When it comes to discovering the latest
goings-on, info and - shall we say - BitTorrent drama, one only needs to
turn to a popular torrent forum. From there you’ll find blog links &
news feeds, the latest scoops, and all the regular fare inclined to
satiate the BT paparazzi and resident trolls. So, where are we going
with this? Well, we’ve uncovered 3 new sites which we think you’ll enjoy
(2 of them blogs) that cater to all things tracker-related. And you
probably won’t find any of them listed elsewhere.
learnitwith.blogspot.com (Blog)
LearnItWith is a brand-new blog that reports about trackers that have open signups, torrent forums’ news, and the like. They’re off to a great start; let’s just see if they can continue to find long-term motivation. We were contacted by the owner of ShareTheP2P, who had this to say:
Hey FSF
We would like to say Keep The Hard Work UP
learnitwith.blogspot.com
We have entered too in the P2P News
Actually, FSF doesn’t see this as competition - the two sites have a completely different format of content. This isn’t to say that LIW won’t compete against other blogs that run similar articles. Hopefully they won’t end up like the now-dead nkfy.blogspot or the inactive PiracyNetwork blog. Then again; the vast majority of new blogs disappear within their first few months, only time will tell.
A Look at LearnItWith:
OnASoapBox.co.uk (Blog)
Update: 2010-10
- Due to popular demand, Onasoapbox is now offline
On A Soapbox is a different kind of blog, one that analyzes (even scrutinizes) private trackers in a whole new light. Here, you won’t find any warm smarmy articles that assist to promote trackers - instead what you’ll get is controversial hard-edged opinions. After all; that’s what a blog is - an opinion. If anything else at least the posts are wildly entertaining! Perhaps I’ll apply there as a guest editor… bookmarked! ***From their About
page:***
“On A Soapbox is the newest filesharing blog, with one major difference. While Filesharefreak (FSF) and Filenetworks both work with and help trackers and do and say pretty much what trackers want. We just don’t give a fuck what trackers say or do.”
**Sharky Says
:** I’d simply adore to be able to speak my mind completely (and I often do, just read the [New Trackers](/category/tracker-news/ “New Trackers”) articles). But other than that, I actually enjoy being a member of most trackers, so I really don’t have much to gripe about. Sometimes it’s probably just a better idea to vent it out on a forum somewhere, rather than publicly whine on your own high-profile blog. Then again; that’s the difference between receiving 30 page views a day and 30,000.
PeekInsi.de (Tracker Reviews)
Update: 2010-10
- PeekInsi.de is now offline
Last up is PeekInsi.de, a new website that’s dedicated to tracker reviews. Logged-in members can rate & rank each tracker by criteria such as content, community, staff, speeds - as well as create their own reviews or add screenshots and add comments & feedback to an existing one. Ho-hum, you say? What’s so new about that? Well, for starters when a review is posted on a forum, it’s up to the OP to change/edit it. Peek allows users to interact directly within the existing reviews. Plus…
PeekInside isn’t afraid to post reviews and screenies that you probably won’t (and perhaps shouldn’t) see elsewhere, which has already been met with mixed criticism. Just read their FAQ to get a feeling for Peek’s bold credence, here’s a small sample:
- Q: Can you remove my tracker?
- A: We will not censor reviews and have a non removal policy.
FryLock Says:
Hell ya!
It is good to see that you aren’t afraid to publicize sites that go against the grain Sharky! Keep up the good work brother.
SonGoku Says:
Get’em B man…
James G Says:
Hey Great Blog, I love you consistancy.
I’m wondering if you covered the DDL site http://www.ev0.in
It looks like a pretty decent automatic DDL blog with nice pretimes and a bunch of hosts.
Anyway keep up the good Fight
James
Meh Says:
ShareTheP2P seems pretty good.
OnASoapBox seems like a whiny twelve year old.
PeekInsi is nothing new with just basic screenshots, and the creators are too lazy to edit things out like they should.
Meh Says:
O also new trackers for March soon?
FILEnetworks Says:
Great article. It’s nice to see sites of the same genre allied rather than having stupid cockfights
Crap Says:
OnASoapBox looks cool lol,interesting stuff there,nice to see that they are not kissing tracker admin asses like every other blog
TrackerSociey Says:
Great article, ! didn’t think someone would do it but i was wrong. Keep it up.
afk Says:
@Meh
OnASoapBox and PeekInsi seems to be both run by the same person. Just another whiny boy with too much time on the net.
UNCLE Says:
OnASoapBox and PeekInsi are uber awesome sites….
Good job sharky…!!!!
Meh Says:
UNCLE - ROFL such bullshit.
Nerd Says:
Hmmm …. what the crap … get a life assholes …
XMAN Says:
The first blog is written in broken English! LMAO
US2 Says:
I just love OnASoapBox.co.uk (Blog) , thanks for promoting those sites, some of them deserve it.
fsfl Says:
i love sharethep2p they do a great job
This a joke? Says:
Is this a joke post? OnASoapBox and Peekinsi.de are a shame to the private tracker world. They throw dirt in the faces of the tracker staff that are risking it all just to bring this content to all of us.
That fool running those two sites is nothing more than a punk kid with a major chip on his shoulder… why promote him? Hell, he even has the nerve to slag off FSF in one of his ‘articles’ yet you STILL think this is worth promoting
LOL Says:
onasoapbox and peekinside are run by the same person, blackie.
He is a FSF idiot who gets banned from loads of trackers, and in his jealousy of their success he decided to exact revenge on them by using reviews.
He hosts the copyrighted images on his OVH seedbox (yes lol) and it wont be long before they are taken down.
desi Says:
competition to fsf ? lol ?
paint Says:
im reader of sharethep2p since 3 days and they do a great job
OnASoapBox.co.uk & PeekInsi.de are SHIT! they post url of trackers who wants to remain hidden.
LOLing at Backie Says:
OnaSoapBox…Backie, just stick to CFS and bitch there…this guy deserves to be banned at EVERY rivate tracker there is, too bad I respect the CFS Staff so much or I’d post some of the drivel he posts.
dewey Says:
oh ma gawd. this peek inside is uberugly and is not censoring uploader account names
Dinglebat Says:
Just so you’re aware - piracynetwork is not dead, I had some serious ISP issues which have now been resolved. I’m embarassed to be mentioned in the same sentence as that NKFY blog though!
Nice post Sharky, thanks for the info!
xxaa Says:
sharethep2p seems pretty good they have also quick article’s such as fsf. OnaSoapBox and peekinsi.de are shit. They are too idiots and they can’t edit the url or the profile. Skitless its a hidden tracker who wants to remain private & hidden. I hope thoose 2 sites OnaSoapBox and Peekinsi.de will die soon
Dogboy Says:
Peekinsi.de, what a joke. SupersonicTorrents.co.uk, just a few hours ago was listed as level ten. Even though its open invite to anyone. Anyone with a brain knows that tracker levels are bullshit. But now its level six. lol.
The screenshots from all the reviews have been edited, badly. To bend the facts. Its a nasty little site run by a nasty little prick.
FryLock Says:
I see all this bull shit about Peek’s screens not being “properly” edited. They aren’t edited at all by design. Peek is review site void of censorship. You seem mighty pissed off about the ‘level issue Dogboy, the levels are user driven and are indicators of a trackers quality, not intangible and worthless rarity.
Dogboy Says:
On many screenshots the torrent activity screens have been edited. You can see how (for example) 20 snatches has been edited to 2 snatches. The image leaves a tiny bit of the “0″ left. I`m all for non-censorship but changing screenshots for anyone’s personal reasons - thats just wrong. Its a sad little man with a sad little site and he will get whats coming to him.
flipyours Says:
that OnaSoapBox is absolute bullshit. In all the posts made there is not one positive word besides saying “what.cd kicks ass”. Then he proceeds to disrespect tracker wishes (posting full URLs of sites that don’t want this unwarranted attention). It sounds like he’s some fourteen year old kid sitting in his room just finding things to be a whiny bitch about no matter where he goes. Fuck that guy.
fappin’ Says:
onasoapbox, fails, its a real shitty site.
Mihai Says:
Shit templates on the last 2.First one looks interesting and seems to have a future.
Also check out my blog http://www.torrentfan.blogspot.com
Romanian content about romanian trackers.
Always Says:
I laugh at how you fools talk about the security of private trackers being compromised because of a few screenshots being posted.
You morons can get into those places just by sucking a bit of dick at an invite forum, yet you think it’s impossible for the authorities to get in, and instead they’re going to rely on the screens posted on sites like peekinsi.de for their info. LMFAO!
DM Says:
ev0 posts junk from prime, avoid
hanson Says:
I read through all three sites these past few days, and I gotta say they’re all garbage.
1) ShareTheP2P
Aside from the fact that the owner of this site seems to have a tenuous grasp of English in general, the content is simply fluff, and sometimes incorrect fluff at that (passtheremote is not the only venue for getting an invite to BTN, Cinemageddon does not have freeleech torrents, etc…). This site is clearly written by a newbie who wants to emulate established blogs like FSF or FNB but has neither the requisite knowledge of the torrent scene nor the necessary command of the English language to do so.
2) Onasoapbox
While I would like a blog that offers criticisms of trackers that all others seem to hype up to no end (for instance a solid critique of the overhyped BTN would be nice), this site sure ain’t it. Instead it reads like it was written by a dumbass /b/tard with an obvious axe to grind. Here’s a free suggestion: you don’t have to keep saying ‘fail’ in literally every sentence you wite. You may think it makes you look cool, but it just makes it seem like you’re kind of ’slow’, if you catch my drift.
3) peekinside
Yawn. Any respectable invite forum has a collection of tracker reviews way better than this amateur site. It’s neither new nor interesting. And if the accusations about altered screenshots made in the comments are true (I didn’t bother to check myself since the site bored me) then that’s just pathetic.
blah Says:
It’s to bad On A Soapbox and Peek Inside don’t have much content. They’ve both got huge potential. It would be great to see a blog that isn’t in bed with every tracker and isn’t willing to follow useless rules like not posting the url and is willing to give you the good and the bad.
Backie Says:
I’ve been away for a few days, come back to find this. It’s lulz.
“onasoapbox and peekinside are run by the same person, blackie.
He is a FSF idiot who gets banned from loads of trackers, and in his jealousy of their success he decided to exact revenge on them by using reviews.
He hosts the copyrighted images on his OVH seedbox (yes lol) and it wont be long before they are taken down.”
It’s not a seedbox. It’s purely a server. Plus what’s copyrighted, there is no copyright notice and statement on most trackers. What.CD seems to be the only one that actually has bothered to properly copyright their stuff. Even that falls under fair use policies in uk and french and us (and prolly everywhere else laws) Every other tracker’s screen shots are now technically copyright of me now. CN hasn’t managed to get theirs down and they’re hardcore about their screenshots because they don’t want people seeing their “features” for “security reasons”.
Some of you guys are pissed because I am not out being nice to trackers. Newsflash I have a history of not being nice to them. If you want pretty much positive stuff only, you know where to go. (HERE, does the best job at it.) I don’t really have an axe to grind or jealous of success of trackers (LOL WHAT?), I just like speaking my mind.
News flash, I don’t create the reviews on peekinsi.de, to be honest. I couldn’t care less about reviews, it’s just the censorship on the forums is total bullshit, so I create somewhere for uncensored hosting. The level system is based on reviews, nothing else. Thats how new tracker can end up as level 10.
Haters, just wait there will be more sites like peekinsi.de and onasoapbox for you to hate on.
about Respecting tracker wises.
We are fucking pirates, not the fucking boy scouts. Trackers don’t respect ISP,Movie/Music Publishers,Software makers,the scenes wishes/rules yet expect their own to be followed.
@020 • LOLing at Backie Says:
Get some balls and man up and anonymously insult me using your anonymous nickname. WTF seriously not even got the balls to insult someone on the interwebz, you have to do it with a fake name
staz Says:
OnASoapBox really sucks, the writer is a douchebag: criticizing BTN and SCC like they were just some lame trackers. This guy doesn’t analyze anything, all he do is bitching!
xxaa Says:
how retard can be the owner of peek and soap?
http://sharethep2p.blogspot.com/2010/03/onasoapboxcouk-peekinside-two-new-blogs.html
=)omfg!
tombstoned Says:
well im read all the comments here and to be honest
backie ya seem to be a rat pure and simple man
as it looks to me like you are all for the authorities going against p2p and sites ok hence this comment you made on 9th march 2010 on fsf
*about Respecting tracker wises.*
We are fucking pirates, not the fucking boy scouts. Trackers don’t respect ISP,Movie/Music Publishers,Software makers,the scenes wishes/rules yet expect their own to be followed.
so do us all a favour ya rancid fucking retarded maggot
close that so called site of yours down b4 i have someone do it understand
you cant even have the site moderated to keep stuff short and sweet
all you see is shit shit and more shit plus insults to folks to
you could not run a site in a goddamn lifetime and no wonder the owners of most sites have blacklisted you and your lame ass poxy site
and also for the record maggot you do not own the screenshots of the sites ok as i know quite a number of owners of sites are really pissed with you and you have started a war you will never finish or even win i promise you backie only yourself to blame no one else dumbass
so go crawl backl to your pram you silly little maggot begone and never show your disformed face here again got it lmfao
Beagle Says:
I don’t see what the big deal is??
All he’s doing is writing about the stuff everyone else is gossiping about in “private”. It’s not like any of this stuff is top secret stuff, it’s just that everyone else is too much of a hypocrite to write about it. You all talk about it in “secret” with your 10 friends, who then tell their 10 friends, and so on and so on, and that’s OK, but don’t anyone dare put it in writing. It’s hypocrisy plain and simple.
And seriously, is there anyone left on the planet that doesn’t know about the “top-secret” site CN, or who couldn’t find out with two minutes of googling? It’s time to wake up people, being “top-secret” and having 1000+ members are mutually exclusive. CN is just an example here, the same thing applies to all those “secret” trackers.
The way I see it there are two types of people who read this forum: those who admit to it, and those who see it as similar to fucking a fat girl (it’s fun to do, but you don’t want your friends to find out)
BACKIE Says:
Fuck Tracker Staff. Plain and simple. You losers are just sheep, why would you follow something so idiotic as a site to ask you to respect its wishes? I am providing the truth about these so-called “elitist” sites and the Staff that run them. Yes I have been banned at most trackers, because I don’t go with the flow, yes I suck a mean cock - its just who I am. Why don’t you stand up for yourselves for once! Instead of complaining behind closed doors, come out of the closet as I have. Don’t judge me and Frylock, when he is pounding my ass, I am laughing all the way to the bank bitches! Visit seedfor.me and pay up!
Yes…Fuck Tracker Staff and their stupid rules
Reply Says:
sharethep2p has moved to: http://learnitwith.blogspot.com/
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