Links

P2P Latest News & Information

• TorrentFreak.com
• www.p2p-blog.com
• www.zeropaid.com
• www.p2pnet.net
• Ars Technica

Offsite P2P Forums

• TrackeReactor.com
• www.slyck.com/forums
• FileSharingTalk.com
• FileSharingPlace.com
• P2PTalk.org
• FileSharingZ/forums
• Planet Peer
• www.p2pforums.com

P2P Guides and FAQs

• dessent.net/btfaq/ - Brian’s BitTorrent FAQ - More than you ever need to know about BitTorrent.
• Azureus Wiki - Help for everything!

Proponents for Privacy, Piracy & P2P

• www.eff.org
• www.boycott-riaa.com
• www.chillingeffects.org
• recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com

Tools & Utilities

• www.portforward.com - Router/Firewall guides, FAQs & help.
• www.speedtest.net - A great place to check the speed of your Internet connection. Very accurate results - used for setting upload speeds of P2P programs.
• www.free-codecs.com - A site for free codecs, codec packs and audio/video updates.

Other Utilities & Useful Tips

Fake P2P files vs. Proper Releases: These websites below track the proper pirated releases of known Release Groups. This can be extremely helpful for determining whether or not that movie/game/software is the real deal, or just a scam or fake. There are no links to downloadable files - users will have to do this legwork for themselves on BitTorrent websites or on IRC.

• www.nforce.nl - Everything that’s listed here is classified as a proper ‘Release Group’ release. Users can view the accompanying *.NFO file to prove validity. All categories of pirated releases are listed (movies, TV, software, games, etc.).

• www.vcdquality.com - great site to see if that movie you found on a torrent site is real or not. Some pros agree that if it’s not listed here, don’t bother to download it.

DVD Ripping Guides.

• A Beginner’s Guide to DVD ripping - find it here on the Mininova forums.
• An Advanced Guide to DVD ripping (most DVD rippers and movie Release Groups don’t give out their trade secrets, but here’s where you can find a great guide to accomplish the same results).

The list below is simply a personal list of some good websites.

Website	Description
www.torrentking.org	The largest database of BitTorrent websites on the ‘Net. Period!
http://torrent-finder.com	An excellent BitTorrent meta-search website! Search up to 188 torrent sites at the same time.
imdb.com	Internet Movie Database. The ONLY site to look up movies, TV shows etc.
http://subscene.com	Looking for subtitles for a particular movie release? Users can browse through ‘movies’ and ‘Release Group’ categories to find subs for a specific release.
www.gamefaqs.com	Great site for game FAQs, walkthroughs and new releases.
www.gamespot.com	Another good site for current and upcoming games, cheats and game guides.
www.videohelp.com	Excellent site for all aspects of audio/video (playback, converting, subtitles etc.)
torrentfreak.com	Great website for current BitTorrent and P2P news. Contains some nice tips and info too!
www.slyck.com	Another good place to find P2P news, guides - excellent ‘P2P forums’.
www.packetfind.com	New site dedicated to IRC XDCC searching - uses the IRCKlipper engine.
www.packetnews.com	Another IRC search site.
http://ircdig.com	And another seriously good IRC search site.
www.wikipedia.org	Excellent open-source website for all topics and information.
www.cracknews.com	Excellent site to find the newest cracks, keygens and serial numbers.
http://serials.ws	Great place to find newer serial numbers for software - recommended!
www.scenereleases.info	Good site for ‘the scene‘ information, plus it’s updated with some current popular torrents.
www.aboutthescene.com	Lots of current ’scene’ news items and general scene information.
www.oldversion.com	Good site for finding old versions of working P2P programs (Shareaza, BearShare, etc.)
www.sourceforge.net	THE site for open-source software and new developments. Good site to find freeware and P2P programs.
http://freshmeat.net	Great site to find POSIX (Linux, Unix, BSD etc.) open source cross-platform software.