BitShock Tracker Family - Invites & Open Signups ( Appz, Games & General Torrents )

About three days ago we promised a Bitshock (BSk) invitation code giveaway in this thread. We’ve already got several mails asking why our promises have not been upheld yet. Hold on to your testicles – we don’t break promises. It somehow got delayed a bit due to various reason but the giveaway is finally here. 250 free invite codes given on a first come, first served basis -no strings attached. In addition to invites to the General/0Day tracker, we’ve posted signup URLs, updated stats and review links for Appz BitShock and Games BitShock (gBSK) – two specialized trackers maintained by the same crew behind BitShock.org.
UPDATE: If you got “Don’t leave any fields blank” error when trying to signup for BitShock, please try now with the new signup URL.

Appz BitShock
Appz BitShock
 
Site Name: Appz BitShock (http://appz.bitshock.org/)
Signup URL: http://appz.bitshock.org/signup.php
Stats: 5700 users and 9800+ torrents
Description: Launched back in 2008, Appz BitShock quickly established itself as one of the largest specialized private trackers for applications/software. Most of the torrents indexed are scene released 0-Day releases. For full tracker review including screenshots, please refer to this article.

Games BitShock
Games BitShock
 
Site Name: Games BitShock (http://games.bitshock.org)
Signup URL: http://games.bitshock.org/signup.php
Stats: 3400+ users and 160+ torrents
Description: Games BitShock is a new specialized games tracker featuring both PC and console games. You can find a detailed description of the site along with screenshots in our recent review of gBSK which can be found here.

BitShock (Main – General/0Day)
BitShock
 
Site Name: BitShock (http://www.bitshock.org)
Signup URL: http://www.bitshock.org/register.php
Stats: 4800+ active torrents
Description:  BitShock is a decent but underrated private tracker. Good pre times, good download speeds, plenty of packs, content rich torrent index with movies, music, games, books, etc – you’ll get pretty much everything you look for in a general tracker here. It’s the largest and the hardest-to-get-into tracker in the BitShock family – BSk is invite only while the other two sites are almost always open. However with the recent promotions and challenges launched by the site ops, getting into this site has become quite easy. Following is quoted from homepage:

Bitshock launches a new challenge: We've put at your disposal 250 invites per user, each bringing you a fantastic 5gb upload bonus for every user invited. Still, there's a catch: If one of your invited members get's disabled/banned, you will loose 10 GB upload credit. So please do not try to make double accounts, we will find out and things will not be pleasant

Note that the 250 invites promotion will end on the 26th of June. Whatever codes you have left unused will be removed on that date so use them when you can.

Guest Account Details: BSk has a really innovative feature which allows users to preview the site before you register. Download/Upload is disabled but you can have a good look at BSk’s design, content and community by signing in with the guest account.

  • Username: BSk
  • Password: bitshock

Invite Codes:

You can use one of the invitation codes below to create a free account at BSk. If you want you can even share your invite codes with others here as comments to this article. However keep in mind that invite trading and selling is prohibited – only giveaway is allowed. Before signing up, please use the guest account to observer the site – create an account only if you find the site useful. Please do not waste invites if you do not intend to use the tracker.

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Visit http://www.bitshock.org/register.php and enter the invitation code there.

Good Luck!

Special thanks to tiger6ex (Master at BitShock) & rest of tracker staff who extended the invitations offer to FILEnetworks Blog.

Scene group APOLLO caught stealing releases from What.cd?

The battle between  warez scene groups and P2P oriented ‘non scene’ groups (who usually release on private/public BitTorrent trackers as opposed to scene topsites) has been raging for quite a while now. Initially the scene declared war on P2P due to the easy accessibility it gave to scene releases which were meant to be shared only among scene members. However now things are a little different – P2P groups with good sources have grown in numbers and they sometimes beat scene groups into releasing some popular pirated material. With all these changes, the scene’s hatred towards P2P might not just be about security anymore. It could even be because of ‘competition’.

Following are several Scene Notices that triggered the latest episode of e-drama series Scene vs P2P. The first notice accuses scene group APOLLO of stealing encodes from What.CD, the popular private music torrent tracker. The second notice contains APOLLO’s reply and then the war rages on for four more scenenotices (some of these include screenshots/images as ‘proof’). For those interested in reading them, we’ve included download links below:

  1. Group_ApoLLo-Pre_FLAC_Converted_Releases_From_Wut.CD-(PROOF_iNSIDE)-2009-ApoLLo [Download]
  2. Response_To_Group_ApoLLo-Pre_FLAC_Converted_Releases_From_Wut.CD-(PROOF_iNSIDE)-2009-ApoLLo [Download]
  3. Set_Your_Goals-This_Will_Be_the_Death_of_Us-PROOF_THAT_FNT_RETAGGED_OUR_RIP-2009-ApoLLo [Download]
  4. 30_Bucks-You_Will_Move_It_Like_A_Real_Donkey_O_Toes-2009-ApoLLO [Download]
  5. Another_One-Just_To_Show_You_Suck-2009-ApoLLO [Download]
  6. VA-What_About_Another-Real_Perm_Ban-2009-ApollO [Download]

We don’t really know if APOLLO really stole encodes from what.cd or not. But it’s kinda ironic that even the scene member who accuses APOLLO of stealing from What.CD and trashing p2p himself is actually an active member of the BitTorrent tracker. Once again this is E-drama at its beast so read it and forget it :)

PTN Tracker – 3x upload and open invite applications

Most of our readers should by now have a PTN account. We’ve updated the blog numerous times when PTN opened their invite applications to the external public. If you still have not managed to get in, invite applications are open yet again during this weekend (18th and 19th July). However open invite apps are not this week’s hot topic at PTN. In celebration of Intr4ns1t’s birthday (one of their Captains) 3X upload for all torrents has been enabled. That is, whatever the actual amount you upload will be multiplied by three times and added to your statistics on the tracker.

PTN Tracker Logo

Following is a notice quoted from PTN homepage

2009-07-17 - Intr4ns1t BDay Bash -

Hell with it, it only happens once a year! 3xUpload is on for the weekend to celebrate Intr4ns1t aging well like an old wine!
Personally, i hope he won't use it and go bashing around... If you still didn't, noobs or not, give him a warm shout here:
https://*********.***/forums.php?action=viewtopic&topicid=2626

And of course, external applications will also be open for the most part of this weekend:

External Application is currently open!
It will be automatically closed in 1d 21h 35m 39s

(This was posted on the 17th of July 18:00 GMT. Remaining time of 1d 21h 35m 39s should be counted from this point onwards).

For those of you who don’t know what PTN is, it’s a ratio free English movie tracker with a large focus on community. For a detailed review of the site along with screenshots, please refer to this article.

Site Name: PTN

Statistics: 5600+ torrents and 2350+ members

Invite Application URL: http://*********.***/comeandplay.php (do not use ‘www’ in the address)

Note: PTN tracker rules prohibit displaying full tracker URL in public so only the location of the invite application was given (../comeandplay.php). Do not ask for full tracker URL or post it here.

Tvsource – New TV torrent tracker based on SweDVDR source

It’s always exciting news when a new specialized TV torrent tracker launches. Well then be excited – TVSource is the latest dedicated TV tracker to hit the BitTorrent scene. Just like some of the recently launched sites such as DVDRSOURCE and SceneDVDR, Tvsource is based on the recently made public source code of SweDVDR (now defunct). It’s currently the first and only private TV tracker to be based on SweDVDR source. As you might have already guessed, Tvsource is a Sweden based site. However, there are a lot of English content available, including scene released TV shows.

TVsource logo 1

It’s only been 8 days since this tracker was launched and its growth so far has been nothing short of explosive. Already (as of 18/7/2009) there are close to 1400 members registered on the site and over 400 torrents have been uploaded (that's around 50 TV torrents per day) during this time .

As we previously mentioned Tvsource tracks both English and Swedish content. This includes episodes/season packs of popular TV shows aired in the US/UK as well as some of those aired in Sweden. Both scene releases as well as p2p releases are indexed, including a lot of HD content. Following screenshot captures some of the full TV season packs found in Tvsource:

TVSource Logo

One of the major turn offs for English speaking users would be the site interface. It’s completely in Swedish and there is no way to change it to English. Anyway it’s not a huge issue since it’s pretty easy to find your way around even without English labels. If it helps, Nytt’ means ‘Browse’ (which is probably all you need to know).

For the moment Tvsource is open for registrations. However the open signup window might only be in place so that members from the now defunct SvartaKatten tracker could get in. Translated version of a site notice is quoted below:

2009-07-16 - Freeleech is now over. In short, we registrations and run only invitation. To see now that keeping your ratio on top!

So don’t expect the SvartaKatten promotion to last long. If you are interested in joining this tracker now would be a good time to do so.

Site Name: Tvsource (http://www.tvsource.org)

Signup URL: http://www.tvsource.org/svartasignup.php

Categories:

  • TV-XVID
  • 720p
  • 1080i
  • TV-DVDRip
  • TV-DVDR
  • TV-Pack

eBookVortex E-Book Tracker– It’s still here!

At one point, eBookVortex was one of the most popular E-learning torrent trackers in the BitTorrent scene. It had an excellent torrent collection which included some of the most popular educational books in electronic form. However the site’s popularity began to climb down mainly due to the various lengthy downtimes and crashes eBookVortex experienced back in 2008. There were times the tracker and site were offline for about a week. And during one such lengthy downtime, they even lost the user database and torrent index completely. Anyway if you were a fan of old eBookVortex, the good news is the site is still here – and it definitely does not seem to be a ‘dying tracker’.

ebookvortex new logo

As we said above, at one point eBookVortex had to rebuild their torrent index and user database from scratch. They’ve done a pretty good job of it actually – as of 17/7/2009 the tracker has close to 900 active torrents and over 10000 registered members. There are plenty of new members signing up daily but the number of torrents being uploaded daily could definitely see some improvements (especially with other similar sites like PureTorrents adding thousands of torrents in a couple of months).

As the name suggests, eBookVortex is a specialized tracker for E-Book torrents. Bulk of the torrents indexed are educational content related to Information Technology, Programming, Medicine, Mathematics, Electronics and so on. However there are non-education content such as Magazines, Cooking, Food & Wine related books, Fiction, etc available as well. There are some E-book packs indexed as well. The following screenshot captures part of the torrent index of eBookVortex:

ebookvortex screnshot

eBookVortex’s interface pretty much remains unchanged. There are two stylesheets to choose from – the default skin and NB-39 (more colorful) skin.

This tracker is currently open for signup. If you are looking for a decent E-book tracker, eBookVortex is definitely worth checking out. And if you thought this site was dead with all the downtimes and crashes, you are dead wrong.

Site Name: eBookVortex (http://www.ebookvortex.net)

Signup URL: http://www.ebookvortex.net/account-signup.php

How to run Google Android on a PC – without installing

Right now everyone is talking about Google Chrome OS, the upcoming Operating System by Google targeted at Netbooks. This is not another one of those article that speculate on what features Chrome OS would have or what it’s impact on Windows market share will be. Instead, we thought of focusing on Google Android. Even though many are unaware, having an Android compatible mobile device is not a must if you want to try out the OS. It could even be run on Netbooks and even on Personal Computers (definitely with limitations though). This is where LiveAndroid comes in.

Android Logo

LiveAndroid is basically is LiveCD for Android OS that could be used on any 32-bit computer (A live CD or live DVD is a CD or DVD containing a bootable computer operating system). Have you ever used the Ubuntu LiveCD? This is exactly like that. All you have to do is to download the image file, burn it to a CD with a CD burner software such as Nero (via the Burn using Image File option), put the CD in your CD/DVD ROM and boot the computer with it (you might have to set your CD-ROM as the first boot device in BIOS).

The best part is that booting from LiveAndroid will not change anything in your current OS configuration (which is always the case with LiveCDs). If you want to get rid of Android all you want to do is to remove the CD from the CD ROM drive and boot normally – your regular OS will load just fine, untouched and unchanged. Downside would be that you won’t be able to save anything while booted from the LiveCD – it’s good for testing purposes only.

Download

[Click Here] to download LiveAndoid from official Google Code page

5 specialized private trackers open for signup – 16 July 2009

Many people prefer smaller, specialized private torrent trackers than larger sites with bits of everything (aka General/0Day trackers). Specialized trackers usually have rare, unique content that is not found elsewhere. This article features five such sites with some of the rarest torrent collections in the BitTorrent scene; The Box (TV), The Occult (Cult/Mythology), The Vault (Business/E-Learning), The Place (Lifestyle) and ElbitZ (E-Learning). Note that all of these sites have previously been mentioned in FILEnetworks Blog. However, we thought another mention of these sites will be worthy since we constantly get new visitors ( and it’s not everyday you see these open up to the public).If you still haven’t managed to get into these content rich trackers, here is yet another chance.

Out of the five sites featured in this article (all except ElbitZ), four are sister sites run by the same group of people. Also note that some of these trackers offer free invites on their IRC channels - If open signups are closed by the time you read this, you can always try your luck on IRC.

ElbitZ
Elbitz Banner
With the shut down of Docs.Torrents.Ro, ElbitZ’s usefulness has only increased. It’s more like an E-learning tracker that everyone can access. ElbitZ has monthly open signups and boasts a pretty good collection and educational and non-educational electronic books. In addition to the books there is multimedia content such as video tutorials, test engines and so on. A lot of books related to lifestyle and various other subjects can also be found.
Elbitz Screenshot
 
Site Name: ElbitZ (http://elbitz.net)
Signup URL: http://elbitz.net/signup.php
Stats: 2600+ torrents
Notes: Signups may not be open right now. However it says on the site ‘Next Opening On July 15th to 17th’.

The Vault
the vault tracker
The Vault is a private tracker that focuses primarily on money making (both online and offline) and business. It has E-Books, videos, audio files, text documents and various other media associated with business related topics such as SEO, money making, sales/marketing, money management, economics, finance, customer service, copywriting, management, leadership, investing, trading, stocks, E-Commerce, real estate, recruitment/interviews, blogging, biographies and lots of other subjects similar to these.
the vault screen

Site Name: The Vault (http://www.thevault.bz
Signup URL: http://www.thevault.bz/signup.php
Stats: 8000+ users and 18500+ torrents
Invites IRC Channel: irc://irc.thevault.bz:6667/thevault-invites
Tracker Specific Instructions for IRC invites: Yes. If you missed out on the open signups, please refer to this article.

The Place
the place

The Place is a private tracker that specializes in lifestyle content. From Food, Drinking, Dancing, Health, Fitness, Seduction, NLP and Cooking to Magic Illusions, this tracker has a wide array of content spanning across over 13000 torrent files. This includes videos, e-books and audio files related to day to day human life.
The place screenshot

Site Name: The Place (http://www.theplace.bz
Signup URL: http://theplace.bz/signup.php
Stats: 6000+ users and 13300+ torrents
Invites IRC Channel: irc://irc.theplace.bz/invites
Tracker Specific Instructions for IRC invites: Yes. If you missed out on the open signups, please refer to this article.

The Occult
the occult
The Occult is the newest tracker out of these four. It has some of the most unusual & uncommon torrent categories ever seen on a private tracker (Mythology, Scientology, Drugs, Shamanism, Astrology to name a few). As the name suggests, it specializes in torrents related to various cults, ways of living, religions, healing and so on. Media on TheOccult include PDF E-Books, DVDs, MP3 audio, etc.
the occult screenshot

Site Name: The Occult (http://theoccult.bz)
Signup URL: http://theoccult.bz/signup.php
Stats: 2700+ users and ~2000 torrents
Notes: Unlike The Vault, The Place and The Box, signups for this tracker have not closed ever since it’s launch.

The Box
the box
Out of all torrent sites featured in this article, The Box is the largest and without a doubt the most popular. It’s specialty is British (UK) TV series including Entertainment, Sports, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Drama, Kids and many other categories. There is a huge collection of UK TV series available on this tracker, spanning across over 36000 torrents. The Box focuses on both old and new TV series.
the box screenshot

Site Name: The Box (http://www.thebox.bz)
Signup URL: http://www.thebox.bz/signup.php
Stats: Over 70000 users and 36000+ torrents
Notes: Signups for this tracker are known to open and close at regular intervals. If you couldn’t get in the first time, keep checking.

Coming Up – BitShock Invitation Code Giveaway No. 01. Check the giveaways section for latest updates.