a new Gazelle-based multi-format film tracker, is actually still in a late beta phase but already incorporates some very impressive features. Dual-option parsing, combined with a unique autofill and literally thousands of pre-cached indexed movie pages are just a few of the ideas Swarm brings to the table. Check it out; this tracker has some serious potential.
2010|10|13 - EDIT: Signups are now closed.
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September 27, 2010 by Buddhas Son
Private trackers are seen widely across the bittorrent scene as a means to a "free" end. At its most basic level, we need to start with: "Why do you join a private tracker?" The answer is to get all kinds of free content shared by the members of the private tracker community which you have joined. Yet, are private trackers really free? What are the economics behind private trackers? What allows private trackers to maintain their speeds and permits them to rapidly upload content at such a blazing rate? All these questions might to the un-trained eye be answered simply by saying that private trackers are able to do what they do simply by their members all having the same goals when it comes to sharing. I disagree, and as you will see, there is an entire micro-economy within the torrent world.
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September 24, 2010 by sharky
What used to be a modestly difficult invitation to find, torrenters may have noticed that CHDBits invites have become increasingly prevalent on torrent-invite forums, as well as on tracker forums themselves - all due to CHDBits‘ new promotion. From now until October 7th, aspiring members have an exceptional opportunity to join one of BitTorrent’s best HD trackers. Aside from a very brief period of open registration more than a full year ago, never before has there been a better time to finally stake your claim to an account.
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September 20, 2010 by sharky
Music fans finally have something new to rejoice over; and that’s Mulve - a tiny standalone app that’s changing the way how music is downloaded. OK, don’t expect Mulve to replace What.CD anytime soon, but this revolutionary app is the answer to everything that’s wrong with conventional ‘peer-to-peer’ networks. With a searchable database in excess of 10 million songs, quite likely you’ll never use Limewire/Frostwire again - and with good reason.
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September 16, 2010 by sharky
With the 2010 US Football season fresh upon us, what could be better than a new football tracker? Pro NFL torrents aren’t exactly hard to locate and can be found on a variety of Sports trackers, if you know where to look. For those who are fanatic about the college circuit, well that’s a different story altogether - until recently. BigTenTracker.com is a brand-new football tracker with a focus on NCAA and the Big Ten Football conference.
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September 14, 2010 by sharky
Here’s our latest roundup of new trackers to hit the BitTorrent scene for September 2010. We present 24 new sites in all; including 10 new ‘general’ trackers, 5 new niche sites, and 5 international trackers. Plus, we re-review last month’s trackers to see where (or if) they’re still standing.
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September 11, 2010 by sharky
OK, we’ll take the bait. A source wishing to remain anonymous has informed FSF of ‘exclusive’ information about a new tracker. Not just any tracker, mind you. It’s a "P2P Tracker" launched by the popular group IMAGiNE which could also include other well-known P2P groups such as ViSiON, FLAWL3SS, KiNGDOM, PRiSM and Rx as well.
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September 07, 2010 by sharky
If there was ever a need for a niche tracker, this could just be it. Self-billed as a creativity tracker, Creative-Bits.org is a brand-new project based on Gazelle’s codebase that caters to all-things related to web design and programming, and a whole lot more. Being barely two months old, CB staff have agreed the time has come to go "live" and unveil itself to the torrent community. Interested? Here’s your chance to gain exclusive early access.
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September 07, 2010 by sharky
Just a quick shoutout to readers that TorrentLeech.org is open for registration for another 10,000 members. This comes after celebrating the addition of a new PS3 torrent section as mentioned 8 hours ago from TL’s Twitter page. All 10K were used up within the first 6 hours, so TorrentLeech has added an additional 10,000 more invites. Same signup code as before:
http://www.torrentleech.org/signup_inv.php
**Use this Invitation Code -> 38498037
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September 03, 2010 by sharky
Great news for scene freaks: SeX (SceneXpress) is currently and unconditionally open for registration for the next 5 days, starting immediately. That’s right: no interviews, no IRC recruitment, no scavenging for an invite. Officially out of beta for about two weeks now, SeX v1.0 brings about many new exciting changes to this scene tracker which we’ll cover in detail below. This time around we’re even permitted to include screenshots of the tracker in action.
• Signup link: http://scenexpress.net/opensignup.php
• SSL Signup: https://scenexpress.net/opensignup.php
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August 21, 2010 by sharky
12 New Seedbox Providers - but how many are deemed trustworthy? We don’t know. In our latest seedbox roundup we’ve uncovered at least a dozen that might just be worthy of your seedbox dollars; and even a few more that you’ll likely want to avoid. Already got a great seedbox? Then why even bother to look at this list. Bad humor aside, there are some notable new startups that may make you turn your head.
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August 15, 2010 by sharky
To continue on with the list of new trackers for August (part deux), here are a few others that made an entry. For the most part there’s no rhyme or reason to these; it’s a bit of a mixed bag of new sites that were simply not included in the last list. As promised we’ve included tracker updates from our July Edition; some have failed miserably while others have prospered. Enjoy the read!
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August 11, 2010 by sharky
Being that there are just too many new trackers to report about in this August 2010 Edition, we’ve been forced to break it down into two separate articles. Here we present 12 new sites; most of which are considered general and/or content-specific trackers. Ratings for these are more than fair, although we’ve yet to cover some of the newer niche sites that have recently launched. We’ll dig deeper into this in Part II, and we’ll include a bonus: realtime updated stats from trackers which were included in the previous July Edition.
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August 04, 2010 by sharky
Wondering where StC went? All signs suggest that SaveTheCoratee, a once semi-popular ratioless Mac tracker is dead and not coming back. StC now holds company with the defunct VortexNetwork which went offline earlier this year, leaving the BT world with just one true Mac tracker. Inside information suggests that the Mac OS torrent community is now relying on the true backbone of the scene, and that’s Brokenstones - or is there a new alternative? Perhaps there’s a spinoff tracker for StC refugees after all…
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August 01, 2010 by sharky
Community is everything. It took just two What.CD members to come forward and post their vision: a desire to create a new niche tracker. Supportive response was overwhelming to say the least; less than a week later a mere concept had spiraled into a full-blown reality and Deli.sh was born. BitTorrent’s first (and only) food tracker has launched with vigor - we’ve got the details on this exciting new site.
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July 26, 2010 by sharky
We’ve written plenty of posts on warez forums and release blogs here at FSF, but one aspect to direct download links we’ve neglected to touch deeper on is the ever-growing world of warez networks. Also simply known as "DDL-indexing" sites (think: Katz.cd), by their own right these are indeed full-fledged networks with complex inner workings. Well, perhaps not the majority of them. In this article we’ll do our best-effort to explain the internal nature of the warez network scene, the competitiveness within it, and which sites are the best - and why.
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July 21, 2010 by sharky
Big news from the filesharing subculture of torrent invite forums, Tracker-Invites.us has formed an alliance with TrackeReactor.com. Due to the competitive nature and internal rivalry between most torrent forums, rarely would an event such as this occur. This breathes some fresh life into TR - one of the Net’s longest-running torrent boards. FSF spoke to staff at TrackeReactor to get the inside scoop on the unfolding events.
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July 17, 2010 by sharky
If memory serves correct, it’s been ages since TorrentInvite.com publicly announced an open registration to acquire new members for an extended period of time. Quite possibly when it did occur last was through a special FSF promotional article way back in June 2009. For those who caught that old post, a lot has changed over at T.I. since then. We’re talking about some amazing unique upgrades & new enhancements which can’t be found on any other board - details which we’ll get to. FSF has been informed that aspiring members can currently join TorrentInvite directly, but it won’t last long.
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July 10, 2010 by sharky
Who says piracy doesn’t pay? Try telling that to professional uploaders on warez forums and release blogs who are now boycotting RapidShare en masse. In the aftermath of the TF article which earlier confirmed RS has terminated their entire Rewards program, it is no longer advantageous to upload files to RS. Realistically the decision will indeed have a negative impact on RapidShare’s own revenue take for new subscriptions, not to mention dissuade uploaders from using the service at all. A reader recently posted this on RlsLog.net:
"Let’s teach the greedy losers at Rapidshare an important lesson! No one use Rapidshare or post rapidshare links! Let’s give our hard earned money to any other downloader, even if same cost as rapidshare. They need to be forced out of business for their most recent despicable stunt!" - Source here.
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July 06, 2010 by sharky
These monthly editions of ‘new tracker’ articles take a considerable amount of effort to write, let alone research. Not that FSF has a problem with that. From a writing perspective it’s generally more enjoyable to expose new trackers that are movers & shakers; sites that are going places. Naturally not all months are the same - June 2010 is mostly a forgettable month. Having said that, we’re pleased to report a handful of new BT startups that are golden - and well, we slam the rest.
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July 03, 2010 by sharky
What was once a popular hotspot for scene info regarding pred scene releases, DDL-Blog races and an indexer of torrent races - the era of APNet has come to an end. Also known as anotherp2p-net on the IRC circuit, APNet’s owner has cited lack of time coupled with financial issues in relation to the server it’s hosted on - both are said to blame for APNet’s demise. RIP APN; listed below are some alternative public IRC (and web) preDBs that scene freaks should find useful.
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June 26, 2010 by sharky
BitLite is a brand new online multimedia storage service that comes with a twist: full BitTorrent support. Users are able to upload .torrent files locally or even from a remote torrent URL. And since the service works entirely on the server-side, download speeds are incredibly quick. Once completed, multimedia files (video, music & images) can then be streamed in a browser to provide flawless online playback. Listen to albums, create a playlist, view image libraries, and stream movies (even in 1080p HD) in full-screen mode just like as though if you were watching it on a home computer.
Being fresh out of the box and still in beta, BitLite is looking for 200 ‘live’ testers to help gauge how well capacity handles demand. For a short time FileShareFreak is offering a special free BitLite signup link available to the first two hundred lucky people:
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