Great news for fans of cartoons and animations – CartoonChaos (CC) is having open signups this weekend (23rd and 24th May). CartoonChaos is a private BitTorrent tracker that tracks all sorts of cartoons, both old and new. Contrary to popular belief, CC is not a general kids tracker – this site is about cartoons and cartoons only (other general kids content are tracked by TorrentKids, CC’s sister site). This tracker has been around for a while (exactly 1 year old as of today) and it’s probably the first specialized cartoon only tracker to hit the BitTorrent scene. It’s a small community but CC could easily become a second home to you if you are a lover of animation.

As of 23/5/2009, CartoonChaos tracks over 1100 active torrents. It appears that CC’s administration prefers a small community of dedicated, active members –  it’s closed for public registration most of the time. The small size of the user base has its advantages but this has also caused some of the indexed torrents to be seeded only by 1 seeder or become inactive (dead). As of now CC’s user base has exceeded 900 members and is expected to increase further following the open signups.

As we previously mentioned CartoonChaos is all about cartoons. From kids toons to adult cartoons you can find pretty much everything here. CC does not only track scene releases – it has some great user uploads which are not usually found on other private trackers making it a really specialized site. Pack on CartoonChaos can be found in the ‘Complete Sets’ category. Torrents in this section usually comprise of full seasons packs of popular toons – almost all of these are on free leech (denoted by the gold coin next to torrent name). Following is a screenshot of some of the releases found in the ‘Complete Sets’ category:

As mentioned at the start of this article, CartoonChaos is open for public registrations during this weekend. Following is an announcement posted on the site regarding open signups:

We'd like to welcome all our new users to our Open House Weekend! That's right for this weekend only we're opening our doors so spread the word because after that they'll be closed again!
New users please take 5-10 mins and read our RULES! As on most sites accounts are judged by ratio and activity - anything you snatch you need to seed for 7 days (168 hrs) or until you reach a 1:1 ratio.
You'll also notice that our torrents are also all free leech (see the gold coins) this will remain until June so enjoy and seed until you bleed!
Also you are free to upload as long as you follow our UPLOAD GUIDE which has a link on the torrent uploading page. Have a read before you try and upload anything, and if you have any questions just ask staff or post in the forums.
Once again welcome and please treasure your new accounts as with most things in life second chances are few and far between!
CC Staff

Also, don’t forget to check out the various themes on CC – they have a ton of these based on popular cartoons. 

Site Name: CartoonChaos (http://www.cartoonchaos.org)

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

Categories:

• Kids Cartoons
• Mature Cartoons
• Banned
• Animated Adverts
• Educational Toons
• Animated Movies
• Anime Movies
• Anime Series
• Animated Adverts
• Theme Tunes
• Sound Tracks
• Complete Sets

Other sites similar to CartoonChaos that are currently open:

• ChildBytes – Children’s Torrent Tracker Signups Open
• TTOKTV –The Tao of Kids TV - Children's TV torrents
• AnimaTooniC Tracker – Download Anime, Cartoon and Comic Torrents (Invites on IRC)

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Let’s face it – almost all of you pirates download movies, games and other scene/p2p releases from the internet. In doing so, you may have noticed that most of these scene and p2p releases are archived as multi part RAR files with extensions such as r01, r02, .001, .002 etc. You can of course use WinRAR to extract any one of these files which will extract the entire archive, automatically decompressing all other associated files. However there are a lot of options that WinRAR does not offer in this scenario. This is where AutoUnpack comes in – a tool designed specifically for unpacking multi part RAR, 7z, zip and TS archives.

For example, you can instruct Autounpack to monitor your torrent (or usenet) downloads folder. Immediately after a torrent download is finished, the software will extract the downloaded release to a destination folder of your choice. You can also instruct Autounpack to delete the archive files (an option is there to prevent deletion of .NFO files) once extraction is complete. This however is a big no-no if you use private torrent trackers - torrent client would not be able to seed the downloaded files and you will be hunted down for hit and running by tracker staff :)

AutoUnpack can also be used to batch decompress a large number of multi part archives. Say you have 20 movies downloaded all waiting to be unpacked – doing so individually would be a real pain in the @ss. Move all subfolders with movie archives under a single parent folder and give the parent folder location to Autounpack (as the source). The software will unpack each and every multi part rar archive under the parent folder, including those inside subfolders.

In addition to extraction, AutoUnpack is capable of repairing damage archives. Although this software will not magically recover catastrophically damaged files, it’s always a useful option to have. For a complete list of features of AutoUnpack, see the developer website.

Download

AutoUnpack is a free software. It’s less than 10MB in file size so downloading should no be a problem even if you have a low bandwidth connection.

[Click Here] to download the latest version of AutoUnpack from official download page

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Over the past two years, we have featured close to 500 private tracker reviews here on FILEnetworks Blog. Some of the trackers mentioned (such as Walve BTSound) were really unique and focused on specific file format/types. Today we discuss about another such tracker; AVCHDBits. This is a relatively new BitTorrent site which specializes in HD movies - mainly movies in AVCHD format and MKV (Matroska video file) format. AVCHDBits is actually a few months old but it suffered from a nearly three week long downtime. The site has now been revived under a new management and things are looking positive for this tracker.

During the rather short time it’s been online so far, AVCHDBits has managed to build a community of 2400+ members. Although the user database has not been affected, the downtime and switch to new management seems to have reset their torrents index. It currently tracks only around 150 torrents – new torrents however are being added daily.

As we mentioned in a previous paragraph, AVCHDBits tracks a lot of movies in AVCHD file format (If you are wondering as to what this file type is, AVCHD is a high definition (HD) video recording and playback format which uses MPEG-4/H.264 for video compression and Dolby Digital audio). In addition there are several movies which are in MKV format. A lot of movie torrents on this tracker are based on BD5 and BD9 source disks (BD9 and BD5 are lower capacity variants of the Blu-ray Disc that contain Blu-ray Disc compatible video and audio streams contained on a conventional DVD optical disc. BD9 uses a standard 8152MB DVD9 dual-layer disc while BD5 uses a standard 4482MB DVD5 single-layer disc - Wikipedia).

Refer to the following screenshot to get a better idea about the content on this tracker:

 

At the time this post is being written, AVCHDBits is open for signup. We don’t know for how long it will remain open so if you have any intentions of joining this site do it ASAP. New members to AVCHDBits are richly rewarded – everyone gets 2 free invites, 2.5GB upload credit and 200 free bonus points upon signup. In addition, the site currently records only 50% of your total downloads (something like half-freeleech).

Site Name: AVCHDBits (https://avchdbits.net)

Signup URL: https://avchdbits.net/signup.php

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I hope you guys can all remember MovieX, the huge forum based tracker that faced some degree of controversy over leeching from the BitTorrent community. Despite controversies and legal issues, MovieX had a huge community of over 400000 member and tracked 50000+ torrents by the time it went down. I don’t know exactly what caused MoviesX to shut down (they had their donations stolen which may have been the final nail in the coffin) since I wasn’t an active member of the site. However now, after several month of downtime, the domain www.moviex.info redirects to a new site – SceneDirect.

SceneDirect is apparently a new private torrent tracker specializing in movies, TV shows and games. We don’t really know the connection between the old MovieX and the new tracker – perhaps there is no connection at all despite the same domain. However, SceneDirect is growing at a rapid pace. The site has only gone online on the 7th of may and there are already ~3600 registered members and 400+ torrents on the tracker. Forums, IRC channel and a bonus system has already been enabled and all torrents are on free leech as of now.

Although SceneDirect looks more like a General/0Day tracker, they seem to be focusing only on TV shows, movies and games. SD, HD and DVDR movies/TV series and PC/console games (individual torrents as well as packs) are available for download. Following is a screenshot of part of SceneDirect’s torrent index:

It is too early to tell whether SceneDirect will go on to become a successful private torrent tracker. Like all new BitTorrent sites, it’ll have to face the test of time. In the meantime registrations are open. You can check it out for yourself by registering for free.

Site Name: SceneDirect (http://scenedirect.org/)

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

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Well the game isn’t even officially out yet but we are already seeing trainers being released for The Sims 3. This perhaps has something to do with the recent leak. Shortly after the game was leaked by RELOADED, the DOX division of Razor1911 (RazorDox) released a new money trainer for The Sims 3. This will no doubt be hugely popular given the number of people who have already pre ordered/downloaded the game and hundreds and thousands that’ll purchase the game once it’s released.

The trainer does only one thing – it adds money to the player’s account (virtual money in the Sims world that is :) ) whenever CTRL + F2 is pressed at the in game buy menu. Of course, to enable this hack you need to have the trainer running in the background simultaneously with the game. I personally have not tested this trainer, however comments on various online forums suggest that it works flawlessly. As for where to download the trainer, we do not link to any trainers directly nor host them. You can check the GameCopyWorld page for The Sims 3 for more information.

Related Articles

• Solutions for The Sims 3 crashes, graphics, sound and missing object issues
• Pirates crack The Sims 3 DRM two weeks before official release

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Yesterday we featured a new private HD torrent tracker named HDME which apparently became very popular among our readers (judging by the number of hits to that article). Today we present another fairly new private torrent site, this time a tracker that specializes in DVD-R and HD movies & TV shows; DVDtreasure. There are a lot of untouched DVD-5/DVD-9 and Blu Ray movie/TV torrents on this tracker. DVDTreasure has Polish origins but that doesn’t mean English speaking users should worry – there are plenty of English releases available as well.

DVDTreasure currently tracks close to 1600 torrents. The exact number of users on this tracker is not known yet – it must be a decent number because most of the torrents are alive and relatively well seeded. It appears that DVDTreasure indexes both scene and p2p releases including a lot of exclusive torrents. This includes movies, kids content, TV shows, music, boxsets, software (video editors and utilities) and specials. Video files on this tracker are of excellent quality – most of them are either in DVD-5, DVD-9 or Blu Ray formats.

As mentioned above this is a Polish tracker. If you do not speak Polish the first thing you should do is to change site language to English by clicking the English flag icon on top left corner of the page. Also note that most of the DVDR torrents on this tracker are tagged with PL or PLSUB tags. However this does not mean that such torrents have only Polish audio. Since full DVDRs have multiple audio streams, usually both English and Polish streams are included. Make sure you view torrent description and check the available audio streams before you download anything.

Registrations for DVDTreasure are currently open. If you are looking to get into a full DVD/Blu-Ray tracker, check this site out – it’s a rather unknown and underrated tracker with decent content. All new users get 8GB free upload credit upon signup.

Site Name: DVDTreasure (http://dvdtreasure.eu)

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

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Terminator Salvation is a third person shooter game developed by GRIN for the PC, PS3 ands XBOX 360. It’s loosely based on the upcoming movie of the same name. The game was officially released to the public on the 19th of May but the launch has apparently gone to hell due to a serious error with the game’s installer. InstallShield installer that’s responsible for setting up Terminator Salvation on end user PCs seems throws an error (in almost all PC versions of the game) every time when setup is run; thus preventing gamers from installing or playing this title.
UPDATE: Included a possible fix to manually extract files. See end of article.

Incidentally, a Clone DVD (untouched DVD Image) of Terminator Salvation has leaked on the internet right on the game’s release date -  it was leaked by warez scene group GOW (Gods of War). In fact, I was going to post an article about the leak when I saw a large number of comments flaming GOW for pre’ing another non working release. A lot of people were getting the message An error (-5006:0x80070002) has occurred while running the setup upon executing the installer. However what GOW released was a copy of the original game’s image  - they did not crack the DRM (SecuROM) embedded into the game.

Since the error couldn’t have anything to do with a file modification, I just did a search on Termination Salvation official forums. Apparently a lot of legitimate users were getting the same error. This means that the InstallShield installer in both the leaked and legit versions of the game is royally screwed. I’ve seen comments by people who even formatted their systems and reinstalled Windows to get the game working. Well you don’t need to change your configuration since it’s an internal error with the game. However below is a possible fix you can try to manually extract game files, bypassing the installer:

How to manually extract game files

1. Download InstallShield Cabinet File Viewer from this link.
2. In your Terminator Salvation installation disk, there should be a file named data1.hdr. Open this file with InstallShield Cabinet File Viewer.
3. Go to View—> Components
4. Extract all files located inside grinexes, grinexesvistaonly, USR_bundles, USR_video, USR_root and context file related to your preferred language (Extract to a destination of your choice – for example to a folder called “ Salvation”)
5. Go to the extracted location and create a new subfolder named data. Inside data create three subfolders named videos, cutscenes and movies. Move all extracted .bik video files to the videos folder you just created. Also, move all .fcl, .bundle and .lhd files inside the bundles folder (rename Bundles folder to bundles if it starts with an uppercase - or the game will crash).
6. In the end the structure of your folder (created in step 4) should look something like below:

7. Run TerminatorSalvation.exe to run the game. (make sure you rename the Bundles, Videos and Data folders so that they start with lowercase letters. Also you might try rebooting the machine and launching the game if you made any changes to the files/structure. )
- Thanks to JBeckman, streetunder and Newty182 on NFOHUMP for all the help

Update 2: Checked the official forums again and they are recalling defective copies of the game:

Unfortunately a defect occurred during replication of the PC version of Terminator Salvation, which does not allow end users to install the game. The Xbox 360 and PS3 are not affected and function properly. We have recalled all PC copies of Terminator Salvation from retail in North America and are currently in the process of replicating new copies. The new copies will be on store shelves in a few days. A replacement plan for all end users that purchased the defective units is currently being set up. Details to get a replacement copy will be announced shortly. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused the end users that purchased the defective copy.

If the above method does not work for you (if it crashes at logo screen with access violation error), I guess you’ll have to wait for an updated release.

Note: The process above does not circumvent the game’s DRM. If you are using a pirated copy do not ask for instructions on how to get the game working on this thread – we are not a warez blog.

 

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It’s always interesting news when a new BitTorrent tracker is launched. Given the increasing popularity of HD movies and TV shows, it’s even more interesting news when a new specialized HD tracker is launched. Today we are going to talk about one such site; HDME.eu. HDME is a new private torrent tracker for HD movies and TV shows. Although the site is pretty new (two and a half months old), it definitely has already shown a lot of promise. If you are looking forward to join a new HD tracker, you might find this article interesting.

Although it’s been a mere 2.5 months since HDME has gone online, the site has already attracted over 4500 registered users. Its torrent index currently comprises of 370 listed torrents – movies and TV shows in HD formats (720p, 1080p, 1080i, Bluray, etc) mainly. It appears that HDME indexes both scene and p2p released HD content rather than being limited to non-scene only or scene-only. In addition to the usual torrents, there are already a good number of packs (30+ torrents out of ~370 total torrents) on this tracker. The following screenshot captures part of the torrent index of HDME:

One some private HD trackers, I’ve found it a little hard to maintain a good ratio. However users of HDME should have no problems because "Packs", "HD-DVD" & "Blu-ray" categories are on permanent freeleech. Also it must be said that HDME has one of the cleanest and most organized layouts I’ve seen on a private tracker. It’s a subjective claim but I’m sure most of you will like the interface as well.

Registrations for HDME are currently open. New users get 5GB free upload credit upon signup. If you are looking for a HD tracker, check this out. It’s a start up tracker but there is a lot of promises IMHO.

Site Name: HDME (http://hdme.eu)

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

Categories:

• Anime
• Appz
• Bluray
• Documentaries
• HD-DVD
• HQ Music
• Misc
• Movie 1080i
• Movie 1080p
• Movie 720p
• Music Videos
• Packs
• Playstation 3
• Sports
• TV Series 1080i
• TV Series 1080p
• TV Series 720p
• XXX

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Over the past month or so, several new text book trackers have joined the BitTorrent scene. Initially we featured PureTorrents, a new textbook/academic torrent site that’s registered some rapid growth. Then a few days ago we introduced you to Bibliotik – a new library tracker with text books, ebooks and more. Today we are going to talk about Free The Textbooks, a fairly new site for college texts, coursework, exam papers, etc. Slowly but surely, these sites are slowly beginning to fill the large gap left behind by the demise of Textbook Torrents, world’s largest textbook tracker at one point.

A short intro to Free the Textbooks! is given via the following notice, which is posted on site homepage:

Making the large scale theft of exam papers and textbooks so much easier. It might take a while, but we intend to become the biggest educational file sharing site full stop. You can help us by seeding.

Although this is a fairly new start up tracker just a few months old, it already has close to 1500 torrents indexed. There are both public and private torrents indexed – torrents tracked by FreetheTextbook’s own BitTorrent tracker as well as external torrents tracked by public trackers such as that of TPB’s. Obviously, ratio is calculated only for internal, private torrents.

The content on this tracker mainly comprises of text books, coursework, exam papers, children’s books, documentaries, lectures etc (see categories below for more information). The screenshot below captures some of the torrents indexed on Free The Textbooks!:

Although the content is pretty good, Free the Textbooks definitely needs more users; most of the indexed torrents have 1 seeder. This is a common problem for more new Bittorrent sites and hopefully this will be rectified as the tracker gains more popularity over time.

Registrations for Free The Textbooks! is currently open. If you are interested in text books/academic material, check this site out.

Site Name: Free the Textbooks (http://www.freeetextbooks.com)

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

Categories:

• Childrens' Books - Colouring Books - Learning Books
• Coursework - A Level - GCSE - IB - University
• Documentaries
• Exam Papers - A Level - Computing - GCSE - IB - IGCSE - KS!/KS2/KS3 - Miscellaneous - O Level
• Lectures - Biology - Chemistry - Maths - Physics - Politics
• Textbooks - A Level - Accounting - Archaeology - Architecture - Art - Biology - Chemistry - College - Computer Science - Criminology - Economics - Education - Electronics - Engineering - English - Geography - Geology - History - IGCSE/GCSE/High School - KS1/KS2/KS3 - Languages - Law - Literature - Maths - Medicine - Miscellaneous - Music - Philosophy - Physics - Politics - Psychology - Religion
• Vocational - CBT

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How long could we go on without posting about a Romanian General tracker? Not very long apparently. I don’t know much about the legal climate over there but they sure do have tons of private BitTorrent trackers. MazeTorrents is another General/0Day tracker that is based in Romania. This tracker has been around for some time and has managed to establish a small community of users of its own. The site interface has changed for the better since I last visited it several months ago and registrations have been opened to the public since the 18th of this month for an indefinite period of time.

MazeTorrents (MzT) currently tracks a little over 2250 torrents. The number of users on this tracker is unknown (has an Alexa ranking of ~375000). In most aspects, MazeTorrents is your average general tracker. They however do have some nice packs in addition to the scene and p2p releases which can be found almost on every tracker on the planet:

Packs unique to MazeTorrents are designated by the tag ‘MzT’. However, it’s unknown if all these packs are exclusive to MazeTorrents or if they are taken from other private trackers. The reason why I say it is that I found some packs ending with the tag ‘TL’ (i.e. Best.Film.Oscars.Pack.1970-2008.XViD-TL) – these are exclusive packs found on TorrentLeech.

Either way registrations for MzT are currently open – we however do not know how long they will stay open. All new users get 2GB free upload credit as well as 1 new invite.

Site Name: MazeTorrents (http://www.mazetorrents.net)

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

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