25 New Private Trackers: October 2010 Edition

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.

General Trackers…

http://deamonbytes.net

DeamonBytes.net is the resurrection of the now defunct PeerPortal tracker. Never heard of PP, or weren’t a former member? You’re not alone, and it doesn’t really matter anyways. DeamonBytes is entirely its own entity and strikes no resemblance to the aged dinosaur that PP was. Online since 2010-09-19, DB indexes 1,721 torrents and has 9,807 members (which includes the userdb carried forward from PP).

Our prediction — DeamonBytes is an improvement to PeerPortal; more daily torrents are coming in, and simply browsing the site is much quicker than its predecessor. All it needs is a forum set up and some spiffy browse icons and we have a winner!

http://dragon-torrents.com

Online for nearly two weeks now (launched 2010-10-02 to be precise), Dragon-Torrents already indexes 467 total torrents (with 524 seeders) and 74 members. Although considered to be an all-purpose trackers, movies have undoubtedly taken over the motif.

Our prediction — Much too early to predict, but there is certainly a plethora of torrent activity & new uploads to be found. Movie boxsets (multi-packs, trilogies, series) shouldn’t be overlooked and make up for a whopping 177 torrents onsite. Great start, Dragon-Torrents - this is exactly the kind of motivation that all new trackers should attempt to follow.

http://moviesmania.info

In spite of the chosen domain name, MoviesMania isn’t exclusively a movie tracker. About 50% of all torrents do pertain to movies (prereleases, DVDRs, DVDRips, HD) which number at 382 torrents within the movie categories. TV releases make up another 25-30% of torrents listed.

Our prediction — We’re somewhat surprised that MoviesMania hasn’t become more popular than they are; here’s a truly underrated tracker. The majority of popular new movie titles can be found here; as well as mainstream TV 0day releases. Online since August 30th, MM indexes 776 active torrents (90% are hosted on a seedbox) and everything is freeleech for the next 7 days.

http://bitxtre.me

Opened to the masses on September 2nd, 2010 - BitXtreme is a new ‘general’ tracker with 2,168 members and 1,215 torrents (and 2,905 total seeders). During the past four days (96 hours), more than 480 new torrents have been added to the tracker - here’s a site that definitely has an uploader who possesses sceneaxx. Other devoted uploaders help round out the content with packs, games and new music.

Our prediction — BitXtre.me is off to a flying start; almost everything new is seedbox-hosted, new signups receive a generous amount of upload credit to start out with, and most torrents are non-spam scene releases (XviD/x264 movies & TV releases, mainly).

http://www.torrentcube.org

  • — Category: General     Codebase: TBDev
  • — Signup Link: You’ll find it.

Sharp-looking TorrentCube.org launched on 2010-09-19 and already indexes 384 torrents and 105 members. Almost everything listed is ’scene’ or ‘P2P’ content without the dreaded overload of scene-spam torrents. Everything is freeleech until future notice, all new signups receive 5GB upload credit. Onsite fun including a casino, blackjack and games room are just a few of the cool features.

Our prediction — Off to a pretty good start, TorrentCube is displaying signs of having some sceneaxx; not to mention a direct connection with the P2P group FLAWL3SS. Movies/XviD makes up a good chunk of the torrents (112 in all). All torrents are seedbox hosted, (even 1-seeds) ensuring great speeds for all.

http://torrentdemon.net

Online for about a full month now, TorrentDemon lists 195 active torrents and 116 registered members. While the selection is a tad slim, everything seems to be seedbox-hosted.

Our prediction — Not much to say. TorrentDemon relies on about 5 different uploaders who supply nearly 100% of all torrents. Content is diverse (there’s small apps, XXX, DVDRips, XviD and TV releases) but no real rhyme or reason to the uploads.

http://www.seedfile.org

  • — Category: General (RO/EN)    Codebase: TBDev
  • — Signup link: You’ll find it.

SeedFile is a new Romanian/English tracker that indexes a little bit of everything from wallpapers & tiny apps up to DVDRs. Total registered members tally in at 1,569. Torrent count ‘on the browse’ is listed at 591 with a total of 861 seeders.

Our prediction — FSF receives a fair amount of insider tips from owners & staff at trackers (and we appreciate it), with the idea that we’ll review them in an upcoming ‘new trackers’ article. In a way, it sucks to be the bearer of bad news: SeedFile undoubtedly faces an uphill battle to become successful - there are already more than enough RO trackers in torrentland.

http://ultimate-scene.net

Despite having a fair amount of activity in their shoutbox and forums, Ultimate-Scene wins this month’s award for most underachieving tracker. Online since early September, here’s a site that’s managed to upload a whopping 21 unspectacular torrents in 6 weeks.

Our prediction — Protip: Instead of running a banner competition, why not run a torrent upload competition instead?! Or perhaps Ultimate-Scene is not really intended to be a torrent site at all; but rather, more of a meeting place for chat/discussion. If this is the case, FSF apologizes for adding you to this article. Now apologize to xam for forking over your $150 to set you up as a "tracker".

http://sceneunderground.org

One must wonder with amazement how a new tracker such as SceneUnderground can attract 457 members and manage to upload a respectable 800 torrents in their first six weeks of operation, but still have an Alexa rank of 13 million. Stats don’t lie: simply put, their members aren’t repeat visitors.

Our prediction — Here’s how it works: 1.) Post your new tracker on public forums & provide almost no information whatsoever. 2.) Attract random new members through open signups. 3.) Members look around, make a decision. 4.) Members don’t come back. Synopsis: A properly chosen tracker sourcecode can make all the difference between what could be successful, and what will assuredly not be.

Niche Trackers…

https://losslessworld.info

  • — Category: Music (Lossless)     Codebase: TBDev (NexusPHP)
  • — Signup: not open for public registration; look around for recruitment

A handful of new lossless music tracker projects have embarked in recent memory, yet none have really ‘taken’. Not so with Lossless World - this one just screams success. Online for about 6 weeks now, LW already lists an impressive 1,025 active torrents from just 355 members. ‘Members’ doesn’t fit the bill; they are experienced rippers and contributors of high-quality lossless music (perfect FLAC ripped with EAC/XLD - and APE). Unlike other music trackers, not everyone is permitted to upload torrents from the get-go: there’s an uploader appform that needs to be sent in & approved first. "The goal is to provide the absolutely high quality stuff. Therefore, only specially authorised users have permission to upload torrents." LW also possesses a growing list of encoder groups who cover different musical genres and tastes.

Our prediction — One could dismiss a new lossless tracker to be comprised of members who are simply uploading torrents already found on What, Waffles, or even Pedro’s & E. This couldn’t be further from the truth (we cross-checked W&W to see if we could find matching torrents; in our search we came up mostly empty-handed). Thus, we conclude that LosslessWorld is indeed ripping from their own sources (ie - unique rips, unique music). An active userbase, busy forums & IRC, https tracker & site, and a ton of freeleech - hard to find all that in such a young community. Bravo! Lossless fanatics, take my advice and find an invite - you won’t be disappointed.

http://hdbits.cn

Really, does the BT world need another Asian HD tracker? Sure, why not - if it can find a niche. The jury is out whether HDBits.cn has what it takes to play with the big boys - in their first 5 weeks, stats suggest a lowly 182 active torrents (701 total, 519 dead) with 7,500 members. This should tell you something: only seven (7) new torrents have been added over the past 8 days.

Our prediction — New HD Asian sites face an uphill battle unless they can secure at least one reliable, dedicated encoder team. HDChina, CHDBits, even HDBits.org - they all share (borrow) each other’s internals - but they also possess their own HQ teams. Only time will tell if HDBits.cn can rise out of their current mediocrity.

http://www.tinboxtorrent.com

TinBoxTorrent is a brand-new movie tracker that launched on 2010-09-19 and boasts 731 registered members with 493 active torrents on the ‘browse’. Just about any movie format/type is allowable (including adult, HD, even some TV releases are now listed) but their main specialty is for BRRips and BDRips (with 130 total torrents indexed in these categories).

Our prediction — Successful movie trackers consist typically of two key ingredients: community & content. So far, TinBoxTorrent is showing decent signs of both; lots of new uploads (including movie packs), semi-busy forums, and a fair amount of activity on the torrents.

http://bluebird-hd.org

BlueBird-HD is a new Russian Blu-ray tracker that caters almost exclusively to full Blu-ray discs (with a few encodes & remuxes, too). No surprise here: nearly all of the Blu-rays are distinctively of the Russian variety (popular Hollywood titles, but the retail Russian versions with RU/EN menus). Because the sources are Russian, the primary audio tracks (DTS-HD 7.1/5.1, Dolby) are English & Russian. In some cases, alternative language audio tracks are available - but not always. Subtitles & dubbed tracks may or may not contain only RU/EN options. See the mediainfo example below:

Our prediction — Pretty cool BD tracker, but not for everyone. With 200 well-seeded torrents, BlueBird-HD offers a fair selection of film titles to choose from (mostly new & older mainstream content). It’s worth noting that non-RU/EN torrenters should probably avoid this one due to limited multi-language options in the releases.

http://scenevids.info

BitTorrent’s latest answer to music videos is SceneVids, a new tracker that offers the latest scene music video releases, as well as non-scene. Content is pouring in fast; in their short 1-month existence SceneVids has managed to upload more than 800 torrents (all of which are freeleech).

Our prediction — A simple yet elegant design combined with versatile browse & sorting features, fans of music videos shouldn’t pass up the opportunity to join ScV. Content is diverse to say the least, and as of Oct. 12th all members are now permitted to upload their own torrents. Members can even create custom RSS feeds from any type/genre of video categories.

Localized Trackers…

Hungarian Trackers…

http://bitgateuniverse.org

Since Hungarian’s premier TV tracker hotspot BitGate’s owner purposely took the site offline in mid-July due to his own discretion, two new trackers have emerged from its shadow. BitGateUniverse is considered to be the unofficial spinoff, yet is a very decent TV tracker in it’s own right. The layout is somewhat similar to BTN; in that there are icon categories for individual TV shows, TV ‘news’, a schedule and ‘countdown’ to future upcoming episodes.

Our prediction — BitGateUniverse (BGU) launched publicly at the beginning of August and has a userlist of 3,544 members and 766 torrents. The majority of TV shows are English (Angol) with some Hungarian (Magyar) releases, to a lesser extent. Scene releases are common (LOL, FQM, 2HD) and are unarchived on the tracker.

http://tvstore.me

  • — Category: TV (Hungary/EN)     Codebase: TBDev
  • — Signup Link: Not open to the public, at last check.

Few torrenters outside of Hungary truly realize the magnitude & continued momentum of BitGate’s devoted community. Online for more than 5 years, BitGate wasn’t about to throw it all away for naught; and instead of waiting for a possible impending forced shutdown they named a successor TVStore.me. TVStore.me inherited the former site’s database of users & torrents, as well as the sourcecode and is very much the official BitGate spinoff. Current Stats:

  • Total No. of users 10433
  • Members: 5,888
  • Storekeepers (highest ind. rank): 771
  • Uploaded torrents: 9,331
  • Active torrents: 5,378
  • Connections: 32,283
  • Seeders: 35,002
  • Leechers: 2,281
  • Seeder/leecher ratio (%) 1535 %
  • Download speed: 54.83 MB/s

Our prediction — Lots to offer for Hungarian users and beyond. TVStore has retained BitGate’s key features (and even added a few new tricks), including the ability to switch the torrent browse to display either Hungarian or English releases. Existing BitGate members are able to login with their old user/pass login details - however at this time, registration is not open directly.

http://ztracker.biz

We don’t have a lot of detailed information about the origins of Ztracker.biz, a "newer" Hungarian tracker whose domain was registered on 2010-05-21. We do know this: it wasn’t until about August 1st of this year that Ztracker really began to garner some intense activity. Having said that, Ztracker obviously managed to import an old database from another tracker, since their oldest torrents are dated back to 2008-04-08, and old forum posts. Which exact site Ztracker is a reincarnate of, we couldn’t tell you.

Our prediction — According to Alexa, Ztracker is currently ranked #682 out of all sites overall for Hungary’s traffic metrics. More impressive are their tracker stats: 83,053 registered members & 12,500 active torrents on the browse. Tons of stuff for the English visitors, too.

http://www.herobit.org

Hungary’s torrent community has begun to rebound nicely despite a series of June 2010 raids that sent private trackers scurrying for cover. New HU trackers are popping up all the time, such as HeroBit.org, and expect older ones to continue business as usual in some form or location.

Our prediction — Few can contest the fact that Hungary (or more specifically, magyar) is home to some of the world’s most formidable trackers - but HeroBit.org isn’t one of them. Online since September 1st, HB indexes 369 active torrents, 1019 total peers, and 4657 members - but has plenty of time to grow.

Thai Trackers…

http://www.torrentzaa.com

Online since the middle of May 2010, TorrentZaa.com is a newer Thai tracker with 8,247 members, 5,000 total torrents & 4,535 seeds. While considered to be ‘general’ in that torrents exist in every facet of release type, TorrentZaa’s mainstay is their growing adult section which includes in excess of 2,025 torrents (or 40%+ of all active on site).

Our prediction — Unlike other Asian trackers, especially of the HD niche variety, general international torrenters tend to avoid Thai trackers - and rightly so. Aside from offering a slew of pr0n releases, there’s little else to this one that would appease the English crowd.

http://www.bitcountry.com

BitCountry started out on 2010-07-05 - lists 17,000+ members with 1,340 total torrents (2,773 seeders). A feature that stands out (in a negative light) is that all VIP torrents require a site donation in order to download.

Our prediction — Based upon visuality alone it’s tough to ‘rate’ Thai trackers, since their over-stimulating nature isn’t just exclusive to their torrent sites. Personally speaking I’ll never get accustomed to it, but 17,392 Thai users can’t all be wrong.

http://www.torrenttoday.com

Our prediction — No point in going overboard with glee about TorrentToday, a new Thai startup from 2010-09 that indexes just 200 active torrents. This site’s based on a stock TorrentStrike codebase with needless flashiness that’s sure to give vertigo to anyone who visits. Even if this one had 10K torrents you’d head for the hills due to ugliness alone. Kill it with fire!

French Trackers…

www.street-friends-partage.info

  • — Category: General (French)    Codebase: TBDev/TT
  • — Signup: here.

StreetFriends-Partage is a new French tracker that began back in August; employs both https (SSL) on both the site and in the tracker URL by default. Stats: 6,425 registered members | 2,000 active torrents | 3,818 total seeders. SFP uses a heavily-customized TorrentTrader codebase that actually works really well here. The torrents.php page displays dual category icons for easy browsing, and category icons (when clicked) show further sub-cats for each main group. Neat idea!

Our prediction — Off to a pretty good start for a number of reasons. Naturally, almost everything is French (including more than 1,200 movies, cartoons, documentaries, musicvids and DVDRs combined). Universally accepted games, music & adult torrents round out the rest.

http://toos-dl.net

  • — Category: General (French)    Code: TorrentStrike (custom)
  • — Signup: You’ll find it.

Apparently TooS-DL has been around since March 2010, who knew? Anways, this French tracker lists 6,764 total torrents, but in reality only 2,982 are active (with 2,691 registered members). By the looks of things on the browse, it’s quite possible they have French sceneaxx (full TV series are often listed sequentially as individual episodes).

Our prediction — Quite a peculiar little site. Torrents can be browsed ‘by week’ or month, in which the results are posted in a large list by category. Retention seems to be the biggest problem here; even some torrents "added today" have zero seeds.

Other Localized Trackers…

http://latinbit.com

Latinbit v2.0 is a South American (Latin/Spanish) tracker that has 1,447 registered members. Latinbit offers mostly a selection of DVDRs (films & music concerts) that are natively Spanish (or else dual-audio EN/SP with latina subtitles). We even noticed some DDLs (RS, MU etc) available in some of the torrent descriptions.

Our prediction — Not good overall, but improving lately. We’re not sure exactly when v2.0 was re-launched; the oldest torrent is from 12-2009. Total torrents count in at over 1,100 - although only 105 are active with 128 total seeders among them - something that gives a negative indication about the activity level here among members. If Latin DVDRs are your cup of tea, you just might find something useful here.

http://www.desibits.info

Online since October 2nd, DesiBits is the latest Desi tracker to hit the scene - lists 241 members and 46 torrents. Using TS-SE sourcecode (instead of a forum layout typical of Desi sites) is indeed a bold move, but probably not the wisest decision. Ironically, there’s not a single post or thread in DB’s own forum.

Our prediction — Who here remembers stylish-looking DesiPirates from a couple years back? Probably not many, and DesiBits has nothing in common with them except for a similar lack of any real Desi-scene connections. True Desi trackers survive on three things (well four, if you include donations): devoted uploaders, cappers, and rippers/encoders. DesiBits has none of these.

Other Trackers…

http://sinfulcinema.net — Supposedly a new horror movie tracker, there’s just five (5) total torrents since coming online a full month ago.

http://www.kavatza.net — Apparently Kavatza is making a comeback with their recent relaunch. At last check, the site was down for maintenance. Stats unavailable.

https://peercrime.eu — Supposedly a new Danish tracker, appears offline now.

Updates on Last Month’s (September) Trackers…

ArcticDream.com — Dying, but not quite dead yet. Torrent # is virtually the same (205) but now has only 130 total seeds (down from ~200 a month ago).

RansackedCrew.net — No idea, I couldn’t recover my user/pass, didn’t bother to try to sign up a second time.

Torrents-Heaven.com — Had 350 active torrents & 275 registered members; now has 701 active torrents and 1,247 members.

Scene4All.net — Last month had 90 active torrents, now has 306.

NS-T.org — Has doubled both torrents and members - now lists 141 members & 177 torrents. Very mediocre stats, nonetheless.

Leech2Seed.info — A mover ‘n shaker! Had 1,500 torrents with 621 members; now has 3,113 torrents and 964 members.

TagTorrents.com — Torrent count is down from 597 (and 668 seeders) to 391 torrents & 562 seeds. Tag… you’re not it!

BulexTorrent.org — Had 1,066 active torrents; now has just 663.

Torrentinos.com — Slight upswing. Had 744 total torrents (535 active, with 616 seeders); now has 919 torrents with 875 seeders.

Infire.si — Had 1,186 total torrents; now lists 1,440.

PolishBits.org — Slight positive change: had 556 active torrents, now has 598.

SpelaMig.org — Had 2,236 active torrents; now lists 2,185.

TorrentFiles.ath.cx — Had 2,450 active torrents; now lists 2,123.

PVTorrent.org — Had 212 members & 112 active torrents (w/ 157 seeds) - now has 520 members & 420 total torrents (with 327 seeders).

TheGeeks.bz — Now has 3,754 torrents, up from 2,500 a month ago.

AdultLeech.com — Had 261 active torrents & 435 seeders, now has 708 on the browse page with 1,315 total seeds.

Horror-World.info — No change. Had 441 torrents; now has 443.

JoystickandButtons.info — Slight positive change. Had 116 total torrents (37 dead) and 122 total seeders; now has 166 total torrents (39 dead) and 190 seeders.

http://theswarm.me— Started out with 100 torrents back on 2010-09-30 - now has 417.



Archived by FSFmirror

Categories: