Heads up - third series of the popular UK television series Robin hood has just started airing. First episode of season 3 has already been leaked on BitTorrent by scene group BiA (note that we are talking about the Robin Hood series that began airing in 2006). This series is aired in the UK on BBC One as well as on BBC HD. However thanks to BitTorrent technology viewers across the globe are able to enjoy the show. So far 38 episodes of this series have been produced – almost all of them can be found on public and private BitTorrent trackers for free download.

Following table summarizes which BitTorrent trackers have torrents of Robin Hood 2006 - 2009 series. Note that we have not provided direct download links to torrent files – you’ll have to search the sites below to find actual torrents.

Site Name	Tracker Type	Availability	Signup Status
BitMeTv	Private	Full season packs of season 1 and 2 with 10+ seeds, Individual episodes of season 3	Closed
Tvtorrents.com	Private	Full season packs of season 1 and 2 with 20+ seeds, also has 720p versions of the same with 2-3 seeds	Closed
Tv.Torrents.Ro	Private	Full season packs of season 1 and 2 with 8+ seeds, Individual episodes of season 3	Closed
The Box	Private	Full season packs of season 1 and 2 with 15-30 seeds, Individual episodes of season 3	Open
EZTV	Public	Full season packs and individual episodes of seasons 1,2,3 with hundreds of seeds, Lots of episodes missing	Open / Optional

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Among the thousands of private trackers with General/0Day content, there are few small and rather unknown torrent sites specializing in specific niches – just like the the tracker featured in this article. Those of you who are interested in lossless music have probably heard about the WavPack format (WavPack is a hybrid lossless audio compression scheme that is growing in popularity – more info here). WavPack music is not commonly found even on the biggest music trackers around. This is where WalVe BTSound comes in – it’s a new private tracker that specializes in music in WavPack format.

WalVe BTSound is a relatively new private tracker which has Russian origins. Although the site is from Russian, majority of the content tracked is English music. Currently there are over 500 torrents on this site, most of which are music albums encoded in WavPack format (See categories below for music genres information). In addition to music, Walve BTSound has some DVD-VIDEO releases of live shows as well.

 

Note that the site layout except for the signup page is in Russian language. However, navigation should not be a problem even if you don’t know the language - the site follows standard private tracker layout (the second button on top toolbar “Обзор” is the browse button which is probably all you’ll need help with).

Walve BTSound is currently open for public registrations. Interested readers may create an account for free.

Site Name: Walve BTSound (http://btsound.net)

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

Categories:

• Blues
• Classical
• Country
• Disco
• Drum 'n' Bass
• DTS-CD
• Electronic
• Folk
• Hip Hop
• Instrumental
• Jazz
• Metal
• Music Video
• New Age
• Other
• Pop
• Retro
• Rock
• Rock 'n' Roll
• Soundtrack / OST
• Super Sound
• Techno
• Trance
• Vinyl Rip

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DRM and various other copy protection mechanisms are commonly used in today’s software and games. According to most software/game publishers, such measures are absolutely necessary to fight of modern pirates. However DRM and anti piracy measures have become more intrusive in the past couple of years and are nowadays heavily disliked (or may I say hated) by many end users. So how do you know which DRM or anti piracy measures are embedded into the latest PC game or application you just purchased?

The answer is simple – use Protection ID. Protection ID is a freeware application that is capable of identifying over 100 various DRM and copy protection technologies used. This software is capable for detecting DRM such as SecurROM, Starforce, Safedisk along with a number of exe packers, exe protectors, PC game trial protections, malware cryptors, .NET protections, dongles, licenses, installers, PC/ISO protections, CD/DVD sector scans and more (You can see a full list here). Given below is a screenshot taken after running Protection ID on a GTA : San Andreas exe i had on my hard disk:

As in the above case, sometime the software is able to identified any cracks applied to circumvent the protection by various scene and p2p groups. To scan an exe with Protection ID, all you need to do is to click the ‘Scan’ button located on bottom left corner of the screen.  Notice the little icons on the left hand panel – those are useful little extra tools which can be used to perform additional tasks.

Download

This software is free and you can download it directly from the following location:

[Click Here] to download Protection ID v6.2.2 from GCW server

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We are back with another collective open signup update – this post presents summarized details of 9 private BitTorrent trackers that are currently open for signup. Notable sites featured in this update include RmvBusterS – an RMVB movies tracker, POiNTX – a music tracker, ScareThe.Net – a Horror tracker, TTOKTV – kids tracker and several other sites including some of the new Gazelle based trackers recently featured on FILEnetworks Blog. If you missed these sites when they were posted earlier, here is your second chance for free registration.

RmvBusterS
 
Site Name: RmvBusterS (http://rmvbusters.pl)
Signup URL - English: http://rmvbusters.pl/signup_key.php?lang=en
Signup URL – Polish : http://rmvbusters.pl/signup_key.php?lang=pl
Stats: ~9000 users and 7600 torrents
Note: Rmvbusters is celebrating their 3rd birth day – 3X upload and entire site on free leech.
Description: This is a private tracker dedicated to movies and TV shows in RMVB format. To know more about this file format and the tracker, please refer to full review located here.

POiNTX
 
Site Name: Point X (http://share.pointx.ro)
Signup URL: http://share.pointx.ro/signup.php
Stats: 2000+ torrents and 4750+ users
Description: POiNTX is a music torrent tracker – a relatively new on at that. You may find more information and screenshots in this article. They’ve switched to a cool layout since our last post.

TheScene.Ro
 
Site Name: The Scene (http://thescene.ro/)
Signup URL: http://thescene.ro/signup.php
Stats: 550+ active torrents
Description: TheScene is another music torrent tracker that’s shown good progress over the last few months. For full torrent category details and screenshots, refer to this article.

PTFiles (ptf)
 
Site Name: PTFiles (http://ptfiles.org/)
Signup URL: http://ptfiles.org/register.php
Stats: ~3500 users and 2300+ torrents
Description: PTFiles is a  General/0Day tracker with a great community. They have something called crazy hours during which you get 3X upload and freeleech on torrents. More information about this tracker can be found here.

ScareThe.Net
 
Site Name: ScareThe.Net (http://scarethe.net)
Signup URL: http://scarethe.net/signup.php
Stats: 1140+ users and ~750 torrents
Description: Scarethe.Net is a Swedish horror tracker with English content. Full tracker review can be found here.

The Tao of Kids TV (TTOKTV)
 
Site Name: The Tao Of Kids TV (http://www.ttoktv.com/)
Signup URL: http://www.ttoktv.com/signup.php
Stats: 9700+ users and ~920 torrents
Description: TTOKTV is one of the largest kids trackers out there. Lots and lots of children’s TV torrents. More info here.

ICTorrent
 
Site Name: ICTorrent (http://www.ictorrent.com)
Signup URL: http://www.ictorrent.com/forums/register.php
Stats: 10300+ members
Description: ICTorrent is a new and promising Bollywood/Hindi/Indian tracker. There was a recent review of this site posted on FILEnetworks Blog – you can read it here.

World Wrestling Torrents (WWT)
 
Site Name: World Wrestling Torrents (http://worldwrestlingtorrents.net)
Signup URL: http://worldwrestlingtorrents.net/register.php
Stats: 4000+ users
Description: WWT is a Gazelle based Wrestling tracker. Full review can be found here.

JuicyBitz
 
Site Name: JuicyBitz (http://juicybitz.net)
Signup URL: http://juicybitz.net/register.php
Stats: ~575 users and ~60 torrents
Description: JuicyBitz is a brand new retro games tracker that’s based on Gazelle codebase. A few days ago we posted a full review of this tracker which can be accessed by this link.

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Nothing makes me more happy than seeing latest DRM software get raped at the hands of scene and p2p groups. ViTALiTY, a group from the game scene have returned with a yet another cracked PC title – Vin Diesel’s Wheelman. Wheelman is a 2009 driving game published by Ubisoft (developed by Midway games). The game was released on the 24th of March in NA and on the 27th in Europe. Thanks to ViTALiTY, the game has now leaked all over the internet.

Unlike most recent games published by UBISoft such as H.A.W.X, Endwar and Prince of Persia, Wheelman was not DRM free. Instead, it included SecuROM v7.39.0005 DRM protection developed by Sony. Anyways ViTALiTY has made thing much simpler for pirates and DRM haters alike – their release contains a cracked executable which seemingly has the protection removed. As mentioned earlier the release has spread everywhere including private torrent trackers:

Wheelman-ViTALiTY ] [ Uploaded first @ RBy 11m 51s after pre, followed by [ GFT, TV, TL, TGB, THB, SCC, ACE] ]

Source: Torrent-Racers IRC Speaking of the game, Wheelman seems like a fun game to play. There are not many reviews of this game around yet but you can see some trailers here. EDIT: Here are some of the problems that have been reported with this game. These are based on various E-mails we received and from information posted across various gaming forums:

• Cannot change controls and some display/graphics settings
• Stuttering or pauses on certain hardware configurations - even on some high end systems.
• Disappearing road bug - Sometimes when you are driving along a road, the road suddenly dissapears nad you fall in and die an instant death. No fix for this bug yet.
• Note that there is a fake release with the same name as VITALITY's circulating in various public BitTorrent trackers. Apparantly the installer of this release is a trojan downloader so beware.

Minimum System Requirements

• OS: Windows XP SP2/Vista
• Processor: Intel Core 2 DUO @ 2 GHz
• Memory: 2 GB
• Hard Drive: 9 GB Free
• Video Memory: 512 MB (NVidia GeForce 7900/ATI Radeon x1950)
• Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
• DirectX: 9.0c
• Keyboard & Mouse
• DVD Rom Drive

2GHZ C2D and 2GB RAM minimum for this game? Seems like a tad too high.

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The past week was not that good for private trackers with major sites such TL and SCC encountering problems. Don't worry – this time around we have some good news regarding two popular private torrent trackers in the BitTorrent scene ; SmokingInTheRain (SITR) and SCL (The Clover). Smoking In The Rain has just upgraded to a brand new shiny new layout while the secret yet popular tracker SCL has launched it’s 3rd phase of expansion. Read on for more details.

S.I.T.R. Upgrades Layout

Readers of this Blog should be familiar with the private torrent tracker Smoking In The Rain (SITR). It’s a general/0day tracker with a good community that’s been around for a while. As we mentioned in our review of this site, SITR used to have a very dated, cluttered and less navigable layout. Fans of the site can now rejoice - SITR has just gone through a complete UI overhaul and it now sports a brand new look.

Not only does the site have a new logo but everything from category icons to main toolbar layout has been changed. There is a note posted on site homepage regarding the new updates:

WELCOME TO THE BRAND NEW SMOKINGINTHERAIN

Please take the time to look around and get to know things. There have been MANY changes and I am sure it will take a bit of getting used to. Please take the time to re-read the new FAQ and RULES and see the FORUMS for information on changes.
HAVE FUN AND ENJOY THE NEW SITE

SITR currently has around 5000 members and tracks close to 2500 torrents. If you want to become a member of this site, signups are currently open.

Site Name: SmokingInTheRain (http://www.smokingintherain.us)

Signup URL: http://www.smokingintherain.us/signup.php

SCL launches 3rd expansion phase

After about a month since their last expansion, SCL (The Clover) has launched the 3rd expansion phase in order to recruit more members. Under this scheme, existing SCL members are given several invites which are only valid for a limited time – members can use these invites during the validity period to invite their friends in.

A note posted on the site regarding the 3rd expansion phase reads as below:

Yes you read it right! SceneLife is expanding once again! With the new peer stats (made by you guys) the new users should have more then enough content available! and hopefully they will join us in the community part of ScL (forums and IRC).

How it works

• Cadets get 2 invites
• Privates and higher get 5 invites
• Start date: Tuesday 24th of March at 19:00 PM
• End date : Tuesday 7th of April at 19:00 PM

Rules

• You are responsible for your invitee!
• If we catch you selling, trading, or offering you will get banned No questions asked!
• Additional information can be found in our Rules section.
  All invites, ALL of them, will be removed after the invite round.

Make sure you read the rules (both expansion related and site rules) carefully.

SCL currently has over 5600 members and tracks close to 4000 torrents. It’s a community based tracker with one of the best looking layouts for a private tracker ever.

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Nowadays one click hosting sites such as RapidShare, MegaShare, FileFactory, Depositfiles are hugely popular. The popularity of these sites have given birth to a number of tools associated with them in the form of hacks, automatic downloaders, uploaders, leechers, etc. One bad aspect of such tools is that most of these are either fakes, scams, malware or simply useless non functional software. File Uploader 4.1.2 is one of those rare one click hosting site utilities which actually does what it claims to do.

As the name suggests, File and Image uploader is an automatic uploader which supports over 150 file storage services including (but not limited to) Rapidshare, Megashare, Uploading.com, Sendspace, Megaupload and even YoutTube. If you want to upload a file to a one click hosting site, all you need to do is it open File Uploader, select the file, select the host and hit the upload button. The file will be uploaded and the download link will be generated – the entire process is automated and you are not required to visit the site on the web or fill captchas. You can even upload the same file to multiple one click hosting sites at the same time.

The list of supported servers is truly impressive. I did not have the time to check if automatic uploading to each and every one of these sites worked. Most of the major services including RapidShare, Sendspace, etc worked just fine.

Download

[Click Here] to download ‘File and Image Uploader’ from official download page. Virustotal report for FileUploader.exe can be found here – Don’t worry – this file is safe.

Note: To remove the 7 second nag screen window at startup and to enable a few non critical options, you need to make a donation.

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This week has not been that good for users of private torrent trackers. Two popular General/0Day trackers SceneAccess (SCC) and TorrentLeech (TL) were forced offline for quite a long time (actually they were down for only about a day – but in the world of BitTorrent that’s a long time). Those who were eagerly awaiting the complete return of these beloved trackers can now heave a sigh of relive – both sites are back online and fully functional once again.

Out of these two sites SceneAccess came back online about three days ago – however the site was having trouble with the upload function and as a result no new torrents were uploaded in the past three days. SCC’s upload problem now seems to be sorted and torrents are being uploaded at lighting fast pre times, as usual.

TorrentLeech which was down since yesterday has also returned. At a glance all major site functions including the tracker seem to be working:

There is also a news item posted on the site related to the downtime:

Due to a serious network related issue with our ISP, TorrentLeech suffered a many hours downtime. The problem is resolved now, and we are taking precautions in order to avoid such downtimes in the future. Because of a needed maintenance after that incident, there is a chance of a very small downtime (only a few minutes) in the coming day. Thank you all for your patience and we are very sorry for any inconvenience caused.

If you cannot access the site via www.torrentleech.org, try accessing it via http://89.248.163.198/. If you are using FireFox, you may not see the captcha – just enter your username and password and you should get in.

In other news dedicated games torrent tracker bitGAMER has also returned after being down for more than a week. Public signups are currently closed – if they open again we will update in our private trackers section, as always.

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BitTorrent trackers based on the Gazelle codebase were a rarity few months ago. But now things are slowly changing – many new sites that run on Gazelle have been launched and several older sites such as FTS (Open) and Tehconnection have migrated to this new codebase. (Gazelle is a BitTorrent tracker script pioneered by What.CD crew). We present you another new BitTorrent site that is based on Gazelle – DarkForce is a private torrent tracker that tracks Bollywood content and other general scene/p2p releases.

Over the course of last few months we have posted over a dozen specialized Bollywood/Hindi trackers here on FILEnetworks Blog. If memory servers correct, none of these sites were running on Gazelle codebase – DarkForce is perhaps the first ever Gazelle based Bollywood tracker. Although we call it a ‘Bollywood’ tracker, it’s not only that. It does have lots of Bollywood stuff but I also found some general scene releases including English movies on DarkForce.

Note that DarkForce is a brand new tracker. It currently only has 450 users. The site trackers close to 700 torrents which is pretty good stat for a 1 month old private tracker. However DarkForce definitely needs more leechers and seeders.

If you want to become a member and help the tracker grow, signups are currently open.Site Name: DarkForce (http://www.darkforce.cc)

Signup URL: http://www.darkforce.cc/register.php

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These days you hear a lot about torrent sites going offline for indefinite periods of time – several days ago SceneAccess (SCC) was down for around 24 hours and today another popular tracker TorrentLeech too suffered from prolonged downtime. One thing we have noticed when a popular tracker suddenly goes down is the increased number of E-Mails and comments posted by site’s users. Such responses are usually something similar to “what's up with [tracker name]? Is it down for you too?”. With the help of the sites posted below, you will no longer need to wait for others to verify this information for you.

1. DownForEveryoneOrJustMe (DFEOJM)

All you have to do is to visit http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com and type in the web address of the site you want to check. If the site’s servers are offline, DFEOJM will let you know. If the service is able to access the site, this too will be communicated to you. If DFEOKM is able to access a site and you cannot, there may be something wrong at your end (note – this is just a possibility) .

2. IsThatSiteDown?

http://isthatsitedown.com/ is another service similar to DownForEveryOneOrJustMe. This too lets you check if a site is really offline. Just like in the previous case, make sure you have no problems at your end if this service is able to reach a site that you cannot.  

Although we wrote this article with BitTorrent trackers in mind, basically any site on the internet can be tested using the two services mentioned above. Note that none of these services check the functionality of a web site. They merely ping the site’s host through their servers.

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