Cinemageddon increases user limit - Cult movie torrent tracker

Cinemageddon (CG) is a well known private torrent tracker that specializes in B-movies, horror flicks and other rare/cult movies. You may have spotted Cinemageddon listed on various open signup checker sites and open signup threads quite frequently. However, signups for this tracker usually close within minutes as only 2-3 spots become available at a time (due to automatic account deletion). This time around open signups will be a little more permanent– CG has increased the user limit by 1000 members.

When it comes to cult movie trackers, CG is probably the largest and the most content rich tracker currently online. It has close to 25000 torrents and around 20000 active members. It’s content mostly comprise of B-Movies, horror movies, kung-fu and martial arts related flicks, older comedy movies such as the ‘Carry on’ series, etc. Video and audio quality of films on CG are generally good – these range from VHSRip, TVRip, DVDRip to untouched DVD-R. In addition to the movie torrents Cinemageddon tracks around 1500 OSTs (official soundtracks) as well. Most of the content on this tracker are older, rare and rather unknown stuff you’ll probably never find on any other torrent site.

A noticeable feature of Cinemageddon is the credits system – something similar to the seed bonus system present on many trackers. You can earn credits by seeding (selected torrents), filling/making requests, buying lottery tickets, playing roulette, etc. You can then buy upload GB by spending earned credits (ex- 25GB upload for 200 credits). CG also has a system called ‘featured torrents’ – if a spinning gold coin is displayed next to the title of a torrent, 50% download reduction as well as seeding bonus applies to that.

As mentioned in the title of the article CG has increased user limit from 20000 to 21000. There are around 800 more spots available. If you are a fan of cult movies, go get an account now.

Site Name: Cinemageddon (http://www.cinemageddon.org)

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

Categories:

• Action
• Adventure
• Comedy
• Documentary
• Exploitation
• Family
• Gore
• Hidden Gems
• Horror
• Martial Arts
• OST
• Other
• Sci-Fi
• Thriller
• Western
• XXX

Other info: CG has an active invites request/giveaway thread (for other private trackers) in its forums. This thread is only visible to ‘power user’ class and upwards.

Other trackers like Cinemageddon that are currently open:

• TheOccult – Torrent Tracker For Mythology, Religion, Astrology, Philosophy & More
• ScareThe.Net – Private torrent tracker for Horror movies and TV Shows
• Classic Cinema Zone – Torrent tracker for obscure and classic movies

Yahoo! Messenger 9.0.0.2136 - Offline, Standalone Installer Download

Yahoo released yet another new build of its popular IM client about a day ago. Yahoo! Messenger build 9.0.0.2136 is currently the latest build available as of today (25/2/09). As usual there is no changelog associated with the release and there is no way to know what changes are incorporated into this build. However upgrading to the most recent build is recommended due to security and reliability reasons.

Download

We’ve included the link to offline/standalone/redistributable installer for Yahoo! Messenger as opposed to the web setup that can be found in the official page. All links point to files hosted in official Yahoo! servers. No 3rd part links have been included.

[Click Here] to download Yahoo Messenger 9.0.0.2136 Final Directly from official server

Partis.si – Huge Slovenian private torrent tracker open

Among the several hundred private torrent trackers posted on FILEnetworks Blog, there’s been several huge general trackers such as Zamunda, ArenaBG and Linkomanija which are managed by individuals from countries such as Bulgaria, Lithuania, etc. Although some of these trackers may not be popular globally, they’ve become huge hits in their home countries. A large number of users as well as huge torrent indexes are often found in these lesser-globally-known trackers. Partis.si is another huge  BiTTorrent tracker, this time from Slovenia.

Don’t be mistaken when we say this tracker is Slovenian – it tracks plenty of English releases as well. As of 25/2/2009, Partis indexes 25000+ torrents and has over 208000 members (told you it was huge). Among the torrents tracked are English scene releases, English p2p releases (including lots of aXXo movie torrents) as well as Slovenian releases (dubbed, subbed or original content from Slovenia).

In addition to individual torrents, there are a lot of packs on Partis.si. Most of these however are not unique and seem to have been take from other trackers such as TL, TD, ScT and even TVT.

Note that even though this tracker has lots of English releases, the site interface is 100% Slovenian. If you have used another private tracker, it would be extremely easy to find your war around in Partis.si – even if you did not know jackshit about Slovenian language. We’ve included a brief translation of the signup page below should you need more help.

Signups for this tracker are currently open. If you are interested, go ahead and signup.

Site Name: Partis.si (http://www.partis.si)

Signup URL: http://www.partis.si/registracija

Signup Page translation:

Slovenian	English
Uporabniško ime	Username
Elektronska pošta	E-Mail
Geslo	Password
Potrditev gesla	Repeat password
Vnesite varnostno kodo	Security code

For the torrent index, login and go to Torrent-->brskaj

RapidStack – Search for working and live RapidShare links in real time

Although BitTorrent has gained huge popularity as a medium for transferring large files, RapidShare is still one of the most widely used file hosting/transfer services in the world. One of the main problems with RapidShare is that it does not allow searching of its database. This has lead to the inception of many 3rd party search engines that hunt of RapidShare links scattered across the web. RapidStack is one such search engine but this one performs searches in real time.

The official description of RapidStack is as follows:

Rapidstack is a realtime Rapidshare link searcher. We send out little spiders to harvest all the best links, leaving the dead ones to rot in the abyss where they belong.

Real time searches retrieve the most current information and of course this leads to less number of dead or non working links.

Associated with each search result is an ‘Extract Links’ options. Clicking on this creates a new page which filters and lists only the RapidShare links found in the given web page – a pretty convenient feature especially on release blogs where you usually have to browse through several hundred comments to see a post with RapidShare download links.

[Click Here] to visit Rapidstack

ViTALiTY leaks Tom Clancy’s Endwar – No DRM present, no crack needed

Scene group ViTALiTY, after cracking Warhammer 40000 : Dawn of War 2 a few days ago, are back with another major PC title. Tom Clancy’s Endwar is a real time strategy game which was initially released for the consoles back in 2008. Windows version of the game was scheduled to be released on the 24th of February and unsurprisingly, it has leaked on the very same day. What’s interesting about Endwar is that it does not contain any DRM or other form of copy protection mechanism.

ViTALiTY’s release includes a full DVD ISO image of the game. Unlike in most cases, a modified or cracked executable is not included. Pirates are simply able to mount the leaked image using a disk virtualization tool and play the game. Leaked ViTALiTY version has already spread onto several private torrent trackers:

#1 SCC (15m 4s ap)
#2 ScT (16m 22s ap)
#3 RBy (16m 27s ap)

As usual, this is expected to spread to public BitTorrent sites, one click hosting sites, public FTP sites and so on.

This is the second time in the last few months UBISOFT have released a well known PC title without DRM. Back in December 2008 they released Prince of Persia for the PC which did not include any anti piracy measure as well. It’s always good to see developers not resorting to invasive digital rights management software such as SecuROM. Buy the game if you can.

Ratio free private torrent trackers open for signup (21/2/2009)

There was once a time when ratio free private trackers were a rarity in the BitTorrent scene. Even the few that existed were pretty hard to get into. The times have changed – there are plenty of ratio free trackers out there and it’s extremely easy to become a member of some of them. This post lists 8 such trackers that are currently open for public signups. Most of the sites mentioned have been reviewed before on FILEnetworks Blog and the links to full review have also been included.

Although the title of the article says ‘ratio free’ trackers, we’ve included two sites that do have a ratio system; ArenaBG and RARBG. Although there is a ratio system present on these sites, they do not enforce any mandatory ratio rules or requirements.  Most of the trackers listed do not require users to maintain a global upload:download ratio. However be aware that you may need to seed a torrent for a minimum time period – always check the rules and FAQ pages of a tracker. Keep in mind that ‘ratio free’ is not your ticket to do hit and runs at will.

Seedit

Site Name: Seedit (http://seedit.org)
Signup URL: http://seedit.org/login?signup
Stats: ~3250 torrents
Description: Seedit is a Swedish private tracker (General/0-Day content, lots of scene releases) with a unique layout. Pre times are generally good. Our previous article which contains more information about this tracker can be found here.

SceneRTorrents

Site Name: SceneRTorrents (http://www.scenertorrents.com)
Signup URL: http://www.scenertorrents.com/signup.php
Stats: ~3000 users and ~250 torrents (recovering from a server crash)
Description: SceneRTorrents is a new ratio free general tracker with lots of packs. For full review including screenshots and other details, refer to this article.

ArenaBG
 
Site Name: ARENABG (http://0.arenabg.com/)
Signup URL: http://0.arenabg.com/register.php
Stats: 22000+ torrents and possibly over 200000 members
Description: ARENABG is a huge Bulgarian tracker with lots of English releases. The site has a ratio system but no mandatory ratio rules are enforced. Download speeds are somewhat slower. ArenaBG recently upgraded their layout and the interface is now much more user friendly. More information on this site can be found here.

RARBG
 
Site Name: RARBG (http://rarbg.com)
Signup URL: http://rarbg.com/account
Stats: 46000+ torrents and possibly over 200000 members
Description: Similar to ArenaBG, RARBG does not enforce any mandatory ratio rules on its users. For more related articles on this site, look here.

Dreamzonept
 
Site Name: Dreamzonept (http://dreamzonept.com)
Signup URL: http://dreamzonept.com/signup.php
Stats: 2300+ users and ~1500 torrents
Description: Dreamzonept is a new ratio free general tracker. More information can be found here.

MVGroup
 
Site Name: MVGroup (http://forums.mvgroup.org)
Signup URL: http://forums.mvgroup.org/index.php?act=Reg&CODE=00
Stats: 96000+ members
Description: MVGroup is a forum dedicated for documentaries and e-learning content. They operate their own tracker but have no ratio rules. More information can be found here.

Pretome
 
Site Name: Pretome (http://pretome.net/)
Signup URL: Signups closed. Use key from this article.
Stats: 24000+ users and 15750+ torrents
Description: PTM is a good and well established General/0day tracker that has no global ratio. More information about this tracker can be found here.

Z-Cult FM
 
Site Name: http://www.zcultfm.com/~comic/
Signup URL: http://www.zcultfm.com/~comic/profile.php?mode=register
Stats: 84000+ users
Description: Not sure about this but there is nothing mentioned about a ratio on this site. Zcult is a comics torrent tracker and a forum. For more information about this site and a guide on how to download torrents, refer to this article.

Also watch out for the open signups of CoExist, a ratio free music tracker.

Note that there are many other ratio free trackers such as GFT, PTN, FTN, BR, iFi, etc that are not mentioned here. This article only lists trackers that are currently open for signup.

Record MP3 and OGG Vorbis audio streams to hard disk using StreamRipper 1.64.4

Streamripper is a popular application that’s widely used for recording streaming MP3 and Vorbis (.OGG files) audio to hard disk. There are two versions of this application – one is the standalone software and the other is a plugin for Winamp. Featured in this article is the standalone edition. On the 17th of February 2009, final build of Streamripper 1.64.4 was released - direct download link for this version can be found at the end of this article.

One of the specialties of Streamripper is that it’s able to detect separate audio tracks in a MP3 or OGG Vorbis stream. That is, the program is capable of finding where one track ends and another one begins, automatically. This is done by scanning for silent marks in the audio stream. It’s a pretty useful app that’s been around for nearly 9 years – check it out.

Download

[Click Here] to download StreamRipper 1.64.4 for Windows from SourceForge (Direct Download)

[Click Here] to visit the SourceForge download page for older builds and non Windows versions of StreamRipper