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.