Archive for the 'News & Others' Category

SCC Invites Now Available For 48 Hours Only

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010

Thought we’d fill you in on a monumental newsflash – just in case you haven’t heard, SCC has just now granted free invites to all members (everyone should have received between 1 to 3 invites). The catch is this: they must be used up with…

CHDBits Not Open for Signup, But Invites are Aplenty

Saturday, September 25th, 2010

What used to be a modestly difficult invitation to find, torrenters may have noticed that CHDBits invites have become increasingly prevalent on torrent-invite forums, as well as on tracker forums themselves – all due to CHDBits‘ new promotion. …

APNet Closes; Alternatives For Public PreDB and Torrent Races

Saturday, July 3rd, 2010


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 [...]

Online Media Streaming, Torrents and More at BitLite.com

Sunday, June 27th, 2010


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) [...]

DidItLeak Lives On – New Music Leak Sites Fill The Void

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010


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 [...]

VCDQ.com is Reborn – A PreDB With Amazing Extras

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010


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 [...]

Donation Woes – Can PayPal Wipe Out Private Trackers?

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010


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 [...]

The Rogers Cable Fiasco Killed My Internet Access

Monday, May 3rd, 2010


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 [...]

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

Saturday, April 17th, 2010


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. [...]

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

Monday, March 8th, 2010


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 [...]