The World of ‘Warez Networks’ Explained

July 26, 2010 by sharky

We’ve written plenty of posts on warez forums and release blogs here at FSF, but one aspect to direct download links we’ve neglected to touch deeper on is the ever-growing world of warez networks. Also simply known as "DDL-indexing" sites (think: Katz.cd), by their own right these are indeed full-fledged networks with complex inner workings. Well, perhaps not the majority of them. In this article we’ll do our best-effort to explain the internal nature of the warez network scene, the competitiveness within it, and which sites are the best - and why.

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RapidShare Links Vanish on Blogs, Warez Forums

July 10, 2010 by sharky

Who says piracy doesn’t pay? Try telling that to professional uploaders on warez forums and release blogs who are now boycotting RapidShare en masse. In the aftermath of the TF article which earlier confirmed RS has terminated their entire Rewards program, it is no longer advantageous to upload files to RS. Realistically the decision will indeed have a negative impact on RapidShare’s own revenue take for new subscriptions, not to mention dissuade uploaders from using the service at all. A reader recently posted this on RlsLog.net:

"Let’s teach the greedy losers at Rapidshare an important lesson! No one use Rapidshare or post rapidshare links! Let’s give our hard earned money to any other downloader, even if same cost as rapidshare. They need to be forced out of business for their most recent despicable stunt!" - Source here.

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Convert Multiple Filehosters’ Links Into Premium Links

December 22, 2009 by sharky

Nothing can truly substitute the convenience of having your very own premium account at RapidShare, MegaUpload and other filehosters. But not everyone can afford to purchase premium access, especially nowadays when DDLers definitely need more than one filehoster. If you’re a fan of direct download links then certainly you’ve had some experience (likely forgettable) with those so-called filehoster-premium-link-generator websites. For most of these "services", users are most often bogged down by slow speeds or a tiny limit on the number of daily ‘generated’ premium links - if it works at all - let alone will any support multiple filehosters and simultaneous transfers. RapidPremium is a new unique website that does exactly what it claims to do.

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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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Scene/DDL News: AfterPre & SceneDDL Return

September 22, 2009 by sharky

Here’s some great news for those who prefer to download (leech) scene releases from 1-click hosters instead of using torrents - two popular scene-to-DDL sites are back up and running. This couldn’t have come at a better time, with the new season’s TV fall lineup just beginning to kick off. AfterPre, which took a 5-month hiatus has now returned; and SceneDDL recently launched a kickass new beta.

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SceneDDL Calls it Quits on New Releases

August 23, 2009 by sharky

There wasn’t nary a website on the interwebs that could claim the bragging rights to what SceneDDL did. Using sophisticated software, upload bots, and really great scene connections - SceneDDL tirelessly pumped out hundreds of scene releases day-after-day straight to Rapidshare, Easy-Share, MegaUpload et al. - faster than most torrent sites could ever dream of having access. Sadly, this August 17th marked the day when SceneDDL.net called it an end to new posts.

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SceneDDL: Automated Scene Releases to Filehost DDLs

April 26, 2009 by sharky

There’s not a site on the Internet that can claim what SceneDDL.net accomplishes. Not a single one. No, they don’t index DDL (direct download links) like thousands of faceless sites. They create them. No, they’re not a "release blog" that waits for affiliate comments to post or upload valid working links to RS, MU. When it comes to pretimes, SceneDDL beats out blogs and even competes with the some of best ’scene’ torrent trackers. SceneDDL uses a unique autoposter feature: to oversimplify this process, they take scene releases from topsite sources (not from trackers) and index these releases on the site while uploading the files to multiple file hosters at the same time. What’s remarkable is that the entire process is completely automated; the end result is the fastest turnaround time for ‘scene releases to direct download links’ found on the Internet. From the top of the piracy pyramid to the bottom of it, in literally just minutes.

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The 25 Best DDL Search Engines For RapidShare Links

April 16, 2009 by sharky

Hands down, warez forums & scene/P2P release blogs provide the best source for valid, accurate working direct download links from file hosting services such as RapidShare, MegaUpload, FileFactory and countless others. Curiously enough, however, the sites that reign as the most popular choice for DDL seekers are ‘1-click hoster’ search engines, many of which eclipse any DDL forum or blog. One clear example is RapidLibrary.com which provides searching for RapidShare links only; and despite this, continues to receive much more traffic than the impossibly popular Warez-bb.org.

The truth is - the general public isn’t exactly well-informed in regards to where to find the real goodies; and search engines are counting on that. Many popular RapidShare engines are nothing more than a modified Google search using specific operators; others are generic web scripts that offer nothing special. In any event, here’s our picks for the Top 25 Direct Download search engines.

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100 Scene/P2P Blogs for RapidShare Warez DDLs

April 13, 2009 by sharky

The upside to scene/P2P blog-style release sites is that you usually won’t have to register in order to view the links. By their very nature, they’re more enticing to look at than browsing through threads on a generic vbulletin forum. However, the downside to release blogs is that everything is mixed together (movies, apps, games are added on-the-fly) and you’ll need to conduct specific searches or use the site’s categories to narrow things down. But if speed (pretime) is a major factor when looking for DDL/RapidShare links, good release blogs will usually beat out most forums, and dead links will often be edited or replaced with new live links in the comments.

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RapidShare/DDL Forums - A Great Source For Warez

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JDownloader - RapidShare Downloader That (Still) Works

February 19, 2009 by sharky

A reader recently emailed us asking if there was an application that could manage RapidShare downloads, without the use of Firefox add-ons and scripts. Well, with all of the recent modifications that RapidShare and other hosters have done to thwart easy (free) downloading, most external download managers simply no longer work as intended (or at all). That is, except for jDownloader. jDownloader is a continually-improved active project that supports links for over 100 different 1-click hosters. Downloading is a snap! Simply copy/paste DDL links into jDownloader, and let the program automatically punch through captchas & wait times - and the downloads begin. It even extracts the finished RAR files for you once the ’set’ is complete.

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RapidShare Tools: Firefox Scripts To Simplify Downloads

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Release Blogs - Finding The Latest P2P & Scene Releases

December 08, 2008 by sharky

Scene Blogs. P2P Blogs. Call ‘em what you will. Frequenters of release blogs know a thing or two about finding the freshest releases. Sites such as ZeroSec, RlsLog & ScnSrc are dedicated to bringing you the latest info on new scene releases; all without the worries of having to seed or keep a good tracker ratio. And without question; these sites beat out public torrent indexers (pre-times) by hours, and even hold their own with some of the best private trackers. Below, we take a look at an assortment of release blogs, and delve into what makes them so popular.

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Working List of RapidShare Premium Link Generators

June 04, 2008 by sharky

Who needs a Premium RapidShare account when there’s so many websites that will do the work for you?

As opposed to software, this web-based approach allows users to avoid the waiting times (and Captcha) by using someone else’s RapidShare Premium service. Basically it works like this: The website owns a valid RS Premium account (or many) and offers them to be used publicly - just throw in the RS link and you’ll be downloading wait-and-captcha free. The catch? In most cases you’ll be limited to how many links you can download in a 24-hour period (usually between 3 and 5). Thus, using a few of these sites in different browser tabs will obviously allow you to download multiple files simultaneously. Then again, I don’t see why you can’t use different proxies to trick ‘em into thinking you’re an entirely different user!

These websites disappear faster than a pizza at a Weight Watchers’ convention. So if you decide to do your own Googling for RapidShare Link Generators, be sure to avoid any and all that contain Zango - some are more unscrupulous than others. At the time of publication, all of these links worked. Without further ado, here’s the list:

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RapidShare Hacks & Programs That Really Work

June 03, 2008 by sharky

Most of us are already aware that there’s a plethora of pirate’s bounty to be found among RapidShare links. Direct-Download (DDL) websites have sprouted up everywhere offering nothing but warez (music, movies, software), gleefully riding on the coattails of RapidShare’s enormous success. But for those of us who don’t have a RapidShare Premium account, the wait times for downloading can be excruciating. So what’s a professional leecher to do? Find a workaround, naturally! But first, we’d like to discuss the RapidShare Happy Hours.

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Warez Hosting Websites (DDL Sites)

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Free File Hosting Websites

December 20, 2007 by sharky

Something that’s becoming more and more popular is the use of ‘File Hosting’ accounts to share files. A file hosting service (webhosting) is an Internet service specifically designed to host static content - typically large files that are not web pages. It’s like having an ‘online’ hard drive that you can share with anyone you want, without having to incur the costs of hard drive space and Internet bandwidth.

But are these services appropriate for hosting illegal files? You bet! DDL ‘warez’ websites are a great resource for accessing the links to the copyrighted contraband. Companies that make this service available don’t have the manpower or resources to check all incoming content. Illegal content would be deleted if they received a complaint, or if the infringing content appeared excruciatingly obvious. And if your files get deleted, just move on to the next company - there’s plenty of ‘em.

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