Smart Projects ISOBuster is without a doubt one of the best optical disk data recovery software currently available. I’ve been using it for the past two years and can personally recommend it to anyone in need. IsoBuster can recover data from damaged or scratched optical disks with ease. From older Video CDs and data CDs to modern Blu-Ray disks, IsoBuster supports a wide variety of optical disk formats. Just insert a CD, DVD or a Blu-Ray disk and mount it in ISOBuster. You will get access the disk’s file system, session details and track information. If a part of the disk is damaged beyond recovery, chances are that you will still be able to recover undamaged clusters (this works great with some video files). You can sometimes access session details lost due to malfunctioning burning software or hardware. Of course, don’t expect miracles from ISOBuster; If you insert a disk that is ripped in half ISOBuster wouldn’t be able to do squat with it. And if ISOBuster can’t recover it, it’s unlikely that any other software can.

Developer Description

IsoBuster is a highly specialized yet easy to use optical media data recovery tool. It supports all optical disc formats and all common optical disc file-systems. Start up IsoBuster, Insert a disc, select the drive (if not selected already) and let IsoBuster mount the media. IsoBuster immediately shows you all the tracks and sessions located on the media, combined with all file-systems that are present. This way you get easy access, just like explorer, to all the files and folders per file-system. Instead of being limited to one file-system that the OS picks for you, you have access to "the complete picture". Access data from older sessions, access data that your OS (e.g. Windows) does not see or hides from you etc.

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ISOBuster Pro 2.4.0.1 – Recover and rescue data from damaged CD, DVD and Blu-ray (BD) disks

Demonoid, one of the most popular semi private trackers around, has just opened free registrations for all users. If you still don’t have an an account (if you are a reader of this blog, chances are that you already have one, after 11 or so giveaways), here is your chance to grab one for free. During the open registrations period, you do not need an invitation code to get in.

Demonoid is a huge tracker. Currently it tracks a little over 200000 torrents. Although the actual member count is unknown, it’s believed to be several times the number of torrents indexed. Demonoid have their own BitTorrent tracker but they do index external releases as well. Download speeds may be slower than on other private trackers but there is a lot of rare and hard to find content on Demonoid, not found elsewhere.

Open registrations last only for 1-2 days so grab this chance and get in while you can.

Site Name: Demonoid

Signup URL: http://www.demonoid.com/register.php

Categories:

• Anime
• Applications
• Audio Books
• Books
• Comics
• Games
• Miscellaneous
• Movies
• Music
• Music Videos
• Pictures
• TV

We take this moment to thank all readers who gave away (and are giving away) invites for free in the comments section of our last Demonoid invitation giveaway.

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Demonoid Registrations Open – 30/11/2008

We have posted about torrent trackers dedicated to kids content such as ChildBytes, CartoonChaos (Open) and TorrentKids (Open) before. Here is another great tracker for kids content. TTOKTV (aka The Tao of Kids TV) is a private torrent tracker specializing in Children's TV Torrents. You can find a lot of Kids cartoons, educational content, drama and other children’s content on this tracker. In addition to the TV Shows, TTOKTV tracks kids’ music, audiobooks and other extras as well. With over 5500 users and nearly 800 torrents, TTOKTV is one of the larger kids trackers out there.

As for the content, there are a lot of rare torrents on this tracker. For example, TTOKTV had a lot of cartoon series I was not able to find on any other tracker. They have a great number of full season packs and collections as well:

Screenshot: Some of the cartoon packs at TTOKTV (there are many more of these ).

Actually some of the cartoons on TTOKTV can be enjoyed by all age groups (Secret squirrel FTW!). Speaking of age, TTOKTV is exactly 1 years old of as of today; the entire site is currently on freeleech. Signups are currently open as well so interested readers may join for free. Check it out.

Site Name: The Tao of Kids TV (TTOKTV)

Signup URL: http://www.ttoktv.com/signup.php

Categories:

• Animation
• Audiobooks
• Cartoon
• CBeebies
• Comedy
• Drama
• Educational
• Factual
• Foreign Language
• Misc
• Music
• Preschool
• Puppet Shows
• Quiz Show
• Sing-a-Long Music Videos
• Teen / Family

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TTOKTV –The Tao of Kids TV - Children's TV torrents

Deep Freeze from Faronics software is an interesting application. We’ve posted about this app before but it’s worth a mention again (besides this is a newer build). With Deep Freeze, you can essentially bulletproof your system from unwanted changes. That is, the changes you make to your computer’s software configuration will not be permanent with this software installed. No more junk registry entries, threats from viruses and you are even protected from accidental changes to settings. This could come in extremely handy for computers in internet cafes, libraries, universities and other public institutions. Also, if you are at home and want to experiment with ‘odd’ software without risking a system reinstall, this app will be useful.

Developer Description

Faronics Deep Freeze helps eliminate workstation damage and downtime by making computer configurations indestructible. Once Deep Freeze is installed on a workstation, any changes made to the computer—regardless of whether they are accidental or malicious—are never permanent. Deep Freeze provides immediate immunity from many of the problems that plague computers today—inevitable configuration drift, accidental system misconfiguration, malicious software activity, and incidental system degradation.

Deep Freeze ensures computers are absolutely bulletproof, even when users have full access to system software and settings. Users get to enjoy a pristine and unrestricted computing experience, while IT personnel are freed from tedious helpdesk requests, constant system maintenance, and continuous configuration drift.

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Deep Freeze Standard 6.30.020.1818 – Bulletproof your computer

Good news if you are a movie pirate! An R5 rip of the popular movie starring Seth Rogen, ‘Zack and Miri Make A Porno’ has leaked to internet. This was initially released by BaLD, a well known group from the warez scene. Video source of the leaked release is apparently from an R5 DVD (DVD for region 5). BaLD have replaced the Russian audio in the original DVD with an English audio stream obtained from a previous English TeleSync release (hence the LiNE tag). It comes as a 1CD (700MB) XViD encoded rip. This release has already made its way from top of the piracy pyramid (scene topsites) to lower levels such as public BitTorrent trackers. Given the popularity and high rating of this movie, expect this one to be downloaded a lot of times.

Description

Lifelong friends and roommates Zack (Seth Rogen) and Miri (Elizabeth Banks) are facing hard times and a mountain of debt. When the electricity and plumbing get cut off, they seize upon the idea of making a homegrown porno movie for some quick cash, enlisting the help of their friends. The two vow that having sex will not ruin their friendship. But as filming begins, what started out as a business proposition between friends turns into something much more.

Links

Note: You wouldn’t find any download links here.

[Click Here] to view movie details on IMDB

[Click Here] to view release information (screen captures, .NFO, subtitles) on VCDQuality

[Click Here] to view Kids-In-Mind rating for this movie (ratings based on profanity, sex/nude scenes, and violence present in the movie)

[Click Here] to search for DVD Covers for this movie on CDCovers.CC

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R5 rip of ‘Zack and Miri Make A Porno’ leaks to BitTorrent

BitmeTV (BMTV) is definitely one of the best and most sought after private trackers ever. It’s right up there in the list of dedicated TV torrent trackers and it tracks almost every major US/Canadian TV Show currently airing/recently aired. Getting into BitMeTv usually requires and invite. Unlike most private trackers we’ve posted about on FILEnetworks Blog, BitMeTv has had only one open signup for the past 2 and a half years. Finding a BitMeTv  invite is not that easy either, specially if you don’t have a good reputation in invite sharing forums. However, a change in Bitmetv’s invites policy for the month of December 2008 might just have made obtaining a BMTV invite relatively easy, even for novice users.

Generally, if you invite someone into BitMeTv, you are responsible for their actions. If the person who was invited got caught cheating, trading or breaking any other rules, the inviter too may face the consequences. This is what made it so difficult for newbies to get hold of a BMTV invite in giveaways conducted on most invite sharing forums. So here is the good news; I noticed the following posted on BMTV homepage today:

Wanted to invite some friends but have been worried that it might fall back on you badly?
Well, anyone invited during the month of December 2008's inviter will be immune for being responsible for those invites. So invite your friends and say stuff the consequences

This means than during December 2008, BMTV members will be extra generous towards invite requests (if you post in the proper places that is). This will also leave users with relatively low rep (reputation, credits or whatever else that measures your trustworthiness on invite forums) with a standing chance on obtaining a BitMeTv invite. Note that the change on invites policy will not be in effect till the 1st of December 2008 and will end on the 31st of December. Good Luck.

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BitMeTV invites policy changed ahead of Christmas

Tehconnection.eu is a private movie torrent tracker which specializes in English movies (US/UK releases mostly). As we reported when the site first went online, Tehconnection is from the same crew behind SceneTorrents (ScT) tracker. This tracker has made some good progress both in terms of indexed torrents and user base for the few months it’s been online. Currently Tehconnection tracks over 3300 active torrents and has a user base in excess of 16000. They have a decent collection of torrents including both scene and non scene releases as well as several great movie packs.

About two months ago we reported that Tehconnection was planning to upgrade to the Gazelle codebase. This however seems to have taken a lot longer than initially expected. Given below is a update from the admins (posted several weeks ago):

So its been a month and Im sure you are all eager for TehConnection Gazelle to go online, well believe us, its coming soon. We aren't going to lie, we hit a few snags with certain aspects of our modification, but that was fixed a few hours ago, its not going to be much longer, you can believe that.

The current layout of Tehconnection is not bad. But TC could achieve a lot more with Gazelle; examples are Passthepopcorn and Wunza -both gazelle based movie trackers. It would indeed be great news if the admins manage to complete the migration without further delays.

Tehconnection signups were closed for some time when the site’s user count hit 16000. Now they have increased the user limit to 16500 which means that around 350 new spots are available for the taking. If you are interested, here is your chance to get into TC. It’s a must have if you are a movie fan.

Site Name: TehConnection.eu

Signup URL: http://tehconnection.eu/signup.php

Categories:

• Action
• Adventure
• Comedy
• Crime
• Documentary
• Drama
• Epics/Historical
• Foreign
• Horror
• Musicals
• Mystery
• Sci-Fi
• Thriller
• War
• Western

Related Articles

• Tehconnection.eu increases user limit, plans to migrate to Gazelle
• TehConnection : A new movie torrent tracker from SceneTorrents (SCT) team - Signups open via SCT promo link

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TehConnection (TC) movie torrent tracker signups open – 350 spots left

On of the largest paytoleech (P2L) sites in existence, TV-Land (TVL), was shut down by Dutch anti piracy group BREIN only two days ago. It’s not operation site down all over again or anything like that but this will still be a blow to at least a few BitTorrent trackers who depended on TV Land for their releases. Pay to Leech (P2L) sites are where you can get access to scene released 0-Day (zero day) for a fee. 

Interestingly, TV-Land was shut down after a scene notice exposed the affiliation between P2P sites and TV-Land. One of the BitTorrent trackers hit hard by the shutdown is SceneTorrents (SCT). ScT is usually one of the first trackers to track scene releases but their pre times suffered greatly during the time TVL was down. BREIN’s press release (you might want to translate it) claims TV Land is the largest topsite ever to be busted - of this I am not so sure. It does not look like any arrests were made but all 3 servers of the site (which were hosted on Leaseweb btw) have reportedly been seized.

This whole incident most likely will not affect ScT in the long run; TV Land was not the only PayToLeech site there existed. New sites go online, some sites get shut down; it’s a vicious cycle.

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‘TV Land’ (TVL) shut down

There is no doubt that ESET’s NOD32/Smart Security and Kaspersky Lab’s Kaspersky Anti Virus (KAV)/Kaspersky Internet Security (KIS) are some of the most popular security products currently available on the market. Due to their high popularity, these products are among the list of most pirated security products. In addition to usual workarounds and trial extensions, ‘fans’ have made utilities that crawl the web and automatically retrieve valid usernames and keys for these products. The aim of this post is to shed some light on several such utilities that are currently around (and seem to be the most popular); NodEnabler, NodLogin and Kaspersky Key Finder.

Tools for ESET NOD32 and ESET Smart Security (ESS)

Licensing mechanism of ESET’s security products, namely NOD32 and ESET Smart Security (ESS), is based purely on usernames and passwords (there is no product activation or validation required). The only major difference between trial version and commercial versions of NOD32 and ESS is that you cannot update the trial versions once the 30 day tryout period is over. There have been many hacks and cracks (including 3rd party update servers) to extend the trial period of NOD32 and ESS but ESET has made life difficult for pirates by blocking extended trials and blacklisting 3rd party servers at regular intervals. This is where NodEnabler and NodLogin come in. Instead of merely trying to extend the trial period, these software automatically download daily updated commercial licenses (usernames and passwords that is) from various web sources.

NodEnabler

NodEnabler works with most version 3 (v3) products of ESET Smart Security and NOD32 Anti Virus. What NodEnabler does is that it acquires usernames and passwords for ESET products from the web and inserts them to the program automatically through the system registry. User interaction is not required for the most part; even when a key is expired or blacklisted, NodEnabler would search for a new one and install it automatically. It’s primary source of commercial licenses seem to be www.nod321.com, a Chinese site with daily updated NOD32 and ESS keys which has been around for some time. This means that as long as the site is up, NodEnabler will continue to work fine. If the site goes down, the program will be useless.
Latest version (as of 28/11/2008) – NodEnabler 2.81

NodLogin

NodLogin is another tool similar to NodEnabler; it downloads ESET Smart Security and NOD32 Anti Virus commercial keys from web sources and injects them to the product through the system registry. Unlike NodEnabler, Nodlogin can autodetect the ESET product version installed on your system. This program too has a weakness; it depends on a single, central server to download commercial keys. If this server (which happens to be run by the developer of NodLogin) goes down, so will the effectiveness of NodLogin.
Latest version (as of 28/11/2008) – NodLogin 9.7

Tools for Kaspersky Anti Virus (KAV) and Kaspersky Internet Security (KIS)

Kaspersky security products too need either a working trial (non expired) or a commercial license for definition updates to be downloaded. Products can be activated online using the activation key obtained during purchase or they can be activated using a .key file. The second method (.key file) is the one most commonly exploited by software pirates.

Kaspersky Key Finder 

Kaspersky Key Finder is a utility that downloads .key files for Kaspersky Internet Security (KIS) and Kaspersky Anti Virus (KAV) from a web based database of daily updated keys. It’s able to find and download keys for Kaspersky Internet Security and Kaspersky Anti Virus v6, v7 and v8 products. Kaspersky KeyFinder shares the same weakness of NodLogin and NodEnable; it relies on a set of web based servers that contain daily updated keys. These central servers were located on Freewebs (free web hosting provider) and they have all recently been taken down by the host, citing abuse. As of 28/11/2008, the servers remain offline and Kaspersky Keyfinder returns “unable to access database” error.
Latest version (as of 28/11/2008) – Kaspersky KeyFinder 1.5.2d

Other Notes

Most of these tools are detected by Anti virus software as viruses and malware (HackTool, Generic Malware, etc). If you download from their original sources (sorry, download links will not be provided here), these tools do not actually contain any viruses or malware; most of the detections are false positives. Anyway, if you download from untrusted 3rd party sites, there is no guarantee of the files being clean.

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• How to get offline definition updates for popular antivirus software

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NodLogin, NodEnabler & Kaspersky Key Finder : What are they and how do they work?

7Track.org is a private torrent tracker which indexes general content including movies, music, games, 0-Day releases, appz and TV Shows. It’s a fairly new tracker to enter the BitTorrent scene but 7Track has already managed to secure a significant user base. There are currently nearly 3000 users and close to 800 torrents on this tracker. 7Track is based on the Gazelle codebase. Although gazelle based specialized trackers such as Wunza, PassThePopCorn, LzTr and nTorrents are nowadays a commodity, 7Track is perhaps the only general/0Day tracker to use the new codebase other than Torrentit.

7Track indexes both scene and non scene releases. Apart from individual torrents, there are quite a few unique packs as well.

 

Being a Gazelle tracker, the layout of 7Track is user friendly and fast. There are currently 2 stylesheets available; sovietski and BlueBit (screenshot above was taken with BlueBit style selected). You seem to get 2 invites upon signup (at least I got 2 when I signed up about a week ago). 7Track registrations are currently open; check it out this tracker looks very promising.

Site Name: 7Track (7track.org)

Signup URL: http://7track.org/register.php

Categories:

• /mu/ – Music
• /app/ – Applications
• /elit/ - Education Literature
• /hear/ - Non-music Audio
• /howto/ - Educational Video
• /lol/ – Comedy
• /co/ – Comics
• /vid/ - Film/Video
• /vg/ - Video Games
• /s/ – Pornography
• /lit/ – Literature
• /pic/ - Picture Collections

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7Track – Gazelle based general torrent tracker signups open

A DVD Screener (DVDSCR) of the latest James Bond movies, Quantum of Solace, has leaked to internet. Despite various efforts by movie studios to prevent leaking of screeners, scene group COALiTION has managed to release a seemingly good copy of the movie. The initial release by COALiTION had the ending missing and it was nuked on group request. They have released a PROPER version and both releases are now on scene topsites and other FTP sites, BitTorrent trackers and also on one click hosting sites across the world. It looks like COALiTiON did a good job on the watermarks and I’m not sure if there are any black and white scene present on this release (and they usually are present on DVD Screeners).

Description

Quantum of Solace (2008) is the 22nd James Bond film by EON Productions, released in the United Kingdom on October 31, in North America on November 14 and in Australia on November 19, 2008. The direct sequel to the 2006 film Casino Royale, it is directed by Marc Forster, and features Daniel Craig's second performance as James Bond. In the film, Bond battles Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric), a member of the Quantum organisation posing as an environmentalist, who intends to stage a coup d'état in Bolivia to take control of its water supply. Bond seeks revenge for the death of Vesper Lynd, and is assisted by Camille Montes (Olga Kurylenko), who has her own vengeance issues

Links

[Click Here] to view movie details on IMDB

[Click Here] to view release information (screen captures, .NFO, trailer) on VCDQuality

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DVD Screener of Quantum of Solace leaks to BitTorrent

About a week ago we broke the news about the upcoming Mac version of popular BitTorrent client uTorrent. Some more good news for BitTorrent fans who own a Mac; a beta of uTorrent 0.90 for Mac OS X was officially released a few hours ago and is freely downloadable. If you don’t know already, uTorrent is a hugely popular BitTorrent client best known for being lightweight, reliable and simple. With this software and a BrokenStones account (a dedicated Mac torrent tracker and community – here is how to get a free invite), your torrenting life on the Mac platform will almost be complete. Read on for download links.

Developer Description

“Now the lightweight power and performance of µTorrent available for your Mac. This is beta software, and may contain serious bugs. We think it's stable enough to share and hope your feedback will help us improve it.Please share your feedback on our forums.”

Download

[Click Here] to download uTorrent 0.90 BETA for Mac OS X 10.5 Intel from official servers (Direct Download)

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• How to get a free BrokenStones invitation code - The Mac based torrent community

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Download uTorrent for Mac 0.90 (Beta)

There is no doubt that HD video formats are very popular nowadays (hell, there are entire torrent trackers dedicated to HD content). Here is a nice software for those who work with High definition videos regularly. HD Video Converter 5.1.17.1114 is a conversion app from Xilisoft (who make quite a lot of file converters btw) which supports converting between HD video formats, converting HD video to standard definition (SD) video, converting between general video formats such as WMV, MP4, DivX and even converting between several different audio formats. Like most other Xilisoft apps, HD Video Converter has a simple user interface and even novice users should be able to use it without issues. From what little experience I had with the software (this version is quite new), conversion speeds also seemed to be pretty good.

Developer Description

With advanced HD (High-Definition) video conversion technology, Xilisoft HD Video Converter can easily convert among HD video formats, convert video to HD, convert HD videos to SD (Standard-Definition) videos. The HD video converter supports most of HD video formats such as AVCHD (mts, m2ts), H.264/AVC, MKV, MPEG-2 (ts), DivX, HD WMV, MPEG-4 and Quick Time.

Besides, Xilisoft HD Video Converter can easily convert among high definition videos, convert HD video to SD video, extract audio from video, and convert among audios. The HD converter can also make JPG, GIF, BMP and PNG pictures into videos, as well as capture pictures from various videos. The HD converter also offers you various settings like adjusting file size and splitting file. Have a nice enjoyment on the HD movie conversion!

Features

• Convert HD videos including AVCHD (mts, m2ts), TS, H.264/AVC, MKV
• Convert among general videos like AVI, MPEG, WMV, MP4, DivX, RM, MOV, FLV
• Convert HD videos to SD videos and audios
• Create videos and SWF/FLV file from pictures
• Conversion between picture and video
• Flexible settings simplify your HD video conversion
• Run the HD video converter in background

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Convert HD video formats with Xilisoft HD Video Converter 5.1.17.1114

MakeGreatMusic.net (MGM) is a private music torrent tracker. You can find and download torrents of English music, personal performances, Audiobooks, Guitar/Bass Tabs, concert videos and Sheet MP3s on this tracker. In addition to actual music, MakeGreatMusic tracks music books, music related TV Shows, radio dramas, instructional media and lots of other goodies as well (See categories below for more details). You might not have heard about this tracker before but MGM has a decent number of registered members and tracks a lot of torrents.

At time of this post, MGM tracks over 2500 torrents and has a user base close to 10000. Most of the releases on this tracker seem to be non scene releases so there is always the chance of finding unique content not available on other trackers. MGM has a requests section where members can make request torrents not found on the tracker. There is also a Karma Bonus Points system where members can spend points earned (mainly by seeding torrents) in exchange for additional upload credit, custom titles, etc.

Make Great Music (MGM) signups are currently open so interested readers may join for free.

Site Name: MakeGreatMusic.net

Signup URL: http://www.makegreatmusic.net/signup.php

Categories:

• All Other Formats
• Audiobooks – Fiction
• Audiobooks – NonFiction
• Complete Editions
• Concert Videos
• e-Books
• e-Books – Magazines
• Guitar/Bass Tabs
• Individual Sheet
• Individual Sheet MP3
• Instructional Media
• Music Book
• Music Book MP3
• Personal Performances
• Radio Drama/OTR
• Sheet Collection
• Sheet Collection MP3
• TV-Shows - Music Related

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MakeGreatMusic (MGM) – Music Torrent Tracker signups open

If you are a PC gamer, then you are no doubt eagerly awaiting the release of GTA 4 (Grand Theft Auto IV). Actually, the game’s PC release date is less than a week from now on; it will officially be released in North America (NA) on the 2nd of December and in Europe (EU) on the 3rd of December. Unlike its console counterparts, PC version of GTA4 comes embedded with DRM (Digital Rights Management) software. Yep, you guessed correct; it’s SecuROM. Not just any other version of SecuROM but the online activated, supposedly ‘hard to crack’ variant of SecuROM 7.1.

This essentially means that every legitimate user needs to activate their copy of GTA 4 online in order to play the game. There is however no limit to the number of activations allowed per user and nor are any reactivations required. Embedding a DRM as controversial as SecuROM into Grand Theft Auto 4 is somewhat surprising on Rockstar’s part, especially considering that their last PC release Bully : Scholarship Edition, was completely DRM free.

Anyway, embedding SecuROM into GTA 4 does not mean that pirates won’t crack it. So far, every major PC title of 2008 which used SecuROM protection has been cracked by scene groups such as RELOADED, Razor1911, ViTALiTY and non scene individuals such as DarkC0der. Pirates successfully released DRM removed, modified but working executables (aka cracks) for games such as Spore, Mass Effect, Alone in the Dark, Dead Space, Fallout 3 and many more. Crackers initially had trouble with the new SecuROM and it took them some time to fully crack games such as Mass Effect and Alone in the Dark. But now the protection is somewhat popular and unless SecuROM devs did some major changes to their DRM, expect a cracked version of GTA 4 to surface very soon after (or before, who knows) the game’s official release. And judging by comments on various gaming forums, it’s not just pirates that use cracked exes. Cracks are apparently popular among legitimate buyers who just don’t want SecuROM on their systems.

Speaking of cracked versions, there are many fake GTA 4 torrents floating around in public BitTorrent trackers. Do not be fooled into downloading these; the game has not leaked (yet) and these torrents are most likely viruses, malware or gay porn. When or if GTA 4 does leak, FILEnetworks Blog will be one of the first to update on the news so stay tuned.

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GTA 4 to use SecuROM DRM, Requires online activation

Specialized movie torrent tracker PassThePopcorn.org (formerly Scenemovies) has just opened registrations. This is the first time they have opened signups since they moved to a new domain and changed the tracker name to PassThePopCorn. Although the name might sound new, PassThePopcorn did not start from scratch. Entire torrents index and every single user account on Scenemovies was transferred to the new tracker. Currently, there are 4700+ active users and 2250+ torrents on PassThePopcorn. This tracker is based on the shiny new Gazelle codebase so navigation is fast and the site is a pleasure to browse.

As mentioned in the title, Pass The Popcorn is all about movies. Uploaders have done a very nice job of adding some great torrents to this tracker; they’ve only been online for around two months but there are already over 2000 movie torrents indexed. At Passthepopcorn, it’s not just about downloading torrents. You can find a lot of information related to indexed movies through various installed add-ons (Album Art Coverflow, IMDB auto-fill and Actor catalog with 17000+ actors to name a few). You can even discover new movies through the ‘Staff recommendations’ and ‘Collections’ features on this tracker.

Signups are currently open but don’t expect them to stay open forever. Following is from the site homepage:

Registrations have been opened for a short time. Pham is in a giving mood

If you download movies via BitTorrent, PassThePopCorn is a must have tracker. Get in while you can.

Site Name: PassThePopcorn.org

Signup URL: http://passthepopcorn.org/register.php

Categories: action, adventure, animation, arthouse, asian, biography, camp, comedy, crime, cult, documentary, drama, experimental, exploitation, family, fantasy, film noir, history, horror, martial arts, musical, mystery, performance, philosophy, politics, romance, sci.fi, short, silent, sport, thriller, video art, war, western

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PassThePopCorn signups open – Movie torrent tracker

If you are a long time reader of FILEnetworks blog, you know that we bring you latest news in the world of BitTorrent including private torrent tracker open signup notifications. This post lists 10 private BitTorrent trackers that are open for signup as of 26/11/2008. All of these trackers have been featured in our private trackers section before so we will not be repeating details about them in this post (Instead, a link to full tracker description will be given). Most of the torrent sites mentioned in this article are specialized trackers catering different niches such as E-Learning, Games, Sports, TV Torrents, Music, Movies, Cartoons etc. For tracker list and signup URLs, read on.

1. Cartoon Chaos

 
Site Name: Cartoon Chaos
Signup URL: http://www.cartoonchaos.org/index.php?page=signup
Description: CartoonChoas is a dedicated cartoons torrent tracker. For full tracker description including category details and statistics, refer to this article.

2. Wunza.ws

 
Site Name: Wunza.WS
Signup URL: http://wunza.ws/register.php
Description: Wunza is a dedicated movie torrent tracker. For full tracker description including category details and statistics, refer to this article.

3. XBOX-SKY (Games 360)

 
Site Name: XBOX-SKY
Alternative URLs: http://bt.xbox-sky.org, http://bt.xbox-sky.cc
Signup URL: http://bt.xbox-sky.cc/register.php
Description: XBOX-SKY is a dedicated XBOX/XBOX360 games tracker. For full tracker description including category details and statistics, refer to this article.

4. Satclubbing

 
Site Name: SatClubbing
Signup URL: http://satclubbing.info/signup.php
Description: Satclubbing is an English music tracker. For full tracker description including category details and statistics, refer to this article.

5. My-Gamebox

 
Site Name: My-Gamebox
Signup URL: http://my-gamebox.com/signup.php
Description: My-Gamebox is a a PC/Console games tracker. For full tracker description including category details and statistics, refer to this article.

6. Tv.Torrents.Ro

 
Site Name: Tv.Torrents.Ro
Signup URL: http://tv.torrents.ro/signup.php
Description: Tv.Torrents.Ro is a dedicated TV Torrents tracker. For full tracker description including category details and statistics, refer to this article. 

7. ExtremeShare

 
Site Name: ExtremeShare (ES)
Signup URL: http://www.extremeshare.org/tracker/signup.php
Description: ExtremeShare is a General/0Day tracker (has everything – no special category). For full tracker description including category details and statistics, refer to this article.

8. TVTorrentz.org

   
Site Name: TvTorrentsz.org
Signup URL: http://tvtorrentz.org/signup.php
Description: TvTorrentz.org is a dedicated TV torrents tracker. For full tracker description including category details and statistics, refer to this article.

9. BitShock

 
Site Name: BitShock (BSk)
Signup URL: http://www.bitshock.org/signup.php
Description: ExtremeShare is a General/0Day tracker (has everything – no special category). For full tracker description including category details and statistics, refer to this article.

10. Sportbit

Site Name: Sportbit
Signup URL: http://www.sportbit.org/signup.php
Description: Sportbit is a sports torrent tracker. For full tracker description including category details and statistics, refer to this article.

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10 Private Trackers open for signup – 26/11/2008

Net Transport is a download manager. It’s not just any download manager but one with capability to download and save media streamed over pop protocols. It supports a range of streaming protocols including MMS (commonly used by Windows Media formats streaming) , RTSP (Realmedia streaming) and RTMP (Flash media streaming). Normally, you cannot save streaming media (audio/video) to your hard drive – you watch it and forget it. However, with Net Transport you can actually save most streaming media types including Windows Media, RealMedia and Flash content to your hard drive and watch/listen to them offline whenever you please. Streaming media is not all this software can download - Good old HTTP and FTP file downloading is also supported. Check it out.

Supported Protocols

• HTTP / HTTPS

• FTP / over SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) / over SSH (Secure Shell)

• MMS (Microsoft Media Services)

• RTSP (Real-Time Streaming Protocol)

• BitTorrent

• eMule

• RTMP (Real Time Messaging Protocol)

Supported File Formats

Server	Protocol	File Format
Windows Media Services	MMS HTTP Streaming RTSP Extensions
Helix Server	RTSP HTTP Tunneling
Flash Media Server	RTMP RTMPT (HTTP Tunneling) RTMPS (over SSL)
Darwin Streaming Server	RTSP HTTP Tunneling

Other Features

• The flexible "Scheduler Manager" is also most powerful item in NetXfer. Even you can record the dynamic URL according to time and save it as your desire filename.
• You can use the inbuilt "URL Sniffer" to catch the real URLs for streaming, Flash, etc.
• You can use the simple but powerful "File Manager" to categorize and manage downloaded files more efficiently.
• You can use the inbuilt "Site Explorer" to list the directory structure of the remote server, and easily select the desired files. FTP is the most powerful item in NetXfer.
• FTP reuse mechanism allows you to use one connection to get different files from the same site.
• The "Multiple Proxies mode" allows you to assign every working thread a different proxy to break certain site restrictions, like only one connection per IP.
• You can adjust the bandwidth usage of Net Transport to ensure surf at the same time.
• Monitor browser click. And you can add links through Internet Explorer extended context menu, or drag links to the "drop zone" window, etc.
• Net Transport can automatically shutdown the system or hang up the modem once all downloads are completed.
• You can use multi-threads for all streaming protocols to significantly reduce the time of downloads.
• Automatically parse streaming script such as .asx, .smi to acquire real URLs.
• From version 2 on, you can record the clip with range.
• The disk cache buffer can prolong your hard disk life.

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Save streaming media to your hard disk with Net Transport 2.72 Build 435

Smoking in the Rain (SITR) is a private torrent tracker which tracks general content including movies, TV Shows, Games, E-Books and 0-Day releases. SITR currently tracks over 5000 active torrents including both scene and non scene (p2p) releases; you can find pretty much every major release here. There are currently over 4000 active users on this tracker (out of a total user base of 15000). Something I noticed on SITR’s stats page is that it says ‘Uploaders : 2,055’. I don’t know for sure how many out of these are currently active but they sure do have a lot of uploaders (which means more content).

In addition to individual torrents, SITR has a lot of unique packs such as Movie packs, Complete TV Series Season packs, etc.

Another good thing about SITR is whenever the monthly donation goal is reached, the entire site is put on free leech (only upload is added to your stats) for the rest of the month. They usually reach their donations goal around the 20th of each month so you usually get around 10 full days of free leech every month on SITR. The only concern I have regarding SITR is its layout. It’s definitely usable and navigable but feels a little outdated.

SITR is one of the older private trackers out there. In addition to the torrents, the tracker has a fairly active community of members so don’t forget to check their forum out. The site is currently open for signup and interested readers may join for free. Check it out.

Site Name: Smoking In The Rain (SITR)

Signup URL: http://www.smokingintherain.us/signup.php

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Private Tracker Watch: Smoking in The Rain (SITR) signups open

If you’ve been playing recently released Fallout 3, you might already know that children in the game cannot be killed. According to game developers the reason why they didn’t include the ability to kill kids is that they didn’t want to ‘cross that line’. Anyway as we previously mentioned, Fallout 3 has a strong modding community and they’ve developed a mod that allows players to kill children in Fallout 3.

This mod is titled Killable Children v1.2. Quoted below is part of the developer’s description of the mod:

This mod enables you to kill any or all of the children in Fallout 3. Keep in mind that due to the fact that you aren't normally supposed to be able to kill children there are some graphical glitches when you kill them. See the screenshots included with the file for more information. As a by-product of what this mod does it also allows you to play a child. For further instructions on how to do this please scroll down.

I tried it out and actually it does work pretty well (I mean the mod, not that I like to kill kids lol). If you want to see how it works before you try it, check out this YouTube video (features a guy with a plasma rifle blasting the crap out of kids).

Download

You can download this mod free of charge from Fallout 3 Nexus (and awaken the kid killer inside you). But if you are not already a member, you need to register first. Then you have to log in and change your member preferences to ‘Allow me to see adult content’ and then only will the mod become visible.

[Click Here] to visit Fallout 3 Nexus Killable Children mod download page.

Related Articles

• Fallout 3 Mods – Where to download them
• Possible solution for Fallout 3 crashing to desktop at start screen
• Pirates crack Fallout 3 (English) DRM
• Clone DVD of Fallout 3 leaked before official release

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Fallout 3 Killable Children mod released

Who doesn’t love a conspiracy? Conspiracy Central is a torrent tracker that specializes in everything related to Conspiracies and Conspiracy theories. You can download a lot of E-Books, lectures, radio shows, video documentaries, images, Audiobooks, movies and other media on a number of interesting topics from this tracker (for free of course). The subject of conspiracies might seem too small a niche to create a specialized torrent tracker. But Conspiracy Central has around 3300 indexed torrents and nearly 12000 registered members (CC’s stats are actually beat most General/0Day trackers out there)

The origin of content on Conspiracy Central varies. It ranges from texts from rather unknown authors to high quality documentaries from premium channels such as The History Channel and BBC. To get a better idea of the content at Conspiracy Central, refer to the screenshot below:

In addition to the BitTorrent tracker, Conspiracy Central also has a very active forum full of members arguing about conspiracy theories. If you are interested in conspiracies, secret projects, cover-ups and the likes, you could get lost in this tracker for days.  Check it out – signups are open and you can get in for free.

Site Name: Conspiracy Central

Torrent Tracker URL: http://tracker.conspiracycentral.net/

Signup URL:  http://tracker.conspiracycentral.net/account-signup.php

Forum URL: http://conspiracycentral.info/

Categories:

• Audio - Audio - Book - Lecture - MP3 - OGG - WAV – WMA
• Document - DOC - E-books - HTML - PDF – TEXT
• Video Clip - Documentary - Film - Generic Video - Lecture - Television
• Other, Photo, Radio, Religion

P.S. – Did anyone notice the donations message: “This site kills a kitten every day that nobody donates.” :D

If you liked this tracker you might also like:

• One Big Torrent – Documentary, Current Affairs and Ebook torrent index

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Conspiracy Central – Download E-Books, Documentaries and Videos related to Conspiracies

If you’ve been reading FILEnetworks Blog recently, you might remember that we posted about leaked Clone DVDs (Full DVD Images) of games such as Dead Space, NFS : Undercover, Fallout 3 and Red Alert 3. In some CloneDVD releases, it’s actually possible to play the game using a CloneDVD by mounting the image and emulating the copy protection built into the game (This eliminated the need for a crack). Alcohol120% is one such app which can emulate several popular copy protection mechanisms and combined with tools such as Y.A.S.U, it’s one of the software available for mounting Clones and backup images (Similar to Daemon Tools Pro). However, mounting clones is not all Alcohol 120% can do. It can also create disc images and burn created images to physical disks as well. Notable features in the latest build (1.9.8.7117) are ACID wizard and latest SPTD driver.

Developer Description

Alcohol 120% is CD/DVD emulation and recording software that allows users to copy discs. Store your most used or important CDs as images on your computer and run them at 200x speed from up to 31 virtual CD or DVD drives. Alcohol is compatible with more than 99% of drives available. It supports the latest image file types including - MDS, CCD, BIN, CUE, ISO, CDI, BWT, BWI, BWS, BWA and many more.

Changes in version 1.9.8.7117, 2008-11-23:

• NEW A.C.I.D Wizard "Alcohol Cloaking Initiative for DRM"
• NEW Add Context Menu in explorer for burning image file
• NEW Improved Dumping/Burning engine more stability and speed
• NEW Latest SPTD layer version
• FIX Problem with some Drives Not showing correct manufacture ID of blank discs.
• FIX The incorrect 'Processor Info' display on some Operating systems, especially for Core 2 Dual new processors
• FIX addressed some blacklisting problems
• FIX Bugs reported by some users
• UPDATE Some language files
• UPDATE Devsupp additional support for more drives

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Alcohol 120% v1.9.8.7117 – Mount your Clone DVDs and backup discs with ease

It was only a day ago we posted about JamToThis, a lossless music and music video tracker. Zomb Torrents is another private torrent tracker which tracks a lot of lossless music and DVD videos of live music, concerts and the likes. It actually has a lot more content and members than JamToThis and has been online for a long time as well. You can find and download a lot of lossless music in SHN (Shorten), FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) and APE (Monkey’s Audio) format from Zomb Torrents. In addition, videos of live shows, concerts and DVDs can also be found on this tracker. ZT allows user uploads (even videos of user recorded concerts) so you are bound to find a lot of unique content on this tracker not found elsewhere. It must be mentioned that Zomb Torrents does not allow sharing of officially released material (unless permitted).

Currently there are more than 105000 registered users on this tracker and around 3500 active torrents. Zomb Torrents has a better search function than most other trackers out there; you can search lossless music by artist, song or band name and you can search videos by name, venue, location or title. ZT has an active forum where a great community of members trade and share music everyday.

As mentioned in the title Zomb Torrents is currently open for signup and interested members can join for free. On a side note this tracker almost always has open signups.

Site Name: Zomb Torrents (http://zombtracker.the-zomb.com)

Signup URL: http://zombtracker.the-zomb.com/signup.php

Audio Formats: APE, FLAC, SHN

Video Formats: MPG, AVI, DVD, MISC

More private music torrent trackers and music video trackers can be found in our Music Trackers section. 

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Zomb Torrents – Lossless music and DVD Videos tracker – Signups open

About 3 months ago, we featured Kaspersky Anti-Virus v8.0.0.454 and Kaspersky Internet Security v8.0.0.454 on FILEnetworks Blog. Just recently Kaspersky have released a new build (8.0.0.506) of the security suite with several enhancements to detection technology and a number of other bugfixes. As always, upgrading to the latest version is recommended. I’ve been using this app for the last 3 months (after parting ways with ESET’s NOD32) and so far it hasn’t let me down. Kaspersky has killed every single piece of malware that has come my way. If you have noticed, some security products such as AVG have a lot of false positives specially when it comes to clean key generators and cracks. I’ve experienced a lot less number of false positives with Kaspersky.

Anyway if you have noticed, the title of this post says KIS 2009 v8.0.0.506 + Goodies. In addition to the KIS 2009 installer, it has some nice tools such as KeyViewer, KeyFinder and also a list of sites where you can find keys for Kaspersky products. If you have a machine that does not have an internet connection and rely on offline updates, you’d have to stick with v7.0 (To know where to get offline updates for other Anti Virus software, read this article). Version 2009 (8.0) of Kaspersky security apps do not support offline updating (yet).

Developer Description

Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 – the all-in-one security solution that offers a worry-free computing environment for you and your family. Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 has everything you need for a safe and secure Internet experience.

Essential Protection

• Protects from all types of malware and spyware
• Scans files, email messages and Internet traffic
• Protects instant messengers (ICQ, MSN)
• Updates automatically

Extended Protection

• Two-way personal firewall
• Safe Wi-Fi and VPN connections. New!
• Intrusion prevention system

Preventive Protection

• Intelligent application management and control. New!
• Proactive protection from unknown threats
• Scans OS and applications for vulnerabilities. New!
• Disables links to malware sites. New!

Identity Theft Protection

• Disables links to phishing websites
• Virtual keyboard for safe entry of logins and passwords. New!
• Prevents theft of data via secure connections (HTTPS / SSL). New!
• Blocks unauthorized dial-up connections

Content Filtering

• Parental control
• Antispam protection

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Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 v8.0.0.506 + Goodies

Latest version of the popular iPhone jailbreak utility, QuickPWN 2.2 has been released. QuickPWN 2.2 can be used to jailbreak the firmware on iPhone, iPhone 3G and the first generation iPod touch devices (that is, firmware version 2.2). There are many tools out there which can be used to jailbreak the iPhone or iPod touch and QuickPWN is one of the most popular mainly due to it’s user friendly interface. It’s developed by The DevTeam and both Mac and Windows versions of QuickPWN 2.2 have been released.

Genuine Apple iPhone and iPod Touch firmware does not allow installation of 3rd party applications or games by default. A jailbreak is simply a hack used on the file system which once applied allows users to install 3rd party software and games on the device. In most cases this process is harmless but be aware that doing so may void your warranty.

Download

Both Mac and Windows versions of QuickPWN 2.2 have been released. You can download the utility for free from the DevTeam Blog.

[Click Here] to visit DevTeam Blog.

[Click Here] to visit quickpwn.com – another location where you can download the tools from.

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QuickPWN 2.2 – Jailbreak your iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPod Touch firmware v2.2

PS2-P is a private torrent tracker that specializes in Playstation 2 (PS2) console games. It’s a fairly new tracker but it already has one of the best PS2 torrents collections in the BitTorrent scene. PS2-P does tracks individual (and newer) games but the site’s main attraction is without a doubt the FULLSETS. FULLSETS are huge packs (usually over 100GB) containing a gazillion games in each one of them. Although the main focus is on PS2 games, that’s not all PS2-P tracks. There are several FULLSETS of PSP (Playstation Portable) games available as well. Apart from the games, this tracker has some of the best available PS2, PSP emulators, Hacks, Mods, DVD Covers and other Tools for the Playstation consoles.

PS2-P has opened public signups several times so far. They have however been setting very small user limits such as 777 so not many were able to get in. It’s open for signups again – we do not for how long or till how many users. Open signups may close anytime so get in while you can.

Site Name: PS2-P Tracker

Signup URL: http://ps2ptt.com/signup.php

Categories:

• Bonus DVD/VID
• Cover/Disc Scans
• Extra Projects
• Manuals
• Misc
• PS2 FULL SETS J
• PS2 FULL SETS PAL
• PS2 FULL SETS U
• PS2 NTSC J
• PS2 NTSC U
• PS2 PAL
• PSP
• PSX J
• PSX J FULL SETS
• PSX PAL
• PSX PAL FULL SETS
• PSX U
• PSX U FULL SETS
• PSXPSP
• Tools
• UNDUB
• VGM
• VGM Flac

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Download Playstation 2 (PS2) and PSP games from PS2P torrent tracker – Signups open

Valve’s highly anticipated zombie shooter Left 4 Dead was susceptible for leaks and hacks since the very beginning perhaps due to the immense media hype the game received. Initially fans found a hack to get into the exclusive early access demo without pre ordering the game and then the actual demo itself leaked to BitTorrent. Now, about 5 days after the game’s official release, a full copy has been leaked to BitTorrent trackers, FTP sites and one click hosting sites around the world. The release comes from SKIDROW, a group from the warez scene who usually release lesser known PC titles. Actually, there have been several leaked versions of the full version of Left 4 Dead floating around in P2P networks for a few days but this is the first release by a scene group.

If you are a pirate and thinking of downloading a torrent of the full version of Left 4 Dead, there is something you should know. Even though you are able to play the single player campaign, you will not be able to play the multiplayer or coop without a valid steam account (online play is usually impossible in modern games if you do not own a legitimate copy). SKIDROW’s NFO does not speak of a crack and in fact Steam protection is very hard to be cracked. Even to play Left 4 Dead over LAN, players need to join through Steam. However, given the game’s popularity, it is likely that there will be many private servers or cracked servers for Left 4 Dead like there is now for Counterstrike and CS: Source. Already, several workarounds including console hacks and no steam servers for Left 4 Dead have surfaced that allow pirates to play the game on LAN but there is no guarantee that Valve will patch these up.

Developer Description

From Valve (the creators of Counter-Strike, Half-Life and more) comes Left 4 Dead, a co-op action horror game for the PC and Xbox 360 that casts up to four players in an epic struggle for survival against swarming zombie hordes and terrifying mutant monsters. Set in the immediate aftermath of the zombie apocalypse, L4Ds survival co-op mode lets you blast a path through the infected in four unique movies, guiding your survivors across the rooftops of an abandoned metropolis, through rural ghost towns and pitch-black forests in your quest to escape a devastated Ground Zero crawling with infected enemies. Each movie is comprised of five large maps, and can be played by one to four
human players, with an emphasis on team-based strategy and objectives. New technology dubbed the AI Director is used to generate a unique gameplay experience every time you play. The Director tailors the frequency and ferocity of the zombie attacks to your performance, putting you in the middle of a fast-paced, but not overwhelming, Hollywood horror movie.

• Addictive single player, co-op, and multiplayer action
  gameplay from the makers of Counter-Strike and Half-Life
  Versus Mode lets you compete four-on-four with friends,
  playing as a human trying to get rescued, or as a zombie boss
  monster that will stop at nothing to destroy them.
• An advanced AI director dynamically creates intense and unique
  experiences every time the game is played
• 20 maps, 10 weapons and unlimited possibilities in four
  sprawling movies
• Matchmaking, stats, rankings, and awards system drive
  collaborative play

Minimum System Requirements

• OS: Windows XP/Vista/Vista 64
• Processor: Pentium 4 @ 3 GHz
• Memory: 1 GB for XP/ 2 GB for Vista
• Hard Drive: 7.5 GB Free
• Video Memory: 128 MB (ATI Radeon 9600, Pixel Shader 2.0 Support)
• Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
• DirectX: 9.0c
• Keyboard & Mouse
• DVD Rom Drive

Recommended System Requirements

• OS: Windows XP/Vista/Vista 64
• Processor: Intel Core 2 DUO @ 2.4 GHz
• Memory: 1 GB
• Hard Drive: 7.5 GB Free
• Video Memory: 128 MB (nVidia 7600, Pixel Shader 3.0 Support)
• Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
• DirectX: 9.0c or 10
• Keyboard & Mouse
• DVD Rom Drive

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Full version of Left 4 Dead leaks to internet

JamToThis is a forum for sharing and trading audio and video files (mainly music and music videos). Main attraction of JamToThis is their BitTorrent tracker. There are currently over 1000 torrents of lossless music (SHN and FLAC formats) and music videos/DVDs online. Apart from the tracker, JamToThis has a great discussion forum where members can post, request and trade music and video collections they own. There is even a thread for non BitTorrent based trading where members can trade bootleg video and audio collections via snail mail and by other ‘traditional’ means.

JamToThis is a pretty active forum with over 28000 registered members. Registrations are currently open and interested members may join for free.

Site Name: Jam To This

Registration URL: http://jamtothis.com/register.php

Categories: Audio Bit Torrent Downloads, Video Bit Torrent Downloads, Requests, Trade Lists, General Trade Discussion, Non-Bit Torrent Trading, Artwork

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JamToThis – Download and share lossless music and music videos – Registrations open

If you frequently visit gaming forums or video sharing sites such as YouTube, you may have come across videos containing actual gameplay footage. As you may already know, most games do not come with options that enable users capture in game video footage and create gameplay movies. Then how do people make these videos? Actually, it’s not that hard at all – just use FRAPS.

FRAPS is a nice piece of software that enables users capture real time video rendered using OpenGL and Direct3D. Simply run FRAPS while playing your favorite game and set it to record. The end result will be a high quality video containing your gameplay. This is an excellent way to save and share those ‘gaming moments’ of yours. Apart from real time video capture, FRAPS can function as a standard screen capture utility as well as a benchmarking software. It’s an excellent software check it out.

Developer Description

Fraps is a universal Windows application that can be used with games using DirectX or OpenGL graphic technology. In its current form Fraps performs many tasks and can best be described as:

• Benchmarking Software - Show how many Frames Per Second (FPS) you are getting in a corner of your screen. Perform custom benchmarks and measure the frame rate between any two points. Save the statistics out to disk and use them for your own reviews and applications.
• Screen Capture Software - Take a screenshot with the press of a key! There's no need to paste into a paint program every time you want a new shot. Your screen captures are automatically named and timestamped.
• Realtime Video Capture Software - Have you ever wanted to record video while playing your favourite game? Come join the Machinima revolution! Throw away the VCR, forget about using a DV cam, game recording has never been this easy! Fraps can capture audio and video up to 2560x1600 with custom frame rates from 10 to 100 frames per second!

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Record gameplay videos using Fraps 2.9.4

Here is an update on two of the most popular BitTorrent clients currently around.

First up, a new build of Vuze (formerly Azureus) has been released. Build 4.0.0.4 has quite a lengthy changelog This includes a number of bugfixes, several changes and notable new features such as the support for magnet links in search results, subscription support to customizations and ability to change List modes in View menu (full changelog here). As always, upgrading to the latest version is recommended but if you use a lot of private torrent trackers we recommend you first check if version 4.0.0.4 is an allowed client version in your favorite tracker. Some private trackers do not immediately add the latest version to their’ allowed clients list’ as they tend to test out the new version beforehand (For example 4.0.0.4 is not currently allowed in Blackcats-Games or BitmeTV) .

[Click here] to download Vuze 4.0.0.4 from SourceForge (Direct Download)

There is some more good news on the BitTorrent clients front, this time for Mac users. The Mac version of uTorrent is due to be released very soon.

The official page for the utorrent Mac client (http://mac.utorrent.com) is now live. If you leave your E-mail address along with your OS X version, you will be notified the moment Mac client is released to the public.

[Click Here] to visit the uTorrent Mac client official page

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uTorrent for Mac Coming soon, Vuze 4.0.0.4 released

AOM Killer (AOMK), a private torrent tracker dedicated to magic related content, has returned after several days of downtime. As reported in our previous post, the site is now hosted on a new domain (www.aomk1.com). AOMK has occasionally been up and down in the past two months and according to a forum post by administrator the reason for last downtime was the site getting hacked (there have been plenty of controversies surrounding this tracker since their birth). AOMK seems to have lost the entire user base and torrents during the downtime. The good news is that the site is currently open for signup and every old member (and new members of course) can re-register:

YOU MUST CREATE A NEW ACCOUNT (IF YOU ARE NOT REGISTERED AS THIS IS A NEW SITE)!

A news post by the admin also says:

when i get the time i will restore every 1s ratios from the old aomk. in the mean time please lets get things back on track then look to a bright aomk future

They are also in the process of adding new torrents.

If you were not aware of the content in this tracker, AOMK has magic related videos, TV shows, Ebooks and movies (see screenshot below):

Currently there are only about ~150 users and 120+ torrents on the tracker but expect these stats to increase rapidly as news about the site’s return spreads. As said before the signups are open and if you like magic, you’ll definitely want to check this tracker out.

Site Name: AOM Killer

Signup URL: http://www.aomk1.com/home/account.php

P.S.- Another magic torrents tracker MagicianTorrents continues to remain offline. It’s been down for more than 2 weeks now.

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AOM Killer (AOMK) magic torrent tracker back online with open signups

If you didn’t know already, popular UK sitcom ‘The IT Crowd’ is back for a 3rd season. This show is definitely one of the funniest shows I have ever watched. If you haven’t watched seasons 1 and 2 yet, I suggest you download and watch them now (It’s too bad that each season carries only around 6 episodes). If you were waiting to download season 3, the first episode is now all over public and private BitTorrent trackers and one click hosting sites. Good places to start your torrent search will be TheBox.BZ (Private UK TV tracker – signups open) and EZTV.it (public TV torrents index/tracker).

Description (From Wikipedia)

The IT Crowd is set in the offices of Reynholm Industries, a fictitious British corporation in central London. It focuses on the shenanigans of the three-strong IT support team located in a dingy, untidy and unkept basement—a stark contrast to the shining modern architecture and stunning London views enjoyed by the rest of the organisation. The obscurity surrounding what the company does serves as a running gag throughout the series—all that is known is that the company bought and sold ITV and once made part-year profits of "eighteen hundred billion billion". The team consists of what Douglas Reynholm describes as "a dynamic go-getter (Jen), a genius (Moss) and a man from Ireland (Roy)".

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The IT Crowd Season 3 – Episode 1

The recently released Fallout 3 is without a doubt one of the best games of 2008. The huge gameworld and the large number of side quests will ensure hours and hours of gameplay. But hard core fallout 3 (FO3) fans would like to spice up the game by installing various mods (modifications) developed for the game. There are already a lot of mods available for Fallout 3. These range from mods that add new enemies, new weapons new high resolution textures, new quests to mods that alter simple game settings such as removal of the level up cap at level 20.

Given below are 5 sites from which you can download some of the best Fallout 3 mods currently developed – for free of course.

1. Fileplanet Fallout 3 Addon Pack 1.0

Fallout 3 Addon pack 1.0 is a collection of Fallout 3 mods available for download from FilePlanet (447MB). List of mods included in this pack:

• Mod removing Level Cap at 20 and Skill cap at 100.
• EXP and level up reducing mods.
  Pip3000 UI mods and different colored skin models.
• Weapons and character stat balancing mods.
• Exciting Power Armor skins.
• Cool characters like Chuck Norris and Doomsday Wasteland Queen.
• New weapons and weapon reskins.
• Hi-Res monster re-skins.
• Different uniforms and outfits.
• New game music

[Click Here] to visit download page.

2. No Mutants Allowed Fallout 3 Mods Metathread

No Mutants Allowed is one of the best Fallout 3 forums around. Their Fallout 3 Mods Metathread indexes more than 25 completed FO3 mods available for download as well as several that are under development.

[Click Here] to visit No Mutants Allowed Fallout 3 Mods Metathread

3. Fallout 3 Nexus Download Section

With lots of Fallout 3 saved games (savegame files), new weapons, new textures, new items to some of the best FO3 mods around, the downloads section at Fallout 3 Nexus is a godsend for hard core Fallout 3 fans.

[Click Here] to visit the Fallout 3 Nexus downloads page 

4. Mods and Hacks section of Fallout 3 Zone

Indexes some of the very first mods developed for Fallout 3. Notable mods include:

• Remove compass POI markers by Silverglade
• Realistic Gunshot Sounds by Honnou
• Remove NPCs from Compass by ckinniburgh
• Remove NPCs and Waypoints from Compass by ckinniburgh
• Remove Waypoints from Compass by ckinniburgh

You can find the mods from this link and from this thread. You may need to register to see download links.

5. Fallout 3 Mods section at Planet Fallout

At time of this post there are only 3 completed mods available at the mods section of Planet Fallout. But keep checking this site as there will surely be a lot more added in the future.

[Click Here] to visit Fallout 3 mods section at Planet Fallout.

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Fallout 3 Mods – Where to download them

It’s been almost a month since we last posted about a dedicated HD torrents tracker. Hi-Definition Torrents (or HD Torrents) is a private torrent tracker which indexes and tracks a lot of Blu-Ray Movies, HD DVD Movies, HD TV Shows (HDTV), HDDVDRips, BDRips and Blu-Ray Rips (BRRip). Apart from English Hi Def movies and TV Shows, HD-Torrents tracks documentaries, anime, music videos and adult content in high definition format as well.

This tracker has its roots in Bulgaria but the language can easily be set to English and Deutsch (even from the signup page) as well so non Bulgarian users can enjoy this tracker just fine. Hi-Definition Torrents indexes both scene and non scene (p2p) releases. Currently there are over 900 torrents of HD content on this tracker. Most of these torrents are well seeded. Apart from usual releases, HD-Torrents track a few unique packs of their own as well:

There is also a requests feature on this tracker through which users can request content not already uploaded to the site. Hi-Definition Torrents is currently open for new signups and interested readers may join for free. Check it out.

Site Name: Hi-Definition Torrents (HD-Torrents)

Signup URL: http://www.hd-torrents.org/account.php

Categories: Original, x264 Movies (720p, 1080p), x264 HDTV, x264 Doc, x264 Anime, Music, XXX, Other

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Hi-Definition Torrents – Download HD Movies, TV Shows, Documentaries and other HD Videos

Yay! Version 2009 of Tuneup Utilities English is finally released. There was a German version released a few days earlier but now non German users can rejoice as the Final English version is out. Back in the early 2000s, I used to be a fan of Norton Utilities. However when Symantec began releasing basically the same set of utilities every year with only minor changes, I got pretty tired of it. Been using TuneUp Utilities for almost two years now and I’ve got to say it’s one of the best system utilities suites currently around. TuneUp Utilities usually does a fine job on system optimization and it won't add a thousand startup entries or services that take half the system resources like some software suites that are supposed to optimize your system.

The first new feature you will notice in version 2009 will be the revamped user interface. A new utility named Speed Optimizer has also been added. Improvements have been made to TuneUp Drive Defrag, TuneUp System Control, TuneUp Uninstall Manager, TuneUp Startup Manager, TuneUp Styler and TuneUp Registry Cleaner. The old version (TuneUp Utilities 2008 build 7.0.0.7) can be found here if you still need it but upgrading to 2009 is recommended.

What’s new in 2009?

• TuneUp Speed Optimizer: Intelligent, Powerful Utility for any User Skill Level
  • Easy optimization in just a few clicks
  • Identifies unused programs and resource-draining functions
  • Recommends tools for optimal PC performance
• TuneUp 1-Click Maintenance: Automatic, Fast Optimization
  • Enables one-click maintenance of the most important functions of your PC
  • Cleans the Windows registry
  • Deletes temporary files and folders
  • Increases the system performance through integrated defragmentation
  • Streamlines your desktop and simplifies folder shortcuts with one click
• TuneUp Drive Defrag: Intelligent defragmentation with new progress display
• TuneUp System Control: Supports Opera
• TuneUp Uninstall Manager: Intuitive uninstall options
• TuneUp Startup Manager: Increases the speed at the start-up of your PC
• TuneUp Styler: Expanded PC style options for Windows Vista (32/64 Bit)
• TuneUp Registry Cleaner: More powerful tool with in-depth view of your PC registry

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TuneUp Utilities 2009 v8.0.110.43 (English) Final

All4Nothing is a private torrent tracker which tracks general content (Movies, Games, TV Shows, E-Books, Music, etc) and 0-day releases. This in my opinion is a very underrated tracker. All4Nothing has a user base of just over 10000 members and currently tracks 2100+ torrents on their tracker. These stats are excellent, specially considering that A4N have only been online for around 11 months. Apart from usual scene and P2P stuff, All4Nothin have their own releases (look for A4N tag on the title of the torrent) such as movie packs as well as episodes of TV Shows such as The Xtra Factor.

All4Nothin is one of those trackers which has a seed bonus points system. For every hour that you seed a torrent on A4N, you are awarded with 0.5 Seed Bonus Points. You can collect enough seed points and trade them for upload credit (GBs added to your total upload) and other cool stuff. This makes it easier to manage your ratio on A4N even if you have low upload bandwidth (but are willing to seed) and makes life easy with torrents with no leechers.

A4N is currently open for signup. Check it out.

Site Name: All4Nothing.net (A4N)

Signup URL: http://all4nothin.net/signup.php

Categories:

Anime, Appz, Appz/Mac, Comics, E-Book, Games/PC ISO, Games/PC Rips, Games/PS2, Games/PS3, Games/Wii, Games/XBOX, Games/XBOX 360, Handheld/PSP, Misc, Movies/DVD-R, Movies/HD-XViD, Movies/SVCD, Movies/VCD, Movies/x264, Movies/XviD, Music, Music Videos, TV/DVDR, TV/HR, TV/x264, TV/XviD, XXX

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Several days ago, we reported about Need for Speed : Undercover leaking to BitTorrent networks right on the game’s release date. I’ve played the game for around 1 hour so far and I can’t say it’s impressive. Looks like EA tried to do a remake of NFS : Most Wanted and didn’t do a very good job of it. Anyway this post is not a review of the game but a discussion of various problems you may encounter with NFS : Undercover. I have presented with several possible solutions which will hopefully solve your problems once and for all.

Cannot change display settings or stuck with auto detected settings

Sometimes, you may not be able to change NFS Undercover display and graphics settings using in game menus. Common problems seem to be users not being able to change screen resolution and disable motion blur. Screen resolution can be set manually by editing the registry:

Run registry editor (regedit) and locate the key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\EA Games\Need for Speed Undercover

Screen resolution can be set by editing the following two keys: g_Width = 1024 g_Height = 768 (For a screen resolution of 1024x768)

You can change several other game settings manually using the other keys located here. Be careful with editing registry values – always backup first.

Cannot run NFS : Undercover in Windowed Mode

Here is how to run Undercover in Windowed mode. Create a shortcut to the game exe on the desktop. Add –w switch to the end of target name (leave a space after the closing quotes and add –w and press ok). Run the game from the shortcut.

EDIT: The -w switch does not seem to be working for some users. No worries. Download NFS : Undercover Window Mode Fix from GameCopyWorld and extract all files to your NFS Undercover Directory. Edit the d3d9.ini file to set the Windowed mode as below:

• fullscreen=0 to run in Windowed mode
• fullscreen=1 to run in full screen

Slow framerate issues, sluggish performance, stuttering, crashes to desktop (CTD)

From what I have read in the forums, this game is not very well optimized. But a lot of performance issues with the game seem to be connected to cracked versions. As with any other game, groups from the warez scene and individuals have released various cracks for NFS : Undercover that bypass or remove the DRM protection in the game. These cracked exes are used by pirates as well as by legitimate users who don’t want the DRM on their systems. Unfortunately, some of these cracks are not very stable. Cracks by NoGrp, WARG, DarkC0der (Dakcoder) and 0x0008 seem to be merely bypassing the SecuROM protection and may cause the game to run sluggish, slowly and crash often. RELOADED and UNLOADED versions however seem to have protection and triggers completely removed and seem to work just fine.

If you are running on budget hardware / on a low end machine and getting slow performance, try tweaking game settings till you get an acceptable framerate. You may get a considerable performance boost if you disable motion blur. There is no option to do this directly but setting the world effects to medium would remove most of it.

Other notes

As usual, updating to the latest version of sound card and graphics card drivers will help too. ATI Catalyst 8.11 WHQL drivers can be found here and latest nVIDIA display drivers can be found here.

If I discover any more solutions, I will update this page.

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Possible solutions for Need ‘For Speed : Undercover’ performance, display and crashing problems

Blackcats-Games (BCG), one of the best dedicated games torrent trackers around, has made some changes and added a lot of new features to the site. If you are a member of BCG you might already know this as the staff sent an announcement regarding this to all user classes. But then again an awful lot of members seemed to miss the announcements on login page change so we thought of posting this article.

The following is a list of new featured quoted from the announcement sent by BCG staff:

New Christmas Prize draw: For all the info on this, see the news post on the index page.
Everyone can Upload, and 7zip is allowed. Again see the news page for this.
Members creations See the news page again for this, basically, if you want 30,000 beta testers for a game you are working on/finished, then upload it into this cat.
Forum additions All of these can be found at the top of the forum.
Wiki Game reviews and anything else you can think of, can go here.
Army Mod Not exactly sure how this works as of yet, but basically, build an army and beat the crap out of other members.
Arcade Flash arcade that puts your high score in the database.

New things that are planned, but not ready yet:

Trophy/Achievement Table This is still being worked on, but some of the things you can expect are.
# of uploaded torrents
# of requests filled
# of torrents downloaded
# of torrents with varying degrees of ratio
average seeding time

‘Members creations’ feature and the decision to give everyone the ability to upload will no doubt see the addition of new and unique content not seen on any other tracker to BCG. Apart from that, the army mod seems to be a great way to kill spare time.

In other news, we posted that Blackcats added 2 referals each to all members with the badge of honor about a month ago. According to site admins more than 40000 referrals were issued. However this does not seem to have increased the user base of BCG by that much. They used to have over 50000 members before they hid the site and the member count fell back to something around 29000 once they deleted every user who failed to generate the keyword. Now, even with over 40000 referrals floating around, the member count has only gone up by ~1800 (maybe by a little more as cheaters and inactive users may have got deleted during this time). This means that a lot of BCG referrals are still out there and those who still seek to get into this awesome tracker might still not be too late to get their hands on a referral.

 

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Blackcats Games – Changes and new features

Newest final build of Skype (build 3.8.0.188) got released on the 19th of November. As most of you may already know, Skype is a piece of software that allows users make free PC to PC phone calls over the internet (both parties need to have Skype client installed on their system). You need to pay for PC to Phone calls but international call rates on Skype are usually lower than normal IDD (International Direct Dialing) charges. Call quality is great and it’s actually a great way to keep in touch with friends and relatives living or working abroad.

Version 3.8 adds significant sound quality enhancements and the ability to change headset, headphones or microphone without having to touch your settings. We have included direct download links to Skype build 3.8.0.188 final and for those of you who are brave enough to try the beta, links to the latest beta build are also provided.

Developer Description

Make free PC to PC calls from your computer – yep free calls to other people on Skype and great rates to phones and mobiles across the world. And the sound quality is excellent, too – keep Skype running all day and it’s like you’re in the same room as the person you’re talking to.

Features

• Free PC to PC calls to people anywhere in the world.
• Free video calls – plus get more detail than ever before with High Quality Video.
• Call phones and mobiles at great low rates per minute.
• Instant message for free when it’s not a good time to talk.
• Forward your calls to your mobile when you’re offline.
• Send SMS messages to people on mobiles.
• Comes with the Google Toolbar (optional install).

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[Click Here] to download Skype 4.0.0.169 Beta 2 directly from official servers.

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Skype 3.8.0.188 Final and Skype 4.0.0.169 Download

Judging by the hundreds of comments received for our previous tracker invite giveaways, our guess is that a lot of you were waiting for Demonoid invitation code giveaway number 11. So here it is – fresh new Demonoid invite codes for FILEnetworks Blog readers. This time around we are giving away 23 Demonoid invites – the highest number of invitation codes to be offered in a single giveaway yet.

Majority of these invites come from loyal readers who obtained invites in previous giveaways and were grateful enough to give something back to the community. Also, let us not forget those who donated Demonoid invites for free in the comments section of giveaway number 10 (and 1-9 of course). For all these readers, TEAM FILEnetworks is forever grateful.

For those of you who are not familiar with our giveaways, here’s how it’s done. Posted below are 23 Demonoid invite codes. You may use one of these codes to register a new account at the popular semi private BitTorrent tracker Demonoid (www.demonoid.com). In order to obtain a code, you do not have to provide any ratio proofs, speedtests or anything else. Codes are given away on a first come, first served basis – no strings attached. We received a lot of complaints via E-mail regarding the time zone we chose to post giveaways number 9 and 10. This was not intentional. More than 5000 visitors read FILEnetworks Blog every day and we really don’t know who gets the invites and who doesn't.

From TEAM FILEnetworks

• n58sf89dmce5c7fu2gdip5918qrok00xkbn1ojdrm6lqe
• 0vswcpydvrwfcbd45dwj782oqz3pixwqk8d
• jmwhihze4zb6q6si89l5y22qbasm64q27
• rgp3lbeyawquh0wttinbz6ozx1aubw0mpglfn
• 552mey6ek0bjv5c3el9lxzqtywkkk6mc
• npgdjlz3s8ifu5zmhkighimcb0eybbx6gc41
• kwk03cd5j57gjrh1l6vyah34j3stqqzpyad
• w2dk97vza4x7qtldqesiukackw2a07v463
• qkv597o0p7ouftg4yyn9bae3thdy7ab77sqxhs7o89v

From Priyantha De Silva

• cbbxd83pkw9debcta3o9s1j5lxwq3xswgir
• lsooontzf21witmmhmf9y8dymfbzl65xx1jwdii2lg3z
• udf6sv7ngovs67zaxeczcsf5vvsmmppgb63m4zjcmics
• 0uahzm6pewhm3t3zp3rhh3uc6fcrtdaolmtx7ieuwr
• z3kzxcn6kirg7etxdtpatr3wl577e39jbsfra7zfl9rvd

From Sylvester K from NJ

• 87kw5gu6rrp5pxq0rvuy57ersam9nbtni8bg7k1vmgu
• jfrj7m54iozgi7g1vob9manx6aq47p9ex5r27qs3m18
• ifq4fys2k3nj4e4fu4g3uvs63yt1jj4uvt08w3wzd7hx
• ucl00i4my737z4l8tsxarfne3qq3swp48ri5ufcr6m

From Slydunn

• ne187n383kyepuzkc6zmefwqycd8pj9aiqow

From a loyal reader who wished to remain anonymous

• ykm4rcs3p2tzfhmxqmvfjomq6cymxl30k25qm
• 30uu5fli96shjcdq1u8h5rwb572k9634kv4z8dm
• fu11bshbbfpiv7lghfgd3seed6n8skwvdhrv2tfpkraw
• 2fq63h5a3ho0fgppiocmv4s028vhpnnloyhb

If you get an invalid code error, that means another reader beat you to it. If this happens, try your luck with the next giveaway or keep an eye on our private trackers section for the next Demonoid open signup update.

Of course, any reader who wishes to share his codes with others are more than welcome to do so by posting a comment to this article (or you can send them to filenetworks[at]gmail[dot]com to be included in the next giveaway).\

 

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Grab your free Demonoid invite here – Demonoid invitation code giveaway 11

Here is some more good news for fans of old, rare and obscure movies. Classic Cinema Zone is a private torrent tracker which specializes in movies not usually found on the internet. It’s a similar tracker to Cinematik (if you are a frequent reader of FILEnetworks blog, there is a good chance you already are a member of Cinematik). That is, Classic Cinema Zone (CCZ) focuses on old, classic and obscure movie titles. CCZ is a fairly new tracker and currently it indexes around 500 torrents and has a user base of just over 1000 members. An interesting fact I noticed about Classic Cinema Zone is that it indexes torrents from external trackers such as Piratebay even though they operate their own BitTorrent tracker (external torrents can be identified using the ‘ext’ tag on torrent title).

Majority of the movies on CCZ are 700MB (1CD) or 1.38GB (2CD) DVDRips. Apart from movies, CCZ also tracks classic TV Shows (current TV content is nothing compared to bigshots like TV-Vault though) and some old radio shows. Keep in mind that this still is a fairly new tracker and like most trackers out there, will take some time to stabilize. Classic Cinema Zone is currently open for signup so check it out, especially if you like old and rare movies.

Site Name: Classic Cinema Zone

Signup URL: http://www.classiccinemazone.com/index.php?page=signup

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Classic Cinema Zone – Torrent tracker for obscure and classic movies

Portable FireFox is my favorite portable application. With this app you can take all your Firefox bookmarks, settings, saved passwords and form information wherever you go. It’s a great app to have if you use several different machines to browse the web (home, work, school etc). Another advantage is that Portable Firefox can be used on systems where you do not have the necessary privileges (i.e. – Guest account) to install the regular version. Portable version of Firefox does not require installation or re configuration.

Add your bookmarks and other settings to portable Firefox (it’s a one time thing), put it in your USB flash drive or any portable storage medium and you are good to go. Portable Firefox is included in PortableApps suite which was featured earlier but in this post we have included links to the latest version currently available. If you are looking for more portable applications, check out our Portable Apps section.

Developer Description

Portable Firefox is a fully functional solution of Firefox optimized for use on a USB key drive. Portable Firefox has some specially-selected optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the life of your USB key as well as a specialized launcher that will allow most of your favorite extensions to work as you switch computers. Portable Firefox will also work from a CDRW drive (in packet mode), ZIP drives, external hard drives, some MP3 players, flash RAM cards and more.

Features

• One-Click Bookmarking
• Improved Performance
• Password Manager
• Instant Web Site ID
• Full Zoom
• Smart Location Bar
• Platform-Native Look & Feel

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[Click Here] to download Portable Firefox 3.0.4 (Direct Download)

[Click Here] to download Portable Firefox 2.0.0.18 (Direct Download)

[Click Here] to download Portable Firefox 3.1 BETA (Direct Download)

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Portable Firefox 3.0.4, 2.0.0.18 and 3.1 (Beta) Download

When you hear the name SeductionGR, you might imply that this is a porn tracker or an adult torrent tracker of some kind. But in fact it is not. SeductionGR tracks a lot of a lifestyle and business related content that will help you get on with your life. It has a lot of E-Books and videos related to dating, social interactions, NLP (Neuro-linguistic Programming), Business (money making, business management, etc), Hypnosis and so on. At time of this post, there are over 1500 registered members on SeductionGR and it tracks over 3500 torrents.

There are only a handful BitTorrent trackers such as BizTorrents (Open), The Place, The Vault and BitSeduce that specialize in lifestyle and business content. SeductionGR is definitely another great tracker specializing in this niche and is well worth checking out.

Site Name: SeductionGR

Signup URL: http://www.seductiongr.com/signup.php

How to get in to SeductionGR:

1. Visit the SeductionGR signup page via this link

2. Fill out the signup form. Answer the 5 signup questions to the best of your knowledge. Provide a valid and active E-mail address.

3. SeductionGR staff will review your application and if the answers you gave to signup questions 1-5 are good enough, you will receive an E-mail with the account confirmation URL.

Good Luck!

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SeductionGR – Torrent tracker for business and lifestyle content - How to get in

It’s not a hack, it’s not a crack, it’s a totally legitimate giveaway! Checkpoint software are giving away ZoneAlarm Firewall Pro + 1 year subscription completely free of charge to ALL users. Why? Because they are celebrating the 15th birthday of their first Firewall launch. This offer will only last for one day (11/18/08 to 11/19/08). To download your free copy of ZoneAlarm Firewall for free, follow the steps below:

1. Visit the Checkpoint software ZoneAlarm Pro promotion page via this link.

2. Click on the download button. You may get the following message (if the demand is too high)

Due to overwhelming demand, you will receive a confirming email within 48 hours that includes a download link for your free copy of ZoneAlarm Pro and a unique license key to activate the software.

3. Enter your Name and valid E-mail. You will receive a download link to ZoneAlarm Pro as well as a license key for one year subscription to your E-mail.

Keep in mind that ZoneAlarm fire wall usually costs around $40 if you are purchasing it from a store. So if you were looking forward to get your hands on one of the best Firewall products currently on the market (for free) go ahead and grab your free copy now. Don’t forget that you get one full year of security updates free of charge as well. The offer could end anytime so hurry.

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About one and a half months ago we reported about the new and promising BitTorrent tracker Scenemovies.org. Scenemovies was a gazelle based private tracker which specialized in English movies. A few hours ago, scenemovies changed their name to PassThePopcorn and moved on to the new domain http://www.passthepopcorn.org (old URL www.scenemovies.org is still accessible). There is a notice on the site about name change:

The time has come where we begin our journey into another frontier. Scenemovies.org, the domain, has served us well. However, we find it very important to identify with a name that means something to all of us. Passthepopcorn is a brand. It is whimsical, but strong. If you find it important to use the old domain, you may still do so here: http://www.scenemovies.org/login.php However, we will not be update the source tree for this mirror. It will still interact with the same secure database. Thanks! R.I.P. Scenemovies.org

PassThePopcorn (Scenemovies) is a tracker that registered a rapid growth. As of this moment, the site has over 4500 registered members and over 2000 torrents. Not only that, they’ve constantly been adding cool new features such as the ones mentioned below (list quoted from a news post):

We have implemented a huge amount of features. I will attempt to outline them further and not miss a single one. Wish me luck! 1. IMDB auto-fill extended. 2. Scene Release Name - You can now put the scene release name on the upload upon selecting "scene" check box 3. Actor.php Catalog With over 17000+ actors in our catalog, we are quickly promising to be the largest catalog of actor->movie information out. What does this mean? You will be see a page of all relevant information for this actor. 4. Album Art Coverflow (sorta) Click on the CD icon on torrents.php to see the cover art. Work in Progress! 5. Staff recommendations (yeah? you like it.) 6. Collections RSS Feeds - RSS feeds for each collections and one for all collections. Each torrent that is added to a Collection is added to the Feed. Who doesn't love RSS goodness?!?!

Needless to say that PassThePopcorn has a bright future ahead of them. They are however currently not open for new signups (they were in fact open a while back). If there is an update on their open signup status, we will post it here so stay tuned and keep reading FILEnetworks Blog.

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Scenemovies changes name to PassThePopcorn.org, Adds new features

We’ve posted about this application before but a newer version is now out there (v4.9.7). If you are thinking of downloading YouTube videos to your hard drive, this is as easy as it gets. Just copy and paste the YouTube video URL to YouTubeGet and the video will be on your hard drive in a few minutes. If that’s too hard for you, you can simply drag and drop the video to the YouTubeGet DropZone on your desktop (can be disabled if you don’t want it). The downloaded video will be in .flv (flash video) format but you can use the YouTubeGet converter to convert it to a range of file formats including .3gp, .mp4, .avi, .wmv and more. Check it out. There is even a built in browser which you can use to preview videos before downloading.

If you are looking for a software that can download embedded videos from a range of video sharing sites instead of just YouTube, try Orbit downloader (supports over 30 sites).

Developer Description

YouTubeGet is an all-in-one software designed to make quick and easy work to download YouTube videos and convert them. Offering a multitude of methods to acquire the video, this application has all the power you need while still remaining small and easy to use. After downloading videos it will auto convert FLV files to MP4, 3GP, AVI, WMV, MOV etc. Soon, you can see YouTube videos on your MP4 or Cell phone.

Features

• Resume Broken Download - YouTubeGet will auto resume broken download. No matter your net speed is stable or not, YouTubeGet will download the best quality videos.
• Download YouTube Videos to Cell Phone - YouTubeGet will auto convert YouTube Videos to 3GP Cell Phone Format, then you can see all YouTube videos on your Cell Phone!
• Download YouTube Videos to iPod - You can download YouTube videos and save them as iPod MOV or MP4 format, and play them anywhere!
• Download YouTube Videos to PSP - After playing games on your PSP, would you like to see some cool videos? YouTubeGet will download YouTube videos and save them as PSP format!
• Download YouTube Videos and Burn to a CD/DVD - Download YouTube videos and save as AVI or WMV. It is much easier to burn these funny videos to a CD/DVD by this two formats.
• Clipboard Monitor Helps You to Download YouTube Videos Much Easier - YouTubeGet monitors your Clipboard all the time. when you are copying a YouTube Video URL, immediately the Add New Download window will auto pop up.
• FLV Converter (Free in YouTubeGet V4.9 Suite) - You can convert your local FLV files to AVI, WMV, MOV, 3GP, MP4 etc by YouTubeGet FLV Converter for FREE! You Save $29.95 !
• YouTube Browser - Search YouTube Videos and Preview them before downloading. When you want to download them you just one-click on Download Now Button.

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YoutubeGet v4.9.7 – Download and Convert YouTube videos

BitT.TV is a private torrent tracker that tracks a lot of TV Shows and TV Documentaries. It however is not a dedicated TV tracker such as Tv.Torrents.Ro or TvTorrenz.org (both currently open for signup btw). BitT.TV tracks general content such as Games and Movies but the majority of the site’s torrents comprise of TV series and documentaries. They currently have over 5800 members and tracks a whopping 23000+ torrents.

One of the good things I noticed about BitT.TV is their excellent collection of TV series season packs. Apart from individual show episodes, they have around 80 season packs organized into a separate category on the site.

This site may not have the best layout around but it’s still navigable. As mentioned above the site is currently open for signup and interested readers may join for free.

 

Site Name: BitT.TV

Signup URL: http://bitt.tv/account-signup.php

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BitT.TV signups open – Download TV Series and Documentaries

Yesterday we reported about a DVD Image of Need for Speed : Undercover being leaked to BitTorrent. It’s taken only 1 day since the leak for pirates to figure out a way around the SecuROM DRM embedded into the game. 2 different groups (NoGrp and WARG – there is also a DarkC0der crack floating around but that seems to be the same as the previous two) have currently released cracks for undercover which circumvent the DRM protection in NFS : Undercover.

Update: Scene group 0x0008 (who is best known for their cracked German game releases) have released an English DRM cracked version of NFS: Undercover moments ago.

Update 2: Group RELOADED have cracked this game. According to them 0x0008 was stolen from p2p.

Both these releases seem identical with both featuring cracked paul.dll files. It remains to be seen if the DRM is completely removed from the game or if these cracks merely bypass the protection (workaround). There has however been problems reported with the game. Mouse not being shown up in game menu, lagging or sluggish menu, inability to change in game settings, inability to change controller are some of the reported problems. I do not know for sure if these are crack related or problems with the game itself. According to comments in several gaming forums, some have got the game to work perfectly as well.

Speaking of the game, there are currently no reviews of the PC version available on Gamerankings. PS3 and XBOX360 versions of the game have received somewhat poor reviews with aggregated scores of 50% and 63% respectively. These are however based on 2-3 reviews so far. Anyway I noticed something interesting with the game’s minimum system requirements; Shader model 2.0 video cards are supported. This will enable users with low end machines play the game but no doubt at lowest possible settings.

Developer Description

EA’s dominating racing series takes a left turn with this uniquely action-oriented entry in the franchise, where players use their driving skills honed in previous NFS games to control their vehicle in dangerous, high speeds encounters. The game features international movie star, Maggie Q, as the lead character in the big-budget live-action sequences that propel the story forward as players get behind the wheel. Undercover takes the franchise back to its roots and re-introduces break-neck cop chases, the world’s hottest cars and spectacular highway battles.

Minimum System Requirements

• OS: Windows XP/Vista
• Processor: Pentium 4 @ 2.8 GHz or Equivalent (3.0 GHz on Vista)
• Memory: 1 GB
• Hard Drive: 5.5 GB Free
• Video Memory: 128 MB with Pixel Shader 2.0 Support (nVidia GeForce 6500/ATI Radeon 9500)
• Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
• DirectX: 9.0c
• Keyboard & Mouse
• DVD Rom Drive (8X)

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• Possible solutions for Need ‘For Speed : Undercover’ performance, display and crashing problems

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Pirates crack Need for Speed : Undercover DRM

A DVD image of Need for Speed : Undercover, one of the most anticipated racing games of the year, has leaked to several private and public BitTorrent networks right just after the game’s North American release. The DVD Image (aka a CloneDVD) which has 4.18GB of file size, is apparently an untouched copy of the original game DVD and includes both English and Spanish language versions of the game. The group who leaked the image call themselves THEPIRATEGAY.

Need for Speed : Undercover, like many other EA games of 2008, uses the controversial online activated SecuROM DRM as an anti piracy measure. DRM remains uncracked in the leaked clone DVD image (in other words there is no crack included) and pirates will be prevented from playing the game at least for now. All EA titles released in 2008 which included SecuROM protection were cracked sooner or later with prime examples being SPORE, Dead Space and Red Alert 3. SecuROM protection in these games was beaten by scene groups such as RELOADED as well as by individuals such as DarkC0der (whose specialty is cracked paul.dll files - a core security module of SecuROM DRM).

Anyway the fact remains that there is no way pirates can play Need for Speed Undercover at the moment with the leaked image alone. They will have to wait and see if a modified executable (aka a crack) is released which will enable them actually play the game. Given the controversial nature of SecuROM, even users who purchased the game legally might be waiting for a SecuROM free exe to be released.

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DVD Image (Clone DVD) of Need for Speed : Undercover (PC) leaks to BitTorrent

Silverseed is a private torrent tracker specializing in music videos. It’s a fairly new tracker only about a month and a half old but it looks promising. There are not many trackers specializing in music videos around and we’ve only posted about two of them before; Sneakyvidz and Keitex forum. You can find a lot of US/UK music videos belonging to a number of different music genres such as Rock, Metal, Jazz on Silverseed.

As said before Silverseed is quite young and it’s been closed for signups for the most part. They’ve recently opened signups for 72 hours and there are currently around 350 members on the tracker. However Silverseed is not short of torrents. They’ve added around 1600 torrents (music videos) in the month and a half they’ve been online and new torrents keep getting added daily. Some torrents have only one seeder atm but this will hopefully get resolved as more users join this tracker.

As mentioned above Silverseed have opened signups for 72 hours. However we are late in reporting the open signup (sorry about that btw) so it may only remain open for another day or so get in while you can.

 

Site Name: Silverseed

Signup URL: http://www.silverseed.net/signup.php

Categories:

• 80s
• Alternative
• Blues
• Country
• Dance
• Electro
• Grunge
• HipHop
• Indie
• J-Pop
• Jazz
• Metal
• Pop
• Punk
• Rap
• Reggae
• RnB
• Rock
• SilverSeed Packs
• Soul/Religious

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Earlier today we reported about the release/leak of Sacred 2 : Fallen Angel. Apparently the initial version of the game is plagued with bugs, glitches and performance issues. Problems with Sacred 2 range from slow frame rates, random crashes to desktop (CTD) to game play issues such as players not being able to level up properly. Luckily for those who purchased the game, developer Ascaron have been busy releasing patches for the game. So far there have been several patches and hotfixes released for the game (I.E.- 2.10, 2.12, etc with 2.0.2 being the version of game’s initial release).

Here is a list of issues all these patches address and at the end of article you can find direct download links to these patches. Only the major issues addressed will be listed here (otherwise it would be one long ass list).

Patch to update version 2.0.2 to 2.10

• Improved game balance and enemy AI
• Massive quest overhaul (quest book more clrearly arranged, new/improved texts, alternate endings)
• Better armor, weapons and drop
• Integrated automated update functionality
• New button in lobby to recover passwords via a web site.
• Several performance improvements, mainly in the main menu
• More Sound effects

Hotfix to update version 2.10 to 2.10.1

• Adjustment to address game creation process for Open.Net

Hotfix to update version 2.10.1 to 2.11.2

• Crashes will not occur on death of Shadow Warrior/High Elf characters
• Singleplayer coop is not treated as a single player game
• Chat functionality is no longer faulty or non-existent
• Scorpion King (desert boss enemy) no longer kills players instantly
• The game no longer has to be executed as administrator under Vista

Hotfix to update version 2.11.2  to 2.12.0

• Some players suffered lags while clicking on NPC’s and objects since hotfix 2. This has been fixed.
• Mounts sometimes lost XP after exit/load. This has been fixed.
• An occasional problem with sounds on the 5.1-subwoofer-channel has been fixed.
• Some cases, in which quests that require a certain amount of collected items didn’t grant enough items have been improved.
• The function of [f12] has been improved. [f12] now teleports the character to the resurrection point. This works for both singleplayer and multiplayer.

Download Links

You can download all of the patches displayed above from the official Sacred 2 updates site.

[Click Here] to download update patches for the Sacred 2 UK (International) version.

[Click Here] to download update patches for the Sacred 2 for non English versions of Sacred 2. (Choose your language at the bottom of the page)

If you are using pirated version of the game, these patches will not work. Those who use a DRM cracked version of Sacred 2 will have to wait till a cracked update is released by a scene group or an individual.

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Possible solutions for Sacred 2 : Fallen Angel crashing and performance issues

ElbitZ.NET, an excellent E-Learning torrent tracker, is now open for signup. You can download many E-books on a wide range of subjects, test engines, tutorials and other material from this tracker.

From the site homepage:

REGISTRATIONS ARE OPEN - Signup

Important - Note: Registrations are Open for a short time. Do not create duplicate accounts else all your accounts will be banned including your IP. Respect the RULES

For signup URLs and more information including screenshots, please refer to this article.

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Private Tracker Watch: ElbitZ E-Learning Tracker Signups Open – 17/11/2008

Download Accelerator Plus (DAP) is one of the best download managers currently available. Apart from accelerating your download speeds, it can also manage your downloads, organize downloaded files, check downloaded files for viruses and malware, pause and resume downloads, segmented downloading, integrate into popular web browsers (Firefox, IE, opera and so on) and more.

Although the software is advertised with catchy phrases such as “400% download speed increases”, DAP can only increase the download speed as much as your connection bandwidth permits. However as most web browser’s default download managers do not utilize maximum connection speed, DAP is a very useful software to have. If you run this on a network which uses a shared network connection (say a LAN in a university or workplace), you could screw all other users and take all the bandwidth for yourself (which is evil btw).

If you don’t like DAP, you might want to try Orbit Downloader (specially if you want to download embedded videos from sites such as YouTube) and Free Download Manager (FDM – a simple, free and powerful application).

Developer Description

Download Accelerator Plus (DAP) will accelerate the speed with which you can receive files over the Internet using FTP and HTTP protocols by simultaneously downloading several file segments from the same or different servers. Download Accelerator Plus enables you to pause and resume downloads, and to recover from a dropped Internet connection. In addition, DAP searches for mirrors and implements the downloads from the best or most responsive mirrors. It is configured by default to automatically Integrate into your Explorer or Netscape browser when it is installed, and to self-activate each time a download is performed.

Features

• Extreme Acceleration
• Mirror search to find fastest download site
• Resume broken downloads
• Preview multi-media files while downloading
• Preview and extract zip files while downloading
• File Shredding to eliminate files you don't need
• Clean download traces from your computer
• Management of passwords for download sites
• Ignore list of download URLs & domains
• Lock, hide and protect downloads with Private
  Downloads
• Be alerted when starting to download a file you
  already have
• Central downloads manager
• Filter for sorting downloads by type and status
• Completed tab to view and run downloaded files
• Save files in central folder (so they don't get lost)
• Up to 20 simultaneous downloads
• Managing files after download completion
• Categorized download folders
• Download in background, without any download screens

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Download Accelerator Plus (DAP) 8.7.0.5

The second game in the Sacred series, titled Sacred 2 : Fallen Angel’s DRM has been cracked by RELOADED (a group in the warez scene). If you’ve been reading this blog you might know that RELOADED have been beating the copy protection of many PC titles released in 2008 even before the official release. Sacred 2 however took some time (7 days after NA release) to be cracked perhaps due to the custom version of SecuROM DRM embedded into the game. RELOADED have included a full ISO of the game and a modified executable (crack) with SecuROM removed in their release. In addition, they have also included the third DVD which can be used to install elite graphics textures exclusive to Sacred 2 : Collector’s edition.

And in the released .NFO, RELOADED leaves some interesting comments about ViTALiTY (a competing scene group who’ve been PROPERring RELOADED releases frequently) :

Note to ViTALiTY:

We would like to thank you for doing a proper of madagascar. Thanks to your 212x smaller crack it now runs 212x faster and we can run it on our Commodore 64.

We do fully rebuilt cracks when its needed and unlike ViTALiTY we can also crack more difficult games, such as Red Alert 3, Crysis Warhead, Dead Space or Sacred 2 - not only the most simple securoms like Madagascar, which have no special features and are about as hard to crack as UPX.

Anyway with the inclusion of the third DVD this game is a whopping 19.9GB in file size. Sacred 2 has got an aggregated score of 71.7% on Gamerankings.

Developer Description

Set 2000 years before the original, SACRED 2 features a vast 3D world marked by high quality graphics and attention to detail. Action RPG fans can also look forward to a number of sophisticated new features, as well as many of the popular SACRED game mechanics that return more refined and considerably improved.

Minimum System Requirements

• OS: Windows XP/Vista
• Processor: Pentium 4 @ 2.6 GHz or (Intel Core 2 DUO @ 2.4 GHz with Onboard Graphics)
• Memory: 1 GB
• Hard Drive: 20 GB Free
• Video Memory: 128 MB (GeForce 6200/Radeon X1300/Intel 945GM)
• Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
• DirectX: 9.0c
• Keyboard & Mouse
• DVD Rom Drive

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Sacred 2 : Fallen Angel DRM cracked

In the past few months a lot of private torrent trackers have been posted on FILEnetworks Blog but I don’t think we’ve posted anything similar to Guns N’ Roses Tracker 3.0 (GNR). Guns N’ Roses is a private torrent tracker which specializes in music released by the U.S. rock band Guns N’ Roses. GNR tracks a lot of lossless music and has almost all DVD/CDs released by the band between the period of 1986 and 2007. Although one might think that running a BitTorrent tracker dedicated to a single rock band will result in limited content and a small user base, it is not the case with GNR. Currently there are 1400+ torrents and nearly 2000 members on this tracker. It’s actually an excellent place for Guns N Roses fans to share music and videos.

The site is currently open for signups and new members may register for free. If you are a GNR fan, this tracker is a must have.

 

Site Name: Guns N Roses Tracker 3.0

Signup URL: http://www.gunsnroses.us/tracker/signup.php

Categories:

• DVD
• GNR 1986 DVD
• GNR 1987 DVD
• GNR 1988 DVD
• GNR 1989 DVD
• GNR 1990 DVD
• GNR 1991 DVD
• GNR 1992 DVD
• GNR 1993 DVD
• GNR 1994 DVD
• GNR 2001 DVD
• GNR 2002 DVD
• GNR 2006 DVD
• GNR 2007 DVD
• GNR DVD-covers
• GNR xx.xx.xxxx DVD
• GNRMEDIA
• Lossless
• OTHER MEDIA

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Download Guns N’ Roses music from GunsNRoses Torrent Tracker 3.0

Pretome.net is a popular private torrent tracker which specializes in General/0-Day content. It was started in early 2008 by a group of coders who left FunFile and have grown on to become one of the better general trackers currently online. Pretome indexes scene and P2P releases (movies, music, games, appz, comics, etc) and currently tracks over 11000 torrents. The site also has a user base of 18500+ registered members.

Like FunFile, Pretome has an uncommon interface (which is good actually) and a credits systems. Credits are a form of currency on Pretome. You can use them to gamble in the casino (online game), request torrents, pay off Hit and Runs, buy VIP membership and so on. Credits can be obtained by uploading torrents, seeding downloaded torrents, donating, idling on pretome IRC channel, winning in the casino, etc. Every new user starts with 100 credits upon signup.

As for the content pretome has, you can find all major scene and p2p releases on this tracker. In addition, there are plenty of packs and releases unique to Pretome (old movies, comics, game guides and so on):

Look for the ‘PTM’ tag on torrent title to identify torrents unique to Pretome.

The site is currently closed and requires a registration key to get in. We have provided a registration key below which can be used by many members to get into the tracker. If you were wondering how we obtained the key, it was posted along with a pretome torrent (private) uploaded to sumotracker.

Site Name: Pretome.net

Signup URL: http://www.pretome.net/signup.php?key=6919c41370e6c74016822a46eac10787 OR visit http://pretome.net/signup.php and provide 6919c41370e6c74016822a46eac10787 in the ‘Registration Key’ field

EDIT: This key has now expired. Please check out our giveaway section for an article with the latest monthly pretome key.

Categories:

• Applications - Windows , MAC , Linux
• Ebooks
• Games - PC , RIP , ISO , Xbox 360
• Miscellaneous - RARFiX
• Movies - XviD , DVDRiP , x264 , DVDR
• Music - MP3 , V2 , 320kbps , FLAC
• TV - XviD , HDTV , DVDRiP , PDTV

IRC Channel: irc://irc.pretome.net:6667/pretome

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Pretome registration key for free signup

PC-Tools is best known for their registry optimization software Registry Mechanic. Their latest software release titled ThreatFire, is not a system optimizer of any kind but an anti malware application. Why I thought of posting about ThreatFire is because it uses a rather nontraditional way of malware blocking. As you may know, most anti virus and anti spyware applications rely on virus definition files to match virus like code in files and detect threats. This is good but if you fail to update your Anti-Virus software regularly or if your anti virus software vendor does not provide regular updates, you could be risking yourself to zero day attacks and new virus outbreaks.

This is where ThreatFire comes in. It does not rely entirely on virus definitions to block malware. It monitors your system for virus like behavior to detect and block virus like or suspicious activity (aka behavioral blocking). I have not actually used this software extensively so I can’t really speak of the effectiveness. But there is a good review of it on PC MAgazine.

Developer Description

Consumers spend over a billion dollars a year on security software to keep their PCs safe. Every month they spend countless hours configuring and updating their software. And yet every week millions of users are infected by new threats that their traditional antivirus does not stop.

Why? Traditional antivirus solutions cannot protect you until after they've discovered a new threat and produced a signature to counter it.

ThreatFire is different. It does not rely on signatures, but instead constantly analyzes your computer's behavior to detect and block any malicious activity. ThreatFire protects immediately so you know your PC and your valuable data is always secure.

Features

• Persistent zero-day threat protection made easy for everyone - even novice users!
• Runs in background without impacting system performance.
• Automatic updates run silently in the background so ThreatFire is always up-to-date.
• NEW! System Activity Monitor displays detailed data on all running processes and allows you to terminate any process on demand. Highest level of out-of-the-box accuracy. No need to configure baffling, technical security settings: just turn ThreatFire on and start blocking malware.
• Includes PC Tools AntiVirus's on-demand AV scanner, giving you added peace of mind so you can quickly and easily scan your PC for known threats.
• Malware quarantine and removal, rootkit and antivirus scanner, advanced custom rules settings and more!
• Perpetually ready for the next malware outbreak - detects malware by watching for malicious behaviors.
• Protects against both known and zero-day viruses, worms, trojans, buffer overflows, rootkits and even some spyware.
• Patent-pending ActiveDefense technology intelligently scans and analyzes computer processes to detect and block any malicious activity - without false positives!
• NEW! Enhanced user interface elements provide more technical details on alerts and interactive reports in ThreatFire's main control panel.
• Works alongside most other security programs - there is no need to uninstall your antivirus, anti-spyware, firewall or other security program before installing ThreatFire.

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PC Tools ThreatFire Pro 4.0.0.8 – Block known and unknown malware threats

As you may have noticed the layout has been changed. We would like to get user opinions on the current theme. Please take a moment to vote on the poll (located at the top of rightmost sidebar--->). If you have any comments, send them to filenetworks[at]gmail[dot]com. Thanks

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The games keep coming and pirates keep cracking them. The latest installment to the popular adventure game series Tomb Raider, titled Tomb Raider : Underworld has been cracked and released three days before the game’s street date by scene group RELOADED. This game, like many other games in 2008, uses the SecuROM DRM. RELOADED have released a modified executable (cracked exe or a crack) which has the SecuROM protection stripped off it. Their release also includes a full Multi 5 ISO (Multilanguage ISO of the game with ENG/GER/ESP/IT/FR/NL language versions) of the game. Using the ISO and the crack , pirates or legitimate users can play the full game it seems. RELOADED’s release has already made it’s way into torrent trackers (public and private), one click hosting sites and so on. Tomb Raider series is known for early leaks; even the previous installment, TR : Anniversary was leaked well before official release date when an early review copy of the game sent to a game review magazine was released to public.

Underworld is scheduled to be released on the 18th in North America and 21st in Europe. There are currently no reviews of the PC version online but the PS3 version has an aggregated score of 80% on GameRankings. From the screens I have seen, the game looks great. And if you are interested, there was a demo of this game released earlier.

 

Designed specifically to take advantage of the latest technologies Tomb Raider: Underworld represents a new advancement in exploration-based gameplay. As fearless adventurer Lara Croft explore exotic locations around the world, each designed with an incredible attention to detail resulting in breathtaking high-definition visual fidelity that creates a truly believable world and delivers a new level of challenge and choice. 

For generations, stories have been told of the fearsome weapon of the Norse god Thor. Legend holds that he who wields the hammer has the power to smash mountains into valleys and the strength to destroy even the gods. For more than a thousand years it has existed only as a myth…until now.  In an ancient ruin on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea, Lara Croft uncovers proof of the Norse underworld and the mythical hammer. As she attempts to unravel the secrets behind these myths, Lara’s perilous journey leads her toward a forgotten power that, if unleashed, could lay waste to all civilization.

• Master your surroundings: Reach new heights with the broadest range of acrobatic abilities and utilize objects within the environment to uncover new paths to explore.
• Explore epic and unknown worlds: Discover ancient mysteries of the underworld hidden within the coast of Thailand, frozen islands of the Arctic Sea, the jungles of Mexico, and more. Each level is an elaborate multi-stage puzzle masked within an interactive environmental playground offering more flexibility over how the area is solved.
• New range of combat options: Choose to pacify or kill, target multiple enemies at once with the new dual-target system, and shoot with one hand while suspended with the other.
• New state-of-the-art gear: Utilize the latest technology in Lara's upgraded inventory to navigate the world including: Active Sonar map: A revolutionary new tool that emits an active sonar ping to create a 3D image of Lara's surroundings, perfect for uncovering hidden items and locations; Multi-purpose grapple: A claw-like device with a high-tension cable designed for climbing, rappelling, performing wall runs and manipulating objects within the environment; All-terrain hybrid motorbike: A unique vehicle design built to drive on everything from mud to snow and ice.

Minimum System Requirements:

• OS: Windows XP/Vista
• Processor: Intel @ 3 GHz/AMD @ 2.5 GHz
• Memory: 1 GB (2 GB for Vista)
• Hard Drive: 8 GB Free
• Video Memory: 128 MB nVidia GeForce 6800GT/ATI 1300XT
• Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
• DirectX: 9.0c
• Keyboard & Mouse
• DVD Rom Drive

Recommended System Requirements:

• OS: Windows XP/Vista
• Processor: Intel Core 2 DUO @ 2.2 GHz or Athlon 64 X2 4400+
• Memory: 2 GB
• Hard Drive: 8 GB Free
• Video Memory: nVidia GeForce 9800 GTX /ATI HD4800
• Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
• DirectX: 9.0c or 10
• Keyboard & Mouse
• DVD Rom Drive

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Pirates crack Tomb Raider : Underworld DRM three days before release

Many of us who were already members waited for Tv.Torrents.Ro (TVT.RO) to come back after a long downtime. Here is the chance for those of you who were longing to get into this tracker – it’s open for signups. For me, TVT.RO is definitely among the world’s top 3 private TV torrent trackers (other two being BitmeTV and TvTorrents.com). You can pretty much find almost all major US/Canadian TV shows (including complete season packs) on this tracker. For detailed information about the content of TVT.Ro, please refer to this post.

The site is currently open for signups and new members can register for free. Keep in mind that the only way to get into TVT.Ro isduring an open signup; the site’s invite system is currently disabled.

Site Name: Tv.Torrents.Ro

Signup URL: http://tv.torrents.ro/signup.php

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TV.Torrents.Ro Signups Open – For TV series torrents

First of all sorry about the lack of updates. This was due to the theme update which took longer than expected. In the meantime, two well known private torrent trackers have opened signups. This post is about PREtorians; a well known general tracked based in Hungary.

Although the site interface and some releases are in Hungarian, there is a fair amount of English content available as well. Something I have noticed about this PREtorians is that it has a lot of releases by Hungarian scene/p2p groups. In addition to general content, it tracks a lot of movies; both English and Hungarian. With 28500+ users and nearly 10000 indexed torrents, PREtorians is quite large for a private tracker.

Site Name: PREtorians

Signup URL: http://pretorians.net/signup.php

Categories:

• Film/DVD-R/Eng
• Film/DVD-R/Hun
• Film/DVD9/Hun
• Film/HD/Eng
• Film/HD/Hun
• Film/XViD/Eng
• Film/XViD/Hun
• Játék/DOX
• Játék/PCiso
• Játék/PS2
• Játék/Wii
• Játék/XBOX (XBOX360)
• Lossless
• Mp3/Eng
• Mp3/Hun
• Music-Video
• Program/iSO
• Program/RiP
• Sorozat/Eng
• Sorozat/Hun
• XXX
• XXX/DVD-R

*Játék = Games, Sorozat = TV Shows, Hun tag means HUngarian language while Eng tag means English language.

A brief translation of signup page:

• Kivánt felhasználónév: - Username
• Jelszó: - Password
• Jelszó megerősítése: - Retype Password
• Email cím (az oldalon email cím változtatásra nincsen lehetöség):Nemed - Email
• Last three checkboxes stand for 'Read FAQ?', 'Read Rules?', and 'Above 13 years of age?'.

And in the interface, Letoltes means Download.

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PREtorians Signups open – Hungarian private torrent tracker

SceneFZ (SFZ), an excellent private torrent tracker, has just opened signups for all members. It’s a general/0-Day torrent tracker (which means it tracks software, Games, Music, Movies, E-Books, Games and everything else) and one of the best ones at that. Pre times are great and download speeds are excellent. SFZ has a large user base of 38000+ registered members and currently tracks over 5500 active torrents. You are guaranteed to find pretty much any major p2p or scene release at SceneFZ. The site has managed to recruit more than 8000 new users in the past two months alone, which is quite an achievement for a private BitTorrent tracker.

Apart from the usual releases releases, there is a quite a large number of packs and unique releases (such as Magazines, mobile appz and Webshots wallpaper packs) at SceneFZ. See screenshot below for more information:

 

To identify packs and releases unique to SceneFZ, watch out for 'sFZ' and 'sceneFZ' tags on the title of the torrent. Note that most of these packs are on free leech and can be used to build up your ratio as only the upload will be counted in your profile stats.

Usually you need an SMS code to sign up for this tracker but during open signup you can register without one. Last time it opened signups was around two months ago so grab this chance if you were planning to get in.

Site Name: SceneFZ

Signup URL: No direct URL. Visit http://scenefz.net/ and choose sign up on the left panel.

Categories:

• Anime
• Docs
• Games
• Mobile
• Movies
• Music
• Soft
• Imdb 

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SceneFZ (SFZ) signups open – 15/11/2008

Update: Closed

If you were looking forward to getting into TorrentLeech (TL), this could be your lucky break.

"JUST FOR ONE HOUR(till 05:00 GMT+2,Nov. 15th,2008) WE ARE GIVING FREE INVITES FORM OUR IRC CHANNEL.Come and visit us at irc.torrentleech.org:7011 channel #torrentleech REMEMBER,THIS IS VALID FOR ONLY ONE HOUR!! "

TorrentLeech IRC Channel can be found on:

• Server : irc.torrentleech.org:7011
• Channel Name: #torrentleech

OR

• If you have mIRC installed, click here. (irc://irc.torrentleech.org:7011/torrentleech) 

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TorrentLeech (TL) gives away invites for free @ their IRC channel

A cracked version of popular football manager simulation game Football Manager 2009 (aka FM09) has leaked to BitTorrent trackers right on the game’s official release date. For a change, it’s not a group from the warez scene that is responsible for the leak. In fact, the leak seems to have originated from TorrentLeech (TL), a well known private torrent tracker. Full game plus the update patch along with a modified executable (aka a crack) is included with the leaked release. This release will of course spread to public torrent trackers, one click hosting sites and so on.

As far as I know this game requires online activation and uses a custom copy protection system. Whether the cracked exe has the protection completely stripped or is merely a workaround remains to be seen. If the developers built any triggers into the game code to be activated upon detection of a pirated copy, a mere activation bypass will not be sufficient for the pirates if they want to play the game properly (similar to what happened with early releases of Mass Effect). Regardless, the cracked version of the game seems to work fine for the moment and it does not require online activation. Looks like it’s good news for pirates as well as for legitimate buyers who could not get the game activated due to official activation servers crashing down. 

Game Description

Football Manager 2009 (abbreviated to Football Manager 09 or FM09) is a football manager simulation video game. It was released on PC, Mac and Playstation Portable on 14 November 2008. The demo of the game was released at midnight on 2 November via the News of the World, BitTorrent and Steam. Some of the new features and box art for the game were announced via a series of videos on 3 September 2008, other new features have been released via a series of podcasts and online blogs.

The main new feature to the game is the 3D match engine. This can now be watched fullscreen, with a widescreen option available. Other features include being able to play as a female or male manager, improvements to the interaction between the manager and his assistant manager, improved mid-match team talks and tactics, training players to have preferred moves and transfer rumors. The player rating will have a decimal point, eg. 6.8 or 8.3 instead of 7 or 8. There will also be press conferences, where you can build up a rapport with the journalists, and the finance and transfer systems have been completely reworked. The game is set to feature more players than ever before, with over 350,000 in the database at the time of the game's announcement. Many of the new features were tested using a Football Manager Live beta. The PC version has a skin similar to the one used in Football Manager 2008.

The handheld version will include a 2D match engine for the first time, and the game will be shipped with two skins; a light and a dark alternative.The game suffered setbacks on and before launch day, most notably many players found themselves unable to activate and thus play the game due to its DRM and servers providing activation for the DRM failing to cope with the heavy use

System Requirements

• OS: Windows XP or Vista
• Processor: XP: 1.4GHz or Faster / Vista: 2.0GHz or Faster Supported Processors: Intel Pentium 4, Intel Core, AMD Athlon
• Memory: XP: 512MB RAM / Vista: 1.0GB RAM
• Hard Drive Space: 2GB
• DVD-Drive: 4x Speed
• Video Card: 128MB *Supported Chipsets (see below)
• Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible
• Directx: Version 9.0c (included)
• LAN: TCP/IP compliant
• Input: Keyboard, Mouse

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Football Manager 2009 leaked

Here is an update on two private torrent trackers currently open for signup; HDChina and DVDQuorum. HDChina is an HD Movie and TV Shows tracker while DVDQuorum is a DVD-R tracker. Read on for more information on these trackers.

Site Name: DVDQuorum

Description: DVDQuorum is a private torrent tracker with Spanish origins. It indexes DVD5/DVD9 untouched movie DVDRs. Although the site has a lot of Spanish movies, there is a significant amount of English movies available as well. It’s pretty large for a private tracker with 42500+ users and 12500+ active torrents.

Signup Process:

The signup process at DVDQuorum is a bit odd. You need to first sign up in their forums and then use that user name when registering for the tracker.

1. Register in forums: http://www.dvdquorum.es/foro/index.php?action=register
2. Click confirmation mail to activate forum account.
3. Register for tracker: http://bt.dvdquorum.es/signup.php (Use the same username in both instances)
4. Click confirmation mail to activate account.

Site Name: HDChina

Description: HDChina is Chinese torrent tracker which indexes TV Shows and Movies in High Definition (HD) format. Site interface is mainly Chinese but important functions have their English meaning inside brackets. HDChina has a lot of English content even though the tracker is of Chinese origin. Signups are currently open but slots are being filled quite fast and there are only around 2000 more sports left.

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

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Private Tracker Watch: HDChina and DVDQuorum signups open

Social bookmarking sites are a good way to bring in more traffic to your blog or web site. Say you want to submit your latest article to a number of different social bookmarking sites. SocialSpeed can significantly speed up this process by automating a lot of the form filling involved. It would be wrong to say the process is completely automatic as it still requires some degree of human intervention. But it still is a faster method than manual submission. If you have used RSS Submit, you will be familiar with the user interface and behavior of SocialSpeed; both these software are developed by the same developer (Ksoft).

Developer Description

SocialSpeed is one of the most powerful social bookmark management and promotion tools available for submitting your web pages, blogs, and RSS feeds to the most popular social bookmark search engines. One of the easiest tools of its kind, it is the quickest and most reliable way to submit to the social bookmark directories. SocialSpeed uses a completely automatic submission process of submitting your web page or blog as social bookmarks, publishing your content, and getting more traffic with proven results. SocialSpeed is extremely easy to use. First-time users simply create a login account on each social bookmark directory, this only needs to be done once; SocialSpeed helps speed this process up by automatically filling in most form fields. Next, simply add your URLs to the software and click Submit.

Supported social bookmarking sites

• Bibsonomy
• BlinkList
• BuddyMarks
• CiteULike
• Delicious
• Delirious
• Faves
• Furl
• Lilisto
• Linkagogo
• Linkatopia
• NewsVine
• Spurl
• Google Bookmarks
• Technorati
• Connotea
• Diigo
• WireFan
• Yahoo Bookmarks
• Propeller
• Twitter
• TagTooga
• MyJeeves Ask

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Submit your articles to multiple social bookmarking sites with SocialSpeed 1.1

Another excellent private tracker just opened signups (this was on the cards for days). nTorrents.net is a private tracker specializing in Nintendo stuff. You can download games for Wii, GameCube, GBA, N64, NES, SNES, Nintendo DS, GBA, GBC and pretty much any other Nintendo console ever to be released. Apart from games, nTorrents has a nice collection of strategy guides (Prima official guides included), OST (official soundtracks) even a few movies based on popular characters from Nintendo games. nTorrents was one of the first private trackers to migrate to the gazelle codebase and features a fast, clean and an informative interface which is easy to navigate.

“You see Peach's castle in front of you, behind you hear the echo of a Gorons laughter. Donkey Kong zooms by in a small cart dropping a banana in your path. You walk toward the castle and see Samus roll through a hole. Bowser's intergalactic space ship sits on the horizon. You have entered heaven, you have entered...Ntorrents.net”

Even if you don’t own a Nintendo console there is a reason why you should join this tracker; you can download NES and SNES ROMS from nTorrents and play them on your PC using an emulator. Believe me those games are still fun to play :D

Currently nTorrents tracks over 2000 releases and has a user base close to 9000 members. They have a good collection of game packs as well:

As mentioned above the site is currently open for signup (and it does not open regularly). Open signups will continue for 72 hours or till a member count of 15000 is reached (whichever comes first). There is a note on the site regarding open signups:

Well there ya have it! The first major open registration since our gazelle launch. We've grown a heck of a lot since then, and we look for more great things to come!
Our user base BEFORE open registration: 8894
We're only going to open for 72 hours, whether that brings us to 15000 users - only time will tell. What we do hope for - is some fresh faces, good new members, and growth in our already tight community.

If you are a fan of Nintendo games and Nintendo consoles, nTorrents will be a second home to you.

Site Name: nTorrents

Signup URL: http://ntorrents.net/register.php

Categories:

• Wii
• GameCube
• Nintendo DS
• GameBoy Advance
• GameBoy Classic
• NES
• Super Nintendo
• Nintendo 64
• Books
• Official Soundtracks
• Movies
• Virtual Console
• WiiWare

IRC: irc://irc.ntorrents.net/NT-help 

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Download Wii, GameCube, GBA, N64, DS and other Nintendo games from nTorrents – Signups open

ATI have released version 8.11 of their popular catalyst drivers. It’s a WHQL certified driver and is available for Windows XP (32-bit/64-bit), Vista (32-bit/64-bit) and Windows XP Media Center Edition. As usual, you can download the display driver separately or along with Catalyst Control Center. I tried to have a look at the release notes but could not download the PDF files as it stopped halfway and sometimes returned 403 errors :S. Anyway it’s recommended to upgrade to latest version if you own an ATI graphics card as it will probably help you with any problems you are having while playing latest PC titles.

Developer Description

AMD’s award-winning ATI Catalyst graphics and HD video configuration software delivers unprecedented control of performance and visual quality with ATI Radeon™ graphics processors. Certified by Microsoft® Windows® Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL), ATI Catalyst drivers for Windows Vista® and Windows® XP operating systems deliver stable performance and push the limits of innovation with advanced user-oriented features. Precision controls for power users. Tweaks for gamers and video enthusiasts. Simple wizard-assisted setup, easy multi-monitor configuration, and ultra reliable operation for working professionals. New user or seasoned expert, ATI Catalyst puts you in charge of The Ultimate Visual Experience™.

Download

Make sure you choose the correct driver that matches your operating system

[Click Here] to download ATI Catalyst 8.11 WHQL directly from Game.AMD.com

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ATI Catalyst 8.11 WHQL Download

Zero Punctuation Reviews from The Escapist Magazine is a series of video reviews by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw. Although these are called video reviews, it’s not the usual stuff with actual game play footage being shown with reviewer comments on the background. Instead, a funny and cleverly done animation is played while Yahyzee rips games apart with his sarcastic, witty and ultimately hilarious comments without stopping for a breath. Here is the official description of Zero Punctuation Reviews as displayed on the homepage:

Zero Punctuation is The Escapist's groundbreaking video review series starring Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw. Every Wednesday Zero Punctuation picks apart the games so you don't have to. Called "hilariously cutting ... first legitimate breakout hit from the gaming community in recent memory" by Boing Boing, see why gamers love it and developers fear it.

Yahtzee is a British-born, currently Australian-based writer and gamer with a sweet hat and a chip on his shoulder. When he isn't talking very fast into a headset mic he also designs freeware adventure games and writes the back page column for PC Gamer, who are too important to mention us. His personal site is www.fullyramblomatic.com.

I stumbled across one of these video reviews and it was so damn hilarious I ended up watching around 20 more of these. There are currently around 60 video reviews in total (including reviews of recent titles such as Dead Space) and a new one is added every week. These are definitely worth checking out if you have the slightest interest in video games.

[Click Here] to visit Zero Punctuation Reviews homepage and video reviews index.

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Zero Punctuation Reviews from The Escapist – Hilarious video reviews of popular games

Note: Learnbits URL has now changed to http://learnbits.me. If you are having trouble accessing the site via the old URL, it's not because the site is down.

Learnbits (LB) is a private BitTorrent tracker which specializes in E-Learning content. You can find close to 1000 torrents of educational material in electronic form, on this tracker. One thing I have noticed about Learnbits is that it has a large number of Information Technology (IT)/programming related E-Books and exam tutorials. However IT related stuff is not all Learnbits has; you can find e-books, video tutorials and test engines for a number of different subjects ranging from Mathematics to Medicine. There is also a good number of international magazines including latest editions of CPU magazine, PC Magazines and PC World. The only downside I saw with Learnbits is that page navigation (not the torrent download speeds) was somewhat on the slow side (Maybe it was just me).

Learnbits is usually closed for new users but this is one of those times the site is in open signup mode. If you are interested, you may now register an account for free. Note that the site URL is www.learnbits.me (not www.learnbits.org or www.learnbits.info as it used to be).

Site Name: Learnbits

Signup URL: http://www.learnbits.me/signup.php

Categories: Database, 3D, Apps-Fonts, Business, College Lectures, Creative Writing, Digital Art, Documentary, Early Learning, Electrical Eng / Electronics, Exam Guides, Exams Q-A, Forensics, Health-Fitness, Hobbies, International Hub, IT Manager, IT, Security, Languages, Linux, Mac-Apple, Magazines, Math-Science, Medical, Miscellaneous, Music, Network, Personal Growth, Philosophy, Politics-History, Programming, Psychology, Server Admin, Sports-Self Defence, Templates, Trades, VIP, VOIP, Web Design, Windows-Office

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Learnbits E-Learning tracker signups open – 14/11/2008

Irish Torrents is a new private torrent tracker which is specializes in content from Ireland. It’s a fairly new tracker based on gazelle codebase. Irish Movies, Music, TV Shows, Sports, Documentaries and many other content with Irish origins can be found on this tracker. Although Irish Torrents is only about a month old, there are already close to 1500  registered members and ~700 torrents on the tracker. There is nothing much to talk about the interface and layout as it’s based on Gazelle codebase. In short it’s fast and is a pleasure to navigate.

The site is currently open and new members may sign ups for free. Open signups won’t last forever so get in while you can.

Site Name: Irish Torrents

Signup URL: http://www.irishtorrents.com/register.php

Categories:

• Comedy
• Documentary
• Audio
• Sport-GAA
• Sport-Other
• Chat Shows
• Irish Movies
• Drama

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Irish Torrents – Torrent tracker for Irish content (Gazelle based)

If you were a frequent visitor of popular Bulgaria based torrent search engine TorrentValley.com, you may have noticed that the site has become inaccessible since yesterday. According to IFPI, the site was raided by Bulgarian authorities and their servers have been seized, after Bulgarian Association of Musical Producers (BAMP) tipped them off. What’s interesting is that TorrentValley was merely a search engine and did not operate a BitTorrent tracker of their own. Regardless the site is shut down and there are no signs of the site coming back online anytime soon.

However, all is not lost to TorrentValley.com users. There are plenty of alternatives floating around such as ArenaBG, RARBG and Zamunda.NET. All these are private torrent trackers which have their roots in Bulgaria but are currently hosted outside Bulgaria (so good luck BAMP shutting these down). ArenaBG, RARBG and Zamunda.NET all operate a BitTorrent tracker of their own and they have better download speeds, better pre times and almost no fakes. Although these are private trackers, they all have huge user bases (measured in 6 digit numbers) and you can pretty much find every movie, game , TV show, software or general content available on any other public tracker.

[Click Here] for signup URLS and more information on ArenaBG, RARBG and Zamunda.NET 

[Click Here] for a list of private BitTorrent trackers currently open for new signups.

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TorrentValley Shut Down – Here are some alternatives

Latest installment in the Silent Hill series titled Silent Hill : Homecoming (aka Silent Hill 5), has leaked to several one click hosting sites and BitTorrent trackers across the world. The leak seems to have originated from Russian private torrent tracker game-torrents.info and then spread to other Russian trackers such as Torrents.Ru. An English version of the game has now leaked to public trackers including The Pirate Bay (TPB).

The significance of this leak is that there never was a retail PC version of Silent Hill : Homecoming; the game was distributed exclusively via Steam digital content delivery platform. What is leaked to torrent trackers seem to be a Russian version of the game downloaded from steam but repacked later with English language files (size is around 4.6GB). In short, it’s a playable English version of the game.

Update: There is a 3.92GB English version on several private trackers by group GTI (not a scene group). NFO says it’s the full steam version. Also, this game does not seem to be working on ATI X1950, X1600 and other X1000 series cards.

Valve’s Steam has this reputation of being “Uncrackable” or extremely hard to crack but almost all major Steam exclusive games have been pirated using various workarounds. Even with Silent Hill : Homecoming, there is no ‘crack’ to speak of. I don’t think many pirates will care about the ‘uncrackableness’ of Steam as long as they get to play the game.

 

Developer Description

Silent Hill: Homecoming is the latest entry in the Silent Hill franchise. The story follows Alex Shepherd, returning to his hometown of Shepherd's Glen to investigate the sudden disappearance of his brother. From Shepherd's Glen to the foggy streets of Silent Hill, Alex must face the darkest of horrors in order to find his brother. Struggling with his own grip on reality, Alex must unravel the mystery behind his nightmares, discover the truth behind his brother's and father's disappearances, and confront the evil that has taken hold of his own flesh and blood.

Minimum System Requirements

• OS: Windows XP/Vista
• Processor: Pentium 4 @ 2.8 GHz (3.2 GHz for Vista)
• Memory: 1 GB
• Hard Drive: 10 GB Free
• Video Memory: 256 MB (nVidia GeForce 7800 GT/ATI Radeon X1950)
• Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
• DirectX: 9.0c
• Keyboard & Mouse

Recommended System Requirements

• OS: Windows XP/Vista
• Processor: Pentium 4 @ 2.8 GHz (3.2 GHz for Vista)
• Memory: 2 GB
• Hard Drive: 10 GB Free
• Video Memory: 512 MB (nVidia GeForce 8800 GT/ATI HD2900)
• Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
• DirectX: 9.0c or 10
• Keyboard & Mouse

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Silent Hill: Homecoming (PC) leaks to BitTorrent networks

If you are a reader of FILEnetworks Blog, chances are high that you download (or buy) most of the latest PC game releases. But as a PC gamer, you may already be aware that modern games have demanding hardware requirements and your rig may not always be able to play them smoothly. If you are getting the frame rates of a PowerPoint presentation with latest PC titles, try TweakGuides.com.

TweakGuides is home to hundreds of well written tutorials that will help you tweak and configure your game to obtain maximum performance with minimal loss of visual quality. The best feature of these guides is that they are not limited to general advice such as update your video card drivers, install latest patches, etc, etc.

Instead, TweakGuides present you with detailed guides specific to each PC game. These usually include details of every in game setting, screenshots of how the game will look like with and without certain options enabled, details of what you’ll miss out on if you disable certain options and so on. For the power users, TweakGuides even offers editing the game configuration files manually to unlock options and settings not presented via the in game menus. For example, check the Fallout 3 Tweak Guide via this link. 

In short, TweakGuides is an excellent resource for those with mid range and budget systems and will them get a decent performance with minimal loss of visual quality.

[Click Here] to visit TweakGuide homepage.

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Fine tune your games for maximum performance with tips from TweakGuides.com

Yesterday we talked about sites to obtain cracked mobile software, full games and other media. When it comes to that, SyncTheBits (StB) is one of the best sites around. It’s a private torrent tracker which is dedicated to mobile content. Signups are closed for the most part but they are currently open for 24 hours so if you were planning to get in, now would be a good time. There is a note about open signups on site homepage:

We have decided to open the doors to the public as of friday.  We are doing this for a couple of reasons..
1) We are celebrating P2PTalks 1 yr Aniversery
2) We had 3k members last time i closed the doors and since i have purged 2/3 of those memebers.  So we are in need of active members.

Currently StB tracks around 2300 torrents and has an active user base of ~950. Torrents include all sorts of mobile stuff including games, appz and even e-books for a wide range of mobile platforms. The platforms include Symbian, J2ME, Windows Mobile, iPhone, PalmOS, Nintendo DS, PSP, Blackberry etc. In addition to appz and games, StB tracks a mobile optimized movies (in .3gp format), music videos and even TV series. They also have a great packs section.

In short, it’s a must have tracker for everyone who cares about jazzing up their mobiles. As mentioned earlier open signups are limited for 24 hours so get in while you can.

Site Name: SynctheBits (StB)

Signup URL: http://syncthebits.com/signup.php

Categories:

• BlackBerry Apps
• BlackBerry Games
• E-Books Fiction
• E-Books Non Fiction
• iPhone Apps
• iPhone Games
• Java Apps
• Java Games
• Misc
• Nintendo DS
• StB Packs
• PalmOS Apps
• PalmOS Games
• PSP Games
• SymbianOS Apps
• SymbianOS Games
• Windows Mobile Apps
• Windows Mobile Games

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SyncTheBits (StB) – Download Mobile Appz, Games, Themes, Ringtones, Mobile Optimized Movies and Videos – Signups Open

A DVDRip of popular 2008 movie The Dark Knight has leaked to internet. Behind the leak is scene group DoNE. DoNE’s release seems to be based on the PAL DVD9 which was leaked earlier by group TheCrown. It’s a 2CD (1.39GB) rip with 1336kbps video and  348kbit/s  5 channel AC3 audio. A DVD Screener of this movie was leaked early September but this copy will be downloaded many times by pirates given the superior video and audio quality. For screen caps and more information on the DVDRip release, check this page.

Speaking of the movie, well there is nothing much really to say other than ‘awesome’. No wonder it scored a whopping 9.1 rating on IMDB and climbed up to the 4th position in IMDB Top 250 movies list.

The Dark Knight is a 2008 American superhero film directed and co-written by Christopher Nolan. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, the film is part of Nolan's Batman film series and a sequel to 2005's Batman Begins. Christian Bale reprises the lead role. The plot of the film focuses on Batman's fight against a new villain, the Joker (Heath Ledger), and his relationships with police lieutenant James Gordon (Gary Oldman), district attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) and his old friend and love interest, assistant D.A. Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal).

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DVDRip of ‘The Dark Knight’ leaked

The first part of this article, which featured some of the best sites for full mobile appz, games and themes, was published about a month back. Click here to read the first part of the article.

This post is an extension to the previous article and features several more sites from which you can download cracked applications for mobile phones, games, themes and ringtones for free. Supported mobile devices (phones, PDAs, iPOD, etc) range from Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Windows Mobile, Siemens, LG, Samsung and many others.

Note that some of these sites may require you to login before you download anything. Registration for all these sites is free and currently open for all users. We have included the registration URL below each site for your convenience.

1. GSM Hacks

At a glance, GSM Hacks will look like your average mobile reviews and news site. Actually it’s much more than that; GSM Hacks Forums is where all the fun is. Their “Mobile Applications” section in General Discussion forums is home to many cracked (and non cracked) Symbian OS 9.1 Applications, Symbian Series 60/80/90 Applications, Pocket PC & Windows Smartphone Applications and Sony Ericsson Applications. Finding a particular item by browsing all the threads is not easy at GSM Hacks so it would be wise to use the search feature.

Site Name: GSM Hacks
Registration URL: http://www.gsmhacks.com/forums/register.php 

2. Noeman GSM

Noeman GSM, which is part of the Noeman Network, is a huge online community with nearly 370000 members. Check under ‘Mobile Software Solutions’ and ‘Mobile Multimedia’ sections in their forums and you will find a lot of full applications, games and themes for S60, UIQ, S80, S90, Pocket PC, Smartphone, java based mobile devices. Some of the cracked applications are scene releases.

Site Name: Noeman GSM
Registration URL: http://www.noeman.org/gsm/register.php

3. Mobiles Mania

Mobiles Mania is a huge community of mobile users with 313000+ members. You can download a lot of cracked applications and full games for Symbian OS-9.1/9.2/9.3, Symbian 60 Series, Nokia 40 Series, Nokia N-Gage, Nokia 30 Series, Symbian 80 and  Sony Ericsson/UIQ. Apart from usual apps and games, Mobiles Mania has a lot of software packs and even mobile optimized movies.  It’s definitely a site worth checking out.

Site Name: Mobiles Mania
Registration URL: http://www.mobilesmania.com/forum/index.php?act=Reg&CODE=00

4. NokiaApps

NokiaApps is a forum which indexes a lot of applications and games for the Symbian platform. They also have a decent number of applications for Smartphone, Windows mobile and other mobile platforms. Apart from applications, NokiaApps has a fair amount of media for mobile devices such as wallpapers and movies.

Site Name: NokiaApps
Registration URL: http://www.nokiaapps.org/register.php

5. Other sites

There are several other places where you can get your hands on cracked mobile appz, games, themes and the likes. You may want to check out http://symbianapplication.blogspot.com/ which has over 1500 posts all featuring S60V3 appz including scene releases. It updates several times a day and the links are pretty reliable.

6. BitTorrent trackers specializing in mobile content

If you are a fan of the BitTorrent protocol, there are a lot torrent trackers dedicated to mobile stuff you might want to check out. Here is a brief list of them; click on a link for more information on the site.

• JAF Torrent Tracker : Mobile Software, Service Manuals, Unlockers and Flashing Tools (Signups Open)
• Mobile Club – Appz, Games, Themes, Ringtones (Signups Open)
• SynctheBits (StB) – Appz, Games, Themes, Ringtones, Packs (Signups closed at time of this post)
• iPODTVNOVA – Movies, videos and audio optimized for viewing in mobile devices (Signups closed at time of this post)
• Pimp Your Mobile- Appz Games, Ringtones, Themes (Signups Open)

For updates on signup status on trackers such as StB or to get updated information on new torrent trackers with mobile content, watch for updates in our Private Trackers section or simply keep reading www.filenetworks.net.

 

Related posts:

• Sites to download full Mobile applications, Games Themes and Ringtones for free – Part 1
• 6 sites you can use to download fiction, novels and other E-Books free of charge
• Where to find No-CD/NO-DVD Patches, Mini Images and Cracks for PC Games
• Private Trackers currently open for signup

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Sites to download cracked mobile applications, games, themes and ringtones for free – Part 2

HungeCity is a very uncommon and unique private torrent tracker. I bet you’ve seen plenty of General/0day trackers but have you ever seen a tracker that specializes in unreleased audio and video recordings? Here is how HungeCity admins describe the site:

HungerCity is a BitTorrent tracker for audio and video recordings of independent origin (ROIO) which have not been officially released.

Even though it specializes in a rather uncommon niche, HungerCity is not short of content (or members for that matter). There are currently over 3000 torrents tracked by HungerCity and the site has an active user base close to 15000.

As you can see from the screenshot above, you are bound to discover a lot of hidden gems not found on any other torrent tracker currently online (some not found even on dedicated music trackers). There are some nice packs and DVD collections among many other releases. The site is currently open for signup so go check it out.

Site Name: The HungerCity Tracker

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

Categories: (A) – Audio, (V) – Video, (A&V) – Audio and Video

• B. Springsteen (A)
• B. Springsteen (V)
• Bluegr. & Country (A&V)
• Blues & Jazz (A&V)
• Bob Dylan (2007/2008)
• Bob Dylan (A)
• Bob Dylan (R)
• Bob Dylan (V)
• David Bowie (A)
• David Bowie (V)
• Elvis Presley (A &V)
• Eric Clapton (A)
• Eric Clapton (V)
• George Harrison (A&V)
• Grateful Dead (A)
• Grateful Dead (V)
• Jimi Hendrix (A)
• Jimi Hendrix (V)
• John Lennon (A&V)
• Johnny Cash (A&V)
• Johnny Thunders (A&V)
• Led Zeppelin (A)
• Led Zeppelin (V)
• Lou Reed (A)
• Lou Reed (V)
• Neil Young (2007/2008)
• Neil Young (A)
• Neil Young (V)
• Obscurities (A&V)
• Paul McCartney (A&V)
• Pink Floyd (A)
• Pink Floyd (V)
• Punk & Ska (A&V)
• Reggae Roots (A&V)
• Ringo Starr (A&V)
• Rolling Stones (A)
• Rolling Stones (V)
• Songwriters & Folk (A&V)
• The Beatles (A)
• The Beatles (R)
• The Beatles (V)
• Tom Waits (A&V)
• Various Artists (A)
• Various Artists (V)

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Download unreleased audio and video recordings from HungerCity Tracker – Signups open

Madagascar Escape 2 Africa is a video game derived from the movie of the same name. Scene group RELOADED have cracked the SecuROM DRM built into the game and a cracked version has leaked to various FTP, Usenet and BitTorrent sites a good 16 days before the game’s official release date. Initially a CloneDVD of the game was released by veteran scene group AVENGED and RELOADED’s release came up shortly after that. I’m not sure which version of SecuROM was included in the game but it does not look like the game had to be activated online like many other releases in 2008. XBOX360 version of the game was also leaked on the 5th of November.

Personally, I’ve never been a fan of games derived from movies. I couldn’t find any reviews for the PC version of the game on Gamerankings but XBOX360, Wii, PS3 and PS2 versions have got some decent scores of 75-80% which is good for a game like this.

 

Based on the upcoming feature film from DreamWorks Animation, the four famous zoo animals – Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe and Gloria the Hippo – and their entire madcap Madagascar crew take players on a whole new action-packed journey to help save the African savannah. Assuming the roles of all their favorite characters, including those crafty penguins, players must work through 12 distinct levels featuring a variety of wild adventures and fun mini-games. In addition to the diverse single-player gameplay, the Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Video Game delivers an enhanced multiplayer tournament mode allowing gamers to participate in outlandish competitions alongside or against friends and family.

Minimum System Requirements (These are for the demo. Final version should have more or less the same requirements)

For Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP:

• 3D hardware accelerator card required - 100% DirectX(R) 9.0c-compliant 128 MB video card and drivers*
• Pentium(R) 4 1.7GHz or Athlon XP(TM) 2100+ or higher processor
• 512 MB of RAM
• 100% DirectX(R) 9.0c-compliant true 16-bit sound card and drivers
• 100% Windows(R) XP-compatible mouse, keyboard and drivers
• 100% Windows(R) XP-compatible 6x speed DVD-ROM drive (600 K/sec sustained transfer rate) and drivers
• *Supported Chipsets for Windows XP
  All NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) 6600 128 MB RAM and better chipsets
  All ATI(R) Radeon(TM) X1300 128 MB RAM and better chipsets
  Motherboard integrated video chipsets not supported.

For Microsoft(R) Windows VISTA(TM):

• 3D hardware accelerator card required - 100% DirectX(R) 9.0c-compliant 128 MB video card and drivers*
• Pentium(R) 4 1.7GHz or Athlon XP(TM) 2100+ or higher processor
• 1024 MB of RAM
• A 100% Windows VISTA-compatible computer system including:
  DirectX(R) 9.0c (Included)
• 100% DirectX(R) 9.0c-compliant true 16-bit sound card and drivers
• 100% Windows VISTA-compatible mouse, keyboard and drivers
• 100% Windows VISTA-compatible 6x speed DVD-ROM drive (600 K/sec sustained transfer rate) and drivers
• *Supported Chipsets for Windows VISTA(TM)
  All NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) 6600 128 MB RAM and better chipsets
  All ATI(R) Radeon(TM) x1300 128 MB RAM and better chipsets
  Motherboard integrated video chipsets not supported.

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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (PC) DRM cracked before release date

This is a pretty old utility but I think many people will still find it useful. Note that RemoveWGA does not crack WGA or make your system genuine. It simply removes the Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications tool from your system.

So what’s the harm in having WGA notifications tool installed? Nothing expect that it’ll be useless after the first run (once you run it and validate your copy of Windows). Oh and it will call home every time you reboot the system even if your copy is confirmed as a legit version of Windows. For those who do not like this ‘behavior’ you can use RemoveWGA to detect, disable and completely remove the WGA notifications tool from your system.

Note: Some anti-virus programs may detect RemoveWGA as a virus. These are false positives and we guarantee that it is malware free.

Developer Description

RemoveWGA will enable you to easily remove the Microsoft "Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications" tool, which is calling home and connect to MS servers every time you boot. Futures updates of this notification tool will (officially) setup the connection rate to once every two weeks. Once the WGA Notification tool has checked your OS and has confirmed you had a legit copy, there is no decent point or reason to check it again and again every boot.

Moreover, connecting to Microsoft brings security issue for corporate networks, and privacy issues for everyone. It is also unclear which information are transmitted (Microsoft published an official answer, but an individual study brought some questions). All of that, along the fact that Microsoft used deceptive ways to make you install this tool (it was told you it was an urgent security update, whereas it is a new installation giving you no extra security) makes me calling this tool a spyware.Also, Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications is different than Windows Genuine Advantage Validation. RemoveWGA only removes the notification part, phoning home, and does not touch the Validation part.

Features

• Tell you if the WGA notification tool is active on your system
• Allows you to remove the WGA notification tool from your system
• Accept the "-silent" command line parameter to silently check if the WGA notification tool is active on your system, and popup only if it is found (usefull for checking automatically at startup for instance)

Download

RemoveWGA is free software and is only 14kb in file size. Note that this will only work on some versions of Windows XP.

[Click Here] to download RemoveWGA 1.2 from Softpedia

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Disable and remove Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) Notifications tool using RemoveWGA 1.2

Below are 6 private torrent trackers currently open for new signups. This post will be useful for those who missed updates on these trackers when they were first posted on this blog. 5 out of the 6 sites mentioned are specialized private trackers; TV-vault (old, rare TV series), bitGAMER (PC, Console games), MVGroup (E-Learning, Documentaries), ChildBytes (kids content), Sport-Scene (Sports). Only general tracker in this bunch is RsR (Romanian ShareReactor).

As all these trackers have been discussed in detail before, we will be posting a link to each of the previous articles rather than reposting all that here.

Site Name: Sport-Scene.net
Signup URL: http://sport-scene.net/signup.php
Description: One of the best sports torrent trackers around. For full description and mini review please see this article.

Site Name: Romanian ShareReactor (RsR)
Signup URL: http://tracker.sharereactor.ro/registration.php
Description: Excellent general/0Day tracker. For full description and mini review please see this article.

 

Site Name: bitGAMER
Signup URL: http://www.bitgamer.com/signup.php
Description: A great PC and console games tracker. For full description and mini review please see this article.

Site Name: MVGroup
Signup URL: http://forums.mvgroup.org/index.php?act=Reg&CODE=00
Description: E-Learning tracker with tons of e-books and TV documentaries. For full description and mini review please see this article.

Site Name: TV Vault
Signup URL: http://tv-vault.org/register.php
Description: Probably the only torrent tracker that specializes on old and rare TV shows. For full description and mini review please see this article. 

Site Name: ChildBytes
Signup URL:  http://www.childbytes.eu/signup.php
Description: Dedicated kids torrent tracker. For full description and mini review please see this article.

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6 Private BitTorrent trackers currently open for signup – 11/11/2008

Here we go – the latest build of RealPlayer Plus is here. Build 11.0.0.477 features several minor updates and enhancements over the previous release. The plus version includes several features not included in the free, basic version of Realplayer such as 10 band equalizer, web video burning fast CD ripping and more.

If for whatever reason you don’t want to install RealPlayer on your system, try Real Alternative (a codec pack designed to support playback of Realmedia file formats on popular media players – something like CCCP).

Developer Description

The RealPlayer is the first product that integrates Real's revolutionary new Harmony technology. RealPlayer enables consumers to buy and download music that plays on more than 100 portable devices, including the Apple iPod. RealPlayer is the only digital-media player you need for finding and downloading new music, playing and managing audio and video clips, and taking your digital entertainment with you. RealPlayer offers a streamlined interface that allows you to keep your media library close at hand. Keep all your digital-media clips organized in one place; save CD tracks with one click; pause and rewind live streams; transfer music to CDs and portable devices effortlessly; and enjoy clear, smooth video playback and multichannel, surround-sound support.

Helix Powered RealPlayer is the all-in-one digital media player that lets you find anything and play everything. This popular streaming-media player offers improved video controls and access to 3200 radio stations. RealPlayer also includes an option during setup to install the Real Toolbar for Internet Explorer. With RealPlayer you get an improved graphic equalizer and media services, including a radio tuner and an artist and music guide. Meanwhile, the Take 5 news service can offer you daily sports updates. A contextual video search helps you find interviews with your favorite artists. The RealPlayer music store lets you buy music files. Finally, you can use the software to transfer files to CDs and portable devices.

Supported Formats

• RealMedia formats: RealAudio (*.ra, *.rm), RealVideo (*.rv, *.rm, *.rmvb), RealPix (*.rp), RealText (*.rt), RealMedia Shortcut (*.ram, *.rmm)
• Streaming: RealTime Streaming Protocol (rtsp://), Progressive Networks Streaming Protocols (pna://, pnm://), Microsoft Windows Media Streaming Protocol (mms://), Real Scalable Multicast (*.sdp), Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (*.smil, *.smi)
• Audio: MP3 (*.mp3, *.mp2, *.mp2, *.m3u), CD Audio (*.cda), WAV (*.wav), AAC/aacPlus v1 (*.aac, *.m4a, *.m4b, *.mp4, *.acp, *.m4p), Apple Lossless, AIFF (*.aif, *.aiff), AU Audio Files (*.au), Panasonic AAC (*.acp)
• Video: DVD (*.vob), Video CD (*.dat), MPEG Video (*.mpg, *.mpeg, *.m2v, *.mpe etc), AVI (*.avi, *.divx), MJPEG video playback from .avi files,Windows Media (*.wma, *.wmv and etc) (requires Windows Media Player 9/10), QuickTime (*.mov, *.qt) (Quick Time Player must be installed), Adobe Flash (*.swf) (Flash or Shockwave Player must be installed), Flash Video (*.flv).
• Playlists (*.rpl, *.xpl, *.pls, *.m3u)
• Graphics: Bitmap (*.bmp), GIF Images (*.gif), JPEG Images (*.jpeg, *.jpg), PNG (*.png)

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RealPlayer Plus v11.0.0.477 Final

A few hours ago we reported the return of Tv.Torrents.Ro. Here is some more good news, this time about popular E-Learning/E-book torrent tracker eBookVortex.

If you were a member of eBookVortex, you may have noticed that the site was down for the past few days. Good news is that eBookVortex is now back up. Bad news is that they have lost all old torrents and user accounts during downtime. Site’s URL which used to be www.ebookvortex.com has now changed to www.ebookvortex.net.  A mass E-mail sent to the site’s former members read:

eBookVortex is back up now, new site URL is http://www.ebookvortex.net All the old data has been lost so everyone will have to sign up again.

This is not the first time eBookVortex was down for a prolonged period of time. However the last time they did not suffer from a total data loss. Currently there are no torrents uploaded to the tracker and all users have to re-register. It was one of the best e-book/e-learning trackers out there by the time it went down and we hope eBookVortex will return to its former self in no time.

Signup are currently open so check it out.

Site Name: eBookVortex

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

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eBookVortex back online with open signups – 11/11/2008

Libble.com, an excellent music torrent tracker, is currently open for signup. You can download all genres of English music from Libble, at great speeds. Apart from the usual stuff available in most music torrent trackers, you can find a lot of mix tapes unique to Libble.com as well as some lossless (FLAC format) music. They recently upgraded to gazelle codebase and now feature a smooth, sleek and fast interface. Currently there are close to 7000 users on Libble and it tracks over 11500 music torrents (this includes 10200+ music albums). 

Signups are currently open so go check it out.

Site Name: Libble.com

Signup URL: http://libble.com/register.php

Categories:

• Music
• Libble Mixtapes
• Applications
• E-Books
• Audiobooks
• Comedy
• Music Videos

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Download free music torrents from Libble.com : Signups open – 11/11/2008

After several weeks of downtime, popular dedicated TV torrents tracker Tv.Torrents.Ro (TVT.RO) is now back online. There is no post on the site explaining the reason for downtime but from what we’ve heard it had something to do with hosting problems.

There does not appear to be any data loss suffered during the period site was down; all the old user accounts, torrents and stats are available. Their tracker is online but give it some time for the seeders to get back on it. For more information on this tracker and to get an idea of the content it tracks, read this post.

Signups are are closed at the moment and we will let you know when/if they are open. Keep an eye on our Private Trackers Section for any updates.

P.S.- Some more good news for those who download TV shows via BitTorrent. Another dedicated TV tracker, Tvtorrentz.org (not as big as TVT.Ro but still good) is currently open for signup.

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TV.Torrents.Ro – Back online

Babylon Pro is an excellent dictionary/translation software for Windows. It’s feature rich, lightweight and extremely easy to use. Say you want to know the meaning of a word on a document or a web page – just select the word and press the Babylon hotkey. It’ll come up with dictionary matches for the word in a matter of seconds.  Babylon is also capable of retrieving information from online resources such as Wikipedia and from any installed premium dictionaries. In addition to the dictionary/translation features, Babylon also contains a currency converter. Check it out.

Developer Description

Babylon 7 is the world's leading dictionary and language translation software. Babylon offers you the most intuitive tool for all your translation needs. With Babylon you can quickly translate emails, web pages, documents, instant messages, and more. All you have to do is click on the word or text that you want to translate and a small window instantly appears with the desired results from Babylon's extensive database of language dictionaries, glossaries and conversion tools.

Babylon offers its users a wide range of titles from the world's premier publishing houses including Oxford University Press, Britannica, Merriam-Webster, Larousse, Vox, Langenscheidt, Pons, and Taishukan. New version Babylon six offers text translation in 17 languages in addition to single word and phrase translations - all in a single click, results from Wikipedia encyclopedia in nine languages, automatic spelling feature, and accurate results in a single-click from a wide range of authoritative sources.

Major Features

• Simple and intuitive Single Click activation
• Enables full text translation
• The world's knowledge of Wikipedia already inside
• Additional content from Oxford, Britannica, Merriam Webster, Larousse and other leading publishers
• Spell check for Hotmail, Gmail, Blogs...
• Auto completion feature, which completes words or phrases as you type

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Babylon Pro 7.0.3.(r26) – Dictionary and Text Translation Software

Tang Soo Do (TSD) is an excellent private torrent tracker which tracks a lot of MMA (Mixed Martial Arts), UFC and other similar events. Content on this tracker is similar to FullContactZone (FCZ - Signups Open) but TSD index more content than FCZ as of now. Apart from videos of UFC and MMA events, Tang Soo Do tracks a lot of E-books and video tutorials (instructional) on various martial arts techniques.

Currently there are over 1200 active torrents tracked by TSD. Most of these are well seeded. TSD also tracks a lot of unique packs:

If you are a student of martial arts or just seeking to download latest UFC/MMA videos for free, you’ll find TSD to be a great resource. The site is currently open for signup and will continue to be open for a week from now on. Grab this opportunity to get registered as it’s not everyday that this tracker has open signups.

Site Name: Tang Soo Do (TSD)

Signup URL: http://www.tang-soo-do.us/account-signup.php

Categories:

• Games
• Instructional
• Applications
• E Books
• Movies
• Music
• Pride
• International Fight League
• King of The Cage
• K-1 Grand Prix
• UFC
• MMA
• EliteXC
• TV
• The Ultimate Fighter
• Cage Rage Championships
• WEC
• BodogFight
• TATTOOS
• Sportsfight
• Boxing
• Nuked
• DREAM

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Download MMA/UFC torrents from Tang Soo Do (TSD) – Signups open

Here is a useful software if you are looking to expand the reach of your blog’s/web site’s RSS feed. RSS Submit can automatically submit your RSS feed to a number of feed directories with the click of a button. It supports over 80 feed directories but you will need to enter details manually for nearly half of these. There are some really good sites supported by RSS Submit such as BlogCatalog, Technorati and Ice Rocket. Of course don’t expect your feed reader count to increase by a large number the moment you submit your feed. It will be a gradual increase and will definitely give your RSS feed more exposure on the internet.

Developer Description

RSS Submit is the most powerful RSS feed management and promotion tool available. The first of its kind for automatically submitting RSS feeds, it is the quickest and most reliable way to submit to the RSS search engines. RSS Submit uses a combined method of automatic submissions and auto-filling web page submit forms to automate the process of submitting your RSS feeds, publishing your content, and getting more traffic with proven results. RSS Submit is extremely easy to use. Automatic RSS feed detection allows you to enter the domain of your web site and let RSS Submit find the locations of your feeds. Integration with FeedBurner and Technorati statistics lets you track hits to your RSS feeds right from within the software. RSS Preview and keyword analysis lets you manage your feeds in real-time.

For a list of supported feed directories please visit this link.

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Automatically submit your site RSS feed to over 80 feed directories with RSS Submit 2.40

One several occasions before, we’ve featured dedicated mobile content trackers such as Syncthebits (Closed), Mobile Club (Open) and Pimp Your Mobile (Open). JAF Torrent Tracker (torrent.virtualplace.ro) is another private tracker that specializes in mobile content. It however tracks somewhat different content that the sites previously mentioned. While sites such as StB track a lot of mobile appz, games and ringtones for a number of mobile platforms, JAF Torrent Tracker mainly tracks flashing tools, unlockers, service manuals, schematics, actual software that controls mobile phones and so on. It does have a few game packs and general software for mobiles but the majority of the site’s content comprise of technical stuff such as the ones displayed in the screenshot below:

JAF Torrent Tracker is an excellent resource for enthusiasts seeking in depth technical details on mobiles as well as for those interested in software flashing, hacking, unlocking and experimenting with their mobiles. There are currently oveer 10000 users and close to 1500 torrents on this tracker. JAF is currently open for signups so go check it out.

Site Name: JAF Torrent Tracker (http://torrent.virtualplace.ro)

Signup URL: http://torrent.virtualplace.ro/account-signup.php

Categories:

• NOKIA BB5
• NOKIA DCT4
• NOKIA DCT3
• Motorola
• LG
• Sharp
• SonyEricsson
• Samsung
• SmartPhones & PDA
• Games
• Software
• Service Manuals
• Other

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JAF Torrent Tracker – Download Mobile Software, Service Manuals, Unlockers and Flashing Tools

If you didn't know already, recently released Call of Duty : World at War contains a bonus mission in which you have to blast wave after wave of zombies.  Yeah I know, Call of Duty and Zombies are such as weird combination but believe me that level is fun. Bonus mission is usually unlocked once you beat the single player campaign in the game. For those who are impatient, here is a quick way to unlock the bonus mission in Call of Duty : World at War, without having to complete the SP campaign.

Scene group UNLEASHED have released ‘Call of Duty World at War UNLOCKER’ which once extracted to COD Application Data folder, will unlock the bonus mission + all single players missions as well as all death card cheats. (It basically creates a new profile which has all single player missions, deathcards and the bonus mission unlocked – no need to worry about file modifications)

Follow instructions below on how to download use the unlocker (instructions from Unleashed NFO):

1.Download Call of Duty : World at War Unlocker from this link (Megashare). Paranoid about viruses? View VirusTotal report of the file here.

2. Windows XP users: Unpack the RAR file into X:\Documents and Settings\YOUR_USER_NAME\Local Settings\Application Data\ and accept to overwrite if/when asked.
Windows Vista users :  Unpack the RAR file into X:\Users\YOUR_USER_NAME\ AppData\Local\ and accept to overwrite if/when asked. (X is the drive letter of your system partition)

3 .Start game, Click on SOLO, Click on MISSION SELECT, Pick any mission you want to play

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• Possible solutions for Call of Duty – World at War graphics corruption and crashing problems
• Pirates crack Call of Duty : World at War (PC) before official release

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How to unlock zombie bonus mission + all other missions in ‘Call of Duty : World at War’

Romanian ShareReactor (better known as RsR) is an excellent  private tracker for general/0-day content which is currently open for signup. Non-Romanian users need not be scared by the word ‘Romanian’ in tracker name; RsR tracks mainly English content (and even the menus and interface is English). It tracks all major scene releases as well as releases from P2P groups such as iAPULA. With over 10000 active users and nearly 4500 active torrents, RsR is definitely a general tracker worth being a member of.

Apart from usual scene and p2p releases which can be found on most general trackers, ShareReactor has a lot of unique packs of their own.

Screenshot: Some of the many packs at RsR

Some of these packs are on free leech and can be used for ratio building as seeding is not that easy here. Download speeds are generally excellent and pre times are great.

Usually you need an invite to get into RsR and they almost never have open signups (last opened on Jan 2007). If you were trying to get into this tracker, this is your lucky break. On the site homepage it reads:

Invites status

WE ARE OPEN FOR SIGNUP!
There are 3110 places available (6110 with a invite).

However there are already negative comments about the open signup appearing on their forums so hurry and make a run for it as you don’t want to be left behind if they decide to shut the doors .

Site Name: Romanian ShareReactor (RsR)

Signup URL: http://tracker.sharereactor.ro/registration.php

Categories:

Anime & Manga, Apps, Consoles, Dox & E-books, DVD-R RoSubbed, Games, Games[Oldies], Images, Linux/Unix, Mobile, Movies, [Documentaries], Movies[DVD-R], Movies[Oldies], Movies[x264], Movies[XviD], Movies[XXX], Music, Music[Videos], Series & TVRips, TV[x264]

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Private Tracker Watch: Romanian ShareReactor (RsR) signups open

Many know BitTorrent as a way to get access to pirated material easily and quickly. Actually it’s more than that; it’s a very effective distribution medium for any type of content. LinuxTracker and TuxDistro are two primes examples.

They are both BitTorrent trackers that specialize in Linux related torrents and most of the stuff they track are available for free on the net. But instead of having to scavenge the net and cope with slow download servers to get your daily dose of Linux apps, you can use LinuxTracker and TuxDistro which present you with a large index of Linux related torrents, well seeded and ready for your taking.

TuxDistro

Site Name:  TuxDistro

Signup URL: http://www.tuxdistro.com/account-signup.php

Description: LinuxTracker has optional registration which makes it a public torrent index with their own tracker. Currently there are close to 1000 torrents indexed and there are lots (I mean lots) of seeders and leechers on most of these torrents. For example, the torrent Ubuntu Ultimate Edition 1.4 DVD has 20000 seeders and 23000 leechers!

LinuxTracker

Site Name: LinuxTracker

Signup URL: http://linuxtracker.org/index.php?page=signup

Description:  LinuxTracker is another public torrent index with their own tracker. Registration is optional. They track over 1100 torrents and due to the optional registration it is not clear how many actually use this tracker. Judging by seeder/leecher stats on the site, LinuxTracker user base is huge (currently 26000+ seeders on 1100 torrents with a Seeder : Leecher ratio of 2.53).

On a side note, you may have noticed that there is a site named LinuxMafia.net. This is not a Linux related tracker at all (in fact their ‘Linux stuff’ category has 0 torrents, how ironic). It’s a General/0Day tracker and a quite good one at that too.

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LinuxTracker and TuxDistro – Two sites to download Linux related torrents

Most of us are aware of and have used web mapping services such as Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps or Microsoft Maps (Live Search Maps). Although all these services offer detailed maps of the world for online viewing, none of them support downloading or saving map images to users hard drives. This is where Universal Maps Downloader (UMD) comes in. It’s a small piece of software that allows you to download small tile images from the online mapping service of your choice and save them to your hard drive for offline viewing. You can also combine these tile images to create larger and more complete maps using UMD.

You might also want to check out Google Maps Downloader if you like this software. UMD seems to be better as it supports multiple online mapping services.

Developer Description

Universal Maps Downloader is a tool that help you to get small tile images from google maps, yahoo maps or microsoft maps. All downloaded small images are saved on the disk. You can view downloaded maps by Maps Viewer Or you can combine them into a big BMP map by Maps Combiner.

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Download and save Yahoo Maps, Google Maps or Live Search Maps with Universal Maps Downloader 3.0

Here is another update on private torrent trackers currently open for signup. ArenaBG. RARBG and Zamunda.Net are all currently open for new registrations. There are several similarities between these three trackers. For one, they all have Bulgarian origins but track English content (scene and p2p releases). All three are General/0Day trackers which means you will find torrents of movies, games, software, e-books, TV shows and all other general content on these trackers.

Both ArenaBG and RARBG do not force a minimum ratio requirement on users (you might call them as ratio free trackers albeit this is not entirely true), unlike most other private trackers. ArenaBG and RarBG are almost always open for signups but Zamunda has a habit of closing down whenever the user limit is reached. So better hurry if you want to get in.  For more information and signup URLs, read on.

ArenaBG