May 30, 2009 by sharky
FileShareFreak inquired whether or not if this is a bonafide scene FTP, or just an FTP site that has some decent scene access. PirateFTP’s sysop replied:
"It is a scene site. It is, no matter if you believe it or not. We have well known affiliates, and racers. Go compare it to a "topsite", you won’t see much of a difference. Granted our site has only been up one month - which only means we will get more racers and we will be bringing in more content. Currently we have 10TB of diskspace but we are looking to increase that to 20TB.
We’ve been experiencing a lot of hate and that’s understandable, it’s only from other people who sell leech who try to smear us. They’re mad that we give unlimited leech for $35 while they make poor people pay 50 euros for something like 200GB, or those private torrent sites that make people have to maintain a seedbox and also donate to them."
There you have it. $35 bucks a month for instant scene access and unlimited data transfer for 0sec scene releases. All without the headache of maintaining private tracker ratios, seedboxes, or home PC torrent clients. Better still, it’s completely secure: your IP address is never in a torrent swarm - even private trackers can expose you.
Our Tests:
We were lucky enough to be able to take PirateFTP for a spin. Download speeds were very acceptable, and ranged between 250 - 300 KB/s in two separate trials. Content is updated frequently; with terabytes of scene releases available - it would be virtually impossible to snag all of it, especially since "more than 100 GBs are added daily".
Looking to take it for a test? You can. Follow their FTP setup guide here (as a ‘test’ read-only user). Follow this YouTube video in the link, and be sure to use the FlashFXP app as the connecting client.
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