The staff is pleased to announce two updates to our upload rules regarding FLAC and AAC. This is part of a wider effort to make small and manageable changes to our uploading rules instead of waiting for huge overhauls that can be very difficult to implement and digest. Rule 2.1.1 has been updated to read We understand there will likely be a healthy debate regarding the decision to cap FLAC at 24/192. This rule change is not to say anything positive or negative about the various arguments for and against 24-bit, 192 kHz audio, but rather to draw a line in the sand and say something much clearer: we do not find a purpose to What.CD offering content above a depth of 24 bit and 192kHz sampling rate. For more information, click the discussion link below for a post written by vitiate explaining some of our reasoning. Additionally, we have clarified our policies on AAC torrents and how they may or may not be trumped. Previously, there was much ambiguity regarding whether cross-media and cross-edition trumping was permitted - we wish to clarify our stance to disallow such a trump. Rule 2.1.24 has been clarified to read Rule 2.2.9.11 has been similarly updated to read

Since the diamonds take up a lot of time for staff to transfer manually we have decided to no longer transfer them. We will transfer the ones that are currently on the auction page but anymore made after this message will be your responsibility to be sent individually by yourselves. Sorry for the inconvenience :: Staff

I really hate having to do this, it's something as a site owner I never wanted to have to do, but it seems that each and every month now we are struggling more and more to pay the bills. Without donations this site will simply cease to exist. I cannot put it any clearer than that. Our goal here was to create a site that was ratio free with blistering pre times but done on a shoe string budget. We don't ask for thousands like other sites do and yet we offer just as fast pre times (Faster in MOST cases). We do not offer Pay2Leech facilities like many others, we are ratio free anyway ? And yet we struggle to scrape together 500 Euro each month in order to pay the bills ? Is there a reason for this ? Something we are doing wrong ? Something we can fix maybe ? Change ? If you don't feel we are worth it then that is fine, we can accept that, but at least let us know

The Vault values the immense contribution of all members. Naturally, we are often asked "how does a member become a VIP+?" The answer is that VIP+ members are chosen purely on their history of valuable and consistent interaction with the membership. Being a VIP+ is a privilege. Too many times, that valuable and consistent contribution that led to VIP+ status, disappears after promotion. Whilst we, of course, are thankful for the many contributions that VIP+ members have made, we also believe that continued interaction is a minimum expectation to maintain that preferred status (even if that interaction is less intense). Fair warning: we will be revisiting the status of all those members that have VIP+ status. When and how The Vault deals with the issue are yet to be decided.

Over the last few weeks we have had a few server problems on site . main one being we had to fully re-image the server and do a full clean instal of the site no we have done all this every thing is running stable again but we still have to do a full reinstal of the site radio ... sorry for any down time we have had but all is running like it should now hope to see you all soon on site TDS Tech-Team

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We're hiring again! This time we're looking for users interested in joining BTN's Design Team. What is the Design Team? The Design Team is responsible for: • Finding or designing banners and/or posters for TV Series. • Making new stamps, avatars, signatures, and badges. • Keeping our CSS themes up to date and resolving bugs quickly. • Helping to develop the layout and design of new site pages. • Creating custom Remys for our news and blog posts. Would I be a good fit? We're looking for creative users interested in fulfilling one or more of these responsibilities. We will assign you tasks based on your strengths; it is not expected that every Designer will be able to contribute to all areas of the site. In addition to site responsibilities, you are expected to be on IRC regularly, especially while performing BTN duties. How do I apply? Still interested? Send a PM to Designer_Apps with the following information: 1) A short description of your design experience. Include the programs you use (Photoshop, Gimp, Illustrator, Serif, After Effects, etc). 2) A short description of your CSS experience. If you are familiar with Firebug, Notepad++, Stylish, Sublime or other programs that would be useful for web design please include this information. 3) An estimate of how much time per week you expect to have available for BTN. Include what time zone you're in, typical hours you're free, and how often you could be on IRC. 4) A small portfolio of images of work you've done. These images can be anything you want; logos, site layouts, designs, etc would all be fine. If you work with Adobe products we prefer you submit .psd and/or .ai files. 5) A modified Remy. You could put him in a new scenario or give him a new look/outfit. Be as creative as you like! Here is an AI file to get you started.

The station is active atmosphere to the game will be friends, to avoid misunderstandings, the site has established a "Heroes Union" Lovers exchange group to facilitate PK play. The group's intention to establish just entertainment only, you can learn more about these online friends, so do not take it too seriously winning or losing. Whether it is new or interesting to play this game qualifying master, can come in, after all we are all TTGerz ~ require special attention are: the group will only discuss game-related, and any other account other issues will not be accepted. Regular cleaning of the members do not speak nor game. In particular, prohibit abuse each spray, the offender will be implicated station account. ================================================== Q group number: 319233353 (please specify your site verification ID game enthusiasts group, do not join in the fun just to add, thank you!)

Hello and Welcome to Bitleechers As some of you may have noticed the Bitcoin option was added to the site under the donation tab. Unfortunately Bitcoin was removed for a few good reasons. 1. Bitcoin was hacked not long ago causing a major cluster fuck. 2. If you read some of this article it may prove to be accurate https://www.bitleechers.me/forums.ph...c&topicid=1166 3. The owner had checked into it and had it all set up and with all the bullshit involved to try and cash in the coins for real money wasn't what he anticipated. So, we will no longer even think about using Bitcoin as an option any time soon. However, "Skrill Money Bookers" was added to give members another option if they wish to donate. If anyone has any suggestions of another option we can use please feel free to join Live Help or help desk and let us know. Okay, with all that said we are in desperite need of donations to keep the site up and running. We need more of you loyal members to step up and support us for who we are and what we have done to bring you one of the best torrent sites out there. We hate to beg for donations, but the past few months have been a struggle for us. This should NOT be a struggle on a "Ratio Free" site giving every member a chance to hnr on 20 torrents before the system bans your downloads. We can't be much more fair then we have been. Although we could make the seeding Rules harder for everyone. But, that would make members go elsewhere and say the hell with Bitleechers. So it all it wouldn't be fair to the site or the members. Staff work hard and so do all the uploaders to bring you all the newest torrents possible at a reasonable speed and time frame. Right now we are running the "Double Up" donation. When you donate while the image is displaying you will recieve double VIP and also a chance to enter in the Lottery to win 250GB of upload credit. So PLEASE help out and support Bitleechers and make a donation if you can afford to. Thank You, Bitleechers Staff Team

Hello and Welcome to Bitleechers, As some of you know we have updated the Sites Server to a more faster and powerful Server. We know that most were having issues with the refresh rate on the site when you were navigating around. Now that issue has been solved with this fabulous upgrade. If and when you log back on the Site you will see this message and hope you will be very pleased as to what we've done to make this site faster. In the next 24 to 48 hours the DNS will be resolving and when it is finished hopefully you all will be back on the site. Please be patient while this takes place. The new IP: 80.241.219.47 will be listed below as well which is the same for IRC (Live Chat & Help). Description: Bitleechers IRC Server: irc.bitleechers.me OR IP: 80.241.219.47 Port: 6667 +6697 ssl Group: Bitleechers /join #announce /join #chat /join #pre /join #tv /join #help (If YOU need assistance) /join #uploader (If you are an Uploader) If not you will be kicked! Donations have been a little better this month so far, but could be better. So, if you can afford to PLEASE support Bitleechers and donate. Please remember your donations go towards the Site Upgrades as it did for this Upgrade. Also pays the Server costs and coder we have. We are sorry for the inconvenience and hopefully this will be sorted fast. Thank You, Bitleechers Staff Team

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Piracy ‘Whistleblower’ to Remain Anonymous, Court Rules A person who claimed that the operators of Grooveshark were engaged in systematic copyright infringement will keep his anonymity, a court has ruled. The allegations, which were made in the comments section of an online news article, prompted Grooveshark's parent company to unmask their author. They have now failed in that mission. In 2010, Universal Music Group (UMG) sued Grooveshark owners Escape Media in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, claiming that the company infringed their copyrights by storing and subsequently distributing tracks to which UMG holds the copyrights. In 2011, news site Digital Music News (DMN) published an article which contained claims from a member of a rock band that Grooveshark had illegally hosted the band’s music and refused to take it down when notified. The article attracted around 100 comments from DMN readers, one of whom claimed to be an employee of Escape Media. The commenter, who posted under the name “Visitor”, claimed that he had regularly received “direct orders from the top” at Escape to upload music to Grooveshark’s servers. Worse still, “Visitor” claimed that the company would not fully remove infringing content, even if artists or music labels complained. These allegations were viewed as problematic by Escape since in order for a service provider to gain immunity under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), it must remove copyrighted material once it becomes aware that an infringement has taken place. So, in an effort to unmask this supposed employee of theirs, in January 2012 Escape served a subpoena on Digital Music News in order to obtain “Visitor’s” identity. After DMN refused to comply, in March 2012 Escape petitioned the Los Angeles Superior Court for enforcement. DMN was subsequently ordered to comply but promptly filed an appeal. DMN argued that unmasking “Visitor” would not lead to the discovery of evidence admissible in UMG’s New York lawsuit against Escape (identifying information about “Visitor” had all been deleted) and that enforcement of the subpoena would infringe on the First Amendment rights of both DMN and “Visitor”. Ultimately the court decided that since Escape had presented a prima facie case that “Visitor’s” comments were libelous, no First Amendment protection was available. DMN was ordered to comply with the subpoena and provide a copy of its server to Escape. DMN copied the servers but lodged an appeal in attempt to avoid handing them over. This week the Court of Appeal of the State of California handed down its decision and it’s bad news for Escape. Escape had argued that proving “Visitor’s” comments to be false would help them show that the company did not supervise direct infringement of UMG’s copyrights. The Court rejected Escape’s basis for needing access to “Visitor’s” identity stating that this “out-of-court quarrel is of no consequence to the determination of UMG’s lawsuit.” Escape enjoyed no success on the privacy front either. “Even if Visitor’s identifying information was reasonably calculated to lead to admissible evidence, his or her right to privacy under the California Constitution would outweigh Escape’s need for the information,” the Court said. “That interest begins with Visitor’s need for a venue from which to be heard without fear of interference or suppression. Visitor’s anonymity also frees him or her from fear of retaliation, an even more compelling interest if Visitor truly is an Escape employee, as represented, because exposure could endanger not only his or her privacy but also livelihood.” The Court concluded with a summary of its opinion as to the value of “Visitor’s” comments. “Visitor has done nothing more than provide commentary about an ongoing public dispute in a forum that could hardly be more obscure — the busy online comments section of a digital trade newspaper,” the Court wrote. “Such commentary has become ubiquitous on the Internet and is widely perceived to carry no indicium of reliability and little weight. We will not lightly lend the subpoena power of the courts to prove, in essence, that Someone Is Wrong On The Internet.” With that the Court of Appeal ordered the trial court to vacate its order enforcing the subpoena and thereby protecting “Visitor’s” privacy.

Student Wins Pirate Bay Domain To Protest Website Blockades A student has been awarded a valuable Pirate Bay-related domain after successfully complaining to Denmark's domain name dispute body. ThePirateBay.dk will now be taken away from its current owner and transformed into a special site to protest the ISP blockade of The Pirate Bay in Denmark. The Pirate Bay is one of the most popular sites on the Internet and has inspired the creation of many copycat sites, many of which play on Pirate Bay’s imagery, branding, name, or a combination of all three. While some sites make it obvious that they’re paying homage to the infamous torrent site, others have malicious or financial motives in mind. As a result there are plenty of domains out there looking to capitalize on users’ naivety or simple inability to spell. Ironically, while many official Pirate Bay domains are blocked in countries around Europe, these unofficial and often fake variants are allowed to continue business as usual. Occasionally, however, the authorities step in. One such instance involves ThePirateBay.dk, a domain whose most recent registration occurred in August 2010. The domain was owned by a James McAvoy of Bristol, UK, who appears to be a prolific purchaser of domains, as illustrated below. Over in Denmark, where The Pirate Bay has been blocked since 2008, a Danish student had been eyeing the domain. He felt he had a good chance of wrestling it from McAvoy’s control due to the Brit’s failure to adhere to Denmark’s domain name rules. In his complaint the student told the Complaints Board for Domain Names that he doubted that the contact listed in the WHOIS was a “genuine or real registrant” and criticized the same person’s registration of many “typosquatter” domains (such as youtupe.dk) which are deliberately linked to “advertising traps”. With Denmark’s Domain Names Act noting that “a domain name which typosquats another domain name may be suspended and subsequently blocked or deleted”, the student’s complaint appeared valid. Next, the student complained that ThePirateBay.dk had been put up for sale. The Domain Names Act expressly forbids a registrant to “reserve, register and maintain registrations of domain names solely for the purpose of selling or renting to other parties.” In contrast to the owner of ThePirateBay.dk who had no valid use for the domain, the student presented an argument to the domains board that he did. “I want to use thepiratebay.dk to protest against Danish web censorship in the form of the blockade of the address thepiratebay.org imposed on the Danish internet providers,” the student wrote. “I want to create a support page for The Pirate Bay where I criticize the decision and show my support for the blocked page. I am a student, not a trader, and I act as an individual in what I would call a protest against the imposed blockade.” The complaints board weighed the arguments and in a decision published a few days ago, agreed with the student’s position and upheld his complaint. “The Board finds that there is hereby created a strong presumption that the purpose of the defendant’s registration of the domain name ‘thepiratebay.dk’ [..] was to gain financially by its reassignment. The Respondent, who has not replied to the Complaints Board’s [attempts at contact] , did not contradict that presumption.” All things considered it was concluded that James McAvoy’s registration of the domain should be canceled and ThePirateBay.dk should be transfered to the the student by June 13, 2014. Exactly what form the student’s protest will take using his newly obtained domain remains unknown, but it’s nevertheless interesting that the right to protest against a website blockade of the world’s most infamous torrent site trumps making ad money from a similar looking domain.

Hosting Provider Plagued by DDoS Attacks on Torrent Sites Several torrent sites hosted at Genious Communications have been suffering from DDoS attacks of up to 30 gigabits per second. Thus far the identity of those behind the attacks remains a mystery, but the CEO of the hosting service isn't ruling out the involvement copyright watchdogs. BitTorrent trackers are no strangers to Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Pretty much all sites of a respectable size are targeted on occasion by unknown sources. In most cases these attacks don’t last too long, but every now and then they get more serious. For example, in recent weeks several French torrent sites have had to deal with a serious flood of unwanted connections, rendering the sites and trackers in question unavailable. The Morocco-based provider Genious Communications hosts several of the affected torrent sites, including smartorrent.com and cpasbien.pe. To find out more TorrentFreak contacted CEO Hamza Aboulfeth, who told us that the attacks come in all shapes and sizes. “The biggest attack was on smartorrent.com where we had over 30 Gbit/s which gave us no choice but nullroute the IP at the moment of the attack,” Aboulfeth says. The attacks range from common HTTP floods to UDP and SYN flood attacks and huge botnets. As a result, Genious has migrated several clients over to a specialized DDoS protection setup. “We have our own professional DDoS protection system so we had to move some of our clients to it, the rest just moved to Cloudflare where they offer decent protection for a reasonable price,” Aboulfeth says. The biggest challenge is to mitigate the attacks on trackers as these are not dealing with regular HTTP requests, but so far the company has managed to take the edge off the assaults. The attacks started a few weeks ago and have been continuing ever since at varying intensities. They are all targeted at several of Genious Communications’ file-sharing related clients, but the identities of the individuals behind them remains a mystery. Aboulfeth hasn’t heard of any cash demands, which excludes the extortion scheme several other sites were subjected to earlier this year. According to the CEO, it’s most likely that competitors or an anti-piracy group are behind the attacks. “I think the attacks are most likely coming from competitors or some copyright agency,” Aboulfeth says. “One common thing is they are all French torrent websites, and I know for a fact that I have been contacted by someone hosted somewhere else claiming that one of our clients is attacking him, and of course my client is denying that,” he adds. In the long term the sites have no other option than to make sure that they can cope with the DDoS attacks. In most cases they eventually pass, without their victims ever knowing what their purpose was.

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New errors for uTorrent and BitTorrent: We continue to notice many users of newer µTorrent and Mainline BitTorrent clients experiencing severe problems. These problems include connection issues, issues with adding torrents, path issues, disk write issues and GUI issues. Users often don't notice the problems until they are in trouble. Versions that are affected µTorrent 3.3.x µTorrent 3.4.x Mainline BitTorrent 7.8.x Mainline BitTorrent 7.9.x We recommend users of these versions switch to another client. The following clients are similar to µTorrent and are recommended to µTorrent users who want to switch: Deluge 1.3 Qbittorrent 3.1 µTorrent 2.2.1 (mirror) This announcement was recently posted on Empornium, and since the same problem seems to be happening here, I thought I should post it here so folks will be aware of the problem.

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More sad news PTPers, Crystal has been with us a long time, and has done a lot of work for the site. It has come time for him to venture out on his own, and so he will no longer continue in his role as staff. We will miss him and wish him the best of luck. So long Crystal, the night is darker for your absence. PTP staff

Congratulations to our Birthday Special Wiiners ! canwhiskey Wins the PlayStation4 ! Runners up, winning the amazon gift cards: Zorock klejniczek44 Romulus1991 We ask that the winners get in touch with staff through our staffbox to supply details for prizes, Birthday even finished , Staff invites removed... donation specials disabled. A big thank you from the staff if you donated on this birthday special ! We have 'Staff Passed' any hit&runs that were on the system So you naughty users can start this next year with us fresh!

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Welcome We inform that, according to your requests, the PS Club has been translated into English. We encourage you to sign up in the club while they are still booking available, a list of perks available HERE At the same time a reminder of the ongoing promotion (-50%) in the donation shop, it is a good opportunity to the cheaper purchase price of interesting extras, which does not appear again soon HERE We also invite you to submit proposals for changes to the site and your suggestions HERE Greetings Staff PS