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SaveTheCoratee (StC) - Mac Tracker is Officially Dead

August 04, 10 by sharky   4,944  views  

Wondering where StC went? All signs suggest that SaveTheCoratee, a once semi-popular ratioless Mac tracker is dead and not coming back. StC now holds company with the defunct VortexNetwork which went offline earlier this year, leaving the BT world with just one true Mac tracker. Inside information suggests that the Mac OS torrent community is now relying on the true backbone of the scene, and that’s Brokenstones - or is there a new alternative? Perhaps there’s a spinoff tracker for StC refugees after all…

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APNet Closes; Alternatives For Public PreDB and Torrent Races

July 03, 10 by sharky   4,506  views  

What was once a popular hotspot for scene info regarding pred scene releases, DDL-Blog races and an indexer of torrent races - the era of APNet has come to an end. Also known as anotherp2p-net on the IRC circuit, APNet’s owner has cited lack of time coupled with financial issues in relation to the server it’s hosted on - both are said to blame for APNet’s demise. RIP APN; listed below are some alternative public IRC (and web) preDBs that scene freaks should find useful.

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Online Media Streaming, Torrents and More at BitLite.com

June 26, 10 by sharky   6,332  views  

BitLite is a brand new online multimedia storage service that comes with a twist: full BitTorrent support. Users are able to upload .torrent files locally or even from a remote torrent URL. And since the service works entirely on the server-side, download speeds are incredibly quick. Once completed, multimedia files (video, music & images) can then be streamed in a browser to provide flawless online playback. Listen to albums, create a playlist, view image libraries, and stream movies (even in 1080p HD) in full-screen mode just like as though if you were watching it on a home computer.

Being fresh out of the box and still in beta, BitLite is looking for 200 ‘live’ testers to help gauge how well capacity handles demand. For a short time FileShareFreak is offering a special free BitLite signup link available to the first two hundred lucky people:

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DidItLeak Lives On - New Music Leak Sites Fill The Void

June 23, 10 by sharky   5,513  views  

The once-popular music leak blog DidItLeak.co.uk domain is set to disappear in a couple of days, bringing down with it the legacy of a pioneering and extremely brave frontman. The late Alan Carton was the mastermind behind DidItLeak - a popular blog (that evolved into a very prosperous Twitter @diditleak) which entertained readers with endless tipoffs for music releases that came out on P2P in advance of street dates. And popular it was!

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VCDQ.com is Reborn - A PreDB With Amazing Extras

May 26, 10 by sharky   6,987  views  

Forget what you thought you knew about pre-database sites. VCDQ.com - easily the Internet’s most popular and longest running preDB/dupechecker - received a major overhaul recently. Gone are the usual drab, boring lists of endless releases - VCDQ has been revamped into what could quite possibly be the Net’s best media-related database for both P2P and scene releases.

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Donation Woes - Can PayPal Wipe Out Private Trackers?

May 19, 10 by sharky   7,610  views  

Well-established public torrent sites have gone through a shitstorm in recent times - Mininova went legit, Isohunt & PirateBay are continuously under attack yet are still limping along. This is moot; as long are there are public trackers: new sites will gleefully rise to the task to fill the gap whenever a torrent indexer disappears - you can’t stop BitTorrent. But this article isn’t so much about the public sites. It’s about PayPal - and private trackers - and how donations intertwine with their survival.

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The Rogers Cable Fiasco Killed My Internet Access

May 03, 10 by sharky   4,773  views  

This article isn’t so much about filesharing than it is about my frustration with the megalomaniac service provider Rogers Telecom. Wondering where I’ve been? Blame Rogers - they inadvertently cut off my Internet access last week. It’s no secret that anyone in Ontario (and probably anywhere else that Rogers is offered) who subscribes to a High-speed Internet service is also able to receive a free TV cable signal with all the channels up to CH72 (called the "VIP" package). Users were/are able to simply put a splitter onto their incoming hi-speed coaxial and feed one end of it directly to the back of a television. Sweet deal, while it lasted - although I didn’t anticipate it to take down my Internet.

Literally scores of my acquaintances in both real-life and online have been hijacking free cable for as long as I can remember; I personally haven’t paid a single penny for cable in over 5 years. Well, it looks as though Rogers is finally putting the brakes on us freeloaders, and if it hasn’t happened to your neighbourhood yet - look out, it will soon. Rogers is installing a new generation of "filters" to block out the analog TV signal on high-speed subscribers. With millions of customers, users can expect some degree of technical problems associated with the upgrade, as witnessed by yours truly.

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Frylock (co-sysop of Etiv.in) Busted for Pot Possession?

April 17, 10 by sharky   6,222  views  

Looking at the calendar, April 1st has come and passed. Interpret the information below however you see fit. FSF received an alarming email tonight, purportedly from the wife of Frylock, "Elizabeth". In it, she explains that Frylock (Etiv.in’s co-sysop & founder) has been arrested in California on a serious drug charge related to marijuana possession. Evidence on Etiv’s forums seem to support this - but hey, look at the bright side - at least it’s not a kiddie porn bust.

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SCC v2 ‘Beta’ Has Finally Arrived, With New Features

March 08, 10 by sharky   10,917  views  

Some skeptics said this day would never come; others agreed that it was all part of a scheme to rake in more donations. After ongoing discussions spanning over the past two years in reference to a tentative beta release for SCC, finally it has come to fruition. The Internet’s #1 scene tracker has undergone quite a few new changes in SCC v2, although we doubt if it took the entire two years to code.

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Cinavia DRM Aimed to Stop Piracy On Blu-ray, PS3s

March 03, 10 by sharky   28,786  views  

Cinavia LogoHaven’t heard about Cinavia? Chances are, you will soon if you download pirated movies and attempt to play them back on a Blu-ray player or through a PS3. Cinavia is a somewhat new DRM technology that uses "audio watermarking" embedded into the audio stream portion of a movie. In a nutshell, what it does is compare the source of the audio to the format in which a movie was released (ie theatrical or commercial disc), and if the watermarked audio source detects a difference, the movie will either be mute (but most likely not play at all). So far, there have been at least two popular movies found on peer-to-peer that contain Cinavia DRM: TS/CAM versions of The Wolfman and Shutter Island.

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