Usually, we get to know about any upcoming open signups at TemplateP2P several days beforehand  - our good friend TJ has always been kind enough to email us and let us know. However, (as our Twitter followers may already know), TP2P suddenly announced open registrations through their Twitter feed as well as on their forums yesterday. Although this came as a surprise for many, I’m sure those who were waiting to get into this awesome forum would welcome the opportunity. If you are hearing...

Here’s yet another post in our popular scene rules article series. The 2010 XViD Sports Releasing Standards (TXSRS10) have been pre’d by ‘The Sports Release Council’ and all scene released sports content encoded using the XViD codec will conform to these standards effective from 15th March 2010. If you’ve been downloading UFC/MMA content, Wrestling matches or other sports related video etc leaked onto private torrent trackers, chances are that these will conform to TXSRS10 after the...

You favorite pirate magazine is back for another edition – Issue 39 of the The Game Scene Charts (TGSC) was pre’d on the 22nd of February 2010 (due to our own ignorance, this post again got delayed by a couple of weeks). This is the first TGSC issue for year 2010 and as the editorial says, it’s a fresh new start and a new year of rankings. If you are hearing about this magazine for the first time, TGSC is a publication that ranks and rates PC game release groups in the warez scene. Groups gain...

Out of all the private torrent trackers online today, CN remains to be one of the most secretive. However, It's strict rules against publicity have not been able to prevent news from spreading across the BitTorrent universe – most people now know of it’s existence and the tracker is known as one of the best movie trackers one could get into. Thankfully, CN’s administration have responded to the growing popularity is a positive manner. Although the site hasn’t directly opened signups, numerous...

Here’s our latest collective tracker open signup update. If you are wondering what that is, this is a post summarizing information about private torrent trackers that were featured on FILEnetworks during the last 1-2 months. This articles features 15 private torrent trackers specializing in all sorts of content ranging from TV shows, kids content, high definition movies, mobile content, audiobooks, music, music videos to general releases. All of the private communities mentioned here are...

If you’ve been following release blogs on the internet you probably already know about BTArena.org. It’s a popular site which provides information about latest scene and p2p releases along with a host of accompanying resources such as torrent/one click hosting links, trailers, NFO, video clips etc . Unlike most other release blogs which simply link to external sites, BTARENA hosts links, .torrent files, video etc on their own servers (links.btarena.org, tracker.btarena.org (their own BT...

FirstWire, the popular free LimeWire alternative, is one of the best clients that support Gnutella, a decentralized file sharing network. Although unnoticed by many, FrostWire can also handle torrent files as it comes with built in support for BitTorrent protocol. However dedicated torrent clients such as Vuze and uTorrent  sued to pwn FrostWire’s BT engine which was based on legacy LimeWire technology. However the FW team announced a major change to the software recently, dubbed...

On the hunt for good zero day torrent trackers that do not limit themselves to a particular niche? Today could be your lucky day. DigitalHive (DH) and TorrentVault (TV), two great general trackers that index everything from movies, music, books to games are currently open for signup. Both DH and TV are renowned for their blazing fast pre times which is one of the most sought after qualities in 0day torrent sites. Of course, we’ve covered these sites in detail before (and even conducted...

Although we’ve talked about a lot of sites with direct download links, I don’t believe we’ve discussed about something that specialize in TV releases. ev0.in is not technically a DDL forum nor a torrent tracker. It’s somewhat of a hybrid site that both acts as a scene releases indexer (for 0day releases) as well as a DDL link repository. Actually, it’s something like musiCORE, only for TV shows.  If you are interested in grabbing your daily dose of TV from one click hosting sites such as...

Since many have been asking, here’s a quick update on Silent Hunter 5 Battle of the Atlantic. SH5 is an important PC game on many counts – it’s the latest installment of a popular franchise but it is also one of the first games to use UBISOFT’s new *much hyped* DRM system. If you aren’t aware, UBI’s new DRM requires users to stay connected to the internet during the time they play the game (even for single player mode). Although the publisher tried to reduce piracy into nothingness by taking...