TorrenTiT (commonly known as TiT), a gazelle based General/0Day tracker, has opened public registrations after 6 long months. Although many are unaware, TiT has a long history as a private torrent tracker. Torrentit was originally known as 123torrents and was launched in 2004. They had a great run as a private tracker but soon ran into BREIN, the Dutch anti piracy group. In 2005 they lost the 123torrents domain and by mid 2006, the site was entirely shut down due to continuous pressure from BREIN. After a long wait TiT returned in September 2008, this time running on Gazelle codebase pioneered by What.CD.

TiT has opened their doors to the public several times since their return. However the tracker has been a closed community for the most part and it has not had an open registration in at least 5 months. As of 31/7/2009, TiT tracks over 880 active torrents and has a user base of over 3300 members. Hopefully the current open signup brings in more leechers as the site definitely needs more activity.

As mentioned above TorrenTiT is a general/0day tracker. They have the usual content you find on any other general tracker – scene and p2p releases. But that’s not all – TiT has a lot of packs and exclusive releases indexed as well. More than one third of the indexed torrents are packs – there are over 250 of them. These range from wallpaper packs, software packs, siterips, etc. Don’t believe us? Check the screenshot below:

Another point worth mentioning is that TiT has a very high percentage of filled requests (77%+). This is a great sign which shows the helpfulness of the community around the BitTorrent tracker.

As mentioned earlier signups are currently open. We do not know for how long they will remain open – get in now if you are interested.

Site Name: TorrenTiT (http://www.torrentit.eu)

Signup URL: http://www.torrentit.eu/register.php

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Back in last April, we featured a new private torrent tracker called ScienceHD. Specializing in Sci-Fi and documentary torrents, Sci-HD really was an innovative tracker. During the first three months since launch, the tracker has attracted more than 5000 users. However we all know that some of those 5000 users are folks who just signed up without really intending to use the tracker. And like all trackers do, Sci-HD had surely attracted ‘collectors’ who are frowned upon in the BitTorrent community. If you belong to any one of above mentioned user types, times has come to fear for your Sci-HD account.

Part of a notification posted on site homepage is quoted below. {ay attention to the text in bold:

In the coming weeks expect to see a vast increase in the number of new torrents available daily, including new and improved SciHD Exclusive's that you won't find anywhere else on the net. We also have several great new contests with some truly original themes and prizes on the horizon for our valued community.
However, in taking pause to examine our future, I am also officially announcing that by August 1st, any member below the class of Ph.D that has zero snatched torrents will have their account disabled, and their IP's banned for life. Our community has worked diligently over the last 3 months to bring thousands of torrents packed with quality content to the site. Any member who has thus far not found anything interesting here, simply doesn't need to be here. After the house cleaning, we will also be lowering our max users, which has been the plan from the beginning: To have a small, tight knit community of users emphatically interested in Science and of course our guilty indulgence of Science Fiction
Additionally, though it's not a hard and fast rule for us to ban users with inactive invitees, anyone with grievous numbers will certainly have their accounts reviewed by staff. I highly suggest encouraging your invitees to become active if they desire to keep their accounts.

So there you go, a life ban for inactivity. Some might call it a little harsh but IMHO that’s a pretty good way to filter out collectors and inactive members who just take up site space. And it’s unlikely that Sci-HD will have an open signup soon – take care of your account.

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Here is the latest version of one of the best Anti-SpyWare products on the market today. You might not have heard about this software before but SuperAntiSpyware (SAS)’s ability to detect and remove malware that slip through popular Anti Virus software such as Norton, McAfee and even NOD32 deserves a lot of credit. As I have mentioned several times through this blog, to get the best out of SAS you need to combine it with an standalone Anti Virus software such as Kaspersky AntiVirus. Let KAV do the real time scanning and if you notice anything odd with your machine, load SAS and run a manual scan. It’ll probably solve your malware issues in a single click.

Another great reason to use SAS is that it’s free. You don’t have to bother with expiring keys, getting blacklisted or having to search for cracks. Of course there is a pro version of the app but the free edition has everything a home user needs, including even unlimited definition updates.

Developer Description

SUPERAntiSpyware Free Edition is 100% Free and will detect and remove thousands of Spyware, Adware, Malware, Trojans, KeyLoggers, Dialers, Hi-Jackers, and Worms. SUPERAntiSpyware features many unique and powerful technologies and removes spyware threats that other applications fail to remove.

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[Click Here] to download latest version of SuperAntiSpyware from official server (Direct download – link auto updated with latest build)

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There are two things most people don’t know about Torrent Kids (formerly known as humor-me) – 1. It’s the sister site of popular cartoon tracker CartoonChaos, 2. It’s open for public registrations even though the signup page asks for an invite token. As the name suggests, TorrentKids is a private tracker for kid’s stuff. They have children’s TV shows, movies and even audiobooks but surprisingly  no Cartoons. Cartoons are tracked by CartoonChaos, TorrentKids is for everything else kids related. To put it short, if you have a kid or if you love kids shows, you’ll most likely become a fan of this tracker.

It’s been a while since TorrentKids entered the BitTorrent scene. Ever since inception it’s slowly been building its user base which has now grown close to 500 members. Over 775 indexed torrents can also be found on the tracker as of 29/7/2009. Download speeds here are average – new users and some more activity would definitely be more healthily.

Torrent Kids, as mentioned above tracks kids torrents - TV shows, movies, audiobooks, e-books, kids games and more are available for the taking. There are some pretty rare stuff too, including VHSRips of relatively old kids movies and entire seasons of Sesame Street.

As specified at the start of this article, Torrent Kids does not require and invite to join, Just leave the invite token fields blank in the signup form and you should get in just fine. If by the time you read this signup have somehow closed, you could always ask for an invite on the official forums ( you’ll have to provide profile links).

Site Name: TorrentKids (http://www.torrentkids.org)

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

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Sh1t has hit the fan again for Microsoft – pirates have managed to crack Windows 7 copy protection mechanism even before the OS’s official release. It’s nothing surprising though – everybody knew this was going to happen and it was just a question of when. Well that nagging question has now been answered. Windows 7 Ultimate RTM build 7600.16385 (which was leaked a few days ago) has been cracked and this time it’s not with a time stopper hack or a trial period re-arm workaround – the new exploit makes use of Microsoft’s OEM activation 2.1 to bypass WGA and pre activate illegitimate copies of Windows 7 even in offline mode.

They key used for activation seems to have leaked through a Chinese OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) distribution partner. As we Tweeted a few days ago, several OEM product keys were leaked online but these were immediately blocked by Microsoft so online activation was not possible. However it does not matter if the keys are blocked or not with the latest hack – activation bypass happens offline. The leaked DVD image gives pirates access to OEM-SLP (System-Locked Pre-installation) product key along with the OEM certificate for Windows 7 Ultimate via boot.wim file. I wouldn’t go into much detail about how the latest exploit works but it’s something similar to those BIOS emulation cracks that were hugely popular with Windows Vista. The hack seemingly works only with Windows 7 Ultimate. Pirates wouldn’t complain though – it’s the most featured filled Windows 7 edition out there yet.

We wouldn’t directly link to cracks or leaked product keys for obvious reasons but it’s a fact that they are now all over the internet, readily available for download. It’s safe to assume that warez community will keep improving the OEM hack and eventually more easy to use versions of it such as one click activators and pre-cracked editions will surface, taking Windows 7 piracy to the masses. It would now be interesting to see Microsoft’s next move. Maybe they’ll come out with a completely new WGA mechanism that hopefully would not be too intrusive than it already is. Maybe they’ll roll out a hotfix to detect and disable the OEM hack via Windows Update like they did for Windows Vista (with minimal success of course). Anyways right now it’s Pirates 1 and Microsoft 0. The battle continues…

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If you like Wrestling and MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) other action sports events, you’ll love this site. Full Contact Zone (better known as FCZ) is a private torrent tracker that specialize in sports such as Wrestling, UFC, Boxing, Kickboxing, Rugby and more. A few months ago FCZ was accessible via www.fullcontactzone.net URL. This has now changed – the site somehow lost the old domain name sometime back but it is now accessible without any issues via http://fullcontactzone.tv/. For those interested in joining, FCZ opened public signups on the 3rd week of this month and they remain open to date.

For a specialized action sports tracker, FCZ has pretty good statistics. They currently track close to 1000 active torrents and most of these are well seeded/have good download speeds. A steady number of new torrents are added to the site daily as well. The exact number of registered members is not known.

Speaking of content, FCZ is full of media related to UFC/Wrestling/MMA and other similar sports (they even have Rugby and Nascar torrents) – site lists 18 different sports events in the torrent index. In addition to videos, several Ebooks and instructional which can be pretty useful for beginners are also available on this tracker. Following screenshot captures part of FCZ’s torrent index:

  

Public sign ups for FullContactZone are currently open. In fact, they’ve been open since the 15th of this month. Following notice is posted on site homepage which is about the current open signup window:

Sign-ups are open so if you have any friends who want to join let them know
But remind them to keep a good ratio (below 0.5 gets you into trouble, below 0.35 gets you in serious trouble, below 0.2 gets you a direct flight off the tracker) and keep your downloads seeded. We have updated the rule page to be more clear for everyone - and we may do it again to refine the amount of seeding time required by torrent sizes for example.
Seeding time is a requirement for everyone. So even if you have a good global ratio, when there are only few seeders on a torrent, you MUST seed it for 24 hours - or risk a warning / have your download rights taken.

We do not know when the signups will close. If you are interested, get in while you can.

Site Name: Full Contact Zone (http://fullcontactzone.tv)

Signup URL: http://fullcontactzone.tv/signup.php

Categories:

• Audio
• Baseball
• Basketball
• Boxing
• E-Books
• Football US
• Football World Game
• Formula 1
• Indy Wrestling
• Instructional
• KickBoxing
• Misc
• MMA
• Nascar
• Reality
• TNA
• UFC
• WWE

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Stumbled across a relatively new media converter application called VideoSpirit today. Played with it for a few mins and it actually looked like a decent piece of software. VideoSpirit allows conversion between popular multimedia file formats. The app comes free of charge and does not take a lot of system resources.  User interface is simple and even a complete newbie can figure out how to handle the software in a matter of minutes. In addition, there is support for a wide ranging of multimedia formats including MP4, FLV, OGG, SWF, WMV and even RMVB.

Some of the major features of the application are listed below:

• Convert Video Files among VCD / SVCD / DVD / MPEG / AVI / DivX/ASF / WMV/DAT / SWF / FLV / 3GP / RM / MP4 / MOV;
• Extract audio tracks from video files;
• Extract images from video files;
• Smart and neat interface, very easy to use.

Video editing capabilities are supported but are only available in the pro version of the software (featured in this article is the ‘lite’ edition). One issue I had with the app so far is that it refused to start on two occasions (it threw a ‘could not load conversion library’ error). If this happens to you try right clicking the application icon and choosing ‘run as administrator’.

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Here is a news update from the hugely popular general/0day torrent tracker TorrentLeech (TL). TL have added two new categories to their torrent index - NonScene/BRRip-x264 and NonScene/BRRip-XviD. BRRips are nothing new to TL – they’ve been around for ages and have been downloaded by members hundreds of times. However the addition of new categories would make their presence somewhat official, more organized and easily searchable. NonScene/BRRip-x264 category currently (as of 27/7/2009) has 38 torrents under it and NonScene/BRRip-XviD indexes 175+ torrents.

Interestingly, a search on TL for keyword ‘BRRip’ returns a list of 850+ torrents. I can’t figure out why all these releases are not moved under the new categories. If I’m not mistaken all BRRip releases are non scene – scene groups have released BDRips but I’m not sure if they have released any BRRips at all. Scene XViD releasing standards 2009 do not mention of HD rips apart from the text quoted below:

HD retail may be used as source only if no DVDRip has already been  released (and vice versa). Such releases must be tagged accordingly (e.g. BDRip, HDDVDRip).  

Note that XViD encoded BRRips are not true HD releases. They are ripped from Blu Ray disks - just like DVDRip but using a Blu Ray source. BRRip quality is generally better than DVDRip and file size is usually larger( weighs between 1.4GB – 2.5GB in most cases).

Don’t have TL but still want to download BRRips? Look in BitTurk and LeechTurk trackers – both have a nice collection of such releases and both are currently open for signup.

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More private tracker news – this time regarding the popular General/0Day tracker iPlay (not to be mistaken with metal.iplay.ro which is a music tracker). iPlay, which is arguably the most sought after Romanian private tracker, has launched the 4th version of their site. V4 is primarily about the looks. For starters  iPlay was never a bad looking tracker at all – however the new skins introduced in V4 kick ass and makes browsing the site a pleasure. Given below are two screenshots of the tracker running on new Starfall and Tyrian skins for those interested (signups remain closed btw):

Image: iPLay running on the new ‘Starfall’ skin


Image: New ‘Tyrian’ skin 

A total of four new skins have been introduced with the launch of iPlay v4; Tyrian, Starfall, Helios and Coagulate. Each of these skins completely revamp the user interface with custom category icons, and even the main toolbar. In addition to the looks, iPlay retains those great download speeds, good pre times and the massive torrent index of over 15000 active torrents. IMHO this is a great overall general tracker (keep in mind that seeding here is somewhat difficult) and is a site worth pursuing an invite for.

Please don’t post invite requests here.

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Update: It was our fault this offer ended on What.CD. We should not have gone public with the info. We publicly apologize everyone who was affected, specially MusicalMind on What.CD who got spammed by invite requests.

Original Article: BitMeTV is probably the best private TV torrent tracker out there. However with only one public open signup in the last three years, it’s a pretty hard tracker to get into. This article intends to keep you up to date about a few rule changes on BMTV. In addition, we intend to share news of an unlimited BMTV invites offer we came across on What.CD forums. To make things clear this is not an official invite giveaway – it’s done by a What.CD member on What.CD forums. There is no guarantee that you’ll get a BMTV invite this way but it’s definitely worth a shot.

Here is what MusicalMind posted on What.CD forums:

Hi all, I have unlimited invites to BitMeTV and anyone who wants an account there just Message me your email address and that you haven't had an account before.. (If you've never had an account) If you had an account there before and it's been over a year and it was disabled for any reason besides trading or cheating I will see about getting the account re-enabled and some compromise being met. If it's less than a year, you can still message me and we can see what can be done. If you can see this post, you've already met my requirements, so ... Message away. MusicalMind

We’d rather not directly link to the forum post due to various reasons – if you are a member of What.CD you should be able to find it. Once again note that this is not a FILEnetworks invitation giveaway. We are just passing the news.

And it’s probably a good time to get into BitMeTV too. Just a few days ago they relaxed some inactivity related rules rules. Changes are quoted below:

A new user needing to use their account in 30 days has been bumped up from 30 days to 90 days.

Inactivity (a user needing to log in to their account via a web browser) has been bumped from 60 days to 90 days.

Parking an account has been bumped up from 6 months to 9 months.

Also the inactive disabling only affects the user classes under VIP. Which has always been the case anyway.

As of 27/07/2009, BitMeTV tracks 20500+ active TV torrents (including full TV season packs) and has an active user base of 19700+ members. Good luck on finding an invite through the specified method. Please do not post invite requests here.

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