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FTWR Tracker Shuts Down

2009-11-29T05:55:00.001+05:30

Today’s been a pretty bad day for private torrent trackers with ScT deciding to shut down and CaratNetworks getting DDOS’d – here’s more bad news. Just hours after SceneTorrents (ScT) decided to close down, FTWR (aka ‘The Rabbit’), another veteran general torrent site known for its tight knit, closed community too has shut down probably for ever. FTWR’s elusive homepage (which not many know of) now states ‘The Rabbit Is Dead. Long Live The Rabbit’. Unlike in ScT’s case, we can safely rule out...

ScT Tracker (SceneTorrents) To Shut Down, Rumors Galore, Alternatives

2009-11-29T03:36:00.001+05:30

As per information posted on SceneTorrents (ScT)’s forum & IRC channel ( and sent via mass PM) , both the site and the tracker will shut down for good in a few hours. If ScT indeed shuts down, it will be a huge blow to the private tracker community as the site was truly a veteran in the BitTorrent scene. It was nearly 5 years old tracker that had amazing pre times, awesome packs and of course blazing fast download speeds. Exact reason/reasons why such a decision was taken has not been...

17 BitTorrent Trackers and Indexers That May Replace Mininova

2009-11-28T11:12:00.001+05:30

It shouldn’t be news to you that Mininova, one of the largest torrent indexers on the planet, deleted their torrents index and went ‘legal’. While not completely shut down (their content distribution service is still alive), this move has rendered Mininova useless for many who used the site daily. However what’s important is that Mininova didn’t bend over and shut down – they went down fighting. After losing in courts to BREIN, there was very little they could have done to keep the site...

BREIN Takes Down ‘Loop’ Topsite

2009-11-28T07:16:00.001+05:30

Those interested in BitTorrent, Warez Scene and file sharing in general should familiar with the name BREIN, the Dutch anti piracy outfit. Over the past couple of years BREIN has been responsible for taking down many BitTorrent sites (most of these returned, but that’s a different story), P2L sites and scene topsites. After their last major victory of defeating Mininova in courts, it seems BREIN has scored yet again. A new article posted on their news page glorifies taking down ‘Loop’ topsite....

Share The Remote – New Gazelle Based TV Tracker

2009-11-26T23:18:00.001+05:30

With Demonoid temporarily down, Pirate Bay shutting down its trackers and now Mininova finally going ‘legit’, one would think BitTorrent as a community is collapsing. This assumption however is far from the truth. Smaller, yet promising new trackers are being launched all the time – they may not be as popular as the likes of TPB but most of the time they do the job just fine. Today we’re going to talk about another brand new addition to the BitTorrent scene – Share The Remote (STR). STR is a...

Transmute – Convert Bookmarks Between FireFox, IE, Chrome, Opera and More

2009-11-26T23:17:00.001+05:30

With a sh1tload of different web browsers around, lots of folks tend to use more than one type of app for their day to day browsing needs. If you belong to that category, here’s something that you might find useful. Transmute is an application that allows you to convert between different browser bookmark formats. That is, it allows you to import/export, sync and update your bookmarks across different browsers. It’s actually a quick and easy way to keep your bookmarks organized, up to date and...

TVSource Open For Signup – Private TV Tracker

2009-11-26T01:00:00.000+05:30

About four months ago we featured TVSource, a new specialized TV tracker based on SweDVDR’s source code. Few months into the launch, TVSource is doing quite well, but it didn't’ grow as fast as we expected. There’s nothing terribly wrong with the site but TVSource’s Swedish interface may have lead to the assumption that it only tracked Swedish releases. This may have slowed down their growth due to lack of interest by English speaking users. In case you’re wondering, TVSource is not a...

Two Best Sites To Download Dragon Age : Origins Mods, HD Textures and More

2009-11-26T00:24:00.001+05:30

Lately I’ve been playing a lot of Dragon Age : Origins. It’s well crafted world, deep RPG elements and challenging combat made the game quite addictive for me (and for a lot of others as well, judging by user response on gaming forums). Anyways this article is not about DLC or other updates for Dragon Age. It’s about mods – one of the best things that could happen to a PC game once it’s released to the masses. Thankfully an active modding community has already been formed around Dragon Age....

Zamunda Site/Tracker Offline & Inaccessible – Another Update

2009-11-25T05:18:00.001+05:30

As you might already know, popular private torrent tracker Zamunda has been inaccessible for some users for several weeks now. As we highlighted in a previous post the site is not actually down; both the web interface and BitTorrent tracker of Zamunda is actually up and running – it’s just that you can’t access them from non Bulgarian countries. A temporary workaround (as mentioned in the previous article) was/is to use Bulgarian proxy site to access the tracker. However during all this time...

FlazX – Direct Download Computing & IT EBooks

2009-11-24T00:07:00.001+05:30

In the past we’ve reviewed BitTorrent trackers as well as sites that offer Direct Download (DDL) links for books in electronic form. FlazX is another website that offers DDL links for Ebooks – this however is a specialized site, rather than something like Gigapedia or EBOOOKIE which index books related to almost every category under the sun. FlazX’s specialty is IT – you’ll find a lot of books related to computing, telecommunications, software engineering, information systems, etc indexed...

20 Free Google Wave Invites – Giveaway 01

2009-11-23T23:31:00.001+05:30

If you thought we were only handing out invites to private torrent trackers, you were wrong. While we were all busy trying to get Google Wave invites sent to our personal E-mail accounts, one of my fellow editors was kind enough to register FILEnetworks contact email with a wave request from Google. Not only the account got activated but we’ve begun receiving invites too. Since it would be a terrible waste for the invites not to be sent out, we though of giving them away for free via the blog....

SuperTorrents Signups Open For STMusic Members

2009-11-22T15:49:00.001+05:30

Good news for those wanting to get into SuperTorrents. SuperTorrents (also known as ST) is a veteran private torrent tracker that has been online for ages. The site is usually invite only and there hasn’t been an extended ST open signup in several months. However, members of STMusic (SuperTorrents’s sister site – a music tracker) now have the opportunity to register on ST without an invite; that is by using the special signup link provided on STM homepage. Note that this promotion too won’t...

Know All About Scene Rules, Standards, Nuking And Nuke Reasons

2009-11-22T10:00:00.000+05:30

If you’ve been reading this blog for some time, you probably are familiar with our occasional updates on the warez scene, scene rules and group status. The scene has a complex set of standards and rules and all releases must adhere to these if they are to survive being ‘nuked’ (invalidated release). To add to the complexity, scene standards are constantly updated; new rules are devised, old rules are removed and some rules are changes. Groups who specialize in releases would know these like the...

iTune Music Tracker Open For Signup

2009-11-21T12:21:00.000+05:30

When iTune (it’s iTune, not iTunes :p) first made it’s way into the BitTorrent scene, it created quite a stir in the community. iTune was/is another music torrent tracker based on Gazelle codebase. It rapidly added new members and torrents and quickly made a name for itself in the BT scene. Since the early days, iTune has continued to prosper – new member recruitment has somewhat slowed down due to closed for registrations but activity on new uploads and indexed torrents is still high. As you...

Left 4 Dead 2 Crash To Desktop (CTD), Sound Issues and Freezes – Possible Fixes

2009-11-21T11:06:00.001+05:30

As you may already know valve’s cooperative FPS Left 4 Dead 2 was released to the public on the 17th of November. The game subsequently leaked online on the 20th. While Left 4 Dead 2 seems to be a well optimized & relative bug free game, we’ve got feedback from several readers who seemed to run into crashes to desktop (CTD), for example right after the intro movie is played. There can be numerous reasons as to why this happens and aim of this article is to list possible fixes that you can...

JPopsuki – Japanese Pop Music Torrent Tracker

2009-11-20T06:30:00.000+05:30

Let us put it this way - If you are a fan of Japanese pop music (or J-Pop), you’ll love this tracker. JPopsuki has been an excellent private torrent tracker for Japanese music albums and music videos over the past 5 years or so. Latest incarnation of the site is based on Gazelle, the BitTorrent tracker script pioneered by What.CD. Within just 4-5 weeks since launch, JPopsuki has become one of the most trafficked Gazelle based sites around (probably only second to What.cd itself in terms of user...

Office 2010 Beta Now Available For Download

2009-11-20T06:00:00.000+05:30

Looking forward to Microsoft’s next major update for Office suite, Office 2010? Now you can preview the software way before its launch; an official public beta has now been made available. Just like all Microsoft software usually do before release, multiple builds of Office 2010 too were leaked online. A technical preview build as well as pre release build 4536 was made available to the public by an independent scene group (iND) and then by group WinBeta. Anyways you will no longer have to rely...

PirateDay- Hungarian Torrent Tracker Now Open

2009-11-19T06:00:00.000+05:30

Lately there’s been a lot of talk about Pirate Bay shutting down its BitTorrent trackers. Although TPB’s tracker played a huge role, BitTorrent was/has always been bigger than TPB (with private sites, standalone trackers, small indexers, etc ). Today’s post is about PirateDay, a lesser known private BitTorrent tracker from Hungary. Although the name sounds familiar, PirateDay is not a ripoff of TPB. It’s a General/0Day tracker that indexes both Hungarian and English releases. It’s a decent...

Use Google Translate From Windows Desktop - AIRTranslate

2009-11-19T05:00:00.000+05:30

Here on FILEnetworks, Google Translate is a tool that we use almost everyday. For example when it comes to translating text from foreign private torrent trackers, it helps us greatly. Just like us, I’m sure most of our readers use this web service their translation needs. If you do, here’s an application that you might find interesting. AIRTranslate is a piece of software that allows you to use Google Translate right from your desktop – with no browser involvement at all. With this app...

PTN Invite Applications Open For Two More Days, 2X Upload Enabled

2009-11-18T02:04:00.001+05:30

After being closed for a while, PTN has re-opened their external invite applications to the public. This should be good news for folks who were looking forward to get in since PTN invites are not that common and on most BitTorrent forums it’s a non-movement tracker (you can’t request/giveaway invites). External applications are one of the safest ways to get invited as the invites come directly from trackers staff - there will be no risk of your inviter being a scammer, trader or a cheater. As...

Scene DVDR Releasing Standards 2010 (TDRS2K10)

2009-11-18T00:02:00.001+05:30

For those interested in scene rules, here’s another update. Scene standards for untouched DVDRs releases have gone through a change (yet again) and updated ruleset has now been pre’d. If you download DVDRs from trackers such as Sparvar, onlyDVDs, TheDVDClub, SceneDVDR, DVDRSource etc, expect future releases on these sites to be based on updated standards (as they mostly pre scene content). This is the second update to DVDR standards in the last two months with TDRS2K9 being released last...

TorrentVault Now On Gazelle – Exclusive Free Signup For FILEnetworks Readers

2009-11-16T06:00:00.000+05:30

TorrentVault (TV) has been mentioned on this blog quite a few times. That’s because it’s a great private tracker for general p2p/scene releases, especially TV and music torrents. The site has excellent pre times, good download speeds and a decent amount of activity on most indexed torrents. TorrentVault recently underwent a massive change – they have upgraded to the Gazelle codebase and are now looking better than ever. In addition, their autouploader bots seem to be on steroids – they are now...

Zamunda.Net Down For Some Countries – Here’s How To Access

2009-11-15T10:56:00.001+05:30

‘Is Zamunda down for good?’ This has been one of the most frequently asked questions during the last couple of days. Reason - large general private torrent tracker Zamunda.Net has been inaccessible for most international users in the past two weeks (by ‘international’ we mean most countries outside Bulgaria, which is the home of Zamunda). We have tried to contact site admins to find the reason behind the downtime but so far had no success. Anyways judging from the responses we got we can only...

STN Goes Pay, Launches More Services

2009-11-15T00:15:00.001+05:30

Several weeks ago we featured a new ratioless general tracker named StoreThe.Net (STN). Due to it’s great pre times, seedbox hosted torrents and the high amount of torrents uploaded daily, the tracker was an instant hit among many torrenters. Their latest move however might not become as popular. STN will soon be switching to an ‘sponsorship model’ where users will have to pay in order to continue being a member. That’s not all – they’ll soon be launching a host of new services including one...

Yahoo Messenger 10 Final Standalone Offline Installer - Direct Download

2009-11-15T00:08:00.001+05:30

As you may know we’ve been offering direct download links to standalone/offline installers for various pieces of software for quite some time. Now here’s great news for users of Yahoo! Messenger. After being in beta for couple of months, Yahoo! has released the first final build of Yahoo! Messenger 10 (build 10.0.0.1102) to the masses. New version comes with support for high quality video calls, new languages, new ways to arrange your contacts and a new ‘updates’ tab. To put it short if...