If you missed the last time PTN opened external invite applications, there is no reason to worry. They are open once again and probably will remain open thought the entire weekend (sitewide 2X upload is enabled at time of this post as well and will remain so for another 12 hours). As you might already know, PTN is a ratio free movie/TV/OST tracker with lots of packs and exclusive torrents. Unlike many other private Bittorrent sites, PTN does not focus entirely on the content – it’s community based tracker where everybody knows everybody.

As of (31/5/2009), PTN currently tracks over 5200 torrents and their userbase comprises of 2200+ registered members. Content on this site includes Movies, TV shows and official Soundtracks. This is definitely one of the best private trackers for movies packs – there are over 200 of them. PTN layout is easy to use and is packed with nice little extra features such as arcade, blackjack, pirate galleries, pirate’s notes box, gold system with 2x, 3x, 5x gold and random category bonus, three separate browse pages for movies/TV/OST, requests system, staff picks and so on.

Being a private community, PTN is almost never open to public signups. You can however get into this tracker through an invite from an existing member, via tracker recruitment threads on various Bittorrent forums or by filling the external invite application form that is occasionally available (such as right now) at a special URL. PTN invite application was explained and discussed in some detail in our previous review of the site. We suggest you read the comments to that article which includes responses by users as well as PTN Staff.

Site Name: PTN

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

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

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Popular General/0day tracker CZTEAM (formerly known as CZONE) has opened free signups for the last time. Once registration closes down this time around, the only way into this great general tracker would be via invites from existing members. The previous open signup of CZTEAM was speculated to be the last as well. This decision however was changed after 5000 users were disabled due to breaking tracker rules/being inactive. Following notice regarding the open signups is quoted from CZTEAM homepage:

After lots of requests from our beloved users and after about 5k accounts disabled due to breaking the rules we decided to give one more chance and UNLOCK the gates for the last time.

Therefore call you friends and give them the news: The Last FreeSignup on CZTeam has STARTED!

Remember to read the rules, faq and be active on the tracker. Inactivity leads to the deletion of your account.

The countdown has begun....

Everything that there was to be discussed about CZTEAM tracker was discussed in our recent review of the site (You can find screenshots of the tracker there as well) so it will not be repeated here. In addition to the information already posted, let us tell you this – don’t break rules or cheat on CzT (or on any other tracker for that matter) - the staff will hunt you down and disable your ass.

Site Name: CZTEAM (http://torrents.czteam.ro/)

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

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Final build of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (update KB948465) ) was released to the public by Microsoft two days ago. I’m not sure if it’s available via Windows Update yet (i don’t use the service) but direct download links for SP2 final are now available. Some of the notable features included in Service Pack 2 include Bluetooth 2.1 feature pack, Blu-Ray media record support, Windows Search 4.0, better streaming capabilities for HD audio and video, a sh1tload of security and reliability updates and many other smaller fixes and enhancements. Both 32-bit 64-bit editions are available.

Although Vista SP2 Final was officially released to the public on the 27th of May, leaked versions have been available on BitTorrent trackers as early as the 13th of May. Warez scene group ZWTISO (ISO division of Zero Waiting Time) even released SP2 integrated untouched versions of Vista ISOs way before the official release.

The effects of installing SP2 on a pirated (cracked) version of Vista is not known. It does not seem to include the hotfix that can detect and disable some BIOS emulation cracks (KB94510). This update has been available on Windows Update for some time but the full list of Vista SP2 features available on Microsoft TechNet does not include kb94510 in the list. I guess pirates are pretty safe in this case.

Anyway you need to have Vista Service Pack 1 installed before you install Service Pack 2. Also, you need to uninstall any pre release builds of SP2 before the installation.

Download

Following are direct download links that point to files hosted on official Microsoft servers. No 3rd party links are included. Vista SP2 standalone installer size is around 350MB.

[Click Here] to download Windows Vista Sp2 x86 (32-bit) Standalone Installer

[Click Here] to download Windows Vista Sp2 x64 (64-bit) Standalone Installer

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Many BitTorrent users would agree with me when I say that TTi.nu (The Internationals) was one of the best General/0Day trackers that were around. TTi was one of the many private trackers hosted in Sweden which was once considered a safe heaven for file sharing. However. The Pirate Bay’s defeat in court changed everything and TTi too were caught in the storm – they decided not to index any copyrighted material and become a ‘legal only’ torrent site. Needless to say this wasn’t a very popular decision among the site’s users. However the good news is that normalcy has returned to TTi – they are now tracking scene releases and zero day material  just like in the good old days.

As we reported earlier, this change was on the cards for some time. Public signups,which were open since TTi became legal only, closed on the 28th of May and by 29th Requests and Offers features of the tracker had been implemented again. And by today (30th of May), TTi has begun tracking releases made by scene groups. All former torrent categories have returned and it’s expected that TTi will go on to become that great general tracker with tons of packs and exclusive releases it used to be in no time.

Image: Old torrent categories have returned to TTi 

As for new registrations, they are closed : “Update: Signups are now CLOSED! You can still invite people though, but who knows for how long? “. If you’ve been reading FILEnetworks Blog, you might have already created an account on TTi when you had the chance - we warned in advance that signups would close soon (in our previous article). There is no reason to believe that this tracker would open its door to the public in the near future. They already have a 20K+ user base and it hardly ever opened up when it was in full swing anyways. Finally best wishes for the ‘new old TTi’ from TEAM FILEnetworks.

Related Articles

• TTi.nu – back to the good old days?
• Download Legal Music Torrents from TTi Tracker
• SoftMP3, SweDVDR and DarkSide trackers to shut down, TTi policy change

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Sweden’s private tracker community which collapsed like a pack of cards following TPB’s defeat in court, is definitely recovering. Trackers such as SwePiracy, PirateTorrents and SceneHD have already returned with the likes of TTi.nu set to return to normalcy soon. In the meantime, two very popular trackers, SweDVDR and SoftMP3, have released their source code to the public so that new tracker admins may use the source to build their own trackers (see related URLs section at the bottom of this article for download links). This article discusses DVDRSOURCE, one of the very first private torrent trackers to use SweDVDR’s source code.

Just like SweDVDR (now defunct), DVDRSOURCE is a specialized untouched DVD-R tracker. You can find DVD5/DVD9 versions of popular movies and TV shows along with original menus, languages, subtitles, bonus DVD features and soundtracks. As mentioned above DVDRSOURCE is a Swedish tracker; Interface language is Swedish and lots of indexed DVDRs are those released in the Nordic region. This doesn’t mean this is a useless tracker for English speaking users – most indexed DVDRs have English audio with optional Swedish subtitles (NORDiC tag usually does not mean they are dubbed). You can double check this by going to the torrent description page and checking under the ‘Audio’ section which usually mentions spoken languages.

DVDRSOURCE might use SweDVDR’s source but it still is a brand new tracker that has to build the torrent index as well as the user database from scratch. They’ve only been online for four days and the progress so far has been quite amazing. As of 30/5/2009, DVDSOURCE has 1850+ registered members and 70+ torrents (they seem to have got quite a lot of publicity in a very short time). Almost all of the torrents are of course very well seeded.

For those who wish to check this tracker out, good news is that DVDRSOURCE is currently open for signup. You can easily create a free account and a confirmation email is not even needed (use the translation below if you don’t understand Swedish). It still has a long way to go but who knows, this could be the next SweDVDR!

Site Name: DVDRSOURCE (http://www.dvdrsource.org)

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

Signup page translation:

Swedish	English
Önskat användarnamn:	Desired username
Kön	Gender
Ålder	Age
Lösenord	Password
Skriv lösenordet igen:	Repeat Password

As for the interface, clicking on ‘Nytt’ will take you to the torrent index (aka browse page). Rest is self explanatory.

Related Links:

• SweDVDR source code download: http://mintorrent.se/t5ibSa/swedvdr_source_rar
• SoftMP3 soure code download: http://mintorrent.se/EOA1vz/SOFTMP3_rar

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If you were wondering whatever the hell happened to PTFiles, here is an update. As you may already be aware, the domain http://ptfiles.org no longer points to the BitTorrent site – it just leads to a parked page with lots of irrelevant keywords. There is however little reason to worry – PTF is alive and well. Both the site and the tracker can now be accessed using the new URL http://ptfiles.net. User database and the torrent index has not been affected by the move – all data including torrents and user ratios are intact. If you were not an old member of PTF, you can still check this site out – signups are currently open.

PTF IRC channel now carries the following topic:

ATTENTION WE HAVE A NEW DOMAIN

ptfiles.org is now ptfiles.net. Please edit the announce url in your clients to reflect new URL or redownload the .torrent file for any torrents you may be seeding/leeching

THANK YOU :)

If you have never heard about PTFiles (formerly known as Phoenix-Torrent) before, it’s a promising General/0Day tracker with a great community. You can read more about site features and view screenshots in our PTF review which can be found here.

Site Name: PTFiles (http://ptfiles.net)

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

IRC Channel: irc://irc.p2p-network.net/phoenix-torrents

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Note: This post has been bumped to the front because StB closed signups just 1-2 hours after the article was originally posted. This time around signups will remain open for 24 hours.

Although we usually post about at least one private torrent tracker everyday here at FILEnetworks Blog, it’s been ages since a specialized mobile torrent tracker was featured. When it comes to mobile trackers SyncTheBits (StB) is as good as it gets. From its humble beginnings back in 2008, StB has grown on to become one of the largest BitTorrent sites (in terms of content) for mobile content currently in existence. From appz/games for popular mobile platforms such as Symbian, Java, iPhone, PalmOS, BlackBerry etc, StB even tracks mobile optimized multimedia including re-encoded movies and TV shows.

As of 28/5/2009, StB has an active user base of close to 1800 members. Inactive accounts are very frequently disabled on this tracker – the admins seem to want very active members for the site. SyncTheBits currently tracks a little over 3000 active torrents. This is a pretty huge number, specially for a private tracker that focuses ONLY on mobile content.

Speaking of content, StB is no longer the mobile appz-only tracker it was back when it was started. The site has further expanded and it now tracks mobile optimized movies, TV shows, E-books and other media as well. The following screenshots will probably help you get a better understanding of what can be found on StB:

Image: Category icons at StB

As you can probably see from the above screen, there is a category titled ‘Packs’ in the list. The packs section contains over 40 torrents – all exclusive torrents unique to StB.

Image: Part of the torrent index at StB

StB is closed for signups most of the time. However the good news is that public registrations are currently open. Even better news is that free leech and double upload has been enabled for all indexed torrents (global freeleech and 2X upload). We do not know for how long open signups will stay open so get in while you can.

Site Name: SynctheBits (http://syncthebits.com/)

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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About two days ago we conducted a free invitation giveaway to the specialized HD torrent tracker Awesome-HD (AHD). We received close to 400 requests within 48 hours but could only invite around 100 members since we had a limited number of invitations at our disposal. If you were one of the readers who submitted for an invite request and still haven’t been invited, here is some great news. Awesome-HD has opened its doors to the public for 48 hours – anyone who is interested in becoming a member of this tracker can now create a free account.

Following notice is posted on the site homepage regarding open signups:

The next 48 hours we open our doors for everyone interested in high quality High Definition encodes.
Open registration closes on Friday at 23:00 (UTC + 2 hours)
Your Awesome Team

In the meantime the number of registered users at AHD has rocketed past 4400 members – this figure was hovering around 3000 just two days ago.

Anyways we have covered pretty much everything about AHD in our previous article (including screenshots and content details).If you need to know more information about AHD, we strongly recommend you read our previous article.

Site Name: Awesome-HD (http://awesome-hd.com)
Signup URL: http://awesome-hd.com/register.php
Stats: ~4500 users and ~180 torrents
Full Tracker Review: Click Here

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Some of the best games I’ve ever played in my life were released  for the MS-DOS platform (Prince of Persia 1, Dangerous Dave 1 to name a few). These games were so good that they can still be enjoyed now, even in 2009. Unfortunately, modern operating systems such as Windows Vista does not include full support for legacy OS such as MS-DOS. DOSBox is an application that can really help you in such cases – it’s an MS-DOS emulator that’ll allow you run all your favorite DOS games and applications on operating systems without native DOS support (Windows Vista, Linux, Mac OS X and a number of others).

Now we’ve posted about this application here on this blog before - Reason why we are mentioning it again is the release of DOSBox v0.73. This release includes a number of new features, enhancements and bugfixes and is a must have upgrade for any new old or new old DOSBox users.

Most noticeable changes:

• Support for more graphics modes and cards.
• Improved Vista support.
• New OPL emulation cores.
• Sound fixes and improvements for Mac OS X.
• Lots of compatibility fixes.
• Lots of cdrom detection improvements.
• Lots of memory (EMS/XMS) improvements.
• Various fixes and enhancements for the recompiling core.
• Support for evdev.
• Lots of DOS fixes.
• Slightly faster!
• More stable.

Download

[Click Here] to download DOSBox 0.73 from the official download page (includes separate installers for multiple platforms including Linux, Mac OS X and Windows)

[Click Here] to read our tutorial of DOSBox if you are a beginner at using this application

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About two weeks ago we posted an article about TorrentVault – a decent general/0day tracker with lots of TV torrents. Since signups were open only for a very small amount of time many of our readers were not able to get in. If you missed out on this tracker earlier, this could be your lucky day. TorrentVault is having a three day long open signup exclusively for readers of FILEnetworks Blog. Although TorrentVault is reaching their maximum user limit threshold, we’ve been told that each and every new signup through the promotional link will be given a new account regardless of the user limit.

Site Name: TorrentVault (http://www.torrentvault.org)

Special Signup URL: http://www.torrentvault.org/FileNetworks_limitedPromosignup.php

Stats: 11300+ active torrents

Since most of the information about this tracker and its content were posted in one of the previous blog posts (which is only two weeks old as of 28/5), we won’t repeat the same here. For a a mini review, screenshots and user opinions about TorrentVault, read the previous article which can be found here. We strongly recommend you read it if you are interested in becoming a member of this tracker.

Special thanks to – TorrentVault administrators/staff

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