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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