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We offer a behind-the-scenes glimpse into some of the best, most sought-after private BitTorrent trackers. If you’ve never seen the insides of some of these elite private sites, we recommend you take a look at what you’re missing.

TorrentLeech.org

TorrentLeech is quickly becoming one of the most coveted private BitTorrent accounts for any BT fan. With unrivaled speed and amazing pre-times, TL offers 0day/0sec torrents in all categories. While never open publicly to new signups, invites are handed out to qualifying members on a regular basis. TL is also one of the most used private trackers - there are a ton of seeders and leechers so uploading to other TL members isn’t all that difficult, either (a seedbox helps, but isn’t mandatory like some other trackers). New members have a 48-hour ‘wait time’ before the torrent becomes active - once a sharing ratio hits 0.4 this goes away.

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Blackcats-Games.net

It goes without saying: Blackcats-Games is all about the games - be it console, Windows or Linux releases. Registered users hover in at around 50,000 (they stopped taking new signups back in November, 2007). With a 2,100% seed/leech ratio, downloads are assuredly zippy from their 6,000 offered torrents.

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Spring has just arrived in the Northern hemisphere; what better way to welcome it with a “Spring Cleanup” list of the Hottest 300 BitTorrent websites of 2008.

Hi-lighted listings denote websites with private trackers (require login/signup).

Sources - Torrentking.org, torrent-finder.com, and manual searches including P2P forums, meta-search websites & Google ‘operator’ queries.

The websites listed below only serve up .torrent files - related BitTorrent ’software’ sites are not included. Data source: Alexa.com - 2008.

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With the soaring popularity of BitTorrent, torrent mongers now have a wide selection of sites to choose from. We can’t think of a better way to aid and abet its growing success than to put out a list of private BitTorrent websites. So ditch those public sites and start narrowing in on what you really need.

Nowhere on the Internet could we find a big list of sports torrent sites - this was badly overdue. This list was compiled from hours of searching through P2P forums and other obscure links. Poker sites are not included.

Know of a Sports Torrent site that’s not on the list? Post it in the comments!

SPORTS TORRENT SITES

www.sport-scene.net

— OPEN? - YES.Members: 8,072 / 10,000.Minimum Ratio: 0.5 / 1.0.# of Torrents: 1,623.Features: Every sport imaginable, some in HD. Fresh content, updated daily.

www.sportbit.org

— OPEN? - NO.Members: 12,006 / 12,000.Ratio: 0.5 / 1.0.# of Torrents: 1,588.Features: Unknown - not open to new registrations at this time.

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Yep, it’s true. You read it here first. There’s porn on BitTorrent sites.

Pornography and the Internet go together like peanut butter and jelly; so why should BitTorrent miss the boat? They haven’t. Porn, being a multi-billion dollar industry, has not eluded both public and private torrent sites alike. Love it or hate it - Internet porn brings big traffic. Which in turn brings in mad advertising dollars. Sorry, Jon Huntsman Jr., but it appears that the mob has spoken. Grab your life jacket and get aboard - here’s a list of private adult BitTorrent sites that are accepting new registrations.

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Fastest BitTorrent Clients - The Tests - A Comparison of Speeds in Realtime

Every BitTorrent software developer claims that theirs is the fastest BitTorrent client, but which one really IS the fastest? There are so many variables to be considered: Seed/peer ratio of individual torrents, public or private trackers (and number of trackers in a torrent), DHT “trackerless” support and UPnP port forwarding, just to name a few. Even the default “factory” settings of each client can have an big impact on download speeds.

So how it is truly possible to really know? Conduct speed tests in a controlled experiment, natch! Let’s put ‘em to a test!

About The Tests

To create a semi-controlled environment in which the data could realistically be used, we needed to conduct the experiment in realtime - in a scenario where ALL BitTorrent clients were using the exact same torrent (loaded simultaneously in each) and thus were ideally downloading at the same time. Not only that, but we repeated the same text three times with 3 different .torrents (all 5 clients were loaded with the exact same torrent at the same time, on three separate occasions).

OK, no peeking - don’t scroll down to the bottom just yet. Out of the five tested clients (µtorrent, BitComet, Azureus, BitTorrent and BitLord), which one do YOU think won the races?

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Do you think you got what it takes to become the next mininova?

Do you ever wish there was a button you could push to delete all the crappy torrents at those popular BitTorrent sites? Ever wonder what it’d be like to run your own BitTorrent site? It’s a blast! And the best part - Total control! You get to add only the torrents that you want, without all the junk found on the public BitTorrent juggernauts.

There’s one thing that ALL BitTorrent websites have in common: they started out small. Here we document the entire process for setting up your own BitTorrent website - with your own trackers, as well. We’ll give you fair warning - this takes some work!

About this tip:

A few things we must first mention:

This tutorial explains how to set up a private BitTorrent website, not a public one (although the difference between the two is a mere adjustment in the sites’s settings). New users to your site will have to sign up and create accounts in order to access the offered *.torrent files. This way you’ll be able to moderate the incoming torrents (or be the only one adding them), and limit who can access your site, your tracker and its’ torrents.

We don’t include information for setting up a BitTorrent site through a free webhosting service, or with websites that offer free ‘homepages’. This tutorial is designed for anyone who is serious about setting up a service-hosted BitTorrent site at their own domain. Most webhosting companies offer services starting at $5 per month, or even less. The reason for documenting the “paid” method is because:

— There’s always a catch to free services - if too much monthly bandwidth is used, they can easily just remove your site. With a paid service, you just upgrade your account.

— If you draw complaints, they’ll take your site down without any notice. Many premium webhosting companies will have no issues with you running torrents on it.

— You won’t get any support from a free service. Many paid webhosting companies have “live” support at their website or at least a phone number you can call.

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« Part II of a 3-Part Tutorial »

The frontend is a (PHP) BitTorrent theme, or template, that includes the visual aspect of the BitTorrent website. A typical “frontend package” will consist of two things: A GUI for the website and a tracker. The GUI of a frontend will house the user-interface and “Control Panel” through which the general settings can be modified, as well as the configuration of the site’s tracker. The tracker is a server between all of the peers, and coordinates the “who-gets-what” when distributing the data in a torrent. By default, the tracker in a typical frontend package will be a private one - whereby anyone using the torrent must be a registered user of the site, and thus registered with the tracker.

The backend is what runs the BitTorrent tracker. Many older frontends rely on an external tracker (software) to be installed and configured separately, and this approach is not for the novice user. Most newer BitTorrent frontend packages come with a backend (aka.. ‘tracker’) already incorporated into the template, making it possible for almost anyone to run their own BitTorrent website.

The ‘Frontend’ - a BitTorrent template for your domain

We detail the installation for three newer (PHP) BitTorrent frontends - BtiTracker, FTS and xBtit. Each of these three examples comes pre-configured with their own backend (tracker), and are implemented through an easy, web-based “installation”. NOTE: For the more experienced users who’d like more examples of frontends, we’ve uploaded an entire “BitTorrent frontend / tracker” release-package to rapidshare.com - it comes with these and many more (older) BitTorrent frontends, backends and trackers. Download it here. If this rapidshare link dies, let us know and we’ll re-upload it.

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We’re not going to wade too deeply here explaining all the different BitTorrent backends and available features. All three frontend packages that we featured in PART II include their own internal backend trackers. But if we had to pick just one of the bunch, we’d go with xBtit - BtiTeam has put all of their eggs in the basket for this one. Not only is it an “active” project from very motivated developers, but the list of features speak for itself. And if you have a couple extra bucks, xBtit Premium is also a very good all-in-one solution which is worth checking out, as well - for £20 you’ll get support, mods & hacks for your template. They’ll even offer VPS hosting for your BitTorrent site, if needed.

xBtit is not the only horse in town; here is a thorough release package consisting of many frontends and backends for BitTorrent, and below is a list of helpful links to BitTorrent files, templates, complete tracker packages, and other goodies.

“Backends” - Using Trackers and adding Torrents.

We break this down into three sections. For all practicalities, there are only 3 ways for a BitTorrent site admin (you) to get .torrent files onto your Bit site. You could:

— 1. Download your desired existing torrents from public BitTorrent sites, and host them on your site, as-is.

— 2. Make .torrents from your own files, and either upload it to a public Bit site, or use an open public tracker for hosting.

— 3. Create .torrents from your own files, and use your own tracker to host the torrents. (This requires a more expensive webhosting plan, as you’ll require a dedicated server for your domain).

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Here’s 500 or so working private BitTorrent sites that are presently accepting new members. 250 on this page and 250 over here.

Note that at least 99% of them were accepting new signups at the time of this post (In fact, only 4 out of 515 were not working, but we left them in just in case the signup page comes back up). Not all are English; some will have an English language link, others will not. In many cases it’s easy to tell the default language: URLs ending in .ro (Romanian), .ru (Russian), .fr (French) etc.

http://68.10.249.11:88/account.php
http://68.150.36.2/torrent/account.php
http://77.101.12.223/signup.php
http://78.130.150.143/Torrent/account.php
http://80.192.68.227/signup.php
http://81.103.179.195/signup.php
http://91.103.220.4/tt-beta/account-signup.php
http://91.121.71.135/signup.php
http://abetterplace2b.org/abp/signup.php
http://all4nothin.net/signup.php
http://alt.bitworld.to/signup.php
http://anvilofsound.com/account.php
http://arab-torrents.org/signup.php
http://arbraptor.com/account.php
http://arenabg.com/account.php
http://armageddonmusic.tx.hu/
http://asiandvdclub.org/signup.php
http://audiozonetorrents.com/signup.php
http://avatarbg.info/signup.php
http://avi-torrents.com/account-signup.php
http://baltracker.net/account.php
http://bean-crisis.org/tt2/account.php
http://bestmmatorrents.com/account.php
http://besttracker.cz/account-signup.php
http://bitaddict.org/signup.php
http://bit-byte.org/account.php

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http://www.all-series.com/tracker/account-signup.php
http://www.ambits.org/signup.php
http://www.appzuniverse.org/signup.php
http://www.araditracker.com/account.php
http://www.arenabg.com/account.php
http://www.asianload.com/torrent/account.php
http://www.astalavistatorrent.com/signup.php
http://www.audionews.ru/
http://www.awtorrent.net/account-signup.php
http://www.baltracker.net/account.php
http://www.bb-torrents.net/signup.php
http://www.bestmmatorrents.com/account-signup.php
http://www.bestshare.ro/signup.php
http://www.bitcosmo.net/account-signup.php
http://www.bit-hdtv.com/signup.php
http://www.bithq.org/signup.php
http://www.bitshock.org/signup.php
http://www.bitsoup.org/signup.php

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In a word: YEP.

Why anyone uses public BitTorrent sites such as mininova, The Pirate Bay, Isohunt and others, we’ll never know. Their soaring popularity opens the door to all kinds of scammers, fakes and decoys - it’s hard to tell what is righteous and what’s bogus, anymore. Toss in the fact that anyone can upload a torrent here, and it’s a recipe for file-sharing madness. We have a feeling of hopelessness for public BitTorrent sites, and we don’t care. Private sites are the wave of the future!

« Diluted torrents - the water-down effect. »
« Improperly ‘Tagged’ Torrents on Public sites. »
« The ‘New Wave’ of Pseudo release-groups. »
« Private Trackers vs. Public Trackers - PROs & CONs. »
« Use a Private Torrent site. »

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A ‘7-Step Guide’ to finding anything and everything.

In search of the illicit, illegal or copyrighted? Good! So are we! The Internet is a vast place with many teeming possibilities - copyrighted material is distributed freely everywhere. This article doesn’t necessarily pertain to where one should look for pirated content; rather, more of a how to look for it. The following guide candidly demonstrates a non-exhaustive list of strategies for procuring just about anything. However; if you’re looking for a specific ‘cookie recipe’ or ‘cross-stitching’ chart, (copyrighted or not) this guide likely won’t be of any service.

Without a doubt you’ll have employed some of these methods before - and you may even know of a few that aren’t listed. Private FTP sites (& TopSites), FXP Boards, BBSes, F2F networks, etc. were all overlooked. Our attempt is to fine-tune and elaborate on the existing publicly accessible schemata for the attainment of all things copyrighted.

If you can’t find what you’re looking for with these procedures - then it probably just doesn’t exist on a public level.

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A torrent metasearch website sends user requests (queries) to other torrent websites and shows the results from all of them simultaneously. The premise works like this: just enter a keyword in the search field and it will query all of the torrent website sources and display the aggregated results. Sounds too good to be true? Think you’ve found the Holy Grail of torrents? Maybe. Maybe not. While proper torrent metasearching is great at searching for hard-to-find torrents, it is not something utilized by experienced BitTorrent users. The problems arise because of the lack of information provided by the metasearch. While great at providing aggregated data with loads of results, the specific details of the torrent are often sacrificed (and you’ll still have to visit the source website anyways to get the torrent, in most cases).

Another drawback to torrent metasearching is the lack of real-time results in the searches (of some sites). In the example below, at www.torrentastic.com, we searched for the movie Atonement - a brand-new DVD release on the P2P scene - found Dec. 23 on ThePirateBay.org. The torrentastic search was conducted on Dec. 26th - but the results are only updated to Dec. 7th at the latest, and doesn’t include this “DvDRip” version. Clearly not a great example of how to find newly-released torrents.

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We’ve compiled a list of the Top 100 BitTorrent websites of 2007, according to Alexa’s traffic ranking. Note that some Alexa-ranked sites are not included in the list for being temporarily or permanently offline (i.e. Demonoid.com, Oink.cd) even though they are still recognized by Alexa, Google, and major search engines. Some porn sites and ‘non-english’ torrent sites were also left off this list.

NOTE: We’ve done a major overhaul of this list, and turned it into a Top 300 of 2008 list. Check it out for much more recent tracker / site information.

Hi-lighted listings denote websites with private trackers (require login/signup). 47 of the Top 100 are private sites.

The websites listed below only serve up .torrent files - related BitTorrent ’software’ sites are not included. Data source: Alexa and Google: Dec. 2007.

We’ll do an update in six months with another column on the right that’ll reflect the NEW numbers to show how much bitTorrent is growing. TIP: Click the “Alexa Rank” link next to each one to view the current ranked statistics.

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Striving to get the most out of your bandwidth? Struggling with slow BitTorrent download speeds? The first step is to see if your BitTorrent client is properly configured through the settings - a simple tweak here and there can drastically improve the download speed. Here are some other suggestions to fine-tune your downloading to maximize those torrents:

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