For maintenance reasons, there will be some downtime today starting at 6 PM site time (GMT). We don't expect it to last longer than an hour. Only the website will be offline during this period; the tracker should be unaffected.

Hollywood-backed anti-piracy outfit BREIN is trying to stop the massive influx of Pirate Bay proxy sites that circumvent a court-ordered blockade in the Netherlands. The group obtained an injunction against one proxy and has threatened many others with legal action. While BREIN’s efforts appear to have had some effect, the question is for how long. In January, the Court of The Hague ruled that Ziggo, the largest ISP in the Netherlands, and competitor XS4ALL, must block access to The Pirate Bay. The ruling was the first to bring broad censorship to the Netherlands, but as always the Internet finds ways to route around such blockades. In the space of a few days hundreds of individuals setup proxy websites that allow customers of the ISPs to continue using The Pirate Bay. These proxies render the court order useless, which is a thorn in the side of local anti-piracy outfit BREIN. In an attempt to take these proxies offline, BREIN has contacted the owners of these proxy sites, ordering to take down the proxies – or else. This week the anti-piracy group obtained an injunction from the Court of The Hague which instructs the proxy site tpb.dehomies.nl to shut down. If the site owner continues to offer access to The Pirate Bay he risks a fine of 1000 euros per day. Armed with the court papers, BREIN also contacted the operators of many other proxy sites including alwaysapirate.org and remastered.nl who quickly took their sites offline and replaced them with a message from the anti-piracy group. Depiratebay.nl and thepiratebay2.nl were also contacted by BREIN, but these sites remain accessible for now. The 15-year old operator of the latter site confirmed that he will take the site offline before BREIN’s deadline passes this Friday. While he doesn’t agree with BREIN’s request, he simply doesn’t have the resources to put up a fight in court. In their letter to the site owners, BREIN threatens legal action against those who continue to keep their proxies online. In many cases, this threat of being sued by a conglomerate of US movie studios is enough to convince proxy owners to fold. “These sites deliberately offer a service to circumvent a court injunction. If they do not comply, we will hold them liable for damages,” BREIN director Tim Kuik said in a comment to Tweakers. It will be interesting to see for how long BREIN can continue this cat and mouse game. The proxies targeted so far were all specifically aimed at Dutch visitors and hosted on Dutch servers. Whether it will be as effective against sites hosted elsewhere remains to be seen. The Pirate Bay team informed TorrentFreak that they are not worried about the fate of their Dutch visitors. They expect that for every proxy that goes offline, new ones will spring up, as is usually the case. There are plenty of free proxy tools available and everyone with a WordPress blog can set one up in a few clicks. If anything, The Pirate Bay crew believes that BREIN is giving them a helping hand. “Thanks yet again for the free advertising,” they say. The Pirate Bay has a point here. All the talk about censorship and blockades only appears to strengthen the notorious torrent site. When there was talk about a UK blockade two weeks ago, local traffic surged. And visitors from Belgium and the Netherlands have massively turned to proxy sites after the torrent site was censored there. To quote John Gilmore once again: “The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.”

Hello, We determined that users can use their own seedbox. Seedbox users should post information of his/her seedbox. Please post your seedbox information on "Messages to Staff" of "Profile" page. - Seedbox's IP Address - Name of seedbox service company - Web page link of seedbox service company If you don't post your seedbox's information, there will be some disadvantage for your account. Additionally, we don't allow to share one seedbox for two accounts. Thnx.

We've found a datacenter! Thanks to everyone that sent in suggestions. One of our key staff members is busy with real-life for a week or so, so please be patient while we wait for his return. This page will be updated as more info is available.

Miami Judge Marc Schumacher has issued a landmark order in which he protects accused BitTorrent downloaders from mass-lawsuits filed by copyright holders. One of the main arguments of the judge is that these “fishing expeditions” violate BitTorrent users’ right to anonymous speech, which is protected by the constitution. The order effectively kills all BitTorrent lawsuits in Florida state courts. Every first year law student knows that copyright-related court cases are exclusively a matter of federal law. You can’t bring a copyright suit in state court, period. However, starting last year more and more BitTorrent-related cases were filed at Florida state courts. The copyright holders in these cases are exploiting a loophole based on the pure bill of discovery, which allows them to demand subpoenas to send to Internet providers without having to provide any evidence. For months this cheap trick proved to be very effective, but not anymore. In the case of movie studio Boy Racer against 615 unnamed BitTorrent users, Judge Marc Schumacher has issued a landmark ruling. The judge starts off by describing mass-BitTorrent lawsuits as “fishing expeditions” and brands the copyright holders as trolls. “[These suits are].. used to extort settlements from defendants who are neither subject to the courts’ personal jurisdiction nor guilty of copyright infringement, but who are fearful of the consequences of being publicly named as a defendant in a suit that seeks disclosure of the contents of their personal computers.” The judge notes that many federal courts have dismissed BitTorrent lawsuits, and he himself now does the same, but for different reasons. The basis of the dismissal is the fact that “copyright trolls” are violating BitTorrent users’ right to anonymous speech, a right that’s protected by the First Amendment. “The Supreme Court often has recognized that the First Amendment protects anonymous speech. Other federal courts have held that Internet users sharing copyrighted works via the BitTorrent application are themselves engaged in anonymous speech that warrants First Amendment protection,” the judge writes in his order. Judge Schumacher goes on to explain that because he has no jurisdiction over copyright matters, he cannot establish whether the claim of the copyright holder trumps the anonymity of the defendants. Thus, it is impossible for a state court to conclude whether the copyright holder’s request to identify the file-sharers is legitimate or not. In short, it means that BitTorrent users’ right to anonymous speech shields them from being exposed through state court lawsuits. In addition Judge Schumacher also ruled that the “pure bill of discovery” cannot be used for mass-BitTorrent lawsuits at all. The reason for this is that these subpoenas are supposed to target the defendant, not a third-party such as an Internet provider in this case. Commenting on Sophisticated Jane Doe’s blog, where the news about the order broke, lawyer Richard Viscasillas suggests that the decision could mean the end of nearly all mass-lawsuits in Florida state courts. “This latest Order by Judge Schumacher is now the only precedent in the 11th Judicial Circuit that I and other attorneys will be invoking to get all pending cases by all Plaintiffs dismissed with prejudice,” Viscasillas writes. “This is the proverbial ‘shot heard around the world’ that may just spell the end of all the ‘pure bill of discovery’ troll lawsuits in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The Trolls have to be in an absolute state of panic right now.” The order is indeed quite remarkable, and good news for tens of thousands of BitTorrent users who have been sued in Florida. Although BitTorrent itself is far from anonymous, it’s good to see that there are judges who prevent this fact from being abused though troll tactics. Update: Shortly after this article was published we learned that the order in question has been vacated. It turns out that the order was drafted by a defense attorney and Judge Schumacher apparently signed it by mistake, assuming all parties agreed on it. This is bad news for the defendants and means that the mass-BitTorrent lawsuits in Florida state courts are very much alive for now.

Criminals are attempting to extort Internet users by claiming there could be financial implications for those who used file-sharing site Megaupload for infringing activities. For the past several days a fake law firm claiming to act on behalf of entertainment companies such as Universal, Sony, EMI and Paramount has been claiming cash settlements from innocent victims. Schemes which require alleged copyright infringers to pay cash settlements to make lawsuits disappear are nothing new. Those describing these revenue-generating projects often do so using the word ‘scam’, but while the schemes are questionable, in many cases the companies carrying them out are genuine rightsholders supported by real lawfirms. Over the past couple of days a pair of cast-iron scams have been targeting file-sharers, one mimicking the model used by so-called ‘pay-up-or-else’ lawfirms and another with a more technical approach. The first targets users of the now-defunct cyberlocker service Megaupload. Playing on the fears of people who may have used the site for infringing purposes, the documents supporting the scam claim to be from legitimate-sounding German lawfirm “Dr. Kroner & Kollegen” of Munich. As can be seen from the screenshot below, the fake lawfirm claims to be acting on behalf of rightsholders such as Universal, Sony, EMI, Warner and Dreamworks. Supported by fake IP addresses and timestamps, the scam ‘lawfirm’ lays out its case. Since the user has downloaded unauthorized copyrighted material from Megaupload they are now liable for fines of 10,000 euros should the case not be dealt with effectively. But for a payment of just 147 euros the whole thing can be made to go away. Other suspicious elements aside, no specific copyright works are named and the claim is missing the usual ‘cease and desist’ element common to these schemes. Furthermore, according to a OnlineKosten, any cash payments made would end up at an address in Slovakia. Separately, GVU, an anti-piracy group responsible for the takedown of many file-sharing sites, has been targeted in a more sophisticated scam. According to the group, which was central to the huge operation that closed down Kino.to last year, a piece of malware is doing the rounds which tries to scam file-sharers out of cash settlements using GVU’s name. As can be seen from the screenshot above, infected users find their browsers hijacked and redirected to a page which displays a warning, claiming to be from GVU, that the computer in question has been detected sharing copyright works. In a clear indication that this is definitely a scam, settlement of just 50 euros is requested via PaySafeCard to make a potential claim go away. “The sender of this message is not GVU and we clearly distance ourselves from such criminal activities,” the anti-piracy group said in a statement.

Hi, XTV will open its doors for new members on the 6th and 7th april. A great tracker under reconstruction that has great set, good ratio system but lost most of its data after a crash. Still a great place to go for TV, TV Series and Movie Packages, include some vintage movies. Enjoy it!

The founders of The Pirate Bay, convicted in 2009 of copyright infringement offenses, have learned where they are to be held during their sentences. The trio – Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neik and Gottfrid Svartholm – will be separated and held in three locations around Sweden. But according to Sunde’s lawyer, a further appeal might already be underway. Yesterday it was revealed that Carl Lundström, the millionaire businessman who provided structural support for a fledgling Pirate Bay through his company Rix Telecom/Port80, will be spending his 4 month ‘jail’ sentence in the community. Along with Pirate Bay founders Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Gottfrid Svartholm, Lundström had previously found guilty of copyright infringement offenses in connection with the operations of The Pirate Bay. Now it has been revealed Neij (TiAMO), Sunde (brokep) and Svartholm (Anakata) will be serving their sentences in three separate ‘Category 2′ prisons. “We have three levels of security and we have put them in institutions with normal security,” Helena Lundberg, Chief Officer of Probation, told DN. Fredrik Neij will spend 10 months in Kirseberg prison in Malmö, Sweden. The prison first came into operation during 1914 and has a capacity of 131 inmates and around 170 staff.

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Hello, We exchanged some network devices of our server. If you have some problem of "Connect: No" and "Connect: Unknown", ask it to staff. Next week, many Korean TV dramas will start new. We are planning to apply new rule to captured videos of new Korean TV series temporarily. - Duplicated rules are not appliced. - Halfleech, Freeleech will be applied by the moderators. Your participation Please.

We're incredibly pleased to announce the launch of The What.CD Online Store! The What.CD Online Store (TWOS) is What.CD's official online storefront designed in conjunction with Port Merch, a full-service merchandise company which provides distribution solutions for bands, artists, record labels and your favorite private tracker. Note: For those of you having trouble accessing the store page, please try using this link: The What.CD Online Store - alternatively, you can copy-paste the links into your address bar manually. In TWOS, we'll be selling a variety of What.CD-themed gear and goods. While some earnings will be allocated for paying overhead (external labor costs, merchandise costs, distribution costs), all other profits earned via The What.CD Online Store will be put toward running and operating What.CD itself. Staff members will not profit from store earnings in any way. For these reasons, the store is a fantastic way to financially and fashionably support the site, and we hope to offer our users many quality products in the days ahead. The vast majority of TWOS designs are created by our users. We'll routinely hold design contests in our new Contests & Designs forum. Check our Contests & Designs Guidelines thread for the latest rules and legal information concerning the design process. We require all designs intended for use by TWOS to be licensed by their creators under a CC BY or CC BY-ND license. These licenses unambiguously open the designs up to commercial use by third parties like What.CD. More information on Creative Commons licenses can be found here. Many of you undoubtedly have questions about the store, especially with respect to safety, privacy and pricing. To satisfactorily answer these questions, we've compiled a FAQ document for The What.CD Online Store. As new questions crop up, we'll add answers to the FAQ document. We hope this document helps answer all of your questions.

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Try to go recover your data through the e-mail you registered or go to the irc and discuss the matter with them It stands for Piratethe.net and it's Ratio-Less movie tracker and here is a review for it http://www.invitescene.com/index.php?/topic/8575-piratethenet-ptn-movies-2011/

It has come to our attention that many users abuse our RSS feeds, although we have countless times requested, not to set your update interval less than 5 minutes. From Monday, any IP hitting our RSS feed more than once every 5 minutes, will be banned automatically for 24h.

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Hey guys, here are some changes that we did lately: All donations rewards have been changed a bit. Se more here. I will like to thank you all for supporting this site, we wouldn't be here without you. Love you all. Now you can get easy gold, just do a review for a movie encoded by SKALiWAGZ team and get 50000 gold.SKALiWAGZ Review Reward More changes to come. TiK-T0K - ETA 2 days.

A while ago we told you about the opportunity to create logos for SceneHD. That opportunity still exists, and you still get 100 bonus points for every logo we use at least once. Before, the process was rather tedious, with you having to post your logos in the appropriate thread and then writing a staff-pm to get your bonus points after it got put up, which is why we streamlined the process and created a form for you to upload your logos directly to the site (available to HD Lovers+). You can comfortably access the upload form via this icon in your userbar: Visit this thread to find additional information (e.g. the SceneHD font) and discuss the newest logos. You can of course still post your logos in the same thread, if you want.

100+ hrs of Free leeching starting now. ends on 2012-03-20 GMT THANK YOU For making Bitspyder what it is today, for helping us build a better community of knowledge seekers. Your support, co-operation and contributions are the only reasons that made us what we are today. We are proud to a have such a beautiful community. Now we are Celebrating our 6th Anniversary in building a better community. We continue to expect your best participation. Everyone gets 1GB Free Upload credits and 3 Free Invites And to all those who are currently warned, your warning has been Reset. TOP 10 Contest Rules : [Contest applicable to only torrents which are uploaded between 2012-03-16 00:00GMT & 2012-03-23 19:00GMT] Two uploaders with most snatches will be awarded VIP status + 60GB Upload Credits Third one will be awarded Privileged User status + 30GB Upload Credits (if already a Privileged User , member will be promoted to VIP) Rest of the 7 uploaders will be credited with 20GB uploaded to their profile (You can only win once) . Winners of the competition shall be declared on 2012-03-28 GMT and Snatches till declaration will be counted. To Qualify: Upload should be above 200MB For VIP stats - Uploader must have a ratio of 1.0 or above (when we declare the winner) and must be a member for atleast one week , else only upload credits will be credited.

It is our aim to provide users with a seamless browsing experience as they navigate What.CD's enormous torrent collection. Whether uploading fresh content, downloading potential favorites, searching for the next big thing or editing torrent information, the beautiful interface we have the luxury of taking for granted unifies the What.CD journey for everyone. Our user base is our most valued asset. The music and other content? A bonus. Yet behind it all is a small group of dedicated people who make vital contributions to our site by coding new features. Oftentimes, these features are first proposed in our Suggestions and Ideas forum. Sometimes, we simply stumble upon a good idea that becomes a great idea once implemented. While What.CD is a fantastic engine for discovering new music, the way in which this site acts as a proving ground for interface and tracker innovations is equally important. For this, we offer thanks to our Developers! Throughout the years, these Developers have operated in the background, always improving the site and ensuring that we offer the best user experience we can. With almost 150,000 users, it takes a monumental team focus to keep What.CD humming along, and the ease with which a user can interact with the site is a testament to this focus. In recognition of their commitment and dedication to the site, porkpie and lenrek have been promoted to the position of Lead Developer. From this position they will oversee our newest team, the Build Team. The Build Team (BT) is an extension of our development team and will work under its guidance. The Build Team will be tasked with completing outsourced coding projects in collaboration with our Developers. Members of this team will also act as testers for coding projects before such projects are implemented on the site. BT members will be in an ideal position to launch their own projects with the goal of further improving the site. We're starting small with the Build Team, but expect more information in the ure as we continue to develop this exciting new group. And what better way to celebrate the creation of our Build Team than with some brand new, shiny, Developer-approved staff picks and Torrent Master picks! Update: Now that we've made it through the initial surge, all TM picks have been changed to Neutral Leech for the duration of their TM pick-iness. Staff picks will remain Free Leech. Have fun!

IPT Easter Egg Contest It's time for another Hidden Objects type of contest on IPT. Find the Easter Egg images below in our forums/torrent comments and PM (private message) me the post/comment ID. Images have been posted all over the forums, in old/new posts and in old/new torrent comments. If you find one of them, you have to copy the post/comment ID and send it to me via PM. Messages are send to rok3r Once the image has been found by a member, it will be removed from the contest, so the first one to find an image, gets the credit. Prizes: 1st place - 100GB upload and 2 invites 2nd place - 50GB upload and 1 invite 3rd place - 25GB upload End of the contest is on 10th of April

Great question. Our expert team of badasses are on the job. Expect to have it back up within a few hours.

Today we celebrate a double anniversary at HD-Torrents. Our site becomes 4 years old since its creation on 15. Mar 2008 and our internal remux group KRaLiMaRKo hits one year since its first release on 15. Mar 2011. To celebrate these events we give 3 temporary invites to each member with rank HD Maniac or above. Note that the invites will be active for the next 4 days.

Just to let everyone know, the current userlimit has been set to 50,000 and there are currently just over 11,000 free spaces available for signup at the time of writing this message. Tell your friends to come on over and signup and enjoy the site.

Dear Members, We would like to apologize for the recent slow speed of the site as well as for the small downtime we had earlier to and late last night, We had a minor DB crash which has resulted in loosing both some of our members as well as some of the latest uploads, Again we apologize and we appreciate that you have stuck with us during these bad times. We hope the site is now running up to it's full speed and we hope you continue to support HD-Space in any way possible. Cheers and enjoy the glory that is HD-Space!!!! Sincerely "The HD-Space Staff" If you know or perhaps a buddy lost his/her account please let them now why it happened and if possible invited them back, cheers!!

Hi, everyone. Recently, we have some problem of "Connect: No" and "Connect: Unknown". After doing some tests, we think that there's some problem on network device of our server. So we'll exchange network device of our server at this weekend. There'll be no server-down, but the website is sometimes not connectable.