Wake up folks, another Bond game is out. Personally, I’ve never been a fan of James Bond video games. But judging by the response this game has received in various gaming forums, it’s no secret that this gaming franchise has a large fan base from all corners of the world. Blood Stone is a third-person shooter with elements of hand-to-hand combat - its PC version was developed by High Moon studios. Anyways here’s our routing troubleshooting article for this game – it is a short post but hopefully you will be able to resolve those annoying crashing issues with Blood Stone, if you are having any.

Blood Stone Installer freezing and crashes to desktop

The most common problem people seem to be having with Blood Stone is the installer freezing/hanging or crashing issue. This seems to be related to DEP (Data Execution Prevention) in Windows Vista/Windows 7 based operating systems. If your installer crashes before the installation completes, try doing the following:

1. Go to Start->Run. Type cmd.exe and press enter.
2. In the command prompt, type bcdedit.exe/set nx AlwaysOff and press enter. This will turn DEP off.
3. Reboot the machine
4. Install Blood Stone

DEP is a security measure and it’s probably not the best idea to keep it disabled. Once Blood Stone installation is complete. do the following to re-enable DEP

1. Go to Start->Run. Type cmd.exe and press enter.
2. In the command prompt, type bcdedit.exe/set nx OptIn and press enter. This will turn DEP on.
3. Reboot the machine

Fix for Audio looping, crash to desktop

This is a fix that was mentioned in TorrentLeech tracker comments section. I personally never ran into this issue nor tried the fix mentioned below. Try this if you experience audio issues or random or startup CTD.

1. Set Audio Sample Rate In Windows and In-game to 16 bit,48000hz (DVD Quality)
2. Right click "Computer"
3. Click "Manage"
4. Double click "Users and Groups"
5. Click "Groups"
6. Right click "Administrators"
7. Click "Add to group..."
8. Click "Add"
9. Click "Advanced"
10. Click "Find Now"
11. Double click "Local Service"
12. Click "Ok"
13. "NT Authority\Local Service" should show up in the list now
14. Click "Ok"
15. Close Computer Management and reboot.

More fixes will be added here as and when they are discovered.

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BitTorrent community does not have that many lifestyle related trackers. However, the few trackers out there which fall into this category such as SeductionGR, ThePlace.Bz, BitSeduce, Salad.tl, etc all seem to have a strong following and a solid footprint in the BitTorrent scene. Therefore, one would think it’s not a bad idea to start a new lifestyle themed torrent site –and that’s exactly what ElbitZ crew has done. As you may already know, ElbitZ is a well known E-Learning torrent tracker that primarily caters to educational material. uActivity is a brand new torrent site launched by the same crew. As opposed to educational stuff, this new site focuses more on lifestyle content ranging from Self Improvement, Fitness, Food, Drinking, Dancing, Health, Fitness, Seduction, NLP and Cooking to even Magic Illusions.

Although ElbitZ has been around for a couple of years, uActivity is a completely new project built from scratch. Having said that, it does have the backing of its sister site’s user base and is poised to get off to a head start – there’s already an official announcement on ElbitZ about uActivity and if I’m not mistaken EB has over 10k active members. UA hasn’t done badly in uploading new content either – it’s just been two days since the launch and already there are around 150 active indexed torrents ready for downloading.

Speaking of the content on uActivity, it’s primarily a Lifestyle, Self Improvement tracker. The official description is as follows: “uActivity is a private tracker that specializes in lifestyle content. uActivity will help you to share videos, E-books and audio files related to day to day human life. From Self Improvement, Fitness, Food, Drinking, Dancing, Health, Fitness, Seduction, NLP and Cooking to Magic Illusions and More.” Some of the available torrent categories and a few indexed torrents can be seen in the screenshot below:

Built on a customized version of TS Special Edition codebase, uActivity comes with all standard features found on a private tracker. The site is ratio based but a bonus system also exists (currently disabled) to make things easier for those who have trouble uploading back. If you are looking to be part of a new lifestyle tracker, check this out. Signups are currently open.

Site Name: uActivity (http://uactivity.com)

Signup URL: http://uactivity.com/signup.php

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If you’ve been reading this blog for long, you probably have heard about TBDEV. TBDEV is a BitTorrent tracker script that is hugely popular – it’s a fully customizable codebase that’s still in widespread use. Although we have often heard about trackers being built on TBDEV, have you ever heard of a BitTorrent invite/discussion forum and a private torrent site rating system built on this codebase? TopTBDev is one such site – it’s primarily a private tracker ratings and rankings board along with BitTorrent related discussion threads, invite giveaways, requests, tutorials, users bars and even details of torrent packs on various sites. In addition, it has highly detailed tracker descriptions complete with screenshots from all areas of particular a site. TopTBDev is currently open for signup and is accepting new members.

At a glance, TopTBDev looks just like another private tracker – its signup page and the main index will look familiar to anyone who’s used a TBDev based private tracker before. However, instead of the regular ‘Browse’ page, TopTBDev has a ‘Trackers’ button. This takes you to the main index which is a list of trackers sorted by its rating. Clicking on one of these opens a detailed description page, which pretty much contains everything from screenshots to IRC channel details and signup status of a particular tracker. It must be said that included screenshots are highly detailed – you can actually view all parts of a site without joining. Users are allowed to rate and comment about trackers of their choice – comments about a particular site are well organized and easily accessible. Note that TopTBDev appears to index all sites, including trackers that do not prefer publicity.

Then there’s the forum. TopTBDev’s forum has almost all features  you’d usually find on a regular BitTorrent discussion forum. There are invite giveaways, requests, tracker discussions, torrent site userbars, discussions of packs on various trackers, and even a ‘torrent finder’ where you can ask community help to locate a torrent you are looking for. It’s not the most active forum on the planet but it isn’t an isolated ghost town either.

Signups for TopTBDev are currently open. If you are looking to be part of a different kind of BitTorrent forum, check this site out.

Site Name: TopTBDev (http://toptbdev.net)

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

Special thanks to Podolski for the heads up.

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Private torrent trackers opening signups on a monthly basis is nothing new – several invite only torrent communities such as GFXnews, AudioNews, AppzUniverse, Pro Audio Torrents, ElbitZ, etc already engage in this practice with successful results. Latest tracker to join this club is PianoSheets, a unique, Gazelle powered, torrent site which specializes in piano sheet music, tutorials, electronic books plus other educational material that will definitely come in handy for professionals, enthusiasts and students of music. So far, PianoSheets has mostly been an invite only tracker with the last public open signup happening nearly six months ago. This however is about to change – starting November, PianoSheets will be open for public registrations during the first two days of each month. In case you didn’t notice – today is the 1st of November and the the site is open to the public as we speak.

Over the past couple of years, PianoSheets has grown at a steady pace (this tracker actually started its operations back in 2004). In fact if you take a look at the statistics, you’d know that this site has done extremely well as a niche torrent tracker. As of 1/11/2010, PS had a registered user base in excess of 7000 members and tracked over 9400 active torrents. Now, with planned monthly open signups, these statistics are only going to increase and site activity further boosted. In case you didn’t know, PS is a Gazelle powered private tracker.

Just like on most non-general private trackers focusing on a specific category, content is king on PianoSheets. This tracker has some unique torrents you might not find elsewhere – piano sheet music as well as various books, educational material on a number of other musical instruments such as drums, guitar, harmonica, keyboards, organ, woodwind, etc are available for download. Magazines, lyrics, full scores, theory books and the likes can also be found. In addition, the ‘Collections’ section on PS makes it easier to discover related torrents. It’s a powerful usability feature that creates virtual torrent packs – something similar to ‘Collages’ feature often found on some music trackers. This section is easily accessible from the top toolbar. A screenshot capturing part of PianoSheet’s torrent index can be seen below:

As mentioned earlier, there couldn’t be a better time to get into PianoSheets than now (unless you are already a member). For those of you who are interested in getting in, signups will be open to the public from Nov. 1st 00:00GMT to Nov. 2nd 23:59GMT and again each month at the same time.

Site Name: PianoSheerts (http://www.pianosheets.org)

Signup URL: http://www.pianosheets.org/register.php

Special thanks to Hanzo for the heads up.

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Out of the thousands of private torrent trackers that exist today, not many can boast about being online for 6+ years. PolishTracker is one site that can. PT turns 6 today and in celebration, they are giving away free invites on the official IRC channel. Getting into this site is considered quite hard – it hasn’t had an open registration in the recent history and there are no alternate recruitment campaigns going on in other sites including invite forums or blogs. For those of you who haven’t heard about this site, PolishTracker is a General/0day torrent tracker indexing both international as well as Polish scene/ P2P releases. While being a good source for Polish releases, PT also acts as a excellent General/0Day tracker for those seeking to download latest English releases including movies, games, music, TV shows and more.

With nearly 14000 registered members and 18600+ torrents, PolishTracker falls under the ‘large’ private trackers category. This site has a well established footprint in the BitTorrent scene and is still one of the most sought after trackers even after 6 years of being online. According to FSF, PolishTracker invites are among the top 50 most requested tracker invites of 2010.

As mentioned earlier PolishTracker is a General tracker, meaning you can pretty much find all sorts of content here. There are both English and Polish releases, including scene and P2P uploads as well as exclusive packs. At the time this article was being written, PT tracked over 750 exclusive packs, a great feat for any general torrent site. Screenshot below shows part of this sites torrent index, including some packs uploaded in celebration of the 6th birthday:

PolishTracker is built on the TBDEV codebase. However, according to BloodMan, one of PT’s coders, it only just looks like TBDEV right now. We are told that around 90% of the codebase is re-written to facilitate the site’s own requirements. PT comes with several different skins and category icon sets which you can use to change the look and feel of the site. It also supports 3 languages including English, Polish and Deutsch - you can easily change language using flag icons located on top right corner of any internal page.

As mentioned in the title of this post, PT staff are giving away free invites on their IRC channel. To obtain an invite, follow the instructions below:

1. Take a screenshot of the profile page of a private tracker that you already use. This page must have your E-mail mentioned in it (this is where the invite will be sent to). Note that some sites do not include your E-mail info in the profile page – you’ll need to use a tracker that does, such as TL. Upload this screen to an image hosting service such as ImageShack and obtain the URL.
2. Log into the PT IRC invites channel using the details below:
   Server: irc.polishtracker.org
   Channel: #6th
   Direct Link: irc://irc.polishtracker.org/6th
3. Paste the link to your screenshot on the channel and wait patiently for staff to respond.

Note that this invite giveaway will not last for long – it will only be done during today so you might want to hurry.

Once logged into PT, you must read the FAQ, Rules and any news information on Homepage and hit the ‘Read and understood’ button in each page to proceed to the main torrent index.

Special thanks to Bugatti for the heads up and BloodMan (PT Coder) for the support given.

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P2P release groups teaming up with private trackers or groups maintaining their own torrent sites is nothing new. Some of the popular, currently active P2P release groups actually started out as internal releasers in certain trackers. Today’s post is about another similar tracker-group relationship, namely about BitTurk, a Turkish torrent tracker that is home to D-Z0N3. D-Z0N3 is a veteran movie release group who are best known for their BRRip, BDRip and untouched Blu Ray uploads. Their releases are usually available on torrent sites other than BitTurk but this folks is their official home. While BitTurk is not necessarily a specialized movie tracker (it’s a general tracker), expect to find a lot of BRRip, BDRip and other movie release here (both English and Turkish). Signups are currently open to the public and new members are allowed in.

While BitTurk may not be so popular amongst the English speaking user base, it’s a veteran torrent site that has been around for several years. It’s also got a very high reputation amongst Turkish trackers. However, don’t be mistaken – those who don’t speak a word of Turkish can still have plenty of uses from BitTurk. While releases local to Turkey and movies dubbed in Turkish are indexed on this site, international scene and P2P releases are also readily available here. For example, majority of D-Z0N3 movie uploads are in English language.

Contrary to popular belief, BitTurk is a not a movie tracker – it’s a General/0Day torrent site. However, the main attraction are the BRRip, BDRip and Blu Ray movie releases. D-Z0N3’s presence as an internal group certainly adds a lot of value to this tracker. ButTurk currently tracks over 300 D-Z0N3 releases, some of which can be seen in the screenshot below (total number of BRRip/BDRip releases surpasses 1500):

Signups for BitTurk are currently open. If you are interested in creating a free account, go ahead and check it out.

Site Name: BiTTuRK Tracker (http://www.bitturk.net)

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

Note: The entire site interface is in Turkish and as far as I know there is no way to convert it to English (there used to be an option in a previous version of the site but this no longer seems to be there. If you have difficulty locating the torrent browse page, access it directly via http://www.bitturk.net/browse.php )

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A couple of days ago, there was this whole hype about SeedNation, a new Seedbox provider. Apart from offering the usual services, Seednation was providing some 600 odd boxes absolutely for free. The offer was very attractive and it immediately got publicity from several BitTorrent forums and blogs, driving a lot of traffic which was a very important factor for any new online service. We too got several E-mails requesting us to post an article about Seednation - these mails appeared to be from fans of the service, but we believe at least one of them was sent by a Seednation staff member. Either way we postponed publishing about it until we verified the service was legit. For us, this simply seemed to be too good to be true, and apparently, it wasn't just us who had similar thoughts. Several private trackers soon issued warnings about Seed Nation, raising security and privacy concerns. Quoted below is one such Mass PM sent by BitMe’s administration (BitMe is a well respected E-Learning tracker that is over 5 years old).

A site, http://www.seednation.net/ has come up and they are offering something that is literally too good to be true. A free seedbox. Here is the bad news boys and girls, with such things, if it sounds too good to be true, it generally is.
So far, I have seen reports of stolen passkeys, stolen accounts, stolen invites and the like. I can’t tell you what to do or don’t do, however, if you find your passkey or the like is stolen you will receive zero sympathy from staff for this.
So what is the point of this mass PM. Simply this, you use this exceptionally dodgy site at your own risk, and if you have been found to have been compromised, after you have received this warning (25/10/2010 at 20:15 GMT) you will have lost your account here. There will be no exceptions, there will be no.. “Oh I’m sorry I didn’t know.” Use this site at your own peril, but be aware that if your passkey or otherwise is found to have been compromised your account WILL be disabled, and any other private trackers you are on will probably toss you as well.
You have been warned.

BitMe wasn’t the only site to issue such warnings – a similar message was also seen on BitMeTV and a few other trackers. Either way, in a rather unsurprising turn of events, SeedNation soon shut down. For a brief period of time, their homepage displayed the following message:

SeedNation is closed. SLDKluster / Dhruv are the same person. He also was behind the scam of Leechbox. Seednation is now closed. If you where a member of SeedNation or had a seedbox, please join the IRC server to get your seedbox. The host / sponsor of seednation is now the owner of the domain, and has opened a case agaianst him. The old staff members foxhound, p, and d4rk have started #seedmasters, which will provide seedboxs on gigabit boxs legit. But not for free. It will be for people who purchase VIP.
or IRC: irc.digitalrebels.org #seedmasters
Come Hangout, and get your seedbox today! or come join and find out how you can get yours free!
Know linux? Know seedboxs? Become staff & get paid! Join IRC!

Seednation homepage, http://www.seednation.net/ appears to be down right now. While the new service may actually be legit, the whole SeedNation fiasco will no doubt be a public relations disaster for its owners. In the meantime, if you were a user of SeedNation’s free seedbox service, you might want to change your tracker passwords and reset passkeys just to be on the safe side.

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Over the years, we’ve come across many different release blogs which announce scene and P2P releases to the public. However, I don’t think we’ve ever featured a release blog dedicated to announcing new magazine releases. StoreMags is a site which does exactly that – it indexes latest issues of popular international magazines. These are freely downloadable and are in true PDF format, allowing them to be read either on your personal computer or on a portable device such as the iPad. Unlike some magazine download sites that we have come across, StoreMags is not full of obsolete crap. The collection here is pretty impressive, with some world renowned issues such as PC World, Macworld, Hello!, PC Magazine, etc being actively indexed.

At a glance, StoreMags looks like your average release blog – a separate post is made for each magazine , along with a brief description, a screenshot and of course, download links for the full PDF version. You can customize the view to a grid based layout instead of the default individual post structure. This is excellent for browsing through new releases quickly and we highly recommend you switch to this view. To change the view, locate the ‘Select View’ drop down in top right corner of the page, and set the value to ‘Grid’. Some of the indexed magazine covers, as shown in the Grid view are seen below:

There are all sorts of magazines indexed on StoreMags, ranging from Computer mags to Cooking, Fitness and even History related titles  – official statement is there are over 39000 files indexed (which we can’t verify). Uploads are categorized based on type of content and you can easily browse through these categories from the right sidebar. Note that some adult themed magazines are also indexed here.

As you might have guessed, StoreMags does not host any of the PDF files on their own servers. What it offers instead is a verified, reliable download link pointing to a file that’s usually hosted on a one click hosting service. So far, I have not come across any broken links on this site.

Storemags is a freely accessible site that is open to the public. Registration is not required to download any content.

Site Name & URL: StoreMags (http://storemags.com)

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Here are two more private trackers that are open for signup; ExDesi (ExD) and The Horror Charnel (THC). Despite being open at the same time, there’s no similarity between these two sites at least in terms of the content they track. The Horror Charnel is a specialized tracker for English Horror, Cult, Sleaze Movie & TV Torrents while ExDesi is a private torrent site for Indian (Bollywood) movies, music and TV series. Both these trackers are well respected in their own niches and are not regularly open to the public. For example, The Horror Charnel is having their third public open signup in the last 4 years. Similarly, ExD has not had an open registration for at least 6 months (if memory servers correct). Either way both are currently open for registration and you are welcome to create an account if you already aren’t a member. Full details after the jump.

The Horror Charnel (THC)

With 6800+ users and 4000+ torrents, THC is one of the largest (and with 5th birthday approaching soon, one of the oldest) specialized Horror trackers out there. This site indexes both TV shows and movies related to the cult genre. Amongst the torrents tracked are some very rare horror movies, older horror themed TV shows, shorts, TV documentaries and more. There are some great packs online as well. For a complete list of torrent categories, check the ‘genre selector’ on torrent browse page. THC sports a unique theme which has Horror themed category icons, bonus indicators and a matching color scheme. A screenshot of part of the torrent index can be found below:
  
If you are a fan of horror and cult movies, you’ll feel right at home here. Signups will be open till the 1st of November so there’s still plenty of spots left - get in while you can.
Site Name: The Horror Charnel (http://horrorcharnel.kicks-ass.org/)
Signup URL: http://horrorcharnel.kicks-ass.org/signup.php

ExDesi

ExDesi or ExtremeDesi is a private torrent tracker and a forum which has lots of Hindi movie torrents. It however is not a dedicated movies tracker - you can find Indian/Pakistani music, TV shows, documentaries, stage shows (live performances) and even sports torrents on ExDesi. This tracker is home to some unique and exclusive releases by Indian P2P groups such as DDR, BrG, DUS and xDR. Apart from torrents, ExDesi has an online streaming links section and a direct download links/one click hosting links section in its forums. The screenshot below shows some of the torrent categories available on ExD:

Although there aren’t any English movies here on ExD, this tracker will no doubt be loved by fans of BollyWood (Indian) content. Signups are currently open and if you still aren’t a member, check this out.
Site Name: ExDesi (http://exdesi.com)
Signup URL: http://exdesi.com/register.php

Special thanks to Bugatti for the heads up.

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Here’s yet another chapter in the ongoing war (or shall I say E-drama) between the warez scene and torrent sites. Earlier, we saw a SceneNotice revealing names of SysOps and server IP addresses of the popular scene tracker SCC (if you don’t know what a SceneNotice is, read this post). Today, two more sites have been ‘targeted’ by the scene, namely the hugely popular General/0day torrent tracker TorrentLeech and specialized TV torrent site BTN. The notices, titled TORRENTLEECH.ORG.P2P.TORRENT-SCENENOTICE and BTN.P2P.TORRENT-SCENENOTICE again reveal nothing more than site and IRC server IP addresses (which are not so secret, by the way) and a list of IRC nicknames of tracker staff. These newer notices also contain instructions on how to ‘submit’ these trackers to the FBI for investigation. Quoted below is the SceneNotice pre’d against TL, with personal information and IP addresses removed:

BE SMART YOUR BEST SITE CAN BE A TORRENT SITE PASS THIS IPS FORWARD
Just another tracker making dumps from scene using falow ips for this shits
www.torrentleech.org IP (XX.XX.XX.XX) - they use like master for dumps (can be a site or just a dump
www.torrentleech.org has two IP numbers (XX.XX.XX.XX, XX.XX.XX.XX). Both are on the same IP network
irc.torrentleech.org:7011 or 7021 ssl IP (XX.XX.XX.XX
FBI INVESTIGATION OPEN i put alot of ips ther :D all %
Ok on http://www.fbi.gov/ in report internet crime on page http://www.ic3.gov
I already report OWNERS and SITE IPS on FBI page and the ticket ID are open
i will keep secret the details here, but i have all informations agains this sites, i info hosts too
but i target woot the site leader with ther email too, and thks to site uploaders for give me alot of infos
ofc i report your paypal privated and site paypal too :D now fbi will hunt you sucker
DELUPURGE this nicks on sites all torrenters
[LIST OF STAFF NICKS]
by torrent hunters
on the last nfo us forget to put fbi report on SCC, but is already done now your tracker will be the next

As you can see, the content and writing style on these notices speak volumes of the maturity of whoever pre’d them. And submitting site IPs to the FBI is surely a sign of desperation (and you don’t even need to be a l33t scene haxx0r to do this). Either way, it would now be interesting to see if DDOS attacks will be launched against TL and BTN, just like it happened with SCC a few days ago. Although the DDOS interrupted SCC services for about a day, it was ineffective in the long run as the site came back online, fully operational and without data loss.

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