Eargasm.ME - New HQ FLAC/Lossless Music Tracker

March 30, 2010 by sharky

Ahh, Gazelle. The ideal tracker sourcecode for music torrent sites. If there’s ever been room for another music tracker on the ‘net, it’s a high-quality lossless Gazelle tracker to compete with Pedro’s and E*. Enter Eargasm.ME - a new lossless audio tracker (100% log, no transcodes), billed as the new & improved Need-Music v2 - Eargasm.ME officially launched yesterday, and is very much still in ‘beta’, but early signs suggest a heightened interest in the development of this rebranded FLAC-only baby Gazelle.

Apply Online: Private Trackers with Invite Application Forms

March 28, 2010 by sharky

Apart from shamelessly purchasing an invite from a private tracker directly (as our last post suggests), many trackers will offer non-members an opportunity to join through a web-based application form. Plug in a few details about yourself, explain why you want to join, cross your fingers and just maybe they’ll send an invitation your way. Unlike IRC interviewing, there’s no pressure on either the invitee or inviter, and potential members can take their time with the form to get it "right". Below is a list of 19 trackers that you can apply directly to.

Buy Your Way In: Private Trackers That Sell Their Own Invites

March 25, 2010 by sharky

Surely the easiest way to get into a private tracker is just to wait for registration to open. While this isn’t always an option, especially for closed-communities, the second-easiest method would be to simply buy your way in the door. After researching virtually every tracker out there, we uncovered a surprisingly large list of private trackers that sell direct access; that is, sell their own invites under the guise of a donation. Incredibly, some trackers want as much as 25€ (Euro) for a single invitation.

How to Create a SSH Tunnel Through Your Seedbox IP (Proxy for Your Home PC)

March 22, 2010 by sharky

Faster torrents, high connectivity and seed-ability are notably the primary reasons why most of us opt to use a seedbox. Fair enough - but a seedbox (server) can be used to implement a variety of tasks that extend far beyond just torrenting. We’ll explain how you can run a SSH tunnel through your seedbox server, in order to use your seedbox’s IP address as a proxy on your local machine (home PC). And it works for most Internet apps that support SOCKS5 (web browser, IRC/MSN, even a home uTorrent client).

Seedwave - A Private Seedbox Sharing Community

March 20, 2010 by sharky

After briefly introducing Seedwave in our latest seedbox providers article, we’ve encountered a fair bit of feedback from readers wanting to learn more. What is Seedwave? A seedbox provider that’s selling slots, or a discussion board for like-minded, experienced seedbox members? Well, it’s a bit of both; and a whole lot more. The ideology behind Seedwave is to offer an alternate cost-effective solution to these so-called "seedbox providers".

12 All-New Seedbox Providers for Faster Torrents

March 17, 2010 by sharky

SeedForMe
BlazinSeedboxes
PulsedMedia
Elite Seeders
Seedwave
ServerScene
TornadoGet
DesiSeedbox
iSeedbox.net
Just-Seed
DS.net
Corong.com
GetASeedbox

While newly imposed OVH setup fees, bandwidth caps & shaping have taken a toll on the seedbox scene, you wouldn’t know it from the number of new seedbox "companies" that are vying for your torrent dollars. Nearly two months have passed since we rounded up the latest seedbox providers - let us present 12 13 new ones worth reporting about.

In this edition we’ve uncovered some interesting new sites/services, including one such provider that offers to build upload ratio/buffer on your private tracker accounts (simply give them a torrent file; they do the work for you). Also, we’ve found a private seedbox sharing community that teaches its members how to set up their own seedbox on a Linux OS. Additionally, there’s a provider that offers a 1 Gbit pipe with unlimited everything for just £20 (GPB) per month.

Avalanche: A New Feature-Rich rTorrent Web GUI

March 15, 2010 by sharky

Unlike uTorrent, one of the coolest things about rTorrent is that it’s open source, thus giving just about anyone the opportunity to develop a web frontend to support this popular BitTorrent client. Introducing Avalanche - a new web GUI for rTorrent that combines a simple yet sophisticated interface which so happens to be packed with features.

Tracker Spotlight: ABTorrents (For Audiobooks Only)

March 13, 2010 by sharky

Anyone who’s ever tried searching for audiobooks on private trackers probably knows how difficult they are to find. Since release groups tend to shy away from releasing audiobooks, scene/0day trackers are of no use, and most "elearning" trackers have very little to offer, either. You’ll find plenty if you’re fortunate enough to have an account at What.CD or Waffles; even Demonoid has a decent selection. But ABTorrents.com (Audio Book Torrents) might just be the only private tracker that caters exclusively to audiobooks, and prides itself on high-quality releases.

Increase FTP Speeds With Segmented Downloading

March 10, 2010 by sharky

One of the biggest complaints from seedbox users is not about the BitTorrent upload/download speeds within the server itself; rather, the FTP speeds in which the files are transferred back to the home PC. Often these sluggish FTP speeds can be attributed directly to the server provider; OVH is one of the usual suspects here. We’ll show you how to get the most out of your bandwidth using FTP clients that support segmented downloading.

SCC v2 ‘Beta’ Has Finally Arrived, With New Features

March 08, 2010 by sharky

Some skeptics said this day would never come; others agreed that it was all part of a scheme to rake in more donations. After ongoing discussions spanning over the past two years in reference to a tentative beta release for SCC, finally it has come to fruition. The Internet’s #1 scene tracker has undergone quite a few new changes in SCC v2, although we doubt if it took the entire two years to code.

20 New Private Trackers: March 2010 Edition

March 08, 2010 by sharky

Compared to last month’s list of mostly-forgettable duds, this edition of new trackers contains a few pleasant surprises. New sites include: 3 new HD trackers; 2 music trackers; 2 niche trackers; and of course, some RO/EN trackers that you’ll probably want to avoid.

TorrentVault, 0sec Scene Tracker Open For Signups

March 05, 2010 by sharky

Here’s a great opportunity to those who’ve been looking to join one of BitTorrent’s best-kept secrets - TorrentVault.org is presently open for registration. If memory serves correctly, it’s been nearly a year since this 0sec scene tracker has offered open signups. With upwards of 45,000 torrents indexed since resurfacing back in late October ‘09 using Gazelle’s codebase, TV should not be overlooked. But hurry; the member limit is just 15K which leaves ~2,500 under 1,000 open spots.

Update: Signups are now closed, 15K member limit has been reached.

Three New (and Interesting) Private Tracker Blogs, Sites

March 05, 2010 by sharky

When it comes to discovering the latest goings-on, info and - shall we say - BitTorrent drama, one only needs to turn to a popular torrent forum. From there you’ll find blog links & news feeds, the latest scoops, and all the regular fare inclined to satiate the BT paparazzi and resident trolls. So, where are we going with this? Well, we’ve uncovered 3 new sites which we think you’ll enjoy (2 of them blogs) that cater to all things tracker-related. And you probably won’t find any of them listed elsewhere.

RatioProof.us - A New Tracker Board Now ‘Open Reg’

March 04, 2010 by sharky

Just a quick shout to all you tracker invite fans looking for a fresh start at a new home. RatioProof.us (aka FLUX/FeelTheFlow) is the latest tracker discussion & invites forum to pop up on the ‘net. Invites to FLUX were originally intended to be only available through an application process via email, FLUX has recently opened up registration for anyone looking to sign up.

Cinavia DRM Aimed to Stop Piracy On Blu-ray, PS3s

March 03, 2010 by sharky

Cinavia LogoHaven’t heard about Cinavia? Chances are, you will soon if you download pirated movies and attempt to play them back on a Blu-ray player or through a PS3. Cinavia is a somewhat new DRM technology that uses "audio watermarking" embedded into the audio stream portion of a movie. In a nutshell, what it does is compare the source of the audio to the format in which a movie was released (ie theatrical or commercial disc), and if the watermarked audio source detects a difference, the movie will either be mute (but most likely not play at all). So far, there have been at least two popular movies found on peer-to-peer that contain Cinavia DRM: TS/CAM versions of The Wolfman and Shutter Island.

Gazelle RC2 Unleashed, Now Available For Download

March 01, 2010 by sharky

Big news for Gazelle fans & tracker devs - it’s been more than a year since What.CD developers had released an updated version of Gazelle; release candidate 2 has finally arrived. Citing "thousands of changes", What.CD has already been running on RC2 for quite some time. For the first time ever, Gazelle is now publicly available (non-svn) as a download for anyone looking to create a tracker, or else just tinker around with the source code.