Everyone knows Twitter as a micro blogging tool that let’s you keep in touch of what others are doing. Well, that’s one use of it. As for me, I don’t use Twitter much to update ‘what I am doing’ – instead, I use it as a replacement for an RSS reader. Almost all major services on the net now have Twitter accounts and if you want real time updates, all you need to do is to follow these accounts. If you too are using Twitter both as a micro blogging tool as well as a news reader, here’s the perfect desktop client for you; Seesmic Look. Seesmic Look is optimized for Windows 7 – it’s based on Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and has a kick ass user interface. This software is specifically designed to leverage the power of the real time web – it comes with pre configured news feeds, animated trending topics display plus a lot of other cool features.

When you fire up Seesmic Look for the first time, you’ll notice that it' has a different look and feel than most Twitter clients. On the left pane are your navigation options. These too are named differently than the normal Twitter terminology. Listed below are the available options and the functionality they serve:

• Inbox – private and public mentions of you, plus replies
• Social – your Twitter timeline
• Favorites – favorited Tweets
• Interests – lets you read various news streams from popular tech blogs, celebrities, news services, etc
• Channels – pre configured channels
• Searches – Let’s you search Twitter and displays results in a convenient way

If you are interested about reading news over Twitter, you’ll definitely want to check out the ‘Interests' tab. This has a number of pre configured Twitter feeds in numerous categories. As you can see in the screenshot above, the ‘Tech’ category has feeds of almost all major tech blogs including Techcrunch and Mashable. To read these streams, you don’t even need to follow them using your Twitter account. You can read more about Seesmic Look’s features in the official blog located here.

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Seesmic Look is optimized for Windows 7. It’s built on WPF and I’ve found that having a decent video card helps things render smoothly.

[Click Here] to download Seesmic Look from official download page

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When you talk about sports these days, the first thing that comes to mind is the football world cup which is going strong in South Africa. However, this is not another ‘where to find football WC torrents online’ post (if you are looking for a similar article, read this). This post is about, AcrossTheTasman (ATT), a dedicated sports torrent tracker that is home to sports releases not found on most other BitTorrent trackers. For instance, ATT is one of the very few sites that index cricket torrents. That’s not all, they have a lot of Rubgy, Mortor Racing, Tennis, Australian Soccer and other sports content indexed as well. Although usually closed for public registrations, AcrossTheTasman is currently open for signup – however don’t expect this to last forever. Anyway if you are a sports fan, this could be a very useful tracker to have.

Some of you might be hearing about ATT for the very first time. But this isn’t a site that landed out of nowhere – AcrossTheTasman is a spinoff tracker by the same team who runs popular Diwana.org. ATT’s user base as well as the torrent index no doubt got a boost from well established Diwana – free ATT invites were given away to existing Diwana members and bulk of the sports torrents tracked by Diwana were moved over to ATT just a couple of months ago. It looks like ATT will primarily be handling sports content while Diwana takes care of movies and TV shows. Currently there are over 14000 active members registered on Across The Tasman.

What’s important about ATT is that it has content that’s not found elsewhere. For example, they have Cricket torrents (which for some reason most sports trackers avoid like the plague) as well as a lot of Rugby torrents (rugby union games from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Wales, England as well as premier Rugby League competitions from around the world). Add to this motor racing torrents and Australian football games and you’ve got yourself a decent sports tracker. ATT has it’s own cappers for most of the sporting events it covers and this results in a lot of unique content  getting uploaded to the site (which is a good thing).

Usually, ATT is closed for public registrations. However currently the site is open for signup and is accepting new registrations. We do not know for how long the signups will remain open but if you are a sports fan, feel free to go ahead and check the site out.

Site Name: Across The Tasman (http://acrossthetasman.com)

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

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These are indeed good days for private tracker buffs. Yet another excellent BitTorrent site, TorrentGui (TTG) has opened public registrations and is currently accepting new members. Understandably, some of you out there might not be familiar with the name ‘TTG’. Even though the name is new, this is by no means a new, start up tracker. TorrentGui was previously known as GameGui and used to specialize in video games. Now, it has rebranded itself as TTG and has expanded site operations to track software, movies and TV shows in addition to PC and console games. It has an impressive collection of high definition video content and is home to several P2P encoder groups including ‘WiKi’, who used to release exclusively on HDChina. TTG will be open for public registration for three days starting today.

With over 35000 registered members (at least in their forums), TTG is one of those huge private trackers. Bulk of this user base migrated from GameGui which itself was one of the largest Chinese torrent sites during its time. Their torrent index is also decently sized with around ~7500 active torrents indexed at time of posting.

Although TTG began as a games only tracker, the site has now expanded to index video content including movies and TV shows. You can even find software and other releases which makes this essentially a General/0Day tracker. If you are wondering, TTG still seems to focus a lot on games and their PC/Console games collection is as impressive as it ever was. In addition, this tracker has quite a few exclusive releases with the help of internal encoder groups such as WiKi (Ex- HDChina), NGB, BPMWell, BD Club, QW (games) and WiiDao (Wii games). The screenshot below captures ofr of TTG’s torrent index:

Although the majority of releases indexed on this tracker are in English, it’s navigation interface does not have an English language translation option – it’s all in Chinese. However, there is no need to worry – you can get over the translation woes with the help of Google Chrome.

How to translate TorrenTGui to English with Google Chrome

1. Download the latest version of Google Chrome browser from here.
2. Visit TTG forum homepage through this link: http://torrentgui.com/bbs/index.php.
3. Once the page is done loading, Google Chrome will automatically display several translation options (the message will be displayed just beneath the address bar – you can’t miss it).
4. Choose the auto detected settings (should be Chinese Simplified Hans to English) and hit translate. If you get the message  ‘Translation failed due to server error’ keep re-trying.
5. Once translation of the first page is done, you can configure Google Chrome so that it automatically translates all TTG pages without prompting you. Select the ‘Options’ button (in the translation help popup) and select ‘Always translate Chinese Simplified Hans to English’ from the drop down menu.

How to register for a TorrentGui account

As mentioned in the title of this post, TorrenTGui will be open for signup in the next three days (until the 16th). Registration is fairly straightforward but detailed information is given below should you need it. It’s recommended that you have set up automatic translation before trying the registration process.

1. Visit TTG forum homepage through this link http://torrentgui.com/bbs/index.php
2. Open the registration page using http://torrentgui.com/bbs/register.php
3. Fill out the registration form and hit submit. Login to the site through your credentials.
4. Complete the registration process by going through the profile information dialogs.
5. Once registration is complete, click on the ‘PT’ button on top left hand corner of the page. This will redirect you to the private tracker (link is http://torrentgui.com/bbs/ptredirect.php)

If you liked TorrentGui you may also like:

• OurDiSC – Private Tracker For Full R1, R3 DVD And Blu-Ray Disks
• HDCity – Another HD BitTorrent Tracker From China
• CHDBits – High Definition Private Tracker
• CCFBits – Chinese HD torrent tracker with English releases
• HDRoad.ORG - Private HD Torrent Tracker
• HDStar HD BitTorrent Tracker Open For A Limited Time Only

P.S. – Check out the new Facebook Like button which we just installed on the top right sidebar. Hit the ‘Like’ button to become a fan of FILEnetworks on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/filenetworks) and get our updates directly on your FB wall.

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Back in June 2009, we posted an article about ACE-HD, a high definition torrent tracker that was brand new to the BitTorrent scene back then. The site was open for signup when we made the post and a lot of our long time readers probably became members there. However, open signups did not continue for long – the site soon became invite only and remained that way for a very long time. Today, exactly after one year since our first mention of the tracker, we revisit it to bring you an updated review. During the past year, ACE-HD has evolved from a newbie HD tracker to a well established high definition torrent site. But that’s not the only good news we have – tracker staff have decided to open registrations to the public for the first time in over 12 months. You can register an account on this site in the next 48 hours but keep in mind that open signups won’t last forever.

As you might have guessed from the name, ACE-HD has connections to the veteran general tracker AceTorrents. However, both sites operate independent of one another and there is little or no shared content between the two trackers. Either way AceHD has made significant gains in terms of user base as well as size of torrent index during the past year – they now have close to 10000 registered members and track ~2700 active torrents (this is after starting off operations with just 400 members and ~200 torrents)

Speaking of content on AceHD, movies, television shows, documentaries and even music videos may be found here. Most of the releases indexed on this tracker (apart from a few BRRip and BDRip releases which are not considered true HD) are high definition encodes (720p, 1080p in x264, WMV-HD and untouched Blu Ray formats). Both scene releases as well as non scene encodes are available for download. Speaking of non scene encodes, AceHD has its own internal releases (and packs) which are unique to their site. You can identify these exclusive torrents with the ‘AceHD’ tag (in place of release group name) in torrent title. Currently there are around 250 packs/internal encodes up for grabs on Ace-HD. Some of the packs are shown in the screenshot below:

As mentioned in the title of this post, AceHD is opening its doors after being a closed community for one whole year. A mass PM sent to all site members state:

For the next 48 hours acehd's sign ups will be open!! this is the first time since the site has opened that new users will be able to sign up, so tell all your friends/family before its to late as once we closed thats it were closed for another 2 years or so probs
please DONT make dupe accounts as they will be banned and also your first account will be banned to, if u have people who wanna sign up on the same ip then pm a staff member to clarify this FIRST!!...
donations are slow so please help out if possible
all donations for the rest of the month will have triple upload credits, if uve donate this month already dont worry, pm Ace and he will update your stats to the correct amount, dont want you missing out
enjoy
//Staff

AceHD has room for improvement but overall its a decent HD tracker. If you want to become a member, signups will be open for the next 48 hours.

Site Name: AceHD (http://acehd.net)

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

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Launched in 2008, The Pirate Society (TPS) has become one of the most successful file sharing discussion forums currently online. TPS features BitTorrent news, discussions, invitation giveaways, requests, private tracker reviews as well as seedbox discussions, support and reviews. This forum is also known for its many tracker recruitment threads and insane number of direct connections to private trackers through the ‘Community reps’ model. While being an excellent file sharing forum and a gateway to the world of torrent trackers, TPS has mostly been a closed community. Public registrations on this site have almost always been closed and potential new members needed to pass an IRC interview conducted by TPS staff members. If you didn’t like the idea of going through an interview or didn’t have enough experience in the BT scene to make it inside, you now have another chance through The Pirate Academy.

The Pirate Academy is TPS’s latest project that opens up the site even to absolute newbies to the BitTorrent scene. With the launch of this project, TPS has essentially become an open registration BitTorrent forum and new members are now allowed to bypass the IRC interview. However, those who choose to do so will not immediately gain access to all TPS forum sections – instead, they will be directed to the Pirate Academy – a limited access forum that has ‘lessons’ and tests for new users. In short, new members who go through all the lessons and pass the test for each lesson, will gain entry into the fully featured TPS main forum. In case you didn’t get the idea, here’s a complete overview of how The Pirate Academy works. This description was quoted from a thread posted by Soopy on TPS :

[BEGIN QUOTE]
We have two main forums available to anyone who has access to The Pirate Academy. These forums are called "Classrooms" and "Lounge". The Classrooms forum consists of 3 sub-forums called Lesson 1, Lesson 2 and Lesson 3. Each Lessons sub-forum will bring you to a thread that has the lesson material. Here's how it is mapped out:

• Lesson 1 - Introduction to the Pirate Society. This lesson will teach the user how to use a forum and its features and what The Pirate Society is.
• Lesson 2 - IRC Basics. This will teach the user how to user the basics of IRC. Some of it focuses on the popular IRC client mIRC while also keeping it general so the user can use the material with other clients.
• Lesson 3 - Getting to know the BT Community. The last lesson teaches users about private bittorrent trackers by explaining what private trackers are, how they operate, and what you should do/shouldn't do.

The Lounge forum is a general forum created for new users who need help, have a question to ask, or just want to test out the forums features by creating general threads. We also have a dedicated IRC channel setup named #academy for users who need help and want answers quickly (and possibly give more incentive to learn IRC :)
The Pirate Academy will consist of 3 quizzes. One quiz for each lesson. The user will find the link at the end of each lesson at the last post which will bring them to the appropriate quiz. Once the user is done filling out the quiz and clicks Submit, it will be sent to our Graders Area where TPS staff will look over the submission and give it a grade. In order to graduate from the academy you must pass all 3 quizzes. If the user is already a New Recruit or higher, they will get the TPA Graduate icon. If the user is in the Initiate usergroup they will receive the TPS Graduate icon and be promoted to New Recruit.
[END QUOTE]

Initially, it might look like a lot of work to pass all the quizzes. However, in reality it’s not that hard even of you are a noob – the lessons are cleverly devised and well detailed along with rich instructions accompanied by screenshots – these let you in on all the information you need in order to pass the tests. Sure, it might take some time but passing will allow you full access to one of the better BitTorrent forums out there ( which has 9600+ users, ~100 community reps and 75+ tracker recruitment threads ).

Image: A screenshot depicting part of TPS main forum. To unlock some of the sections seen here, members are required to progress up the user class system.

As we mentioned earlier, TPS is currently in an open signup mode. However, this is a little different from a regular open registrations period you’d often see from a BitTorrent forum. Again, the text below is quoted from the forum post by Soopy (one of TPS SysOPs):

How does The Pirate Academy fit in with open signups? Every new user who registers will start out as an Initiate. So, initially, they will have very limited access to the forums. This will allow us to keep new users in a controlled environment. The open signups are, of course, not definite and will be temporary. Our first open signups will close once we reach a certain amount of users so we can test out this system on a much larger scale. Depending on the results, we might open up again and increase the load.
Because the users do not require a screening process, we will be very strict with the Initiates. Every user coming in will be scanned against our failed interviewee's database and banned/disabled users. We will not hesitate to disable a users account if something comes up.

Open signups will be available only for a limited period of time so get in while you can. All users who apply through the register link below will gain access to The Pirate Academy

Site Name: The Pirate Society (http://www.thepiratesociety.org)
Signup URL: http://www.thepiratesociety.org/register.php

In the meantime, IRC interviews will still be open – those who pass the interviews will immediately gain access to full TPS forums and will not have to go through The Pirate Academy.

Invites Channel: irc://irc.thepiratesociety.org/invites

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In just a few hours from now on, the football world cup 2010 will kick off in South Africa. Needless to say this is a major sporting event of the year and has already captured the attention of millions football fans worldwide. All football matches in the tournament will be broadcast live on premium sports channels and to tell the truth a live TV broadcast should be easily accessible to folks in most countries in the world. However, what if you want to download full match videos or highlights of WC 2010 matches and watch them on your computer? What if you prefer watching matches on your PC using live streaming as opposed to watching them on TV? If you are troubled by these questions – perhaps this article might help. It lists 6 sites you can use to download WC 2010 football matches, highlights (torrents or direct download links) as well as sites that provide live streaming links for all world cup matches.

MaXXeD
 
Site Name: MaxXeD (http://www.fbtz.com)
Signup URL: http://www.fbtz.com/forum/register.php
Description: MaXXeD is one of the most popular online direct download link forums for all Football related content. You can find and download full Football matches (both new and classics), match highlights, TV shows and other related videos (some in high definition formats). Additionally, it has an excellent discussions section in the forums which attracts many hard core football fans. Expect full WC 2010 coverage on this site.
Stats: 24000+ members
Full Review: [Click Here] 

MYP2P
 
Site Name: MYP2P (http://www.myp2p.eu)
Signup URL: http://www.myp2p.eu/register.php (Optional)
Description: MyP2P is one of the best sites on the web for online sports streaming. It does not stream any video content off its own servers however it indexes working video streams from various parts of the web for a particular sports event. For MyP2P’s World Cup 2010 schedule, look here.
Stats: N/A
Full Review: [Click Here] – This is a pretty old review written in 2008.

The Box
 
Site Name: The Box (http://www.thebox.bz)
Signup URL: http://www.thebox.bz/signup.php (signups occasionally open – check back in regular intervals)
Description: This popular British TV Show torrent tracker will have full WC 2010 coverage with it’s own cappers (capture and encode from TV sources such as satellite television) and unique uploads. They even have several site competitions related to Football World Cup at the moment.
Stats: 85000+ users and 56000+ torrents
Full Review: [Click Here] 

Sport Torrent
 
Site Name: Sport Torrent (http://www.sporttorrent.com)
Signup URL: http://www.sporttorrent.com/index.php?page=signup
Description:  Sport Torrent is a private tracker for football (soccer), basketball and boxing torrents. ST operates its own BitTorrent tracker but registration is optional to download files, making it a semi private tracker. Includes some publicly tracked torrents as well. Some of the torrents by Sport Torrent can also be found on MaXXeD forum (above).
Stats:
Full Review: N/A

Footy Torrents
 
Site Name: Footy Torrents (http://www.footytorrents.co.uk)
Signup URL: http://www.footytorrents.co.uk/preaccount.php  -Signups are currently closed but they might open up according to their Twitter account (If you have an account on NHLTorrents, you can use the same credentials to log into FT). You may have created an account when we posted about this tracker couple of months ago, when it was constantly open.
Description: Footy Torrents is a specialized football tracker from NHLTorrents Crew. There is a lot of unique content indexed here that’s not found on most generic sports trackers. If you are a football enthusiast, this is a must have BitTorrent tracker.
Stats: 37000+ users & 2000+ torrents
Full Review: [Click Here] 

Sport-Scene
 
Site Name: Sport-Scene (http://www.sport-scene.net)
Signup URL: http://www.sport-scene.net/signup.php (Signups are occasionally open – if you get current user limit full message, check back later – you’ll eventually get in)
Description: Sport Scene is one of the best specialized sports trackers around. It probably tracks the most number of sports torrents on any BitTorrent tracker (private or public). Expect full WC 2010 coverage on Sport-Scene.
Stats: 8300+ users and 10800+ torrents
Full Review : [Click Here]

Of course, there are just a few of the many sites that’ll have Football World Cup 2010 video content. If your favorite site is not listed, feel free to share it in the comments section. Please do not directly link to any torrents, DDL links, streaming links etc – link to the site only.

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After a flurry of articles related to private torrent trackers, we return to direct download link forums. Speaking of DDL forums, it appears that most people have in mind this general conception ‘if the site is not popular, it does not have good content’. However, this is highly inaccurate – sometimes it’s lesser known, smaller niche sites are the ones that contain valuable, rare content. One of the best examples of this is DCMovie – a small DDL forum specializing in kids content including cartoons and movies. In fact, much of the site’s focus is on the Disney brand - Disney channel shows, cartoons, Disney motion pictures, TV movies, Disney music are some of the common releases you will find on DCMovie. But that’s not all, there are shows by Nickelodeon and other publishers indexed as well. In short, it’s a good forum to find and download children’s video content - registrations are currently open.

In terms of content, DCMovie is somewhat similar to Classic Nick Shows (CNS) forum. CNS indexes direct download links for Nickelodeon cartoons while DCMovie does the same for Disney shows. It’s not a hugely popular site though – it currently only has a registered user base of around ~1500 members (and this will likely increase when this article goes live). Not being a torrent tracker, the number of users does not even matter on this type of site – there are no torrents to keep alive and it’s all direct download links which’s speeds are not dependant on a swarm of peers.

Content is where DCMovie really shines – there are over 1000 releases already indexed on this site and more seem to get added every day. Disney channel cartoons, Disney movies, Disney XD original movies, Disney made for TV movies, classic or new Nickelodeon shows as well as children's shows by publishers other than Disney or Nick are indexed on DCMovie. Below is a screenshot of ‘Disney Media’ section of the main forums.

When you first visit DCMovie homepage, you will only see a redacted version of the forums with just the introduction sections. The ‘good stuff’ including DDL indexes will only reveal themselves once you register and log into the site. Just like other similar forums, DCMovie itself does not host any of the actual media content – files are hosted on external services such as RapidShare, Megaupload and only the links are included in the forum. Almost all of the links are fully compatible with JDownloader. 

Registrations for this forum are currently open. If you are looking for kids content including children’s movies and cartoons, don’t forget to check this out.

Site Name: DCMovie (http://dcmovie.org)

Signup URL: http://dcmovie.org/index.php?action=register

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Here’s a very important update for video gamers, 3D artists or anyone else who use programs that communicate with Microsoft DirectX API (this includes watching video as well). The latest DirectX monthly runtime is here and it’s a recommended upgrade for everyone running Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista or Windows XP Service Pack 3. If you are wondering how this redistributable package differs from the web installer that’s provided on Microsoft download center, this is a standalone setup that does not involve any over-the-web file downloading. It can even be run on environments without internet connectivity. In other words, this is basically the DirectX setup you get bundled with latest PC games.

This redistributable installer contains all latest as well as previously released DirectX runtimes. This includes the bi-monthly D3DX, XInput, and Managed DirectX components. Upon execution, setup will inspect your system’s current configuration and update it with the latest DirectX runtime components  - only the files that are out of date will be updated and sometimes you won’t even need to restart the machine. It’s a very simple process really.

Download

You can download the installer directly from Microsoft download center. We have included both the direct download link and the MS Download Center download page below:

[Click Here] to download Microsoft DirectX June 2010 (9.29.1962) (Direct Download)

[Click Here] to visit Microsoft DirectX June 2010 (9.29.1962) download page on Microsoft Download Center.

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Recruiting new members into private torrent trackers via IRC interviews and invite applications has become quite popular in the past couple of years. In fact there are sites out there which never had an open signup but relied on these methods to build their entire user bases. This article lists 25 private torrent trackers that give away invites on their IRC channels or currently have open online invite applications. The list includes all sorts of sites including those which focus on music, television shows, audiobooks, science fiction and fantasy content, business eBooks, DVD and Blu Ray movies, PC/Console games, software, anime, etc. Around 10 of the torrent sites featured in the post are powered by Gazelle codebase, the new generation torrent tracker script pioneered by What.cd. Either way open signups are no longer the only way into a private tracker – if you want to become a member of any of these sites, you can now either apply online or visit their IRC channel to get invited for free.

As always, it’s highly recommended that you read the Full Review (linked-to beneath the description of each entry) of a torrent site before you attempt to pursue invites. The review should tell you exactly what sort of content is available on a particular tracker and you’ll be able to deduce whether you really need that site or not. Additionally, the full review usually contains screenshots and tracker specific instructions on invite request process. When requesting an invite IRC channels, always follow the instructions given in channel topic. Keep in mind that you might have to idle on channels for some time if staff are not available to start the interview. Time zone differences, the number of invite requests, etc can affect staff availability and when they aren’t around it’s important that you wait patiently without spamming the channels.

KillaWaves (KWS)
 
Site Name: KillaWaves (http://killawaves.org/)
Invite Channel URL: irc://irc.killawaves.org/Invites
Stats: 3700+ torrents
Description: KillaWaves (better known as KWS) is a Gazelle based private BitTorrent tracker that specializes in Drum and Bass (DnB), Oldskool, Jungle, Ambient, Techno, Garage and Dubstep music.
Full Review: [Click Here]

ScienceHD (SciHD)
 
Site Name: ScienceHD (http://sciencehd.info)
Invite Application URL: http://sciencehd.info/applications.php
Stats: 2200+ users and 4600+ torrents
Description: ScienceHD is an excellent gazelle based private tracker for Science Fiction TV & documentary torrents. “Mad scientists await your arrival” :p
Full Review: [Click Here]

Merlin (ML)
 
Site Name: Merlin or ML
Invite Channel URL: irc://irc.pron.org.uk/merlins-invites
Stats: 900+ Torrents
Description: Merlin (or ML) is a relatively new private torrent site that indexes movies, TV shows and music that belong to Science Fiction / Fantasy genres. ML is a project by the veteran crew behind ACiD.
Full Review: [Click Here]

The Vault
 
Site Name: The Vault (http://thevault.bz)
Invite Channel URL: irc://irc.thevault.bz:6667/thevault-invites
Invite Application URL: http://thevault.bz/app.php 
Stats: 18000+ torrents
Description: The Vault is a private tracker that focuses primarily on money making (both online and offline) and business. Niche private tracker with some very rare content.
Full Review: [Click Here]

ShareTheRemote (STR)
 
Site Name: Share The Remote (http://sharetheremote.org/)
Invite Channel URL: irc://irc.sharetheremote.org/invite
Stats: 4800+ torrents and 7300 users
Description: ShareTheRemote is a new Gazelle based TV torrent tracker indexing episodes from over 1000 different television shows.
Full Review: [Click Here]

BTN
 
Site Name: BTN
Invite Channel URL: irc://irc.omgwtfhax.net/BTN-Invites
Stats: ~5000 users and 12750+ torrents
Description: BTN is without a doubt one of the best new private trackers to be launched in 2009/2010 period. This feature rich TV tracker has everything; good content, fast pre times and excellent download speeds. Read the full review for more information.
Full Review: [Click Here]

torrentsRmine (tRm)
 
Site Name: torrentsRmine (http://www.torrentsrmine.org)
Invite Channel URL: irc://irc.torrentsrmine.org/torrentsrmine?
Stats: 580 members and 1150+ torrents
Description: torrentsRmine is a private tracker for TV talk shows, crime/drama/lifestyle series and documentaries. tRm is a niche TV tracker and indexes content sometimes not even found on leading sites such as BitMeTV or TVT.com. All torrents on free leech until 31 December 2010.
Full review + More Information: [Click Here]

Save The Coratee (STC)
 
Site Name: Save The Coratee (http://savethecoratee.org)
Invite Channel URL: irc://irc.savethecoratee.org/invites
Stats: 3600+ users and ~4900 torrents
Description: Save The Coratee (STC) is a must have tracker for all Apple Mac, iPhone or iPod users. This ratio free private tracker indexes software, games, tutorial videos and even books and magazines for both Mac OS and iPhone. Based on Gazelle codebase.
Full Review: [Click Here]

The Occult
 
Site Name: The Occult (http://theoccult.bz)
Invite Channel URL: irc://irc.thevault.bz:6667/theoccult-support
Invite Application URL: http://theoccult.bz/app.php
Stats: 1250+ torrents
Description: The Occult has some of the most unusual & uncommon torrent categories ever seen on a private tracker (Mythology, Scientology, Drugs, Shamanism, Astrology to name a few). It specializes in torrents related to various cults, ways of living, religions, healing and so on.
Full Review: [Click Here]

ACiD (AL)  
  
Site Name: ACiD
Invite Channel URL: irc://irc.pron.org.uk/acid-invites
Stats: 19000 users and 8000+ torrents
Description: ACiD is a closed private tracker for General/0day releases. This community based site has been online for more than 4 years. Indexes scene + non scene content and releases unique to this tracker. 
Full review + More Information: [Click Here]

Sparvar
 
Site Name: Sparvar (http://www.sparvar.org)
Invite Application URL: http://www.sparvar.org/invitationform.php
Translated Version of Invite Application: http://bit.ly/JKJ93
Description:  Sparvar is an excellent untouched DVDR and Blu Ray torrent tracker that saw phenomenal growth in 2009. While the site is pretty good, getting in could be difficult specially for users who are new to private trackers.
Full review + More Information: [Click Here]

BrokenStones 
 
Site Name: BrokenStones (http://brokenstones.me/)
Invites Site: http://bswillyouinvite.me/
Description: Brokenstones is probably the most popular specialized Mac tracker. Definitely a must have site if you own an Apple product.
Stats: 5000+ users
Tracker Specific Instructions: Yes. Refer to this article.

AnimeBytes (AB) 
 
Site Name: AnimeBytes (http://animebyt.es)
Invite Applicaiton URL:  http://animebyt.es/application.php
Stats: 3500+ users and ~8800 torrents
Description: AnimeBytes is a specialized anime torrent tracker. Runs of a customized version of Gazelle codebase and has some really nice site features in addition to the decently sized torrent index.
Full review + More Information: [Click Here]

TorrentTech
 
Site Name: TorrentTech (http://www.torrentech.org/)
Type: TorrentTech is a huge electronic music tracker with lots of torrents and active members. If you are an EDM fan, check this out.
Stats: 3500+ members
IRC Channel: http://irc.torrentech.org/ (requires java)
Tracker Specific Instructions: No. But reading the TT rules is strongly recommended. It may take a long time to actually get invited.

What.CD  
 
Site Name: What.CD (http://what.cd)
Type: Do we really need to say anything more? Pretty much everyone knows what this is. What.CD is the largest private music torrent tracker out there.
Invites IRC Channel: irc://irc.what.cd:6667/what.cd-invites
Tracker Specific Instructions: Yes and if you try to get an invite without reading these first, there is a high likelihood of failure.

CoExist (CE) 
 
Site Name: CoExist (http://coexist.biz)
Invite Channel URL: irc://irc.coexist.biz/ce.invites
Stats: 8200+ torrents and 2000+ users 
Description: CoExist is a ratio free music torrent with English music albums. Runs on a heavily customized TBDEV codebase with lots of add-ons.
Full review + More Information: [Click Here]

My Anonamouse  
 
Site Name: My Anonamouse (http://www.myanonamouse.net)
Invite Application URL: http://www.myanonamouse.net/inviteapp.php
Stats: 33000+ users and ~37000 torrents
Description: My Anonamouse is simply one of the best online resources to download audio books. Apart from the tons of AudioBooks, there are quite a few E-books indexed as well. Friendly staff and nice community in addition to great content makes this an excellent private tracker.  
Full review + More Information: [Click Here]

Jambands.Fm 
 
Site Name: Jambands (http://jambands.fm)
Invite request Email: invites[at]jambands[dot]fm (Read this for more information)
Description: Jambands is a new torrent site that focuses on media related to live music and concerts. Runs on Gazelle codebase.
Full review + More Information: [Click Here]

PackMe.In (PiN)
 
Site Name: Packme.in (https://packme.in)
Invite Application URL: https://packme.in/inviteapp.php
Stats: 1175+ packs
Description: Packme.In is a ratio free packs only torrent tracker. You won’t find any individual releases here but if packs is what you are looking for, this is the place to go. 
Full Review: [Click Here]

Wild-Bytes (WB)
 
Site Name: WIld Bytes (http://www.wild-bytes.net)
Invite Application URL: http://www.wild-bytes.net/userapp.php
Description: Wild Bytes is another veteran General/0Day torrent tracker that’s been around for many years.
Full Review: [Click Here] – this review is very old (2008)

FreeTheScene (FTS)
 
Site Name: Free The Scene (http://freethescene.net)
Invite Channel URL: irc://irc.freethescene.net/fts-invite
Stats: 3300+ torrents and 3600+ members
Description: FreeTheScene is a General/0Day torrent tracker based on Gazelle codebase. This site recently went ratio free.
Full Review: [Click Here]

ChronicTracker (CT)
 
Site Name: ChronicTracker (http://www.chronictracker.com)
Invite Channel URL: irc://irc.chronictracker.com/CT.Support
Description: ChronicTracker is a long standing private tracker for general content.
Full Review: [Click Here]

PTFiles
 
Site Name: PTFiles (http://ptfiles.net)
Invite Channel URL: http://ptfiles.net/inviteapp/
Description: PTFiles, which is a reincarnation of now defunct Phoenix-Torrent,is a General/0day torrent tracker indexing scene and non scene content.
Full Review: [Click Here]

bitGAMER (BG)
 
Site Name: bitGamer (http://www.bitgamer.com)
Invite Channel URL: irc://irc.underground-gamer.com/bginvites
Description: bitGAMER is a dedicated games torrent tracker that tracks games for multiple platforms. Currently running on TBDEV codebase but will soon migrate to gazelle.
Full Review: [Click Here]

Underground Gamer (UG)
 
Site Name: Underground Gamer (http://www.underground-gamer.com)
Invite Channel URL: irc://irc.underground-gamer.com/invites
Description: bitGAMER’s sister site. Unlike BG, underground Gamer focuses more on retro games – there’s a good collection of them on this tracker. Includes ROMs & emulation related stuff as well. .

We have in the past posted several similar lists of trackers that give away invites via IRC. However this is an updated post which only includes sites that are currently live and have open invites. Several new trackers have been added, older, inactive ones removed and statistics, invite channel URLs and IRC info have also been updated over the previous articles. Torrent sites that did not wish to be publicly named were not included in the article. If you know any other sites that engage in IRC/invite applications recruitment, feel free to share the info in comments.

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Here’s is a quick update on the private HD torrent tracker HDME.eu. After being closed for almost three months, HDME has once again opened signups to the public. If you didn’t manage to get in during the last open registration, now would be a good time to create an account. Anyways open signup isn’t the only good news coming from this tracker – HDME just got a huge boost to their internal encoding power with two renowned P2P release groups, FraMeSToR and FLAWL3SS, joining the tracker. Both of these groups are veterans in the video encoding scene and before partnering with HDME, FLAWL3SS used to release on IPTorrents (FLAWL3SS XViD and x264 SD releases will still be available on IPT) while FraMeSToR used to upload their releases on BIT-HDTV. Either way all of their releases will now be available on HDME.

Quoted below is a forum post by HDME SysOP – this pretty much sums up all there is to know about the partnership between HDME, FLAWL3SS and FRaMeSToR:

We have had talks with them for a while now, and they have finally decided to go Internal on HDME, which means today onwards you can find all of their releases on HDME. This also means all of FraMeSToR and FLAWL3SS releases will be free-leech. Also all of he HDME, INtl, PS3-TEAM encodes along with Packs and Bluray's will be free-leech.
FraMeSToR who specialize in high quality 1080p encodes & FLAWL3SS will be doing the 720p version of the same movie, that way users don't have to wait to get any version of their favorite  movie!
Now, that this is out, we would also like to announce a new addition to our staff, SirTranceALot! He is the founder of FraMeSToR and has now joined us as a staff here on HDME too.
We have added 5 new categories viz. HDME, INtl, PS3-TEAM, FraMeSToR, FLAWL3SS. All uploads to these categories are auto-freeleech, which means you do not have to wait for a staff to set it as freeleech!
We have more good news, signups on HDME are now open. Signups are open until tomorrow night (Tuesday) OR until we hit 25K members. After this we wont be having open signups for a very long time, so please let your friends and family know. Please note, dupe accounts will not be tolerated at all, and it will result in dupe account along with the main account getting banned. You have been warned!
You might have also noticed we have changed all the torrent category icons. In-case they have not updated for you clear your cache and try again. All thanks to 'Mercenary' for providing these icons.
Thank You
All of HDME Staff!

At the time this post was being written, HDME tracked 4500+ torrents and had a user base exceeding 18000 registered members. If you want to read more information about this site or see screenshots of its torrent index, we suggest you read the full HDME review which we recently posted. As mentioned in the quoted forum post (above) signups for this tracker are currently open. There are ~7000 free slots remaining but you might want to register quickly before the doors close on Tuesday.

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

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

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