Ozone–Torrents is open for signup – General tracker

Popular General/0Day private tracker Ozone-Torrents (Ozone-T) is currently open for signup. Ozone Torrents has decent pre times, good download speeds and a considerable number of users. As a general tracker it tracks all new movies, music, TV episodes, E-books and other scene and p2p releases. This includes lots of Howard Stern show torrents (there is an entire category dedicated to those). If you are looking for a decent General tracker, don’t forget to check this site out.

Ozone-Torrents is more than a year old and is a pretty well established tracker in the BitTorrent scene with it’s own community. It’s not exactly a tiny site but a medium sized one compared to most other private torrent trackers – there are around 7000 members and 9600+ active torrents. Something I’ve noticed with Ozone-T is the very high number of new torrents added in a day – for example more than 125 torrents have been added today alone.

As for the content it has basically everything a General/0Day tracker should have; scene and p2p releases, packs and exclusive torrents. Ozone-T currently has close to 70 movie packs and over 330 TV season packs, some of which are shown in the screenshot below:

 

Ozone-T usually requires you to make a donation if you are to get in. However it does open free public signups from time to time (like now) so you cannot really categorize it as a pay-to-leech tracker. Anyway it’s been open for quite some time today and something tells me signups will close soon – get in while you can. Following countries are banned btw; Romania, Turkey, Pakistan, Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Site Name: Ozone-Torrents (http://www.ozone-torrents.org)

Signup URL: http://www.ozone-torrents.org/signup.php

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Call of Juarez Bound In Blood – No protection, no crack but still leaked

Call of Juarez : Bound in Blood is a western themed first person shooter (FPS) that was officially released in North America on the 30th of June. The game is published by Ubisoft and is the second game in the series with the first one being released back in 2006. I’ve managed to install and play the game and it’s definitely looks and feels better than its predecessor. It also seems to be very well optimized and compact. However, what’s even more significant than the gameplay is that Call of Juarez : Bound in Blood is completely DRM free. Nope, not even a serial check is included.

A lot of newly released PC games come embedded with DRM software much to the dislike of legitimate users; 99% of the time the DRM gets cracked and pirates usually get to play the DRM free version while legit users are left with no choice. However Ubisoft have decided not to include any sort of DRM in Call of Juarez : Bound in Blood, just like they did for Prince of Persia 2008 and a few other recent titles. This is actually a welcome move by Ubisoft at a time when newer, more ridiculous DRM technologies are starting to emerge.

Anyhow the seemingly good gesture of no-DRM hasn’t stopped pirates from leaking the game online. Veteran scene group Razor1911 released a full DVD ISO image of the game a few hours ago on scene topsites. This release has now spread everywhere in the world from BitTorrent trackers to one click hosting services. There is no crack included in this release as there is no requirement for a one. Pirates however will not be able to play online multiplayer which requires a genuine CD-Key/serial.

By the way I’ve seen a lot of people complain about the auto aim feature of Bound in Blood which makes gameplay kinda easy. I thought this feature could be disabled from the game’s options menu – If you go to options—> Controls and in the ‘Configuration’ choose XBOX360 controller, you’ll see the option to disable auto aim. This however does not seem to have any effect in a Keyboard + Mouse setup.

ReFuX – BitTorrent tracker for audio appz and music editing/authoring software

If you are interested in music editing/music authoring, here is a private BitTorrent tracker that you might find useful. ReFuX.us initially began as a new audio production tracker based on Gazelle, which specialized in audio applications, music authoring tools and music editing software. It still tracks somewhat similar content to trackers such as Audiotracer, AZT and AudioNews but expect this to change soon. Site rules have been updated recently and now any type of Windows and Mac applications (not just audio related appz) are now allowed on ReFux.us.

This tracker is about 1 month old (as of 29/6/09) and during this time it’s attracted close to 850 members. Close to 300 torrents have been uploaded as well. Download speeds seem to be generally good and if the notice on homepage is correct some of the torrents are seeded using a seedbox.

As for the content on ReFuX currently the tracker is full of audio related appz. However according to new site rules all types of applications are allowed: “we accept all types of applications for windows or mac as uploads, no movies and no music!". Refer to screenshot below to get a better idea about the content available on this tracker:

At the time this post is being written, ReFuX is open to the public. However the current poll on the site hints about the site going invite only pretty soon (poll question is Should we go invite only at 1000 users? to which 80% of the responses have voted ‘Yes’) so if you are interested in joining this tracker, do it now. All new users get 2 free invites upon signup.

Site Name: ReFuX (http://refux.us)

Signup URL: http://refux.us/register.php

Slopsbox – Disposable free E-mail service from Pirate Bay crew

There’s quite a lot of buzz on the web about VideoBay, the latest project launched by the crew behind world’s largest BitTorrent tracker. This post however is not about VideoBay but about another lesser known service launched by TPB crew; Slopsbox. Apparently TPB are not only capable of giving the finger to anti piracy groups but also of fighting E-mail spam too. Slopsbox is a free E-mail service which has some unique characteristics. Slopsbox addresses are disposable – you can instantly create one, use it and then forget all about it without having to worry about getting spammed.

How you can use Slopsbox is  explained in detail on the service’s homepage. Part of the description is quoted below:

When someone asks for your e-mail address, give them anything@slopsbox.com (or one of the other add-on domain names). You can replace "anything" with, well anything, i.e. douglas@slopsbox.com, asdfasdf@slopsbox.com or arrgh@slopsbox.com. Get the mail sent to the address you picked by entering the address in the field above and login.

Voila! There you have your spam, served cold. However, you can't get any attachments and mail is automatically deleted after 24 hours.

I’ve found Slopsbox pretty useful when signing up for unknown/random sites which require E-mail confirmation. Just provide an @slopsbox address, get the confirmation mail and forget about it. You wouldn't have to worry even if the site is used for E-mail account harvesting by spamming whackjobs.

However keep in mind that you won’t be able to (and you shouldn’t) use @slopbox addresses permanently. And be aware that anyone who knows the first part of the address will also be able to check the inbox as there is no password requirement.

[Click Here] to visit Slopsbox homepage

Private Tracker Open Signups – 15 BitTorrent Sites Open for Registration

I guess a collective tracker update was long overdue. This post summarize information about 15 private torrent trackers that are currently open to the public. There are lots of new sites in this list - consider this article as a revisit to some of the trackers featured on FILEnetworks Blog in the past two months. BitTorrents sites specializing in HD content, scene releases, DVDR releases, classic movies, music, games, sports and more are included. If you somehow missed signup for these trackers the first time around, here is a second chance. You can also see how some of the brand new sites we featured just days after their launch have progressed thus far.

Most readers tend to signup for a tracker the moment they see the signup link. But we highly recommend you read the full tracker review (link to which will be provided below each tracker’s description) and only join the sites that would actually be of use for you.

HDME
 
Site Name: HDME (http://hdme.eu)
Signup URL: http://hdme.eu/signup.php
Stats: ~7500 members and 675+ torrents
Description: New HD tracker that has risen to popularity in a quick span of time. Nice interface and content.
Full review + Screenshots: [Click Here]

SceneLive
  
Site Name: Scenelive (http://www.scenelive.org)
Signup URL: http://www.scenelive.org/live/signup.php
Stats: 3600+ users and 1100+ torrents
Description: SceneLive is a general/0day tracker which was initially ratio free. Due to excessive hit and runs, a ratio system has now been introduced.
Full review + Screenshots: [Click Here]

AvistaZ
 
Site Name: AvistaZ (http://bt.avistaz.com)
Signup URL: http://bt.avistaz.com/account.php
Stats: 8200+ torrents and 82400 users
Description: One of the best sites around for Asian movies. Huge user base and torrents index. Seems to have gone through a massive cleanup lately (used to have around 122k users and seems like around 40k of them got deleted for inactivity)
Full review + Screenshots: [Click Here]

T3NNIS.TV
 
Site Name: T3nnis.tv (http://t3nnis.tv)
Signup URL: http://t3nnis.tv/signup.php
Stats: 18200+ members and 2950+ torrents
Description: Has recorded impressive growth for a niche tracker. One of the best resources on the net for Tennis related multimedia content.
Full review + Screenshots: [Click Here]

DVDRSOURCE
 
Site Name: DVDRSOURCE (http://www.dvdrsource.org)
Signup URL: http://www.dvdrsource.org/svartasignup.php
Stats:
Description: Simply one of the fastest growing full DVDR trackers that could one day replace the now defunct SWEDVDR. Signups open for members of recently shut down SvartaKatten but that doesn’t mean others can’t join.
Full review + Screenshots: [Click Here]

I Love Classics
 
Site Name: I Love Classics (http://www.iloveclassics.com)
Signup URL: http://www.iloveclassics.com/signup.php
Stats: ~1000 users and 1780+ torrents
Description: As the name suggests, ILC is a tracker for older, classic movies. Has added close to 2k torrents in a short span of time.
Full review + Screenshots: [Click Here]

Ace-HD
 
Site Name: Ace-HD (http://www.ace-hd.net)
Signup URL: http://www.ace-hd.net/signup.php
Stats: 4200+ members and 600+ torrents
Description: Ace-HD is a new HD tracker that has shown a lot of promise. Tracks both TV shows and movies in High Def formats.
Full review + Screenshots: [Click Here]

Romanian ShareReactor
 
Site Name: Romanian ShareReactor (http://tracker.sharereactor.ro/)
Signup URL: http://tracker.sharereactor.ro/registration.php
Stats:
Description: One of the best General/0Day trackers to open registrations lately, RsR is a well established site which is over 4 years old. There are only around 200 spots left so hurry.
Full review + Screenshots: [Click Here]

Games BitShock
 
Site Name: Games BitShock (http://games.bitshock.org)
Signup URL: http://games.bitshock.org/signup.php
Stats: 3500+ users and 360 torrents
Description: New games tracker from the same crew behind popular general tracker BitShock.
Full review + Screenshots: [Click Here]

The Place
 
Site Name: The Place (http://www.theplace.bz) 
Signup URL: http://theplace.bz/signup.php
Stats: 6000+ users and 13000+ torrents
Description: The Place is a tracker that specializes in lifestyle content including Food, Drinking, Dancing, Health, Fitness, Seduction, NLP and Cooking to Magic Illusions.
Full review + Screenshots: [Click Here] – Includes reviews of The Vault, The Occult and The Box as well, some of which are also open for signup.

PTFiles
 
Site Name: PTFiles (http://ptfiles.net/)
Signup URL: http://ptfiles.net/register.php
Stats: 4250+ users and 2250+ torrents
Description: PTFiles is a pretty cool General/0-Day tracker with a nice set of features/add-ons and a good community.
Full review + Screenshots: [Click Here]

Emuparadise
 
Site Name: Emuparadise (http://bt.emuparadise.org:6969/index.php)
Signup URL: http://bt.emuparadise.org:6969/index.php?page=signup
Stats: 16650+ users and 1200+ torrents
Description: Emuparadise is BitTorrent tracker for everything related to console emulation. Lots of Emulators, ROMS, etc can be found here. 
Full review + Screenshots: [Click Here]

MakeGreatMusic
 
Site Name: Make Great Music (http://www.makegreatmusic.net)
Signup URL: http://www.makegreatmusic.net/signup.php
Stats: 4500+ users and ~2250 torrents
Description: MakeGreatMusic is a great tracker to have if you want to learn music. It’s also one of the best trackers around for fiction and non fiction audiobooks.
Full review + Screenshots: [Click Here]

The Scene
 
Site Name: The Scene (http://thescene.ro/)
Signup URL: ttp://thescene.ro/signup.php
Stats: ~1350 torrents
Description: TheScene is a ratio free music torrent tracker
Full review + Screenshots: [Click Here] 

Total-Sports
 
Site Name: Total-Sports (http://total-sports.tv)
Signup URL: http://total-sports.tv/signup.php
Stats: 2150+ users and ~80 torrents
Description: Total-Sports is a new sports tracker which has quickly added over 2k members. Wide variety of sports events are coveered.
Full review + Screenshots: [Click Here]

Note: All statistics of torrent sites are as of 28/6/2009.

How to get new torrent updates via Twitter

In our last post we highlighted how important a service Twitter has become in this era. Although there are tons of Twitter apps for various tasks, I’ve not seen many apps that are related to BitTorrent being launched (apart from a few such as TorrentTwitter). This article will teach you how to create a Twitter account that automatically Tweets when new torrents are released on private torrent trackers. It’s not rocket science and is just a matter of bridging together two already existing services; TwitterFeed and tracker RSS.

What we’re goanna do is to ‘burn’ a private tracker’s RSS feed into Twitter so that it’ll tweet whenever a new torrent is added to the tracker. Yeah it’s basically like subscribing to the RSS feed but with followers and 3rd party Twitter apps it’d be way cooler than RSS.

1. If you don’t have a Twitter account, go to http://twitter.com/signup and create one now.
2. Visit www.twitterfeed.com and create a new account. Login using the newly created TwitterFeed account and click on ‘go to my twitter feeds (or create a new one)’.
3. Click on create new feed. You will be asked to fill a form.
4. In ‘username’ and ‘password’ fields, type the same username and password used for the Twitter account you created at step 1. Paste a compatible RSS feed from private tracker into the ‘RSS feed’ field. Note: For more help on finding a compatible RSS feed, see the ‘How to find a suitable RSS feed’ section below. Set the ‘Update Frequency’ to ‘Every 30 minutes’.
5. Now this is important – make sure you un-tick the ‘Include item link’ checkbox (See screenshot below). If you use the RSS feed of a private tracker, leaving this checkbox ticked will expose your passkey to the public - this could get you banned from the tracker.
6. Tick the ‘Active’ checkbox to activate the feed and press the update button.
   

That should do it. Your twitter account will now automatically tweet when a new torrent is released on the private tracker of your choice.

Choosing an RSS feed

Most private and public BitTorrent trackers now provide RSS updates. On private trackers these can usually be found on the links.php page (ex-http://www.sitename.com/links.php). Some sites index these under rss.php page. On Gazelle based trackers and several other bittorrent sites, you can get the URL of RSS feed by simply logging onto the site and clicking on the orange RSS icon on the browser address bar.

Feeds compatible with TwitterFeed

Some of the private tracker RSS feeds are incompatible with TwitterFeed. If you try to use an incompatible feed, TwitterFeed will return the error message similar to “We couldn't find valid date/time stamps or GUIDs on items. Please make sure your feed contains valid pubDate entries or GUIDs for each post”. In such cases, the only options is to use a feed from another tracker. Here is a list of public and private site RSS feeds that we've found to be working with TwitterFeed.

• The Pirate Bay – RSS feeds page
• Demonoid – RSS feeds page
• Tvrss.net – a site that offers RSS feeds on TV episode releases
• Bitmetv
• RsR (Romanian ShareReactor)
• TorrentBytes
• Bitme
• XTVi – another public TV torrent index with custom RSS feeds for each show
• and possibly tons more which we didn't have the time to test (Check the sites in our private trackers section)

Note that some trackers offer categorized RSS feeds. Subscribing to a categorized feed is usually better (some trackers allow you to combine updates from several categories into one RSS feed). Subscribing to the entire feed will send Twitter updates for every torrent added to the tracker whether you like it or not – and we could be talking about a hundred releases per day. When you subscribe to categorized or custom feeds, make sure you choose the ‘no cookies’ version (if available).

Want to see how this works? Check out @updateserv. @updateserv is an experimental Twitter account we made some time ago which Tweets about new Game and Movie releases (based on Romanian Sharereactor’s RSS feed).

Also, don’t forget that you can follow @filenetworks on Twitter for latest BitTorrent news, leaks and more.

Follow @filenetworks on Twitter for BitTorrent news, tracker updates, leaks & more

Although we’ve been having a Twitter account for nearly an year, it lay in an ‘abandoned’ state for the most part . What we mean by abandoned is that there was no human involvement in managing that account – it’s been Tweeting about new articles posted on FILEnetworks Blog which was entirely an automated task. However, with a huge following and a host of services based around it, Twitter has become too valuable of a service to ignore anymore. So we plan to become more involved in updating our Twitter account.

Although not much publicity was given to it, we’ve already got a couple hundred Twitter followers which is great. Anyways if you want to get notified about BitTorrent news, private tracker updates/downtime notices, leaks, downloads, games, software and more, follow @filenetworks on Twitter! You can also send us feedback and use this as a means to contact us directly.

You can of course help us spread the word by retweeting our stories if you think they are worth a read!

onlyDVDs tracker – Download full DVD movie torrents

Lately we’ve seen a lot of DVDR trackers being launched and onlyDVDs is the newest site to join this club. It’s a private torrent tracker that deals with untouched (non-rip) DVD5/DVD9 movies. It would be incorrect to say that onlyDVDs is a brand new tracker. It’s in fact a re-launched and re-branded version of the General/0Day tracker once known as Dreamzonept – everything from the site URL to the stylesheet has changed during re-launch and it’s now a completely different tracker than the original. At the time this post is being written, onlyDVDs is just one day old – if what we hear is correct public registrations will remain open during the first month.

onlyDVDs currently has over 250 registered members and close to 50 torrents. These are good statistics for a one day old tracker and the numbers were no doubt boosted by the old user base and the torrents at Dreamzonept (Dreamzonept had quite a few DVDR torrents at the time it was closed). There seems to be a steady flow of new torrents being added to onlyDVDs and it would be great if this trend continues without being limited to the first few days since launch.

As for the content available on this tracker, it’s mainly movies. Judging by the list of categories, both new/old movies as well as animation will be added. Screenshot below shows part of the torrent index of onlyDVDs:

Like most other private BitTorrent trackers, onlyDVDs does have a bonus system where you can trade bonus points for upload credits or invites. Invites seem to be pretty cheap – you can buy 3 of them for just 20 credits (while 75 credits are required to purchase 1GB upload credit).

It’s still too early to make predictions about the success/failure of onlyDVDs since it’s so new. You can check the site out for yourself since registrations are open.

Site Name: onlyDVDs (http://onlydvds.org)

Signup URL: http://onlydvds.org/signup.php

Categories:

• ANIMATION
• CUSTOM-PT
• DVD5
• DVD9
• MDVDR
• OLDIES
• PT
• TV-DVDR

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Release group RAGEMP3 quits the scene after raids

This news is about 3 days old but since it was never given much publicity, here goes. If you read this TorrentFreak article, you are probably aware of the recent raids conducted against well known MP3 release groups from the warez scene. Although the article only mentions DV8 , raids directly affected another popular group RAGEMP3. From what we know the leader of DV8 (who got arrested) was also the leader of RAGEMP3. And it is now confirmed that at least one of these groups has quit the scene for good. Quoted below is a SceneNotice posted by RAGEMP3:

Due to the recent events, RAGEMP3 is now officially done.  We had a long run and it was a great 10 years.  Someone made a poor decision and now a veteran group is shutting it's doors.  Thanks for everything.

- RAGEMP3 -

ps. griffen is a bitch and a fed.  So delete him from your sites.

There were a lot of rumors about RAGEMP3/DV8 leader re-selling promos on E-Bay. We don’t know if these rumors were true but there were other SceneNotices that flamed both the groups for trading music – I_Am_Very_Good_At_Trading-Look_My_Skills-(Retail)-2009-RAGEMP3 and VA-Now_Thats_What_I_Call-Obvious_Auttot_Rading-EBAY_PROMO-2009-DV8.

There will of course be another group to take RAGEMP3’s place but they really were veterans when it came to scene released MP3s. A lot of the promos and advance MP3 releases that hit the scene in the recent past were by these two groups. R.I.P.

It is currently not known of DV8 too has officially quit.

vgmTorrents - Video game music tracker

vgmTorrents is really a unique private BitTorrent tracker. It’s probably the only tracker in the world  that is completely dedicated to video game music. It’s true that sites such as LZTR have  soundtracks from games but it’s not really their specialty. vgmTorrents on the other hand is all about official soundtracks (OST) of games. Most of the game OST available on this tracker are pretty rare and not usually found on even the largest of General trackers. vgmTorrents is a new entrant to the BitTorrent scene ( launched on May 2009) but things have so far looked good for this tracker.

The following text which describes vgmTorrents and it’s goals is quoted from the site’s ‘About’ page:

vgmTorrents is a videogame music related private tracker. We do care about the quality and reliability of our releases, trying to offer any kind of VGM content, from soundtracks to documentaries and video interviews. Our goal is to let anybody know about videogame music, a genre which is generally overlooked, largely because most of those CDs are out of stock, or only available in Japan and Asian online stores, with high-priced shipping costs. Anyone can upload VGM stuff on vgmTorrents, though registration is required to ensure anybody does have a positive sharing ratio. You are more than welcome in the community - enjoy videogame music!

As of 27/6/2009 vgmTorrents tracks over 200 video game music torrents. Most of the audio is in lossless formats while some OST are in MP3 and AAC. Check out the following screenshot to get a better idea about the site’s content:

One of the best things about vgmTorrents is that it’s not just a torrent tracker. They have a frequently updated blog (which is the homepage), a twitter account, Last.fm page, live RSS feeds and more. At the time this post is being written, public registrations are enabled so check it out. If you are a video game music enthusiast or a collector, this tracker is a must have.

Site Name: vgmTorrents (http://vgmtorrents.net)

Signup URL: http://vgmtorrents.net/wp-login.php?action=register

mojblink – Large Slovenian private tracker with lots of English torrents

It’s been a while since we featured a huge private tracker. Yep, despite court cases and countless raids, large BitTorrent sites still exist in almost all parts of the world (Torrents.Ru, ArenaBG, RARBG, Zamunda, Partis.si to name a few). mojblink is one such huge private tracker that is based in Slovenia. Although it’s a Slovenian tracker, English releases are plentiful on mojblink. In fact almost all major scene and p2p releases can be found on this tracker. Also, there is no shortage of freeleech packs on mojblinks – some of these packs however seem to have been taken from other elite trackers.

As mentioned in the title of this article, this is a huge tracker. As of 26/6/2009 there are over 48500 registered users and 17000+ active torrents in the database. When compared to ArenaBG and Zamunda (which do not enforce mandatory ratio requirements), mojblink has tight rules regarding ratio. Users need to maintain a upload:download ratio of 0.9 or above in order to survive on this tracker.

As for the content tracked by mojblink,there is a huge amount of English scene and p2p releases available on this tracker. It does track local Slovenian content as well. Like most other General/0Day trackers, there are plenty of freeleech packs online as well - some the packs are shown in the screenshot below:

Did you notice the ending tags on torrent pack names? Tags such as –TL, ScT, TVT, TBy only means these are exclusive packs tracked by TorrentLeech, TvTorrents, SceneTorrents, TorrentBytes and other private trackers. Although ‘stealing’ exclusive packs is frowned upon in the Bittorrent community, I don’t think leechers of mojblinks would mind at all.

blink’s interface is kinda cool and has a web 2.0 look to it. However it might be a turn off for English speaking users – everything is written on Slovenian. Even so it’s fairly easy to find your way around the site even without knowing any Slovenian – most of you probably won’t use any other part of the site than the torrent index anyways. 

Registrations are open and interested readers mayu create an account for free.

Site Name: mojblink (http://mojblink.com)

Signup URL: http://mojblink.com/login.php and click on ‘Registracija‘ to expand signup menu

How to fix Overlord 2 crash at startup

PC version of Overlord 2, the sequel to 2007’s popular 3rd person action adventure game, was released to the public just two days ago. From what I have experienced so far it’s a pretty decent game which retains the cartoon styled ‘evil’ and humor from the original game. Overlord 2 seemingly does not contain any showstopper bugs but several people have experienced crashes when trying to launch the game. If you are one of those souls, here is something you can do to fix it.

As you may already know most recently released games support hardware based physics acceleration (through NVIDIA PhysX and so on). Overlord 2 is no exception. In fact it seems to have developed ‘special bond’ with PhysX; the game is likely to crash on startup if latest version of NVIDIA PhysX is not installed. The strange part is that you might be required to install PhysX even if you own an ATI video card. Overlord 2 seems to require the PhysX runtime in order to function properly – it won’t give you hardware accelerated physics effects when using ATI cards or NVIDIA cards without PhysX support, but it will at least let you run the game without it crashing at launch.

[Click Here] to download NVIDIA PhysX System Software v9.09.0428 for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7

Pirate Bay to file charges against Sweden?

Yep, you heard correctly – it’s not the other way round. Crew behind the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker is likely to file charges against their home country, Sweden for violation of human rights. The move comes shortly after Sweden’s appeals court ruled that the previous verdict against TPB was not affected by bias and a retrial was unnecessary. Further details are not known at this moment. If you were wondering where we got this piece of information, brokep (TPB admin) twittered it about an hour ago:

The Pirate Bay will now file charges against Sweden for violation for Human Rights. More info later. (The bias-judge is himself biased...)

You can follow brokep on Twitter via http://twitter.com/brokep. Regardless of what the outcome of the court case is, there’ll definitely be a lot of drama in the coming months. Anyways it’s good to see at least one BitTorrent tracker taking anti pirates head on in the courts – it’s an uphill battle but who knows, TPB might emerge victorious after all.

Crack for ARMA 2 delayed by FADE DRM protection

ARMA 2, the highly anticipated tactical shooter from Bohemeia interactive, has finally been released to the public. Given the game’s generally positive ratings and popularity of previous games by its developer (Operation Flashpoint, ArmA : Armed Assault, to name a few), it looks like ARMA 2 will go on to become a huge hit in 2009. However if you are one of those folks looking to pirate the game, you might have to wait a little longer. ARMA 2 is protected by DRM and it’s full of triggers that makes gameplay a living hell for pirates.

ARMA 2 is protected by FADE DRM system developed by Macrovision. Unlike most other protections, FADE won’t throw and error message upon detecting a pirated copy. It will let you play the game normally and you’ll be overjoyed at first thinking that your hack or crack to bypass the protection actually worked. However FADE will disable game features one by one, eventually making it unplayable for the pirates (remember the drunk camera in GTA4?). 

This is exactly what’s happening with ARMA2. For the few pirates who actually managed to get the game running (using the leaked image or using a non English copy) FADE is proving to be a tough nut to crack. According to posts on various gaming forums, pirates are experiencing problems with aiming (inaccurate aim/unable to aim left and right), camera issues such as locked or wobbly camera, useless bullets, weak AI, difficulty issues, control issues and so on (well some of these might be actual bugs with the game – there is no way to know).

Currently there is no crack that properly disables the FADE protection. Whatever fixes that are circulating on file sharing networks are either partially working solutions or fakes. Given the time consuming task of identifying and removing FADE triggers one by one, a working crack might not surface for a while anyway.

TVTorrents.com down, PTN set to return

As always, the past week has been a quite eventful one for the BitTorrent scene. New trackers were launched, several existing trackers were closed and some trackers that were down have begun to show signs of life. Through this article we hope to discuss about the recent downtime of TVTorrents.com, the return of PTN and the closure of RandomByes and SvartaKatten. And of course, if you know something we don’t, feel free to share the info by posting a comment to this article.

PTN set to return

Fans of this popular ratio free movie torrent tracker can finally heave a sigh of relief. PTN is showing signs of life after being down for several consecutive days. The tracker is already up and the site now displays the following notice:

It’s about time folks, I’m already missing those movie packs!

R.I.P. RandomBytes and SvartaKatten

It’s never a good news when a BitTorrent tracker closes down for good. Unfortunately it happens once in a while and latest sites to join the private tracker graveyard are RandomBytes (RBy) and SvartaKatten. Both these trackers have seemingly shut down due to financial reasons (at least they were not sued). Following is quoted from RBY’s homepage:

The reason for this is, we were hit with a 680 euro bill for bandwidth usage. That is on top of the monthly server bills. All bandwidth was supposed to be inclusive. We have never begged for donations and won’t start now. Instead of moving I have decided to close. The site has become too much of a strain financially and mentally.

Part of the message displayed on SvartaKatten’s home page (translated) is also posted below:

It's been an honor to share with you.
Black Cat is hereby closed as of June 21, 2009.
It has been a very enjoyable time with much laughter, experiences and good movies! But everything has its time, and unfortunately, we had a couple of holes in the hull from the outset who did so that we finally took in too much water and sank.

If you want to know how these two trackers looked in the past, you can read our RandomBytes review through this link and SvartaKatten review can be found here. R.I.P.

TVTorrents.Com is offline

UPDATE: Great news. TVT.COM is back online. Reason for downtime is currently unknown. Something I just noticed is that their invites system has been re-enabled after being disabled for a while (don’t know if this is a glitch).

Original Article: TVTorrents.COM, one of the largest and most popular TV torrent trackers in existence, has been unreachable for about 24 hours. To make matters worse, the site’s IRC channel (irc://irc.tvtorrents.com/tvtorrents) has been down as well. Since TVT.COM has disappeared without a warning or an explanation, it’s users should no doubt feeling a little uneasy. Although this tracker suffered from several downtimes in the recent past, they were usually pretty short and the site came back up within hours. In almost all these cases the IRC server was never disrupted. Anyway let’s hope this is not something serious – we’ll update if when get any new info.

250 Bibliotik Invites – Torrent Tracker for PDF/LIT/TXT eBooks, Magazines & Comics

About a month ago we featured Bibliotik – a new private torrent tracker with lots of library material such as comics, audiobooks, E-Books, novels, magazines and so on. Although invites were/are available on IRC channel, Bibliotik has not had any open signups ever since its public launch back in May 2009. So if you still have not managed to get into this tracker, here is some great news – we bring you 250 valid invite codes which can be used to create free Bibliotik accounts. There is no need to go through interviews or to provide ratio proofs/speedtest results/profile links – just grab a code from the list below.

Just as we predicted, Bibliotik recorded an impressive growth over the past month or so. It now tracks a massive collection of over 5300 torrents most of which are E-books (in .LIT, .PDF and .TXT formats). You can download fiction, non fiction and educational E-books from this tracker along with comics, magazines, audiobooks, journals and scholarly articles. Bibliotik runs on a customized version of Gazelle codebase – torrent collections based on authors/publishers/artists, tagging, advanced search and requests are just some of the notable features available on this site.

And now for the invites. In our last few giveaways, readers were asked to send a blank email to our (or tracker staff’s) E-mail address so that an invite could be mailed back. Since I am in no mood to send 250 E-mails (and no other editor would offer to do it- the lazy asses), the entire list of codes has been pasted below. Note that codes are served on a ‘first come, first served’ basis. We have a limited number of invites at our disposal so you might want to hurry.

Note: This is a FILEnetworks exclusive giveaway. We don’t mind you sharing this news with your friends at other BitTorrent forums/sites but please do not copy paste the list of invitation codes elsewhere. If you want to share the news, feel free to link to this article instead. This giveaway should be productive for both the users as well as the tracker itself – we do not want random people signing up just because they can, without even knowing what Bibliotik is about.

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(Yes, it’s actually 247 codes, not 250 as the title claims :p )

How to use the invitation code

Enter URL with format below in your browser address bar:
http://bibliotik.org/register//
Example:
http://bibliotik.org/register/498abbfef06590362a0678f4f0d1319c349eb227

Good Luck!

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The Game Scene Chart Magazine - Issue No. 31 ( May 2009)

Your favorite coded magazine is back with another issue. The Game Scene Charts (TGSC) is a monthly electronic publication which ranks and rates best PC game release groups in the warez scene. Although only a few know of its existence, TGSC has been around for more than three years (since August 2006) and has tracked the progress of game release groups for quite some time. Since this is a coded magazine, you don’t need any special software to view it – everything you need (and even background music) is self contained within a single exe file.

The latest issue (#31) summarizes group progress for the month of May 2009. It also includes two interviews with well known release groups POSTMORTEM and VeCTRONiX. Apart from that all the usual articles such as the monthly overview, all time overview, group release stats and many others are included in TGSC May 2009 issue. Interested readers can download the mag using the links below.

Download

[Click Here] to download Game Scene Chart Magazine Issue 31 from Netload.in

[Click Here] to download Game Scene Chart Magazine Issue 31 from Mediafire

Swepiracy open for signup – Swedish general tracker

The Swedish Anti Piracy agency’s recent threats against private torrent trackers seem to have done nothing more than refresh a few existing trackers and accelerate the launch of several more. Most of the trackers that initially shut down have returned and those that could not return have given birth to spinoff sites making the Swedish tracker scene even stronger. Swepiracy, a popular General/0day tracker, was one of the very first Sweden based BitTorrrent sites to shut down following TPB’s defeat in court. However it was also one of the first trackers to come back online (along with PirateTorrents) and it looks like Swepiracy is trying to become even stronger – public registrations have been opened.

As mentioned earlier Swepiracy is a General/0Day tracker. It does track all kinds of torrents including games and appz but a lot of focus has been given to scene DVDR releases. In fact, a large percentage of indexed torrents in this tracker are scene releases and this includes some torrents specific to Swedish/Nordic regions. Majority of the indexed content however is in English.

 

Swepiracy is by no means a small tracker. With close to 15000 members and 2000+ torrents it’s a pretty decent General/0-day site. Currently it’s user limit set to 15000 and tracker staff seem to be pruning a lot of inactive accounts at the moment. As mentioned earlier registrations are currently open and there is room for at least 80 people at the time this post is being written (if more accounts are pruned it could be a lot more than 80 free slots) .

Site Name: Swepiracy (http://www.swepiracy.org)

Alternative URL: http://www.swepiracy.nu

Signup URL: http://www.swepiracy.org/signup.php

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Find and remove duplicate files with ‘Fast Duplicate File Finder’

Most of us don’t give a damn about duplicate files present in our hard drivers but the truth is that they could eat a lot of disk space. Extra copies of existing files are always created by the operating system as well as application programs even though the user is unaware of it. You computer could really get cluttered with junk if this process continues for some time. Most of the time, extra copies of the files can be safely deleted. But how do you detect them? This is where the ‘Fast Duplicate File Finder’ comes in. It’s a free software that is designed with one goal in mind – find extra copies.

The app is actually pretty easy to use. All you have to do is to launch the program, start a new project and add a folder (or an entire drive) to be scanned. In a few seconds a complete list of duplicate files found on the target location will be displayed. You can delete unnecessary files right from this view itself. The program itself is pretty lightweight and is only around 1.6MB in file size. It does not add any startup entries or services to the system and will not consume half your computer’s resources.

Developer Description

Fast Duplicate File Finder will help you find fast all duplicate files in a folder and its sub folders. The applications will compare the content of your files so it will find duplicates even if they are using different file names. It uses fast binary comparison algorithm and has internal preview supporting a lot of image, video, music and text file formats. You can also preview the files in binary mode. When the scan process is finished the program shows you all duplicate files in groups and can automatically mark the older files for deletion. The auto mark algorithm has advanced settings to exclude from auto mark files with user specified extensions, file sizes, file dates and file names. You can also set which folders you want to exclude from the auto mark. There is an option to protect system files and folders which is recommended to be turned on.

Features

• Find all duplicate files in user specified folders, drives or entire computers.
• Fast binary comparison algorithm
• Internal preview supporting images, videos, music, text and binary files
• Older files can be automatically marked for deletion
• Duplicate files can be moved to Recycle Bin, custom folder or deleted permanently
• Support for all kinds of removable media - usb drives, diskettes etc.
• Has intuitive interface and rich documentation
• Process priority settings that will let the application scan in your computers IDLE time
• Protection for system files and folders that will prevent damages to your system files
• Automatically locate duplicate files in Windows Explorer
• Open file with associated program
• Multi-language file system support

Download

[Click Here] to download the latest version of Duplicate File Finder from official download page (Direct Download)

XTVi – Public TV torrent index with custom RSS feeds

Although we talk about private torrent trackers every day, a considerable number of our readers still use public BitTorrent sites. Torrent indexes with general content such as as Mininova, Demonoid and the The Pirate Bay are hugely popular but did you know that there are specialized public trackers that focus on a single torrent category rather than ‘general content’? Few examples are MVGroup (for documentaries), EZTV (for TV series) and SuperFundo (for movies). This post is about another similar public BitTorrent site; XTVi. XTVi’s specialty is TV torrents – it lists hundreds of TV shows from the UK and the US.

With an Alexa rank of ~14600, one can assume that XTVi has a very large user base. It’s a huge site when it comes to content too – there are over 100 different TV shows currently indexed. Unlike private trackers or some public sites such as TPB, XTVi does not maintain it’s own BitTorrent tracker. It however does host .torrent files but the actual tracking is done by external trackers.

One of the best features of this site is the hundreds of customized RSS feeds it provides – basically there is a separate RSS feed for every show indexed on XTVi. If you automate the downloading of favorite TV shows based on RSS feeds, this site should definitely be of use to you. XTVi’s RSS feeds are compatible with applications such as Miro and TED (Torrent Episode Downloader) and it actually is a good alternative for now defunct FeedMyTorrents. Screenshot below captures part of XTVi’s torrent index (notice the RSS icon next to each show):

Another great thing about XTVi is that there are no fakes - a common problem associated with public torrent sites. All torrents on this site are verified and you can start the download without thinking twice.

Speaking of XTVi’s layout and interface, it’s torrent index is well organized. A small section on the homepage lists torrents of most recently aired TV episodes. Most popular torrents and latest additions to XTVi’s database are also shown. Users can search for specific TV series using the Search feature. Be warned that there are a lot of ads on this site (nothing harmful though).

As mentioned earlier XTVi is a public torrent index. There are no ratio rules and not even a mandatory registration requirement. You can check it out whenever you like.

Site Name: XTVi (http://www.xtvi.com)

Signup URL: http://www.xtvi.com/torrents.php?mode=signup