Dear HDC users,

!!!Brilliant!!!

we have managed to collect enough donations to run the tracker for several more months!

Many thanks again to all supporters!!

Have fun on HDC and with the advent calendar!

-Staff

Bump

Tracker Name :  MoreThanTv  or AlphaRatio  hope someone can spare me an invite !!!

DONOR'S CHOICE GOLDEN SERIES -- WEEK 1

The first freebie in this series is "They Don't Wear Black Tie" by Brazilian director Leon Hirszman.

details.php?id=43724

It has been picked by t*****, one of the four winners of the Donors Raffle, with the following motivation:

"It is a wonderful movie, and making it golden is a good chance for members to get in touch with this Brazilian Cinema gem."

Many thanks to t***** for this excellent choice, and of course to d********* for uploading the torrent in the first place.

This torrent will be golden until next Monday, November 19th, 3:00 PM GMT (give or take a few hours).

Some of the other winners still have to acknowledge receipt of their prize. If we don't hear from them in a couple of days, we will have to draw lots a second time. So it's not over just yet! If you have made a donation during our recent fundraiser you may still have a chance to win. Stay tuned!

Well, it's been a bit since the last one of these happened, huh?


At about 8:30 UTC+0 (12:30AM PST), an admin account was compromised, and a news notification was sent out saying we needed money to keep this site running, and to donate to bitcoin to a bitcoin wallet. They also sent the same message to a few users as well. Be aware, we never have and (most likely) never will accept BTC. The only donation methods we've ever accepted have been Flattr (and on the rare occasion, Paypal.)


We've also never offered any sort of ratio bonus for donating. Not only is that a silly thing for such a niche and tight-knit tracker like sows, but it could also be seen as for-profit piracy, which we're really not about here.


We were made aware of this news post after one user notified us, and informed us they'd also received a PM. To circumvent this, we checked and saw that only about 120 PMs were sent out, by the system account. The PM was a copy-paste of the news article. All of these PMs were deleted.


We also have no reason to believe any user information was compromised. We do, however, want to use this moment to stress that security is important and you should use strong and unique passwords for all services.


If you have any further questions, feel free to send in a staff PM or poke any of the Admins or SysOps in the Discord.

"Site is down for maintenance, please check back again later... thanks"

Help Wanted

Uploaders and DJ's. Contact staff for further details.

Important Announcement about IP monitoring system and Account Pruning

1. To enhance the safety of our tracker and members and deter potential attack, we‘re implementing an IP monitoring system that requires some users to declare their IP(IP whitelist)

Who needs to declare?
Whoever uses a static IP, be it server rental or home/business broadband with static IP.

How?
1. Go to User CP:

https://totheglory.im/my.php

2. Scroll to the bottom of the page and locate `IP record`. The first declaration is free and subsequent ones cost you 5,000 points each.

When will it be monitored?
Login and browsing the site, torrent connection to tracker and account recovery.

What is the declaration format?
One IP/ IP range each line. e.g. 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.1.1-192.168.1.30


2. As we have considerable amount of inactive users, we start to enforce the account pruning rules strictly following the rules WEF 31 Dec 2017. If you know someone who has been away from the tracker for long time, please inform them, otherwise their accounts will be pruned automatically.

https://totheglory.im/rules.php

November Newsletter

Hi, our apologies for the delay for this newsletter, we have just been busy tweaking things, so..

Torrent clients

So, we will now be enforcing the Blacklist. If your account is found to be using anything on the list, you will receive a warning, you will then have one week to rectify this. After that, you account will be locked until you resolve the situation.

[Discuss here]

The rules have been updated accordingly, see: rules.php?p=clients

Invite threads

We now have 6 Official invite threads on other sites for BrokenStones:

HDBits, Redacted, lztr, myanonamouse, PTP and Awesome HD

Currently we are looking at 2 other sites.

We would like to welcome all new members from the above threads, there are quite a few of you, so just pop in and say hi. forums.php?page=16&action=viewthread&threadid=31

Please be aware, if you joined through a Staff invite thread and you fail to manage your account correctly, there will be a 3 strike and out rule for the account.

New uploaders

Please read the rules, they clearly state what you should be doing.......

If you fail to get the upload right, it does state in our rules what will happen.

[Discuss here]

Image host update

Banned added to list see wiki.php?action=article&name=Image+Hosts

Added: ultraimg

C.O.R.E. serialiser KG

This is not working on 10.14 if you are running a lower os, please utilise this and post a serial number along side the KG.

Competitions

Stylesheet winner......

See: forums.php?action=viewthread&threadid=2320

Find the Pumpkin....

We had no entries for this so, currently we are suspending the competition element of the newsletter.

Ratio Issues

We have been informed of members not showing their seeds and snatches correctly.

This is still a work in progress.

First-Line Support

Do you have some spare time and feel you can offer support to other members....

Send staff a PM and who knows

SceneTime

Christmas 

Banner Contest 

Banner Size 950px x 150px jpg.png.gif formats

Multiple entries are allowed. Please post them together. Edit and add

The banner must be your own creation. (any copy pastes will get disqualified )

Have FUN! And show us what you got!!! 

1st Place - 300GB Credit and 3 months VIP

2nd Place - 200GB Credit and 2 months VIP

3rd Place - 100GB Credit and 1 month VIP

Click Here to post your entry

Global Freeleech Mode Activated!

Site is working again

Well, thanks to our sysop, we have been able to get back online, and the tracker working. Enjoy the site, everyone

Earlier this year, Corel obtained a patent which enables the company to offer software pirates an amnesty deal via a messaging system. While this can be a smart approach, it is not without its flaws. This week, the company remotely disabled the software of a fully-licensed user of Paintshop Pro and left his medical-related business unable to meet customer needs.

While the majority of computing devices come with sophisticated operating systems installed, users will almost certainly need to buy additional software to meet their needs.

Open Source software can usually be obtained for free but millions of users opt for paid products that need to be licensed by the companies offering them.

Of course, piracy is a significant problem for the developers behind the majority of premium products. Most are available from torrent sites or file-hosting platforms, often arriving with a ‘crack’ that allows users to enjoy without paying.

Companies often have sophisticated systems to detect unlicensed products, sometimes with the reasonable aim of attempting to convert pirates into paying consumers. Earlier this year we reported on Corel’s efforts in this space after the company obtained a patent for a system which is able to offer an amnesty to illegal users via a popup.

“The amnesty offer may, for example, agree not to bring criminal charges in exchange for the user purchasing a legitimate copy of the product,” Corel’s patent reads.

“In this manner, the user of the pirated version is given the opportunity to purchase a legitimate copy which, if acted on, increases revenue for the manufacturer.”

While this is fair enough, what happens when it all goes wrong? Earlier this week, TorrentFreak was contacted by an angry Corel customer who was witnessing first hand what can happen when a piracy detection system blows a fuse.

“I am a valid and licensed user and Corel support has records of my license key and right to use this software on my work PC,” he told us.

Despite paying the company as required, he received the following popup instead.

Scary message from Corel

https://torrentfreak.com/images/corel-warning.png

The message couldn’t be more clear. Corel states that the copy in use is illegal and as a result, its functionality has been severely limited. “All save, export and print features will be permanently disabled,” it warns.

According to Corel, all of these problems can be solved with a click of the blue “BUY A LEGAL COPY NOW” button, something that made our contact extremely angry.

“I get this extortion popup and threat to my means to make a living. I feel like Corel has hijacked my computer, my artwork and images and is preventing me from making a living just to sell another upgrade. This is wrong, and something needs to be done about his practice,” he told us.

It’s not surprising that the user was upset at Corel remotely disabling his software. Aside from having a valid license, his work ground to a halt. Initial emails back and forth had him messing around in his computer’s registry in an effort to fix the problem but all the time he was unable to carry on with his job.

“I have owned a licensed copy of Corel PrintShop Pro since 9/2016 and use it multiple times each day for work. I use it for editing and creating graphics and logos for customers that host events and in the medical field for patient wristbands at hospitals and clinics,” he told TF.

“These images are used to identify and even categorize different types of patients and attendees at events. At this time, I’m unable to meet the needs of my customers because I can’t save any new artwork for them. This has now gone on for more than 24 hours.”

Eventually, after lengthy email exchanges, the problem got fixed, albeit after Corel’s customer had been unable to use his software for an extended period. He says that the problem has left a bad taste in his mouth and wonders how many other people are getting the message and, crucially, whether less technical users are paying to have the anti-piracy message removed.

“I’m not sure how [the steps Corel took] corrected my license issue or if it just took me off the ‘hit list’ of victims of what I still feel was some kind of scam. Still no apology from Corel for the problems caused or the delays it forced on me,” he added.

TorrentFreak contacted Corel requesting information and received a response from Gerard Metrailler, EVP of Global Products, whose name is on the patent issued earlier this year.

“Our anti-piracy measures are designed specifically to protect our IP. And as part of this process, we offer an amnesty program on many of our products that gives users an easy way to purchase a legitimate version of our software at an affordable price,” Metrailler explained.

“Unfortunately, some users who believe they are running legitimate versions of our software are surprised to receive a notification that their license is invalid. In many of these cases, the products were purchased from online marketplaces, often at very low prices, and the users were not aware they were buying illegitimate software.

“It’s critical to note that customers should always purchase our software from authorized resellers or Corel directly,” he added.

Given comments on Corel’s forums about unlicensed resellers, early in the week TF checked with the user where he’d obtained his license. According to an original purchase receipt reviewed by TF, it was obtained from the company’s own online store and everything was in order.

Corel did, however, suggest that a customer could receive the anti-piracy warning in error and said any customers who believe they are affected should contact the company right away.

“n the very rare event of a mis-identification, I can assure you that we will work quickly to get the issue corrected. We agree that even one customer affected by a mistake like this is one customer too many,” Metrailler said.

We asked Corel how many customers take them up on their offer of reduced price software as part of an amnesty but the company provided no details. We asked if there were any safeguards to prevent licensed users paying up in error but received no response.

Corel did, however, give TF a contact email address so that their customer can get directly in touch, and we’ve forwarded that to him. In the meantime, directly with the customer and independently of our discussions with him and the company, Corel support offered him a 5% discount on future purchases.

“I want to ask them if that 5% is good for Photoshop,” the customer commented dryly.

Source: Torrentfreak

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We are having trouble with people not looking after seeding. Thus we need to introduce rules for seeding. Seed a minimum of 24 hours on what you download as of today.

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Google Translation:

Dear Users

We announce a promotion action in the following genres!

• Sci-Fi

• Thriller

• Horror

• Mystical

For uploads in these genres, in addition to the basic 50 bonus points, 300 bonus points will be credited as well after moderator approval!

The action will take place November 11 - 25, 2018, it lasts until midnight.

Anyone can take part in the action by following the upload and seed rules.

Free registrations are now open.