May 30, 2009 by sharky
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PirateFTP Selling Leech Slots For Scene Releases
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
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
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ThePirateSociety is Back Online, And Open For Signups
May 11, 2009 by sharky
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
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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
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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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