23 New Private Trackers: November 2009 Edition

October 31, 2009 by sharky

Activity has definitely picked up concerning new private trackers during the past month or so. Here’s our scary Halloween edition of what’s hot / what’s not among new trackers - including two new Gazelles you probably haven’t heard about; a great new scene tracker called Kaste; and, as usual, a bevy of sites worth forgetting.

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Quickstart Guide to Free Satellite TV (IKS Edition)

October 30, 2009 by sharky

This quickstart guide covers everything you need to know about how to enjoy free satellite TV in North America, although other regions may be supported. For around $300 just about anyone can easily set up a motorized satellite dish complete with an LNB & receiver. With the blackout of Nagra3, most satellite pirates have turned to IKS to provide free satellite.

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Find Private Tracker Invites at InviteTheScene

October 28, 2009 by sharky

Here at FSF, we’re always on the lookout for the newest tracker invite sites. Whether it be duds like TakeMe, CGI-U or SceneInvites - or studs such as TPS, Etiv and TR; we aim to report about them all unbiasedly - and let our readers decide. Let us introduce the latest torrent forum to launch - inviteTheScene.

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How to Block Seedbox IP Ranges in uTorrent, Vuze

October 25, 2009 by sharky

The purposefulness of blocking or banning seedbox IP ranges when torrenting through a home PC is to be able to increase your upload rates to non-seedbox peers. By limiting your BitTorrent traffic to mostly other home users only, such as yourself, this will effectively cut out seedbox traffic - simply put; it means you won’t be uploading to seedbox peers in the torrents, in turn giving you an advantage to seed to lower-speed home torrenters. For some trackers that are difficult to seed on, in our tests we’ve found this solution to be somewhat effective in increasing upload data and sharing ratios.

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Comic-Releech: #1 Comedy Tracker, Now Open Signups

October 24, 2009 by sharky

Looking for a tracker that caters specifically to stand-ups, funny flicks and comedy TV? Then look no further than Comic-Relee.ch. Packed with content and loaded with new features, community-inspired CoR has evolved into the premier comedy tracker on the ‘net. And just in time for Halloween, CoR is now open for registration for a limited time to anyone wanting to sign up.

EDIT: Oct. 30 - signups are still open.

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Spurious ‘PEG Topsite’ Becomes a Tracker Reality

October 23, 2009 by sharky

Nothing sets off the private torrent community into a frenzy quite like the mention of a new l33t secret tracker. Many will probably remember old news about PEG. Supposedly PEG was a topsite in the style of a TBDev tracker, where members received direct web/FTP access to the fastest and latest scene releases - ratio free, naturally. Of course, all of this was just an elaborate hoax. However, the perpetrators of this fabrication have gone on to create the real PEG tracker.

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Two Popular French Trackers Shut Down: Two More Open

October 21, 2009 by sharky

Hot on the heels of Guiks.net who pulled the plug on themselves - likely forcibly due to legal pressure from French authorities (at least the military wasn’t involved this time), two other popular French private trackers have now followed suit. Reload-Paradise and sister site HDParadise are also now fini - but the good news is they’ve already announced two new replacement trackers, both of which could be up as early as today.

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The Top 50 Most Requested Tracker Invites of 2009

October 19, 2009 by sharky

After receiving countless requests for an updated version of our Top 50 Most Requested Private Tracker Invites article, we’ve finally gotten around to crunching the numbers once again. In comparison to last December’s statistics, the results are astonishingly quite different this time around. There are dozens of new popular trackers, defunct trackers, IRC applications, new torrent forums & more experienced private torrenters than ever before; collectively, all of these factors (and more) account for the difference in request popularity. Just like last year, it should be no surprise as to who holds the No.1 spot.

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3 Very Cool New Online P2P Services - FSF Exclusives

October 17, 2009 by sharky

At FSF, we love exploring new P2P services; whether it be new trackers, P2P apps or online search utilities. We’ve got three brand-new sites to report about, including a very unique webservice for checking your IP address in a torrent; a new chic Web 2.0-style serial number search utility; and a website to help find passwords for downloaded files from RapidShare and other hosters.

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10 Reasons for The Decline of Tracker Invite Requests

October 14, 2009 by sharky

The facts are in: Numerically, requests for tracker invitations are much in decline compared to what they were a year ago - even though there are more private trackers and more torrent forums than ever before. But does this mean that there are fewer people opting for private? Not at all. Private trackers as a whole are experiencing explosive growth, year after year. So, why have invite requests for private trackers decreased substantially from just 12 months ago? There are several pivotal reasons for this phenomenon.

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NewSceneFiles - A New Pre-to-DDL Service

October 13, 2009 by sharky

Fanboys of SceneDDL and xldr.net now have another option for finding fresh scene releases, and that’s at NewSceneFiles.net. NewSceneFiles is a new autopost service that provides one of the fastest turnarounds on Pre’s to direct download links. In less than 6 weeks since launching, NewSceneFiles already lists an impressive 3,300+ releases, for an average of about 80 new releases each day.

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Web-based Private Tracker Pretimes and Torrent Races at Trac3.me

October 11, 2009 by sharky

There’s a new PreDB website that not only offers a comprehensive listing of new scene releases, but also shows Traces - or torrent races. Introducing Trac3.me, a collaborated effort from the pros at APNet and ScnSrc. Trac3.me, also known as Trace, is a service similar to other PreDBs - but with an interesting twist. Not only are scene releases indexed in the thousands, but also displayed are the private trackers who pick up each release and their associated pretimes.

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The Best Hosting Providers For Private Trackers

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Private Tracker Invite Trading on the Rise, Thanks to Google Wave Invites

October 07, 2009 by sharky

Move over, trader forums - there’s some stiff competition muscling in for a piece of the action on torrent tracker invite trading. The Internet has gone completely bonkers for Gwave invites, and private trackers are caught in the middle - as seen at the new Google Wave Invites service. While GWI isn’t affiliated with Google or Google Wave whatsoever, Google Wave Invites have taken the ‘net by storm, and tracker invites are - of course - a popular staple of the trades, giveaways and requests. Unquestionably, this has scam written all over it on multiple levels - but try telling that to the traders.

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20 New Private Trackers: October 2009 Edition

October 06, 2009 by sharky

Ahh, Autumn - days are getting shorter, leaves are changing colour, and new torrent trackers are starting to sprout up around every corner of the interwebs. It’s time to recollect our latest findings, in which we review 20 new private trackers (amazingly, none of which are adult). Once again, we’ve cranked up our honesty (and sarcasm) - there’s plenty of new torrent sites to write about in this October edition.

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TTinvite.com - A New Torrent Invite Forum Opens

October 06, 2009 by sharky

It’s been quite some time since we’ve introduced a new Torrent Forum to the BT scene. Is this because new ones aren’t being started up? Not exactly - there are a few new underground forums that we’re not just not able to mention here at FSF. But not so with TTinvite.com - a new BitTorrent discussion & invites board that’s currently open for registration. And we’re even allowed to review it!

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Gazelle Article 3: Anonymous Links, Ticket System, and a Freeleech Tool

October 05, 2009 by MFSL

We’re back with Part 3 of our exclusive series on how to install Gazelle. In this article, we explain how to add a script to anonymize all outgoing links through anonym.to. Also up, we show how to incorporate a ticket system so that beta testers and members can report site bugs and provide feedback. Last - but not least - we explain how to add a global freeleech to the tracker with the ability to enable/disable it through the Gazelle Toolbox utility.

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P2P.IN - a New IRC PreDB Network to Track Torrent Races, Pre Announces & Releases

October 03, 2009 by sharky

Want to find out which private trackers have the best pretimes? Looking for a particular scene release to see if it’s been pre’d? This, and a whole lot more can be found on P2P.IN - a new Pre Database IRC network; featuring channels such as #pre (for pre announces), #tracers (for torrent races), #search and others. P2P.IN’s IRC pre’s contain some unique addons which aren’t found in any other IRC networks (which we’ll explain) - plus, a web-based version is slated to be released soon which is set to even include tracer stats "live" on the ‘net. Definitely worth bookmarking!

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Vizz.tv Selling Access, Accounts to New TV Tracker

October 02, 2009 by sharky

Well, there’s P2L and then there’s this. The creators of Bitt.tv have shut down the site due to lack of donations in favor of a different model that charges $24 USD for a yearly subscription to their new ratio-free TV tracker at http://vizz.tv. So instead of running a top-notch torrent tracker (which they obviously failed at) where members will gladly donate, why not charge a one-time flat fee just so members can gain entrance? - without even offering a single iota of detail about what’s behind the $24 curtain. Talk about taking the ‘free’ out of BitTorrent - here’s the message staff sent out today to existing members of Bitt.tv:

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HD Tracker ‘SceneX’ Open For Registration

October 01, 2009 by sharky

If we were challenged to select from one category of private tracker that’s experiencing the highest growth potential, we’d have to conclude it to be high definition (HD) trackers. With ever-increasing PC storage capacity, seedbox usage, cheaper BD-REs, and multimedia stations connected via PC-to-TV — HD torrents are quickly becoming the norm. Which brings us to SceneX, a tracker devoted to nothing but HD content. SceneX - a notably ‘closed’ site, is currently open registration for the next 24 hours - no IRC hurdles; no recruitment - simply sign up and enjoy!

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