If you are interested in music editing/music authoring, here is a private BitTorrent tracker that you might find useful. ReFuX.us initially began as a new audio production tracker based on Gazelle, which specialized in audio applications, music authoring tools and music editing software. It still tracks somewhat similar content to trackers such as Audiotracer, AZT and AudioNews but expect this to change soon. Site rules have been updated recently and now any type of Windows and Mac applications (not just audio related appz) are now allowed on ReFux.us.

This tracker is about 1 month old (as of 29/6/09) and during this time it’s attracted close to 850 members. Close to 300 torrents have been uploaded as well. Download speeds seem to be generally good and if the notice on homepage is correct some of the torrents are seeded using a seedbox.

As for the content on ReFuX currently the tracker is full of audio related appz. However according to new site rules all types of applications are allowed: “we accept all types of applications for windows or mac as uploads, no movies and no music!". Refer to screenshot below to get a better idea about the content available on this tracker:

At the time this post is being written, ReFuX is open to the public. However the current poll on the site hints about the site going invite only pretty soon (poll question is Should we go invite only at 1000 users? to which 80% of the responses have voted ‘Yes’) so if you are interested in joining this tracker, do it now. All new users get 2 free invites upon signup.

Site Name: ReFuX (http://refux.us)

Signup URL: http://refux.us/register.php

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There’s quite a lot of buzz on the web about VideoBay, the latest project launched by the crew behind world’s largest BitTorrent tracker. This post however is not about VideoBay but about another lesser known service launched by TPB crew; Slopsbox. Apparently TPB are not only capable of giving the finger to anti piracy groups but also of fighting E-mail spam too. Slopsbox is a free E-mail service which has some unique characteristics. Slopsbox addresses are disposable – you can instantly create one, use it and then forget all about it without having to worry about getting spammed.

How you can use Slopsbox is  explained in detail on the service’s homepage. Part of the description is quoted below:

When someone asks for your e-mail address, give them anything@slopsbox.com (or one of the other add-on domain names). You can replace "anything" with, well anything, i.e. douglas@slopsbox.com, asdfasdf@slopsbox.com or arrgh@slopsbox.com. Get the mail sent to the address you picked by entering the address in the field above and login.

Voila! There you have your spam, served cold. However, you can't get any attachments and mail is automatically deleted after 24 hours.

I’ve found Slopsbox pretty useful when signing up for unknown/random sites which require E-mail confirmation. Just provide an @slopsbox address, get the confirmation mail and forget about it. You wouldn't have to worry even if the site is used for E-mail account harvesting by spamming whackjobs.

However keep in mind that you won’t be able to (and you shouldn’t) use @slopbox addresses permanently. And be aware that anyone who knows the first part of the address will also be able to check the inbox as there is no password requirement.

[Click Here] to visit Slopsbox homepage

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I guess a collective tracker update was long overdue. This post summarize information about 15 private torrent trackers that are currently open to the public. There are lots of new sites in this list - consider this article as a revisit to some of the trackers featured on FILEnetworks Blog in the past two months. BitTorrents sites specializing in HD content, scene releases, DVDR releases, classic movies, music, games, sports and more are included. If you somehow missed signup for these trackers the first time around, here is a second chance. You can also see how some of the brand new sites we featured just days after their launch have progressed thus far.

Most readers tend to signup for a tracker the moment they see the signup link. But we highly recommend you read the full tracker review (link to which will be provided below each tracker’s description) and only join the sites that would actually be of use for you.

HDME
 
Site Name: HDME (http://hdme.eu)
Signup URL: http://hdme.eu/signup.php
Stats: ~7500 members and 675+ torrents
Description: New HD tracker that has risen to popularity in a quick span of time. Nice interface and content.
Full review + Screenshots: [Click Here]

SceneLive
  
Site Name: Scenelive (http://www.scenelive.org)
Signup URL: http://www.scenelive.org/live/signup.php
Stats: 3600+ users and 1100+ torrents
Description: SceneLive is a general/0day tracker which was initially ratio free. Due to excessive hit and runs, a ratio system has now been introduced.
Full review + Screenshots: [Click Here]

AvistaZ
 
Site Name: AvistaZ (http://bt.avistaz.com)
Signup URL: http://bt.avistaz.com/account.php
Stats: 8200+ torrents and 82400 users
Description: One of the best sites around for Asian movies. Huge user base and torrents index. Seems to have gone through a massive cleanup lately (used to have around 122k users and seems like around 40k of them got deleted for inactivity)
Full review + Screenshots: [Click Here]

T3NNIS.TV
 
Site Name: T3nnis.tv (http://t3nnis.tv)
Signup URL: http://t3nnis.tv/signup.php
Stats: 18200+ members and 2950+ torrents
Description: Has recorded impressive growth for a niche tracker. One of the best resources on the net for Tennis related multimedia content.
Full review + Screenshots: [Click Here]

DVDRSOURCE
 
Site Name: DVDRSOURCE (http://www.dvdrsource.org)
Signup URL: http://www.dvdrsource.org/svartasignup.php
Stats:
Description: Simply one of the fastest growing full DVDR trackers that could one day replace the now defunct SWEDVDR. Signups open for members of recently shut down SvartaKatten but that doesn’t mean others can’t join.
Full review + Screenshots: [Click Here]

I Love Classics
 
Site Name: I Love Classics (http://www.iloveclassics.com)
Signup URL: http://www.iloveclassics.com/signup.php
Stats: ~1000 users and 1780+ torrents
Description: As the name suggests, ILC is a tracker for older, classic movies. Has added close to 2k torrents in a short span of time.
Full review + Screenshots: [Click Here]

Ace-HD
 
Site Name: Ace-HD (http://www.ace-hd.net)
Signup URL: http://www.ace-hd.net/signup.php
Stats: 4200+ members and 600+ torrents
Description: Ace-HD is a new HD tracker that has shown a lot of promise. Tracks both TV shows and movies in High Def formats.
Full review + Screenshots: [Click Here]

Romanian ShareReactor
 
Site Name: Romanian ShareReactor (http://tracker.sharereactor.ro/)
Signup URL: http://tracker.sharereactor.ro/registration.php
Stats:
Description: One of the best General/0Day trackers to open registrations lately, RsR is a well established site which is over 4 years old. There are only around 200 spots left so hurry.
Full review + Screenshots: [Click Here]

Games BitShock
 
Site Name: Games BitShock (http://games.bitshock.org)
Signup URL: http://games.bitshock.org/signup.php
Stats: 3500+ users and 360 torrents
Description: New games tracker from the same crew behind popular general tracker BitShock.
Full review + Screenshots: [Click Here]

The Place
 
Site Name: The Place (http://www.theplace.bz) 
Signup URL: http://theplace.bz/signup.php
Stats: 6000+ users and 13000+ torrents
Description: The Place is a tracker that specializes in lifestyle content including Food, Drinking, Dancing, Health, Fitness, Seduction, NLP and Cooking to Magic Illusions.
Full review + Screenshots: [Click Here] – Includes reviews of The Vault, The Occult and The Box as well, some of which are also open for signup.

PTFiles
 
Site Name: PTFiles (http://ptfiles.net/)
Signup URL: http://ptfiles.net/register.php
Stats: 4250+ users and 2250+ torrents
Description: PTFiles is a pretty cool General/0-Day tracker with a nice set of features/add-ons and a good community.
Full review + Screenshots: [Click Here]

Emuparadise
 
Site Name: Emuparadise (http://bt.emuparadise.org:6969/index.php)
Signup URL: http://bt.emuparadise.org:6969/index.php?page=signup
Stats: 16650+ users and 1200+ torrents
Description: Emuparadise is BitTorrent tracker for everything related to console emulation. Lots of Emulators, ROMS, etc can be found here. 
Full review + Screenshots: [Click Here]

MakeGreatMusic
 
Site Name: Make Great Music (http://www.makegreatmusic.net)
Signup URL: http://www.makegreatmusic.net/signup.php
Stats: 4500+ users and ~2250 torrents
Description: MakeGreatMusic is a great tracker to have if you want to learn music. It’s also one of the best trackers around for fiction and non fiction audiobooks.
Full review + Screenshots: [Click Here]

The Scene
 
Site Name: The Scene (http://thescene.ro/)
Signup URL: ttp://thescene.ro/signup.php
Stats: ~1350 torrents
Description: TheScene is a ratio free music torrent tracker
Full review + Screenshots: [Click Here] 

Total-Sports
 
Site Name: Total-Sports (http://total-sports.tv)
Signup URL: http://total-sports.tv/signup.php
Stats: 2150+ users and ~80 torrents
Description: Total-Sports is a new sports tracker which has quickly added over 2k members. Wide variety of sports events are coveered.
Full review + Screenshots: [Click Here]

Note: All statistics of torrent sites are as of 28/6/2009.

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In our last post we highlighted how important a service Twitter has become in this era. Although there are tons of Twitter apps for various tasks, I’ve not seen many apps that are related to BitTorrent being launched (apart from a few such as TorrentTwitter). This article will teach you how to create a Twitter account that automatically Tweets when new torrents are released on private torrent trackers. It’s not rocket science and is just a matter of bridging together two already existing services; TwitterFeed and tracker RSS.

What we’re goanna do is to ‘burn’ a private tracker’s RSS feed into Twitter so that it’ll tweet whenever a new torrent is added to the tracker. Yeah it’s basically like subscribing to the RSS feed but with followers and 3rd party Twitter apps it’d be way cooler than RSS.

1. If you don’t have a Twitter account, go to http://twitter.com/signup and create one now.
2. Visit www.twitterfeed.com and create a new account. Login using the newly created TwitterFeed account and click on ‘go to my twitter feeds (or create a new one)’.
3. Click on create new feed. You will be asked to fill a form.
4. In ‘username’ and ‘password’ fields, type the same username and password used for the Twitter account you created at step 1. Paste a compatible RSS feed from private tracker into the ‘RSS feed’ field. Note: For more help on finding a compatible RSS feed, see the ‘How to find a suitable RSS feed’ section below. Set the ‘Update Frequency’ to ‘Every 30 minutes’.
5. Now this is important – make sure you un-tick the ‘Include item link’ checkbox (See screenshot below). If you use the RSS feed of a private tracker, leaving this checkbox ticked will expose your passkey to the public - this could get you banned from the tracker.
6. Tick the ‘Active’ checkbox to activate the feed and press the update button.
   

That should do it. Your twitter account will now automatically tweet when a new torrent is released on the private tracker of your choice.

Choosing an RSS feed

Most private and public BitTorrent trackers now provide RSS updates. On private trackers these can usually be found on the links.php page (ex-http://www.sitename.com/links.php). Some sites index these under rss.php page. On Gazelle based trackers and several other bittorrent sites, you can get the URL of RSS feed by simply logging onto the site and clicking on the orange RSS icon on the browser address bar.

Feeds compatible with TwitterFeed

Some of the private tracker RSS feeds are incompatible with TwitterFeed. If you try to use an incompatible feed, TwitterFeed will return the error message similar to “We couldn't find valid date/time stamps or GUIDs on items. Please make sure your feed contains valid pubDate entries or GUIDs for each post”. In such cases, the only options is to use a feed from another tracker. Here is a list of public and private site RSS feeds that we've found to be working with TwitterFeed.

• The Pirate Bay – RSS feeds page
• Demonoid – RSS feeds page
• Tvrss.net – a site that offers RSS feeds on TV episode releases
• Bitmetv
• RsR (Romanian ShareReactor)
• TorrentBytes
• Bitme
• XTVi – another public TV torrent index with custom RSS feeds for each show
• and possibly tons more which we didn't have the time to test (Check the sites in our private trackers section)

Note that some trackers offer categorized RSS feeds. Subscribing to a categorized feed is usually better (some trackers allow you to combine updates from several categories into one RSS feed). Subscribing to the entire feed will send Twitter updates for every torrent added to the tracker whether you like it or not – and we could be talking about a hundred releases per day. When you subscribe to categorized or custom feeds, make sure you choose the ‘no cookies’ version (if available).

Want to see how this works? Check out @updateserv. @updateserv is an experimental Twitter account we made some time ago which Tweets about new Game and Movie releases (based on Romanian Sharereactor’s RSS feed).

Also, don’t forget that you can follow @filenetworks on Twitter for latest BitTorrent news, leaks and more.

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Although we’ve been having a Twitter account for nearly an year, it lay in an ‘abandoned’ state for the most part . What we mean by abandoned is that there was no human involvement in managing that account – it’s been Tweeting about new articles posted on FILEnetworks Blog which was entirely an automated task. However, with a huge following and a host of services based around it, Twitter has become too valuable of a service to ignore anymore. So we plan to become more involved in updating our Twitter account.

Although not much publicity was given to it, we’ve already got a couple hundred Twitter followers which is great. Anyways if you want to get notified about BitTorrent news, private tracker updates/downtime notices, leaks, downloads, games, software and more, follow @filenetworks on Twitter! You can also send us feedback and use this as a means to contact us directly.

You can of course help us spread the word by retweeting our stories if you think they are worth a read!

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Lately we’ve seen a lot of DVDR trackers being launched and onlyDVDs is the newest site to join this club. It’s a private torrent tracker that deals with untouched (non-rip) DVD5/DVD9 movies. It would be incorrect to say that onlyDVDs is a brand new tracker. It’s in fact a re-launched and re-branded version of the General/0Day tracker once known as Dreamzonept – everything from the site URL to the stylesheet has changed during re-launch and it’s now a completely different tracker than the original. At the time this post is being written, onlyDVDs is just one day old – if what we hear is correct public registrations will remain open during the first month.

onlyDVDs currently has over 250 registered members and close to 50 torrents. These are good statistics for a one day old tracker and the numbers were no doubt boosted by the old user base and the torrents at Dreamzonept (Dreamzonept had quite a few DVDR torrents at the time it was closed). There seems to be a steady flow of new torrents being added to onlyDVDs and it would be great if this trend continues without being limited to the first few days since launch.

As for the content available on this tracker, it’s mainly movies. Judging by the list of categories, both new/old movies as well as animation will be added. Screenshot below shows part of the torrent index of onlyDVDs:

Like most other private BitTorrent trackers, onlyDVDs does have a bonus system where you can trade bonus points for upload credits or invites. Invites seem to be pretty cheap – you can buy 3 of them for just 20 credits (while 75 credits are required to purchase 1GB upload credit).

It’s still too early to make predictions about the success/failure of onlyDVDs since it’s so new. You can check the site out for yourself since registrations are open.

Site Name: onlyDVDs (http://onlydvds.org)

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

Categories:

• ANIMATION
• CUSTOM-PT
• DVD5
• DVD9
• MDVDR
• OLDIES
• PT
• TV-DVDR

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This news is about 3 days old but since it was never given much publicity, here goes. If you read this TorrentFreak article, you are probably aware of the recent raids conducted against well known MP3 release groups from the warez scene. Although the article only mentions DV8 , raids directly affected another popular group RAGEMP3. From what we know the leader of DV8 (who got arrested) was also the leader of RAGEMP3. And it is now confirmed that at least one of these groups has quit the scene for good. Quoted below is a SceneNotice posted by RAGEMP3:

Due to the recent events, RAGEMP3 is now officially done.  We had a long run and it was a great 10 years.  Someone made a poor decision and now a veteran group is shutting it's doors.  Thanks for everything.

- RAGEMP3 -

ps. griffen is a bitch and a fed.  So delete him from your sites.

There were a lot of rumors about RAGEMP3/DV8 leader re-selling promos on E-Bay. We don’t know if these rumors were true but there were other SceneNotices that flamed both the groups for trading music – I_Am_Very_Good_At_Trading-Look_My_Skills-(Retail)-2009-RAGEMP3 and VA-Now_Thats_What_I_Call-Obvious_Auttot_Rading-EBAY_PROMO-2009-DV8.

There will of course be another group to take RAGEMP3’s place but they really were veterans when it came to scene released MP3s. A lot of the promos and advance MP3 releases that hit the scene in the recent past were by these two groups. R.I.P.

It is currently not known of DV8 too has officially quit.

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vgmTorrents is really a unique private BitTorrent tracker. It’s probably the only tracker in the world  that is completely dedicated to video game music. It’s true that sites such as LZTR have  soundtracks from games but it’s not really their specialty. vgmTorrents on the other hand is all about official soundtracks (OST) of games. Most of the game OST available on this tracker are pretty rare and not usually found on even the largest of General trackers. vgmTorrents is a new entrant to the BitTorrent scene ( launched on May 2009) but things have so far looked good for this tracker.

The following text which describes vgmTorrents and it’s goals is quoted from the site’s ‘About’ page:

vgmTorrents is a videogame music related private tracker. We do care about the quality and reliability of our releases, trying to offer any kind of VGM content, from soundtracks to documentaries and video interviews. Our goal is to let anybody know about videogame music, a genre which is generally overlooked, largely because most of those CDs are out of stock, or only available in Japan and Asian online stores, with high-priced shipping costs. Anyone can upload VGM stuff on vgmTorrents, though registration is required to ensure anybody does have a positive sharing ratio. You are more than welcome in the community - enjoy videogame music!

As of 27/6/2009 vgmTorrents tracks over 200 video game music torrents. Most of the audio is in lossless formats while some OST are in MP3 and AAC. Check out the following screenshot to get a better idea about the site’s content:

One of the best things about vgmTorrents is that it’s not just a torrent tracker. They have a frequently updated blog (which is the homepage), a twitter account, Last.fm page, live RSS feeds and more. At the time this post is being written, public registrations are enabled so check it out. If you are a video game music enthusiast or a collector, this tracker is a must have.

Site Name: vgmTorrents (http://vgmtorrents.net)

Signup URL: http://vgmtorrents.net/wp-login.php?action=register

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It’s been a while since we featured a huge private tracker. Yep, despite court cases and countless raids, large BitTorrent sites still exist in almost all parts of the world (Torrents.Ru, ArenaBG, RARBG, Zamunda, Partis.si to name a few). mojblink is one such huge private tracker that is based in Slovenia. Although it’s a Slovenian tracker, English releases are plentiful on mojblink. In fact almost all major scene and p2p releases can be found on this tracker. Also, there is no shortage of freeleech packs on mojblinks – some of these packs however seem to have been taken from other elite trackers.

As mentioned in the title of this article, this is a huge tracker. As of 26/6/2009 there are over 48500 registered users and 17000+ active torrents in the database. When compared to ArenaBG and Zamunda (which do not enforce mandatory ratio requirements), mojblink has tight rules regarding ratio. Users need to maintain a upload:download ratio of 0.9 or above in order to survive on this tracker.

As for the content tracked by mojblink,there is a huge amount of English scene and p2p releases available on this tracker. It does track local Slovenian content as well. Like most other General/0Day trackers, there are plenty of freeleech packs online as well - some the packs are shown in the screenshot below:

Did you notice the ending tags on torrent pack names? Tags such as –TL, ScT, TVT, TBy only means these are exclusive packs tracked by TorrentLeech, TvTorrents, SceneTorrents, TorrentBytes and other private trackers. Although ‘stealing’ exclusive packs is frowned upon in the Bittorrent community, I don’t think leechers of mojblinks would mind at all.

blink’s interface is kinda cool and has a web 2.0 look to it. However it might be a turn off for English speaking users – everything is written on Slovenian. Even so it’s fairly easy to find your way around the site even without knowing any Slovenian – most of you probably won’t use any other part of the site than the torrent index anyways. 

Registrations are open and interested readers mayu create an account for free.

Site Name: mojblink (http://mojblink.com)

Signup URL: http://mojblink.com/login.php and click on ‘Registracija‘ to expand signup menu

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PC version of Overlord 2, the sequel to 2007’s popular 3rd person action adventure game, was released to the public just two days ago. From what I have experienced so far it’s a pretty decent game which retains the cartoon styled ‘evil’ and humor from the original game. Overlord 2 seemingly does not contain any showstopper bugs but several people have experienced crashes when trying to launch the game. If you are one of those souls, here is something you can do to fix it.

As you may already know most recently released games support hardware based physics acceleration (through NVIDIA PhysX and so on). Overlord 2 is no exception. In fact it seems to have developed ‘special bond’ with PhysX; the game is likely to crash on startup if latest version of NVIDIA PhysX is not installed. The strange part is that you might be required to install PhysX even if you own an ATI video card. Overlord 2 seems to require the PhysX runtime in order to function properly – it won’t give you hardware accelerated physics effects when using ATI cards or NVIDIA cards without PhysX support, but it will at least let you run the game without it crashing at launch.

[Click Here] to download NVIDIA PhysX System Software v9.09.0428 for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7

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