November 29, 2008 by sharky
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The 10 Best Free Web Proxies For Anonymous Surfing
Join and Access Spotify.com in Unavailable Locations
November 28, 2008 by sharky
Unfortunately, if you live in the U.S., Canada or Mexico, you’re on the blacklist for Spotify; as it’s not currently available in all locations - even if you opt for a premium account. But don’t let that stop you. First, you need to find an invite. Second, you need to sign up through a web proxy from a supported country.
EDIT: Dec 08/08 - It appears that UK proxies are now being blocked. I just tried a Polish Proxy, and it worked: http://secretproxy.pl, or try one from THIS LIST. Additionally, we’ve updated the accessibility in a future article here.
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Tracker Donations - What You Get For Your Money
November 26, 2008 by sharky
It takes a lot of dough to maintain a private tracker. Just one good dedicated server can easily run $200 - $300 a month, let alone sites that run multiple servers to keep up with the heavy traffic & tracker load. Perhaps toss in some other miscellaneous expenses, such as sophisticated IRC services, P2L (Pay2Leech) scene accounts (to ensure good pre-times), site seedboxes, hardware upgrades… and the total begins to add up. TL, for example claims a whopping €6,000 (Euro) monthly bill to maintain those 14 hard-working servers to keep the bits-a-torrenting. So, what can you expect back in return? Well, it all depends on the tracker.
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FSF Tracker Watch - Nov. 24
November 25, 2008 by sharky
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A Comparison of Popular TV Trackers
November 23, 2008 by sharky
We probably don’t have to tell you which is the best private TV tracker. However, there are some very decent alternative private sites that deal exclusively in television torrents; even some that are open for registration. For those of you who would rather shell out mad dollars for a good Internet package instead of subscribing to hefty $50 cable bills, then it’s imperative to get yourself into a couple of TV trackers to fill in the void. So, what’s the best part about having access to almost every show imaginable… Is it that they’re absolutely free to watch? Nope. Is it that there’s so much more variety, including different languages & international programs that aren’t available from your lame Cable Co.? Nah. The best part is, there are no commercials!
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Pre-Times For TV Trackers - The Cycle of a TV Episode
November 21, 2008 by sharky
Ever wondered how long it takes for a private "TV" tracker to add an available torrent for a show that just aired? Or, what is the difference between pre-times for a specialty TV tracker such as BitMeTV, and a 0day tracker, and a public tracker such as Mininova or ThePirateBay? These questions and more explained, as we take a look into the inner workings of television torrent pre-times, TV scene releases, and their impact at various trackers.
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Blu-Ray BRRip & BDRip - Two New XviD Formats
November 19, 2008 by sharky
Over the past month, you may have noticed two new HD (XviD) formats while browsing your favorite torrent tracker. While Blu-Ray BRRips and BDRips have been around for quite some time (in x264 / *.mkv container), only recently have scene groups been releasing them as XviD *.avi files.
But what makes this remarkable is that they’re compatible with standalone home DVD players (with DivX/XviD support), XBOX 360, PS3, and other external peripherals. These BRRip XviD and BDRip XviD files allow anyone to burn HD-quality Blu-Ray ripped movies on regular DVD media, and playback on most conventional DVD players - without the headaches of re-encoding or DVD authoring. There’s just one catch - you’ll likely need an HDTV to take full advantage of the superior video quality.
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A Review Of New Torrent Clients - What’s Hot, What’s Not
November 18, 2008 by sharky
The explosion of the BitTorrent revolution has sparked the development of an infinitesimal number of new torrent clients; some are built from the ground up, while others use opensource code, and try to build on an existing idea. Many of these new clients are dismal abominations, while others seem to excel in different (unique) areas. However, will any of these newbies be able to de-throne µTorrent’s indisputable title as king of the clients? We’re not sure about that, but there is one that seems to be faster, at least on public trackers.
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PureTNA Adult Tracker Surpasses 1 Million Members
November 17, 2008 by sharky
| Tracker: | Alexa Rank: | # of Members: | # of Active Torrents: |
| Torrents.ru | 459 | 2,671,361 | ? |
| Demonoid.com | 534 | ?? * | 203,209 |
| Zamunda.net | 1,920 | 600,001 | 54,742 |
| PureTNA.com | 2,170 | 1,008,468 | 42,852 |
| Empornium.us | 2,258 | 880,708 | 62,542 |
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FSF Tracker Watch - Nov. 14
November 14, 2008 by sharky
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Tracker Forums That Offer Invites To Other Trackers
November 13, 2008 by sharky
With private trackers, Power User status really has its privileges. Many of the major trackers have assigned ‘Community Reps’ who recruit new members for other trackers, and some trackers allow members to post invite giveaways & trades in their forums. So if you can prove yourself a valuable member at one tracker, you’ll quite easily be able to find an invitation to a variety of other ones - you just need to know where to look. For example, when you become a Power User at Libble.com (5 GB uploaded, ratio of 1.05, 4 weeks), you can get yourself into What.cd (without having to go through their IRC quiz), which then opens the door for many other invites. With a little bit of hard work and some time, you’ll soon have an account at practically any tracker you ever wanted. Here’s a list of private trackers’ forums that recruit (or allow invites/giveaways to) other private BitTorrent sites:
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TorrentDam - The Mac OS X Torrent Search Utility
November 11, 2008 by sharky
Finally, Mac OS X users have a torrent search utility to call their own. Introducing TorrentDam, a brand-new public tracker metasearch tool. It’s free, it’s tiny (at just 592 KB), and it’s open source! TorrentDam allows users to search up to 7 different popular public trackers, including Mininova, ThePirateBay, IsoHunt & Demonoid.
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25 More Tasteless Avatars & Sigs From Private Trackers
November 11, 2008 by sharky
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25 Tasteless Avatars & Sigs From Private Tracker Users
November 10, 2008 by sharky
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FSF Tracker Watch #2 - Nov. 9
November 09, 2008 by sharky
TV.Torrents.ro is Back!!
After being down for an unknown reason for well over 3 weeks, Tv.torrents.ro is back in action! An explanation has not been given, but who cares - those red arrows in µTorrent have switched back to green again!
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Obscure Movie Trackers - A Look Inside The Hidden Gems
November 08, 2008 by sharky
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Invite Trading vs. Giveaways - What’s The Difference?
November 05, 2008 by sharky
This is not a pro-trading manifesto. It is a look at the correlation between ‘traders’ and ‘inviters’, and the overall impact on private trackers, their members and torrent forums.
Through the eyes of a private tracker, there’s really no discerning difference between trading an invitation, or by simply giving it away (publicly) to someone who asks - the fact is, either way it’s against tracker rules. While most reputable "Tracker Invite" sites & forums have now opted to go ‘anti-trading’ in recent times, ‘invite giveaways’ are as popular as ever. But is there really that much of a difference between the two?
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New Online BitTorrent/Multi-P2P Service at VIPeers.com
November 03, 2008 by sharky
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uTorrent: Move All Your Downloaded Files & Keep Seeding
November 02, 2008 by sharky
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