New high level tracker dLL and random level changes

As some of you might have seen there has been some tracker level changes during the past couple of weeks. Here is a fast run through:

FSC is the most sought after "community" tracker but the rush to get in isn't as high as it used to be. Recruiting members openly from FST might not have been the the best choice either. One level drop from 9 to 8.

AOM reestablishes itself by jumping up one level to lvl 9. So at this moment we only have specialized content trackers at the second highest level. Exigo for lossless music, AOM for magic torrents and HDBits for high definition film and TV.

LFM releases loads of early internals and has had a good start. But invites are plentiful and recruitment happens on most tracker power user forums. Down from lvl 7 to lvl 5.

GFT recently opened invites and even allowed for Romanians and Egyptians to get in or get back. We therefor anticipate that the ban hammer will sound a few times in the future and GFT falls from lvl 6 to lvl 5.

Sweden's leading tracker Sparvar has closed its doors indefinitely and we've seen a surge of people wanting to get in. It flies (pun intended) up from lvl 4 to lvl 6. Another Swedish tracker Ti (The Internationals) which started of pretty well hasn't even come close to live up to its predecessor and falls from lvl 5 to lvl 4.

We would very much like to welcome a new high level tracker that goes by the abbreviation of dLL. To get in you most likely will have to gain access to a forum that officially doesn't exist first and from there register to the tracker.
Someone just told us however that member applications for people outside has been temporarily enabled. So hurry up! But you will first have to find a member that can help you with the application.

New additions: iFR, eLK, fux0r and Sinderella

First, uk-2 is in a very sad state. No users, no leeching, no seeding. One big problem (as the admins and sysops can't seem to understand) is that the design is flawed. And maybe you say: "That shouldn't matter, we're here to download stuff". We say: That might be true, but if you easily can find exactly the same general content at every other place why would you want to login to uk-2 where you risk temporary blindness every time. And only the name uk-t is sadly not enough to make a great tracker. We've seen the resurrections go down that way all to many times in the bittorrent world. We still hope for for the best but uk-two slides down from lvl 5 to lvl 4.

BTN has had some drama lately, Azza (founder of BTN) has been kicked out and he has probably stolen some donations too. No one really knows. Nonetheless BTN goes up from lvl 4 to lvl 5. Followed by DB9 (deepbase9) also from lvl 4 to lvl 5.

Most big porn trackers has usually been semi private trackers with huge user counts. That has probably also been their fall. After Cheggit left us late 2011 all addicts (many of them earlier refugees from Empornium and Pure TnA) scrambled to find new havens. Members spread to Deviloid, BMTorrents, Malacka and Empornium II. But there are also two porn trackers that had begun as private trackers and stayed that way and after the porn apocalypse has been getting more and more requests. One of them is Korean tracker Sinderella and the other one is fux0r. They both make their entry at lvl 3.

Bibliotik, is a tracker for e-books and audio books and is literally a tracker that is more than meet the eye. Bibliotik retired for some months and then came back. Invites are not that easy to get a hold on and the tracker joins trackerlevels as high up as lvl 5.

There has been much talk about two new music trackers. One of them is another lossless tracker called iFR. They have a small user base and some recruitment going on in tracker power user forums and alike. The other music tracker is eLK (Electrobits) but which although it's name is a general music tracker.

They started out hard fetched but has gone more and more generous when it comes to invites and the tracker has had open signups every now and then. Strangely enough eLK has been traded and offered vastly since they started out. iFR joins trackerlevels at lvl 4 and eLK joins us at lvl 2.

CN, LFM, UK-T, and Ti new year tracker update!

Just when we declared CN/TBH down for good it suddenly has one of those famous resurrections. No more TBH though. The original staff is back and the tracker is called CN or cosa nostra again. And no more open signups or posting of the url in public. Secrecy is once again one of the most important parts of this long longed for tracker. CN makes its return at level 7.

TTi is still down but a new tracker has started and it's doing really well gathering the lost members of TTi. It has sort of the same theme as the original and some of the staff is on the new tracker too. The name is now only Ti (theinternationals). TTi was actually the abbrevation of their old domain name torrents.theinternationals.nu.
Ti is invite only. A lot of people (mostly swedes) is looking to join and the tracker itself joins Tracker levels again at level 5.

Uk-two, uk-2, uk-t or whatever you want to call it hasn't been doing very well lately. Uploaders quitting, no donations and a lot of other problems. As usual no one wants to board a sinking ship. We reckon this was not exactly what they planned when they first started Uk-t the second coming. The tracker is falling two levels from lvl 7 to lvl 5.

LFM (leech from me) has closed sign ups and is now invite only. This is where most of the p2p groups and dedicated UTN/iMAGINE members ended up when iMAGINE was busted and UTN went down. A small, tight knit and closed community makes getting invited pretty hard. LFM joins us at lvl 7.

GFT, Pedro's, x264, nCore etc. tracker level changes.

The movie tracker x264 is advancing once more. This time to lvl 7.

The level 10 tracker that went down is up again under a different name.

Old tracker Filelist.org has had so many domain and owner problems the last years that it's not even funny. The domain is changed yet again and the tracker is now called postfile.org. The tracker hasn't had open signups for ages but the old stats is gone and the doors are therefor now open. Filelist changes name and is out from the list.

Ncore advances from lvl 2 to lvl 5. What.cd is up from lvl 4 to lvl 5. GFT is up from lvl 5 to lvl 6. HDBits is up from lvl 8 to lvl 9. Pedro's BTmusic is up from lvl 7 to lvl 8. CHDBits is up from lvl 5 to lvl 6.

ScienceHD is down from lvl 6 to lvl 5.

TTG (TorrenTGui) and HDChina joins Tracker levels at lvl 5. Klatbits (k**, k) and DB9 joins the list at lvl 4.

TTi taken down etc.

Today TTi was taken down by the swedish APB (Swedish anti piracy agency). The site had about 25k users and were sharing about the same amount of torrents. Seems like running a torrent tracker in Sweden nowadays is getting harder and harder.

Raids against two file-sharers
The police did during Tuesday raids against two people in Växjö and Borås suspected of copyright infringement. The operation was directed against the site www.tti.nu.
According to prosecutors to site www.tti.nu have made ​​available thousands of works, including films, using Bittorrent technology. Servers suspected to contain the site’s tracker, database and web site have been seized. Two people sitting on Tuesday arrested but has now been placed on large. Both deny the crime. According to prosecutor Frederick Ingblad, more people are assumed to have been involved in the operation of the site. Notice that led to the raid was made ​​by the APB.
http://www.idg.se/
http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.416436

On another note, a user has notified us about TBH's (The Black Hand) former CN's (Cosa Nostra) non existence. We've been waiting for their v2 tracker of TBH for almost half a year. We have not heard anything nor do we expect to hear anything soon. So we hereby declare CN/TBH dead once and for all.

IMAGiNE release group busted - UtN tracker gone

The Imagine movie release group has been busted. Apparently 4 of their 9 members has been arrested by the police. Their website: Unleash the net has been taken down and no new releases has been seen since.

Starting a tracker and selling VIP accounts for members to acquire the newest releases might have been a real bad idea. Sad to see a prosperous group and nice tracker go down like this. More info on TorrentFreak.

Skittles is on the 'being evaluated' list again. Until someone can send us an updated print screen of a page from the Skittles tracker with dates and number of torrents it will stay there.

Elite level 10 tracker closed down. Plus UK-T ressurection.

The biggest and one of the oldest level 10 trackers that has gone through quite a few domain and name changes during the last decade has sadly enough closed down.

Other news is that new (old) UK-Two joins the list at level 7. Former old elite tracker UK-t(orrents) has opened up once again after it's death some months ago because of a CD/DVD seller who named UK-t as his online supplier of copied material when he was caught. This is apparently not just a copy cat by people not related to the old site. As it turns out some of the old staff is running the site. And quite a few of the old members recieved invitations.
Recently there has also been invites  handed out to all members:

UK-two has given everyone invites for limited time
Invite a friend weekend
Lots of new stuff going on in the background people, more about that over the next 48 hrs
In the meantime we are going to have an “invite a friend” weekend, invites have been give out as follows:
User 1 Invite
PU up 2 Invites
Uppers 3 Invites

Invites are available on your accounts now for a limited time, as ever please take care to invite people you can trust and who will be active on site.

Other changes to the list are: FTN up one level to level 8. Ts-Tracker up one level to level 7. x264 up one level to level 6. CHDBits gets a lot of requests so it moves up two levels to level 5.

Updates, updates, updates..

Sorry for not being able to update lately, have had a lot to do irl.

Skittles dead, AOM pending (moving up?), FTN pending (moving up?), EotW moving down, TS-Tracker moving up, x264 moving up, TopHos moving down, Swebits dead, sceneXpress/seX pending (down/dead?), DesiTorrents added, CN resurrection/name change (TBH).

Random [#] changes.

Ok, guys. In need of help when it comes to HD movie trackers - names, levels, ratings etc..

CN goes Phoenix goes CN

What happened when CN crashed was that a lot of members along with staff migrated to PTFiles (old Phoenix torrents) and some members joined PtN.
CN staff was meant to be working with PTFiles to make a new CN-like general tracker. But now it seems a one year old copy of the db has been found and CN will be up and rockin' again.

From IRC:

The first rule is. Tell EVERYONE from CN that CN is BACK. The second rule is tell them to KEEP their TORRENTS. Third Rule is follow through with the first and second rule like a mofo.

CN, Filelist/Filepost & GFT update

CN or better known as Cosa Nostra is no more. A sad day for the torrent world. Both loved and hated, CN was a very good tracker. Nice layout, enthusiastic staff and a well managed bonus and permanent seed system which made the retention of movies exceptionally good. And causing a lot of drama due to its wanted secrecy might have been unnecessary but oh so fun. R.I.P.

Due to personal, technical, and other unforeseen circumstances the site put on some cement shoes and is now swimming with the fishes. - Bumrocks

Filepost.org former known as Filelist.org is one of the oldest and best known old school 0-day trackers still in function. No one except for staff knows how many users there are. Invites have been closed for longer than time itself. Most members have accepted that Filepost is a sinking ship and a lot of members have already changed to other trackers for their daily needs. There have been numerous posts in the forum about opening sign ups or giving out invites during the last years but the calls have gone unanswered. Until now.

Invites script installed, once we do some testing, we plan to make some invites available to power users only.

 Also one old music site is going down but will be merged with the new revival of Filepost.

FileMP3's going to merge with us given their financial difficulties, there's even a Music category in the browse page here already.

GFT, the hard-to-get-into and notorious trader hunting 0-day tracker was very close to go down one level. You only needed to idle in the IRC for a couple of days to gain enough points which then could be used to buy invites. Now it seems all invites have been changed back to bonus points. It seems though that when donations reach 100% the possibility to buy invites will be back. The bonus point price for one invite is yet unknown. The tracker stays at its current level.

x264 stays

x264.me is a x264-only tracker. Movies range from 1.4GiB DVDRips to 13GiB 1080P rips. Allowing only a smaller amount of users the tracker has quite some amount of exclusivity associated with it. Demand for a membership has risen lately and people offering invites is not seen as often as for other high def. trackers. Still, there are quite a few threads in power user forums at different trackers offering invites for free to good and trusted users.
The people have spoken and the poll shows that x264 will stay at its level which has been and still is at level 4.

BCG again

BCG has always been the king of game trackers. Most would say that it still is but to be honest BCG has lost much of its former glory during 2010. A year ago BCG tried a new invite system using referrals. They changed their login page to a fake one and they made up a personal random word that you had to write in a search box before being able to login with your ordinary username and password.
According to BCG this was done as a security measure. But the invite referral system was flawed.
Referrals wasn't easy to get a hold on. And the person you invited had to have your secret word in order to sign up and the sign up process had to be done in a couple of hours after the mail had been sent out. What happened was that people didn't bother to sign up. And people started using other game trackers instead of BCG.
We all know what happened after that. No new members meaning no new donors. BCG has now had open sign ups for the last couple of months looking for new members.
BitGamer on the other hand has closed invites in preparation for a new invite system. Hopefully they won't make the same mistake as BCG.

It definitely feels like most of the new accounts on BCG are dupes because of the vast amount of accounts found at different trading sites. And with no stop in sight when it comes to open sign ups the former king of gaming now finds itself at level 2.

iTN R.I.P.

iTN v.2.0 is terminated after a couple of months downtime. From the front page:

Prawie dwa lata. Męk, pisania kodu, płacenia, grafikowania. Dwa lata dobrej zabawy, myślenia, miliony literek na komunikatorach, tysiące słów na konwersjach na Skype. Z dniem 15 Listopada 2010 ja (Kuba1530) oraz załoga z iTN 2.0 postanowiliśmy, że projekt zostaje finalnie zakończony. Nie wrócimy. Nigdy. Projekt był warty uwagi, ale niestety nasze nieudolne zarządzanie zrobiło swoje. Nie będę się rozpisywał. Chciałbym teraz podziękować: Krzyś - Ty ze mną współpracowałeś głównie. Było miło, ale się różniliśmy. Neo (Świętej Pamięci) za doskonały pierwszy layout. Barti17144 za inne layouty. Ast89 - za pomoc w cięciu i układaniu. Kostelihno - za inne layouty. Starym załogantom oraz tym, którzy byli w wersji 2 - także dziękuję. Osobom, które czasem pomogły w kodzie, również dziękuję. Osoby te będą wiedzieć, że o nie chodzi. Nie będę się rozpisywał. Dziękujemy za poświęcony czas.

I don't know anyone that understand polish but it says something about "terminated", "thanks to whoever" and other stuff.

Spare us the v3.0 resurrection of iTN. Please!

BCG - BlackCats Games opens signups sporadically

Apparently it's open signup day today. BCG - BlackCats-Games are open.

UtN opens signups for a short while! *Closed* *Open* *Closed*

Up, up!

Combined FLAC and movie tracker Skittles moves up one level to join the likes of HDBits and iTS. Lately it has been very quiet when it comes to info about Skittles. No one knows how many torrents or members there are. And no one knows how to join. Skittles is a bit of a mystery in the torrent world so to speak. But if given the opportunity people would not hesitate to join. No invites or accounts are given away freely. No recruitment threads are to be seen. This means level 8.

Specialized FLAC tracker Pedro's BTMusic is one of the best in the game. The possibility to buy your way in to the tracker doesn't exist anymore and invites are only handed out to uploaders and VIP:s. If you upload music and especially FLAC:s on other music trackers chances are that you'll have an easy time getting invited but if you're a regular leecher and seeder chances are slim.
It's relatively easy to get a hold of an account by the means of trading if you're into that though. Still the demand for BTMusic is growing and there's no change in invite policy to be seen. Level 7 for Pedro's.

LW checking in

Poll is closed. Lossless World makes its tracker level entry. Good thing is that it seems you can't buy yourself in anymore. Bad thing is that staff and respected uploaders have been leaving the place during the last week because of disagreements. Are we watching the rerun of "need-music"? Are new lossless trackers cursed? Don't know. Future will tell.
For now, welcome to level 4.

Hanging loose

Why are more and more invites from GFT hitting the street. The answer is that they are handed out almost freely at GFT. What you have to do is to reach the second user class, where the only obstacle seems to be that you'll have to wait for 8 weeks. But during that time you will download 250 files and seed them for at least four days (which is also needed to advance). GFT is a non ratio tracker so no worries. After this you have reached the user class able to get invites.

A while ago GFT changed the karma bonus points system so in order to gain points you now have to idle in their irc. At almost every given time there are at least 400 people in the irc. But it's still very quiet. Well, for every hour you idle you are rewarded with 5 points. And if you have reached the second user class you can exchange karma points for one invite. You just need to idle in irc for about a week. That's all and that's why more and more invites hit the street and that's why GFT's level rating is hanging loose.

By the way, GFT is one of the top tier 0-day trackers. GFT beats FTN in every possible way so with this great opportunity, if you get your hands on one of those GFT invites. Be sure to grab it. You won't be disappointed.

Changes or misdirections

iTS is one of the higher level trackers and has been specializing more and more in AFR:s and FLAC music lately. A lot of members from "The Rabbit" emigrated to iTS when FTWR fell of the web but the tracker is still fairly small with a small user base. Apparently they need some new blood so iTS has had open invite applications for a couple of weeks (only higher user classes has been able to make applications for potential members in the past). According to some torrenters this should lead up to a level drop. But to this point there has only been around 100 new members joining the ranks. And with such a small user base and still a big demand the tracker will stay put at level 8.

On the other hand. The dedicated magic tracker AOM slips down one level. It tracks about 4000 torrents and have a member base of about 900 members. Art of Misdirection meets a lower and lower demand on the tracker market and people who actually have any real use for the tracker (read magicians) easily join by applying for membership. Level 8 next for AOM.

nCore changes

We've been notified about open signups for nCORE tracker. This massive general tracker has about 80k active torrents and about 130k users. It's been staying at level 4 for quite a while but because of the amount of users, the not so big demand and of course open signups the tracker tumbles to level 2.