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The Dominating Trackers - Part 3: Best General / 0Day

sharky — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:30:38 +0000

In our Part I on scene trackers, we conclude that most torrenters can easily attain the majority of scene releases provided by the Top Three. Each being somewhat different in what they provide, but collectively they’re invaluable assets for an overall portrayal of scene content. While scene is the standard, there’s also a wide appeal [...]

The Dominating Trackers - Part II - Other Scene Trackers

sharky — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:13:00 +0000

ScT, SCC & GFT aren’t the only trackers with quality sceneaxx; other well-established sites - and even some newer ones - are also vying to provide fast pretimes on scene releases. Smaller, relatively unknown 0day trackers are surprisingly competitive at racing scene content and will often specialize in certain genres. Larger general trackers may also [...]

The Dominating Private Trackers - Part I - The Best of The Best

sharky — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:17:57 +0000

Here at FSF we review countless new trackers, but it’s about time we took a look into the oldskoolers to pay homage to the dominating trackers. You know the sites we’re talking about: ScT, SCC & GFT - to name the top three - as well as TV, RTT, TL, TiT and other contenders such [...]

TopBytes, DigitalHive, LastTorrents & TopHos - Open for Signup

sharky — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:00:26 +0000

4 trackers; 57,787 torrents. As luck would have it, all four of these great private trackers are open for signup at the same time. TopHos, normally closed to public signups isn’t just a tracker, it’s a community! TopBytes recently did some major housecleaning and re-opened registration today. DigitalHive is often underrated, but is a good [...]

Seedbox vs Usenet: Why a Seedbox is a Waste of Money

sharky — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:55:20 +0000

Before everyone throws their hands in the air screaming blasphemy for FSF denouncing seedbox usage, let it be known that FSF didn’t write this article. However, we thoroughly enjoyed it as it sheds much light on the validity of Usenet in comparison to BitTorrent/seedboxes, so we thought it be apropos to republish it (well most [...]

14 New Seedbox Providers to Speed Up Your Torrents

sharky — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:19:51 +0000

The overall cost of a seedbox service really hasn’t changed all that much over the past 18 months, but what has changed is what you can expect to get for your money. Providers that offer seedboxes with torrent limits are being left behind in favor of more robust (and affordable) solutions - with "slices" (VPSes) [...]

Two New Trackers Open - DocsBits and SceneXvid

sharky — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:02:02 +0000

Instead of waiting to add these hot new sites to our next "New Trackers" article, we thought it be best to present these two stylish (and purposeful) TBDev-coded trackers now. Both are specialized trackers; with DocsBits featuring eLearning torrents, and SceneXvid catering to scene-only XviD rips for TV, movies and adult releases. DocsBits.com About / Stats Online for [...]

Vizz.tv Exposed - A Review of the $24 TV Tracker

sharky — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:12:58 +0000

Here’s one tracker you won’t be finding invitations floating around for, and that’s Vizz.tv. As many already know, this new TV tracker only offers membership through a $24 yearly fee. As luck would have it, we were fortunate enough to find a subscriber who granted us unconditional access. Presenting the Net’s first (and only) review [...]

KickassTorrents - A Fast-Growing Torrent Indexer

sharky — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:47:58 +0000

Rarely do we come across a public torrent site that’s worth writing extensively about. Most torrent indexers are little more than carbon copies of each other with few, if any, discernible features that make them stand out from the rest. You know the sites we’re talking about - AliveTorrents, ExtraTorrent, BTMon, TorrentFly, Torrentz - while [...]

23 New Private Trackers: November 2009 Edition

sharky — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:36:12 +0000

Activity has definitely picked up concerning new private trackers during the past month or so. Here’s our scary Halloween edition of what’s hot / what’s not among new trackers - including two new Gazelles you probably haven’t heard about; a great new scene tracker called Kaste; and, as usual, a bevy of sites worth forgetting. http://total-bytes.com — [...]

Quickstart Guide to Free Satellite TV (IKS Edition)

sharky — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:32:56 +0000

This quickstart guide covers everything you need to know about how to enjoy free satellite TV in North America, although other regions may be supported. For around $300 just about anyone can easily set up a motorized satellite dish complete with an LNB & receiver. With the blackout of Nagra3, most satellite pirates have turned [...]

Find Private Tracker Invites at InviteTheScene

sharky — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:01:20 +0000

Here at FSF, we’re always on the lookout for the newest tracker invite sites. Whether it be duds like TakeMe, CGI-U or SceneInvites - or studs such as TPS, Etiv and TR; we aim to report about them all unbiasedly - and let our readers decide. Let us introduce the latest torrent forum to launch [...]

How to Block Seedbox IP Ranges in uTorrent, Vuze

sharky — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:45:16 +0000

The purposefulness of blocking or banning seedbox IP ranges when torrenting through a home PC is to be able to increase your upload rates to non-seedbox peers. By limiting your BitTorrent traffic to mostly other home users only, such as yourself, this will effectively cut out seedbox traffic - simply put; it means you won’t [...]

Comic-Releech: #1 Comedy Tracker, Now Open Signups

sharky — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:03:32 +0000

Looking for a tracker that caters specifically to stand-ups, funny flicks and comedy TV? Then look no further than Comic-Relee.ch. Packed with content and loaded with new features, community-inspired CoR has evolved into the premier comedy tracker on the ‘net. And just in time for Halloween, CoR is now open for registration for a limited [...]

Spurious ‘PEG Topsite’ Becomes a Tracker Reality

sharky — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:04:49 +0000

Nothing sets off the private torrent community into a frenzy quite like the mention of a new l33t secret tracker. Many will probably remember old news about PEG. Supposedly PEG was a topsite in the style of a TBDev tracker, where members received direct web/FTP access to the fastest and latest scene releases - ratio [...]

Two Popular French Trackers Shut Down: Two More Open

sharky — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:03:29 +0000

Hot on the heels of Guiks.net who pulled the plug on themselves - likely forcibly due to legal pressure from French authorities (at least the military wasn’t involved this time), two other popular French private trackers have now followed suit. Reload-Paradise and sister site HDParadise are also now fini - but the good news is [...]

The Top 50 Most Requested Tracker Invites of 2009

sharky — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:23:24 +0000

After receiving countless requests for an updated version of our Top 50 Most Requested Private Tracker Invites article, we’ve finally gotten around to crunching the numbers once again. In comparison to last December’s statistics, the results are astonishingly quite different this time around. There are dozens of new popular trackers, defunct trackers, IRC applications, new [...]

3 Very Cool New Online P2P Services - FSF Exclusives

sharky — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:38:30 +0000

At FSF, we love exploring new P2P services; whether it be new trackers, P2P apps or online search utilities. We’ve got three brand-new sites to report about, including a very unique webservice for checking your IP address in a torrent; a new chic Web 2.0-style serial number search utility; and a website to help find [...]

10 Reasons for The Decline of Tracker Invite Requests

sharky — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:57:37 +0000

The facts are in: Numerically, requests for tracker invitations are much in decline compared to what they were a year ago - even though there are more private trackers and more torrent forums than ever before. But does this mean that there are fewer people opting for private? Not at all. Private trackers as a [...]

NewSceneFiles - A New Pre-to-DDL Service

sharky — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:04:17 +0000

Fanboys of SceneDDL and xldr.net now have another option for finding fresh scene releases, and that’s at NewSceneFiles.net. NewSceneFiles is a new autopost service that provides one of the fastest turnarounds on Pre’s to direct download links. In less than 6 weeks since launching, NewSceneFiles already lists an impressive 3,300+ releases, for an average of [...]

Web-based Private Tracker Pretimes and Torrent Races at Trac3.me

sharky — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:25:35 +0000

There’s a new PreDB website that not only offers a comprehensive listing of new scene releases, but also shows Traces - or torrent races. Introducing Trac3.me, a collaborated effort from the pros at APNet and ScnSrc. Trac3.me, also known as Trace, is a service similar to other PreDBs - but with an interesting twist. Not [...]

The Best Hosting Providers For Private Trackers

sharky — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:20:49 +0000

One question we get quite frequently from readers is this: What are the best (safest) hosting companies in which to run a private tracker on? The answer is quite simple, really - one just needs to take a look at which hosting providers current trackers are using. Below, we list 200 popular trackers and examine [...]

Private Tracker Invite Trading on the Rise, Thanks to Google Wave Invites

sharky — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:29:03 +0000

Move over, trader forums - there’s some stiff competition muscling in for a piece of the action on torrent tracker invite trading. The Internet has gone completely bonkers for Gwave invites, and private trackers are caught in the middle - as seen at the new Google Wave Invites service. While GWI isn’t affiliated with Google [...]

20 New Private Trackers: October 2009 Edition

sharky — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:14:23 +0000

Ahh, Autumn - days are getting shorter, leaves are changing colour, and new torrent trackers are starting to sprout up around every corner of the interwebs. It’s time to recollect our latest findings, in which we review 20 new private trackers (amazingly, none of which are adult). Once again, we’ve cranked up our honesty (and [...]

TTinvite.com - A New Torrent Invite Forum Opens

sharky — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:03:33 +0000

It’s been quite some time since we’ve introduced a new Torrent Forum to the BT scene. Is this because new ones aren’t being started up? Not exactly - there are a few new underground forums that we’re not just not able to mention here at FSF. But not so with TTinvite.com - a new BitTorrent [...]