Some Internet piracy groups decided to implement some new regulations and standards last week. Instead of releasing TV shows in the Xvid/avi format, groups responsible for putting major TV shows online switched to MP4/x264. Outraged by the lack of democracy, some BitTorrent users are directing their anger at bewildered torrent sites and even threatening to boycott releases. For those who understand, the whole thing is pretty amusing. SAD PIRATE Every now and again, the world’s most famous piracy release groups get together and have a big old meeting to decide how they’ll carry out their future activities. At the top of the agenda is an item of utmost importance – how to change things around to ensure the highest levels of annoyance and inconvenience for BitTorrent downloaders. Ok, so the last sentence isn’t true, but nevertheless that appears to be the current assessment of events according to some BitTorrent users. Worryingly, the interpretation from others is even more wide of the mark. The problem stems back to a new document which details a set of standards TV show release groups such as LOL and MOMENTUM will have to live up to in order to comply with so-called ‘Scene rules’. Not complying with the format means that a release group’s work risks being ‘nuked’ – a term which means something has been rated second-class by their pirating peers. The document – ‘The SD x264 TV Releasing Standards 2012′ – is extremely detailed and covers all sorts of technical issues, but the main controversy stems from the adoption of the x264 codec. “x264 has become the most advanced video codec over the past few years. Compared to Xvid, it is able to provide higher quality and compression at greater SD resolutions,” the rule document begins. “This standard aims to bring quality control back to SD releases. There are many standalone players/streamers such as TviX, Popcorn Hour, WDTV HD Media Player, Boxee, Xtreamer, PS3, XBOX 360, iPad, & HDTVs that can playback H264 and AAC encapsulated in MP4,” the doc adds. From February 22nd and earlier in some cases, release groups including ASAP, BAJSKORV, C4TV, D2V, DiVERGE, FTP, KYR, LMAO, LOL, MOMENTUM, SYS, TLA and YesTV began releasing TV shows in the new format. Out went Xvid and avi, in came x264 and MP4. However, while the release groups want to move with the times, there are many people consuming their content who either don’t or can’t. In the main, people seem disappointed because their standalone Xvid compatible DVD players won’t play the new releases. Some of the reactions are polite enough, but show a misunderstanding of how the system works. “LOL, why are all your new uploads MP4 format? How do we get hold of you? We need the AVI format back, really frustrating as most DVD players don’t play MP4 format which means we are back to converting format to AVI – how 3rd world LOL,” begins one user on popular torrent site EZTV. “Hi there, I agree too please can you revert back to AVI as most DVD players cannot recognize MP4 format and this means I need to do conversion to AVI all the time for my grand mother and its quite painful,” says another. At worst, some of the comments show an embarrassing sense of entitlement and an attitude that those downloading for free are actually “customers” of these release groups and as such deserve to be treated better. “F@#k LOL and their mp4′s,” is just one example of the aggression directed towards them. But there are another set of users who don’t understand where the releases come from at all and are instead directing their anger at the torrent sites – the equivalent of blaming Google for not listing the pictures people had hoped for in their image search. “MP4 SUCKS AND IS A BULL SHIT FORMAT. AVI WILL ALWAYS BE KING. MORE TROUBLE THAN IS WORTH. TIME TO GET MY DOWNLOADS FROM A BETTER SITE THAT OFFERS AVI AND I KNOW A MAJORITY OF THE DOWN LOADERS WILL DO THE SAME,” shouts an EZTV user. “SO I THINK EZTV HAS A LIMITED LIFE SPAN LEFT IF THEY DO NOT TELL DOWN LOADERS TO GO BACK TO AVI IT IS PROBABLY ALL OVER FOR THIS SITE.” First off, these release groups aren’t deliberately releasing TV shows to please the masses. They do it for their own entertainment and it’s only when they leak out do the wider world get access to them. They are certainly not being put online to satisfy the needs of ALL CAPS MAN. Second, the torrent sites index other people’s content, they tend not to be the originators of it. Sure, some of the more friendly but bewildered comments of upset downloaders are pretty amusing to read, but the more aggressive ones highlight a more worrying trend. Somewhere along the line a consumer appeared who not only wants everything super quickly and for free, but also believes that the same should be offered with Class A service. Should these things not be delivered, he feels it is his right to take his “business” elsewhere. Could this become the new consumer standard for service on the Internet? At the moment this toughest breed of consumer appears to be in the minority but thanks to the law of supply and demand, even he will find his needs served. Already people are ‘pirating’ the MP4 releases and re-uploading them in the Xvid format to satisfy his needs. In the meantime, no doubt LOL and LMAO will be doing what their acronyms suggest.

Happy Birthday DB9 ! 48hr global freefeed is now enabled on all* music torrents. About 20hr left...

New bitGAMER server -- FATE Thanks to the support of our amazing donors, bitGAMER will be moving to a new server within the next 48 hours. The server, known as FATE, will provide the bG community an even more stable and robust environment operate in. Specs for the curious: Intel Xeon i7 W3520 / 8 cores @2.93GHz 24 GB DDR3 RAM 2x 300 GB Intel SSD 320 Gigabit Ethernet We anticipate some small measure downtime within the next 48 hours as the DNS updates propagate. After that, we'll be in the hands of our new friend, FATE. Take care, // bG Staff EDIT (03/2/2012): The move has been pushed back an additional 24 hours as we work out some kinks. Hang in there, folks!

Another fine group has joined the internal team of HD-Torrents! Please welcome HiDE!

Got 2 Pms from them : 1- Site to do the kinds of integral rules change notification Please note that, effective immediately, all smaller than 1G seeds will no longer be entitled to the conservation integral, looking well-known 2- Please attention: bonus point system has changed. All torrents which less than 1Gb won't be counted anymore!

Yes, The Pirate Bay is down at the moment. No, there’s no reason to panic. Every time The Pirate Bay suffers a few minutes for downtime, thousands of people start to worry that something awful has happened to their beloved site. Luckily, this is usually not the case. When the site’s not responding someone probably tripped over a cable, they’re working on software upgrades, replacing hardware or facing another technical difficulty. And indeed, the current downtime also has a technical nature. The Pirate Bay team told TorrentFreak that they’re working on a problem that arose after a software upgrade this morning. Everything should be back to normal soon. Update: The site’s back after a few hours of downtime.

with better hardware. ADC is moving to another datacenter. We're closed (temporarily) while the search for a better home is underway. If you are aware of a good datacenter for sites like ours, please let us know! And if you're friends with someone who might have an idea, please ask them on our behalf. Our email address is [email protected]. In case you need to communicate privately, here is our GPG public encryption key. The good news is that we'll have better hardware at our new datacenter. With enough disk space to host images. We already moved dozens of gigabytes of your imageshack-hosted content to our own storage. Lots of ADCers are idling on our chat channel on the Rizon IRC network. Come join the silent herd; just visit this webchat and fill in the channel name (#asiandvdclub) and your nickname, and click connect. We'll keep this page updated as more news develops.

Swepiracy was a large BitTorrent tracker site, launched back in 2006. In Sweden, it ranked as one of the most popular file-sharing services for the last several years. The site has been recently raided and brought down as a result of a coordinated operation of authorities from both Sweden and the Netherlands. Last week, the police of eastern Sweden have raided the house of a 20-year-old guy suspected of operating the online service in question. At the same time, the Netherlands’ authorities have seized Swepiracy’s servers located in that country. Swedish anti-piracy bureau Antipiratbyran announced that Swepiracy was trying to protect its operations by moving servers abroad, to the Netherlands. However, Swedish and Dutch police have coordinated their efforts and carried out raids in order to secure evidence of copyright violation. Besides, the anti-piracy outfit claimed that Swepiracy was known as one of the largest promoters of copyright violation content and before the start of this operation it had been warned to cease its unauthorized operations. Instead, the site’s operator tried to protect himself by moving the servers of the tracker into the Netherlands. Unfortunately, this didn’t help. Prosecutor Henrik Rasmusson has made a statement during the interview to the local newspaper. He explained that the young man was suspected of operating Swepiracy BitTorrent tracker. Rasmusson also pointed out that the founder of the website has made plenty of money by charging the tracker’s users in exchange to providing them access to illegal films. The police evaluated the amount he has earned equal to $150,000. After answering a number of questions to the police, the guy behind the BitTorrent tracker was released. However, he still remains under criminal suspicion of copyright violation. The police explained to the press that though the young man admitted that he had run the operations, he didn’t believe doing so had been a criminal act. Swepiracy wasn’t the first and only service targeted by Antipiratbyran: for example, SceneAccess, Theinternationals and Sparvar were also scoped by the anti-piracy outfit, which promises to take actions against them in the nearest future. Seems like today is a hard time for torrent trackers in Sweden…

Mp3Scene.org: http://mp3scene.org/ 2012-03-01 - (New) English Users that have not been active in the last 30 days will be disabled at the 5th of March.

Yeah baby ... It's time ... We recall that our entire database of torrents (about 23 thousand items) has been rewritten to page Akka cinemamovies.pl gameburner.net Part of our team went to the board of this page: wink: So you can rest and hopefully zagościcie the new site. All persons who przepisały the account on CM Akka GB should immediately begin seedować the new site to protect torreenty of appeal. (instructions on the home page CM) Please bear with us for all CM Staff Application (they have a lot of guys now on the head) We keep our fingers crossed for you: ok: with all the tackle will be well -------------------------------------- Once again, greetings and wish you all welcome success in personal life and in the "network" Thank you for helping all kind and benevolent not say: wall: Remember the good and remember us with everything we do always with a heart on his sleeve and that's all for you - regular users ... It was nice Veni, vidi, vici You can tarnsfer all your status in 3 tarckers and all your gb up and down will be transfered more details on there page

We need your support - TorrentVault Hey guys and girls, we are way behind our necessary donation need. Any help you can send forward to bring us closer to 100% it would be highly appreciated! It's close to the end of the month and we definitely need some donation support to enable us to keep our server set up the way it is and keep TV running! If you can, please visit the donation page by clicking here. Thank you in advance // TV Staff

No more torrents=no changes anyhow Today marks the end of an era. Sort of. TPB will no longer give out links to .torrent files. The reason is simple: They're just a waste of space and our time. Instead we're giving you Magnet links. It's simpler for us and no more hassle for you. It's more resilient than .torrent files and it uses much less bandwidth for those who wants to mirror. Also, since the magnet links are just a hash, it's on every single torrent detail page - so noone knows that you actually downloaded a file or not. This means that noone can block torrent files without blocking data within a webpage. So far, few countries have implemented such harsh censorship tactics. Countries, particularily in EU, seems to moving towards total censorship so we do all we can to avoid our users ending up with less freedom. A lot of media has hyped that we're stopping with the torrent files. It's like saying that Ferrari is no longer sellings cars - they're just selling BETTER cars. As are we, we're giving you the best links there are! And to kinda-quote a bible, "Spilling seed is more severe then all sins, since he defiles his soul in this world and the world to come and he does not see the glory of the sharing." PS. you _can_ download individual files using magnets - just wait until the metadata is fetched from the network. It is worth it.

2012-02-28 - FreeLeech! Not to spoil the celebration of the Tracker and site working now again, but unfortunately I must report that there is a Free Leech active right now, that will be running until a notice is issued right Here - in The News, and at least two days before it will be ended - so remember to check the news more often you lazy lazy people, and update your bookmark to this page instead. // hellfairy 2012-02-28 - New server I'm pleased to announce that the new server is Finally configured and should be working from now, though some minor adjustments may be done over the coming week now, but nothing that should affect the site more then a few minutes at a time. Also please report any issues in the support forum!

Over the years you guys have asked us repeatedly to make t-shirts available but it has never quite seemed feasible. Until now. A dedicated user, Ramones77, has come forward to help make PTP t-shirts a reality! While Ramones77 and his company will be selling the shirts, all of the proceeds will be donated back to Pass the Popcorn. The design, seen above, comes courtesy of our very own trza. You can pre-order shirts from the first run now. The more pre-orders there are, the lower the production costs will be. That means more money will be able to go back into the site. So please, if you want a shirt order it during pre-ordering. This may be your only opportunity to get this incarnation of the shirt. Shirts will be available in sizes Medium through 2XL. The shirts will cost $20, shipping included, for any orders to the United States. It's an additional $5 to ship to Canada or Mexico and $10 to anywhere else in the world (bringing the prices to $25 and $30 respectively). A big thanks to Ramones77 for stepping up and dedicating his time and resources to run this, to trza for coming up with the design, and to all of you who support the site through these purchases. For instructions on ordering and discussion about the shirts, check out this thread. As always, if you'd like to donate but don't want a t-shirt you can find more information here.

BTN Official avatar request thread is been closed. "We're officially closing this thread since users can now buy custom avatars with lumens! Read more about purchasing custom avatars + sigs here:" Go to BTN lumens, you'll find out!" BTN has a completely new design team ready to create custom avatars, signatures, and other graphics for our users! Check out the store to see what's currently available for purchase! Avatars sell quickly once we re-stock them, so make sure to check back frequently to see when they're available. We'll also be adding custom signatures, icons, and other goodies in the near future. Bonus Points + Lumens FAQ Bonus Points FAQ | Lumens FAQ | Convert BP to Lumens Static: Avatars: 400 Lumens Animated Avatars: 800 Lumens Avatar Examples Below are some examples of graphics our designers have made. These are the sort of effects you can request, but let your creativity run wild! Our designers are great at coming up with whatever graphic your heart desires.

iPlay is launching today it's own online tv show streaming service. The novelty brought by this service is the HD quality ( 720p.HDTV and WEB-DL ). To enjoy the Video Box, it's recommended that you have an aproximately 2,2 mbps internet connection. VideoBox is curently in alpha phase, so we'll appreciate if you can post here the bugs you encounter. We have a limited number of tv shows atm because, in this phase, we want to concentrate on fixing any bugs that you encounter and maximize your viewing experience.

Spread the word - Posted 2012-02-28 We're very sorry for putting up a shutdown notice a few days ago. Our apologies to our entire crew of members who were saddened (and angry) at the sudden news, as well as the staff that were caught unawares. At this moment in time we can't give any details about what happened, but something got us rattled last week. We made a snap decision to shutdown. The wording of the shutdown message was poorly thought out. In retrospect, we should have waited a few days and put up this notice of a temporary downtime. We all felt really bad about it the day after. Now the hard work is over and we're ready to announce our plans: The Bibliotik.org website is secure and intact. We are searching for a new datacenter. If you have experience with good (or bad) datacenters, we would very much appreciate any suggestions. Send an email to [email protected]. For secure communication, you can encrypt using our public GPG key at the bottom of this page. Additionally, our coding staff have some modifications to attend to. Feel free to stop by our IRC chat channel (#bibliotik) at irc.brokensphere.net and express your support for their hard work.

This years award show just concluded a few minutes ago and all movies that received an oscar have been made freeleech for a short time. We will announce it here when the freeleech stops. *** WARNING: SPOILER BELOW *** Winners: Best Supporting Actor : Christopher Plummer in Beginners - 720p, 1080p Best Supporting Actress : Octavia Spencer in The Help - 720p, 1080p Best Animated Feature: Rango - 720p, 1080p Best Foreign Language Film : A Separation (Iran) - 720p, 1080p Best Writing – Original Screenplay : Midnight in Paris - 720p, 1080p Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Visual Effects : Hugo - 720p, 1080p Best Film Editing : The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - 720p, 1080p (no seriously, go watch the Swedish original, it is ten times better!)

Where would we be without censorship? Last year we ran a piece on a mistake by the US authorities, which shut down 84,000 websites for alleged child pornography crimes. Ironically enough, this article is now censored by a porn outfit. Paper Street Cash, LLC, the proud owners of teamskeet.com included the piece in a list of 555 URLs that are allegedly infringing on their rights. The list was sent to Google and all URLs are now de-indexed by Google. A mistake of course, since the article in question is totally unrelated to teamskeet.com. We assume that some automated keyword searcher picked up our article, and that it was indeed a mistake, but conspiracy theories are not excluded. Luckily we’re in good company as a key SOPA/PIPA post from Techdirt was taken down as well (not to forget this exciting post from the Independent). Long live the DMCA!

PWN is completing a major hardware upgrade. If you are reading this you are on the new server. We are now hosted on an i7 2600 server with 16GB DDR3. Expect some PWN gameservers in the very near future. The staff have paid for this upgrade out of pocket, so donations are greatly appreciated as always. Please be patient if there are issues as we move the site to the new server. Known Issues: torrents.php is not listing torrents, ETA few hours - 1 day. Thanks PWN Staff

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They are both Top , but PS3 is much better because of the quality you can get :D ( just awesome )) Like Xbox too

FileList have technical problems with the filelist.ro domain, use flo.org as backup solution. Dress rehearsal for when entities from behind ACTA will they begin to seize domains.