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ACiD Celebrates 5th Birthday – Free Signup For 2000 Members

There are over 1000 private torrent trackers in existence but how many of them can actually brag about being online for 5+ years? Well, here’s one tracker that sure can. ACiD (AL), the veteran private General/0Day torrent tracker will be celebrating its 5th birthday on the 22nd January 2011. There are plenty of prizes and giveaways including IRC bonus for existing members and for non-members, the free signup party is back on once again. The special signup URL and invite key posted towards the end of this article will allow 2000 new users create accounts on ACiD. Most of the on site celebrations will take place from 21st to 25th January so if you still aren’t on this tracker, register early and await some goodies coming your way. In case you are hearing about AL for the first time, this is a private torrent tracker which indexes all sorts of content including movies, games, music, TV shows and more.

Quoted below is ACiD’s announcement regarding upcoming birthday celebrations:

Acid will be 5 years Old on the 22nd January
Celebrations are from 21st to the 25th this should cover all time lines
We will have plenty of prizes and giveaways, we are wanting 250 users in irc around that time each member in there will receive 15gb bonus
I have given all users invites to get their friends here before the Celebrations start so they can be a part of it, after that we need to restrict invites back and they won't be given out so freely.So use them why you have them...
Remember to invite responsibly
More info will be released soon

It’s only been a month since we last posted a detailed review of ACiD on this very same blog so it’d be redundant to repeat the same information here. For a detailed overview of this tracker including screenshots, please refer to this article. At last check, AL had 20000+ registered members and tracked 12000+ active torrents which are quite decent statistics for a General/0Day site.

Coming back to the sign up party, we’ve been sent a special invite key by AL staff to give away to our readers – this key will support up to 2000 new registrations so there should be plenty of room for everyone.

Site Name: ACiD
Signup URL: http://www.acid-lounge.org.uk/Main/?act=Signup&id=8&hash=d777bbe156264104bcdab568eb69e6a6
Special Signup Key: 6nmu3v

Special thanks to AL staff for the support given.

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Windows 7 Service Pack 1 RTM Leaked On Torrent Sites

After having used almost every Microsoft Operating System since MS-DOS, I’ve to say that Windows 7 is the best Microsoft OS to be released since Windows 98 Second Edition. W7 addressed many flaws that were present in its predecessor Windows Vista and according to Microsoft it was a phenomenal success in terms of sales as well. Anyways here’s some news that might interest you if you are one of the millions running Windows 7 on your PC or Laptop - A Release To Manufacturing (RTM) build of the first Service Pack (SP1) for Windows 7 has reportedly been leaked online. The files, which were initially posted by Russian release site WZOR, are now out in the wild and readily available on various file sharing networks including public BitTorrent sites and private torrent trackers.

Quoted below is the NFO file from one such torrent (this appeared to be a repacked version of files originally posted on WZOR):

Windows.7.Service.Pack.1.RTM.Build.7601.17514.WAVE1-WW

Type................: Service Pack 1 Final for Windows 7
Build String........: 7601.17105
Full Build String...: 7601.17105.101119-1850
Size................: 1,40 GB
Leaked Date.........: January 14th, 2010
Torrent Date........: January 14th, 2010

Note: This is not a full install, this is just an upgrade only. It contains x86 / x64 . This Service Pack can be applied to any version of Windows 7. All you need is to run the update kit. Please uninstall all the previous versions before installing this!

Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 (RTM) x86
Build: 7601.17514.101119-1850
File: windows6.1-KB976932-x86.exe
Size: 563,934,504 byte
SHA-1: C3516BC5C9E69FEE6D9AC4F981F5B95977A8A2FA
MD5: 4BF28FC00D86C936C89E2D91EF46758B
CRC: 5EB0FA87
Wave1: Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese-Hong Kong SAR, Chinese-Simplified, Chinese-Taiwan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese-Brazil, Portuguese-Portugal, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, and Ukrainian.

Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 (RTM) x64
Build: 7601.17514.101119-1850
File: windows6.1-KB976932-x64.exe
Size: 947,070,088 byte
SHA-1: 74865EF2562006E51D7F9333B4A8D45B7A749DAB
MD5: 28D3932F714BF71D78E75D36AA2E0FB8
CRC: 068C79C6
Wave1: Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese-Hong Kong SAR, Chinese-Simplified, Chinese-Taiwan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese-Brazil, Portuguese-Portugal, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, and Ukrainian.

Thanks goes to: Misaki for providing the SP1 files, to Zukona for making this leak possible, and to OVH for helping with the upload!

Microsoft it yet to confirm that the leaked build is indeed RTM. However, WZOR, the Russian site from which the leak originated from, has been around for many years and it’s got a reputation for posting reliable information about leaked MS software in the past.

Now, we wouldn’t post a direct download link to this RTM since we’re not sure if that would be illegal or not (after all, this is still unreleased software). However, anyone wanting to download this release on a file sharing network should have enough information to do so in the above NFO itself :) If you are feeling adventurous, go ahead and check it out. If you want to download Service Pack 1 through official channels, it should hit the Microsoft Download Center in the coming weeks (or months, I’m not sure about the exact release date yet).

TorrentVault Reopens Invite Channel – Zero Day Tracker With 40000 Torrents

Looking to be a part of a great General/0Day tracker? You timing could not have been better. TorrentVault (TV), a Gazelle based private torrent tracker with tons of torrents and awesome pre times, has just re-opened its invites IRC channel after being closed for months. During the last couple of months, TV has grown from a lesser known private tracker into a well respected torrent site - it now features a torrent index with 40k+ torrents, great pre times, a unique bonus points system and the newly introduced TorrentVault Marketplace. In case you couldn’t get into this site through our special signup URL (which was posted a while back), you can now apply for an invite since the invites channel is open once again. Entry requirements for invites that are being handed out on IRC are not tough – even beginners to the BitTorrent scene stand a chance to gain entry into this tracker.

TorrentVault is by no means a young BitTorrent tracker. The site, which started out on TBDEV source several years ago, is one of the veterans in the BT scene. Things have certainly taken an upward turn for TV since their migration to Gazelle codebase back in November 2009. Pre times and the number of daily torrents added to the site improved drastically – good news is that TV has managed to keep the momentum going even after a full year since the switch. As of today, there are over 43000 active torrents on this tracker – roughly 150-200 new torrents get uploaded every day.

TorrentVault is a General/0Day torrent tracker and majority of the indexed files are scene releases. Both non spam and spam releases including foreign + English content get uploaded here. All sorts of content ranging from music, magazines to movies is indexed – there is a particularly high number of TV episodes available as well. Some of the torrent categories and several zero day packs are visible in the screenshot below:

TV has a unique bonus system based on ‘Gold’. Gold is awarded for seeding completed torrents. Every hour you are awarded a specific amount gold for each completed torrent you're seeding. The amount of gold you receive depends on the size of the torrent seeding. Additionally, you earn 2 gold for every forum post you make and 1 gold for every torrent you thank.Points earned in this manner can be exchanged for upload credit and other goodies in the TorrentVault Marketplace.

How to get invited to TorrentVault

As mentioned in the title of this post, TV has re-opened their IRC invites channel. According to site staff, around 2500-3000 invites will be given out in the first round. Entry requirements are not tough but everyone who is invited will be monitored for rule violations. Follow the step by step guide below to log into the TV invites channel. We recommend you use the mIRC client for this operation.

Close your web browser. Install mIRC. mIRC can be downloaded free of charge from this location. Do not run it yet.
TV IRC requires SSL connectivity so you’ll need to install SSL support for mIRC first. This is a one click process – simply download OpenSSL Setup from here and install it.
Open your web browser, paste the following link in address bar and press enter irc://irc.torrentvault.org:+9022.
This should open mIRC and log you into TorrentVault IRC server.
Once logged in, type /ns REGISTER username email in the mIRC console to register your nickname on this server.
Example (assuming your username is filenet and password is mypassword)-
/ns REGISTER filenet mypassword
Type /join #tv-invites to join the invites channel. Follow instructions on channel topic and request your invite. Good Luck!

If you encounter any issues with above instructions, feel free to post them in comments section.

Special thanks to Ze0de (TV SysOp) and Chronic Tron for the heads up.

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BTN Invites For Ex-ShareTheRemote Members Ahead Of Shutdown

By now, probably all of you have heard the news about imminent shutdown of ShareTheRemote, a gazelle based specialized TV torrent tracker. STR which launched to the public sometime around November 2009 will soon be closing down its operations permanently. Main reasons for the closure appears to be lack of funding, stagnating torrent uploads and member activity. While all loyal STR members will be saddened by this news, there is a silver lining in the dark cloud in the form of BTN. BTN, ones of the most successful TV trackers to hit the BitTorrent scene in recent months, is offering STR refuges a new home. An online form has now been made available through which ShareTheRemote members cam request for a free BTN invite. With BTN now being one of the best places on the internet to find and download TV shows, this is an excellent opportunity for STR members to make it their new home.

First, the reasons for STRS’s shutdown; following announcement is quoted from their homepage:

it's with great sadness that I write this post, however it's time to officially announce what many have been speculating about for quite some time: SharetheRemote has run its course and will be shutting down around the 16th of January.
While the immediate reason for this shutdown is a lack of funds (Note: Any donations made at this point will not be received until the 15th of February and will not help cover January's server bill), the prevailing reason is the stagnation that the site has faced. Both the torrent and user counts have floated around their current values and new features have came to a grinding halt ever since RC2 was prematurely released. The blame for this goes exclusively to the higher echelons of staff (developers+) - While the talent was certainly there, the activity simply was not. While it's a shame to see a site die due to a lack of organization, it's a harsh reality that we must face.
So what's to become of the torrents, users, and code? That's up to you guys. We currently aren't ruling out the idea of a merger, takeover by a new administration, or user relocation offer. For now, the site will be set to global freeleech until it goes down. Grab as much content as possible and make sure to share it with the world!

At last check (on 6/1/2010), STR tracked 5000 torrents and had an active user base of 7200+ members. You can find more information and screenshots of STR in our recent article located here.

A news item has also been posted on BTN homepage, announcing the partnership with STR:

As many of you know, SharetheRemote (StR) has recently announced it will be closing, leaving many of its members without a home
After long discussions, BTN has decided to accept Refugees from StR, and a system has been put in-place to securely validate these members prior to inviting them to BTN.
On behalf of BTN, I'd like to officially welcome our newest members from StR, and I hope you will all become part of our great community and as we do
//BTN Staff

BTN is a hugely successful ratio free TV tracker with 18000+ members and 22000+ active torrents. The site is known for it’s many advanced features, seedbox hosted torrents, autouploader bots and fast pre times. You can read a full overview of BTN in our recent article located here.

How to apply for a BTN invite

First and foremost, this offer is only valid for Ex-STR members. You can apply for a BTN invite through the electronic form made available in following location:

Invite Application URL: https://broadcasthe.net/str_refuge.php

Provided that you were a good member on STR, you will receive a BTN invite to the E-mail you specify in the form. Good Luck!

Special thanks to AzzA for the heads up.

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MP3Scene – MP3 Torrent Tracker Running On SoftMP3 Source

When it comes to scene music torrent trackers, SoftMP3 was nothing short of a legend. Back in its day, the site was hugely popular in the BitTorrent community and had pretty high demand from music fans across the world. However, SoftMP3 voluntarily shut down citing safety reasons after the Pirate bay court verdict back in 2009. Source code of the site was released to the public and naturally, a flurry of replacements and clones followed the demise of this once great tracker. Unfortunately none of the new alternatives were as successful as SoftMP3 and most had shut down for good by 2011. Today’s article is about MP3Scene – the newest MP3 music torrent tracker to be running on SoftMP3 source. Despite the bad luck surrounding torrent sites based on this script, MP3Scene is off to a fine start and is adding new torrents at a rapid pace.

Within just a week into its public launch, MP3Scene’s statistics are looking pretty good. The site has so far managed to recruit over 1600 members through open registrations and this number is expected to increase as this tracker gains more exposure. Number of active torrents which was just around 100 a couple of days ago has increased rapidly to 2000, with over 1000 torrents being added in the last two days alone – if MP3Scene uploaders can keep this pace up in the long run, this tracker is definitely going to be a win. With the planned launch of autouploader bot (which according to the SysOP should arrive sometime this weekend), frequency and speed at which new torrents are added might even see further improvements. While the start has definitely been good for MP3Scene, let’s hope this tracker won’t suffer the same fate as previous SoftMP3 source based sites such as SceneSound or CareStreet.

As its name suggests, MP3Scene is a music torrent tracker specializing in scene released MP3 music albums. Indexed music is organized into 40+ different genres including Rock, Pop, Indie, Punk, Jazz and more. In addition to MP3 files which form the majority of torrent index, this site tracks some MDVDR and Lossless music files as well. Just like SoftMP3, MP3Scene uses multiple torrent index pages as opposed to a single main index found on most other torrent sites. There are separate browse pages each for new releases, archived releases, requests and lossless music.

Being built on the same source base, ex members of SoftMP3, SceneSound or CareStreet trackers should feel right at home here. While there are minor changes made to the layout, favorite SoftMP3 features such as the archive section, lossless music section, customizable start page, easy to read FAQ and rules presentation, toplists and requests have all been retained.

Registrations for MP3Scene are currently open. It’s not known whether open signups would be closed anytime soon. Either way this looks like a promising new entrant to the MP3 trackers scene so go ahead and check it out.

Site Name: MP3Scene (http://mp3scene.org)

Signup URL: http://mp3scene.org/opensignup.php

Special thanks to Rytmus (SoftMP3 SysOp) and our reader BrandtOE for the heads up.

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R5 Movie DVD Release Dates For 2011 - January, February, March & More

Here we go – our first R5 DVD release dates update for the year 2011. As most of you would already know, knowing the DVD release date of a movie in advance is useful if you are planning to actually buy the DVD off the shelves. But it comes in handy even if you are a pirate too. Although movies don’t have an official ‘leak online date’ set by publishers, you can pretty much guess when some movies will appear on file sharing networks if you know their DVD Region 5 (R5) release date. The R5 format was first introduced to minimize DVD movie piracy in areas such as Russia, Indian subcontinent and Africa. These DVDs are usually released ahead of other regions and are cheaper than their R1/R2 counterparts (in an attempt to convert would-be pirates). However, scene/P2P groups too use this to their advantage by making releases combining video ripped from R5 DVDs (which have near DVDRip quality) and English audio from CAM/TS sources. A R5 is the next best thing for BitTorrent downloaders unless a DVDRip, BRRip or a true HD copy of the movie is already available.

Listed below are R5 release dates for January – December 2011. Please keep in mind that these dates are subject to frequent change. Additionally, note that some of the movies mentioned below have R1 DVD and Blu Ray versions already released or leaked online.

January 2011

The Virginity Hit - 13th January 2011
Devil - 18th January 2011
Submarino - 19th January 2011
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - 20th January 2011
My Name Is Khan - 20th January 2011
Open Season 3 - 20th January 2011
My Soul To Take - 27th January 2011
Red - 27th January 2011
Get It At Goode’s - January 2011

February 2011

Womb - 2nd February 2011
Sniper: Reloaded - 3rd February 2011
The Social Network - 3rd February 2011 (Second Date)
Gulliver’s Travels - 10th February 2011
The Tourist - 10th February 2011
The Erotic Man - February 16th 2011
I Spit on Your Grave - 16th February 2011
Ticking Clock - 17th February 2011
Life as We Know It - 17th February 2011
Burlesque - 24th February 2011
Love and Other Drugs - 24th February 2011
Sanctum - 24th February 2011
The Virginity Hit - 24th February 2011
Trust - February 2011
Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 - February 2011

March 2011

The Green Hornet - 3rd March 2011
A Little Bit of Heaven - 3rd March 2011
Hit List - 3rd March 2011
Due Date - 3rd March 2011
How Do You Know? - 10th March 2011
Coriolanus - 17th March 2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 - 17th March 2011
Burlesque - 24th March 2011
Ben Hur - 31th March 2011
Love, Wedding, Marriage - March 2011
Confucius - March 2011
Largo Winch (Tome 2) - March 2011
Tangled - March 2011
Secretariat - March 2011
Tron: Legacy - March 2011

April 2011

Battle: Los Angeles - 7th April 2011
Vanishing on 7th Street - 7th April 2011
Just Go With It - 14th April 2011
The Debt - 19th April 2011
Faster - 21th April 2011
Butter - 21st April 2011
Yogi Bear - 28th April 2011
The Roommate - 28th April 2011
The Irishman - April 2011
An Invisible Sign - April 2011
Mona Lisa - April 2011
The Job - April 2011

May 2011

Insidious - 5th May
Hit List - 12th May
Provinces of Night - 12th May
Bad Teacher - 19th May
Country Strong - 26th May
Hereafter - 26th May

June 2011

Unknown - June 2
Hall Pass - June 9
The Fields – June
Orlando - June

July 2011

Sucker Punch - July 28

August 2011

Red Riding Hood - August 11
Drive Angry 3D - August 25

October 2011

Hangover Part II, The - October 6
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island - October 6
Arthur - October 13
Green Lantern - October 20

November 2011

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 - November 17

December 2011

Horrible Bosses - December 1
A Very Harold

Above information was compiled using two main sources:

Sam’s Blog which is one of the most frequently updated release dates resources online
Thread posted by PooPy on SCC forums

Once again, please note that DVD releases are subject to frequent change and the list above may not be 100% accurate. As usual, updated articles will be posted when less abstract, precise release dates become available in the coming days.

R5 DVD Release Dates For September, October & November 2010 (Updated)

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UnionGang Tracker – Good Source For R5 DVDs, HDRips, BDRips & Other Torrents

After a series of posts about smaller, niche private torrent trackers, we return to large general torrent sites that everyone seems to be so fond of. The tracked being featured today is of Russian origin - Russians are no strangers to piracy and they certainly know their game when it comes to private torrent trackers (the world’s largest’ private tracker, RuTracker, has its roots in Russia). UnionGang is another BitTorrent tracker from this very same country – it’s not as large as RuTracker but it’s still a decently sized private tracker by any standards. UG is a general torrent site which indexes everything ranging from music, games to TV shows but it’s better known for its movie repository which includes releases of varying quality ranging from DVDRs to BRRips. UG is also one of the first sites to upload leaked regional content i.e. R5 DVD releases by groups such as ELEKTRIKA.

With an Alexa ranking just under 29000, UnionGang is one of the more frequently visited sites in the BitTorrent scene. It’s popular among the Russian BT community but it’s not a huge hit in the English speaking world. This makes no sense as there is a ton of English content indexed on UG, not just localized, regional releases. True, the interface is all in Russian but this is easily fixed with the help of Google Chrome’s inbuilt translation tool (see below for instructions) or using a web based translation service. At time of this post, UG tracked over 4500 active torrents.

UnionGang is a General/0Day torrent tracker – you should be able to find music releases, TV shows, movies games, cartoons and all other popular scene and P2P releases around here. As mentioned earlier, UG is usually among the first few torrent sites on the web to index uploads by Russian P2P groups such as ELEKTRIKA. Bulk of the indexed uploads are movies – they come in all sorts of popular formats such as HDRips, BRRips, BDRips and even Satellite television rips (SATRip). Torrents are well seeded and download speeds are great – popular releases usually have 200+ seeders uploading back. Screenshot below captures some of the torrents indexed on this tracker (note that release group name is absent on torrent title):

UnionGang interface is in Russian language and this might be a turn off for some English speaking users. However, you can easily translate the entire site to English using Google Chrome browser.

How to translate UnionGang to English with Google Chrome

Download the latest version of Google Chrome browser from here.
Visit TTG forum homepage through this link: http://www.uniongang.tv
Once the page is done loading, Google Chrome will automatically display several translation options (the message will be displayed just beneath the address bar – you can’t miss it).
Choose the auto detected settings (should be Russian to English) and hit translate. If you get the message ‘Translation failed due to server error’ keep re-trying.
Once translation of the first page is done, you can configure Google Chrome so that it automatically translates all UnionGang pages without prompting you. Select the ‘Options’ button (in the translation help popup) and select ‘Always translate Russian to English’ from the drop down menu.

Registrations for UnionGang are currently open. You can sign up for an account and browse the torrent index using links below:

Site Name: UnionGang (http://www.uniongang.tv)
Signup URL: http://www.uniongang.tv/signup.php
Torrent Browse Page URL: http://www.uniongang.tv/browse.php

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