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  1. On 2/19/2021 at 7:40 AM, Seeker37 said:

    Does this still work if connected through a VPN?

    hey mate
    sorry for late reply
    I tried it with vpn on as well it works for me
    before check this out check your connection to find out that your isp is throttling torrent p2p bandwidth  or not google for throttling bandwidth you ll find out about it
    regards

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    Tracker Name: SceneTime
    Tracker URL: https://www.scenetime.com/
    Tracker Genre: General
    Tracker Sign-Up: Invite Only
    Tracker Type: Ratio-based

    Bonus System: Yes
    Seed Difficulty: Easy
    Tracker IRC: Web access
    Banned Countries: None



    Description:

    SceneTime is a General/0Day ratio-based private tracker dedicated to Scene releases. Their categories consist of Movies, TVs, Games, Apps ( Win, Mac, Mobile), Books & Magazines, Music, Packs & Adult sections.  Their content varies from SD, 1080p HD to 2160p UHD contents mostly in Movies & TV sections. Their pre-times & download speed considers good. Maintaining ratio isn't a big deal at all. Freeleech content uploads on a daily basis. Minimum seed time requirement is 72 hours or ratio 1:1. Failure to do so will result in Hit & Run. Community discussion is active as well. In order to have access to main site features you should rank up to Power User. In order to get promoted to Power User you have to be a member for at least 28 days with at least 30 GB upload & at least a ratio equal to 1.05 or above. Gaining Bonus point is based on the amount of the time that you are seeding a torrent after downloading. You can get upload credit, custom title & invite with your bonus points. You can donate to gain access to VIP.  VIP access will be immune to Hit & Runs, get premium support from staff & access to VOD & IPTV sections.

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    Tracker Name: LosslessClub
    Tracker URL: https://losslessclub.com/
    Tracker Genre: Music
    Tracker Sign-up: Invite Only
    Tracker Type: Ratio-Based

    Bonus System: Yes
    Seed Difficulty: Easy
    Tracker IRC: N/A

    Banned Countries: None



    Description:

    Losslessclub is a Ukrainian private tracker dedicated to lossless music. It has more than 16k members & 33k torrents. It supports four major languages English, Russian, Ukrainian & Bulgarian. If you're an audiophile this is the right place for you. It mainly consist of flac 16bit 48khz , hi-resolution flac 24bit 96khz, SACD, DTS 5.1 audio, vinyl rips up to 24bit 192khz, discography, Live concerts 1080p blu-rays & DVD's. The top genres of the tracker are Classical, Jazz, Rhythm and Blues, Hip-Hop, Folk, World, Electronic, Pop, Rock & Metal. Depending on the volume and number of downloaded releases, you must maintain a required ratio at a certain level. If your ratio doesn't meet your required ratio, any downloading will be disabled until you'll improve your ratio. There is an additional ratio system based on coefficient of downloaded and seeding uploads which is called Reserve. Reserve is bigger as more as the quantity of torrents you are seeding. The maximum of it is usually 1000+.  If you will seed less of required quantity of torrents, Reserve will start to decrease. If it will be -100 or lower, you won't be able to download, only seeding will be available until you will improve it. Maintaining ratio isn't a big deal at all. They've got freeleech torrents uploads frequently & moreover they've got site-wide freeleech on special occasions as well. Gaining bonus points is a bit harder in here compare to other trackers. You can get upload credits, freeleech & invites with your bonus points. Community discussion isn't as active as other trackers.

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    Tracker Name: bitGAMER
    Tracker URL: http://bitgamer.ch/
    Tracker Genre: Games
    Tracker Sign-Up: Invite Only
    Tracker Type: Ratio-Based

    Bonus System: Yes
    Seed Difficulty: Easy

    Tracker IRC: N/A

    Banned Countries: None
    Tracker Discord: https://discord.gg/XHJe6y3



    Description:
    bitGAMER is an entry level game tracker. you'll find a wind range of games  categories,  from PC games ( Windows & Mac), to PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo, mobile games for android & ios to retro games of commodore, atari, sega, game boy & adult games. new released torrents usually have few peers & not much speed but the same doesn't apply for older ones.  you can go for freeleech torrents at first in order to build up your account but keep in mind the older torrents might have fewer leeches so it might take more time to seed at ratio 1:1. they've got a time delay till users allow to download new released torrents based on their ratio. its an easy tracker to get into. you should have been be a member for at least 4 weeks, have uploaded at least 25GB and have a ratio at or above 1.05 in order to rank up to power user & PU rank will get few invites as well. You can buy upload credit, invites, download removal credit, custom title, freeleech slots, reputation points with your bonus points.

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                                  Tracker Name: Boxing Torrents (tc-boxing)
                     Tracker URL: https://tc-boxing.com/

         Tracker Genre: Sport (Boxing)

        Tracker Sign-Up: Invite Only
    Tracker Type: Ratio-Based

    Bonus System: Yes
    Seed Difficulty: Easy

    Tracker IRC: N/A

    Banned Countries: None


    Description:
    Boxing Torrents aka tc-boxing is a private sport tracker specialized in boxing content. its a tracker with near 8k members & more than 30k torrents. if you're a fan of boxing this is the right place for you. it considers a pretty good boxing tracker alongside with WBVA. content diversity is nice. you can find amateur fights, professional fights, boxing career packs, DVDs, Blu-rays, documentaries, movies about boxing, big matches in 1080P HD quality & some new fight in 2160p 4k quality. maintaining ratio is pretty easy. you can go for freeleech torrents in order to build up your ratio. site-wide freeleech is available on some occasions. bonus points is available also so you can buy upload credit. if you have been a member for at least 4 weeks & have uploaded at least 20 Gb with a ratio at or above 1.05 you will be promoted to power user so you ll get access to PU section of forum & will get couple invites as well. minimum seed time requirement is 72 hours. you can bet on your favorite fighter in betting section. their community discussion section is active also.

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            Tracker Name:    TheShow.click

                   Tracker URL: http://theshow.click/

                                                      Tracker Genre: E-Learning/Entertainment-Industry

     Tracker Type: Ratio-Based

         Tracker Sign-Up: Invite Only
    Seed Difficulty:    Medium

    Bonus System: No

                            Tracker IRC: server irc.TheShow.click

                                                     port: 6667 SSL port: 6697

                                                      Channel: #TheShow.click

    Banned Countries: None

     



    Description:

    The Show is a private torrent tracker specialize in E-Learning/Entertainment-Industry. It provides a knowledge base of content & tutorials  from photography, editing, graphics, visual FX, Sound FX to production, performance, visual craft, filmmaking, screenwriting & design. if you are a beginner & looking for tutorials for photography, editing, design, this is the right place for you. the speed considers good & torrents are well seeded. you can use freeleech torrents in order to build up your account. community forum is active as well. Overall its a unique tracker for the content & tutorials that it provides.

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              Tracker Name:     Secret-Cinema

                                  Tracker URL:     https://secret-cinema.pw/

                        Tracker Genre :    Movies (art-house)

    Tracker Type :   Ratio-less

             Tracker Sign-Up:     Invite Only

                       Tracker IRC :    irc.brokensphere.net

              Channels: #sc

    Banned Countries:   None

     

    Description:
    Secret-Cinema is a private tracker dedicate to art-house, non-mainstream, obscure & classic movies. it contains  silent movies, classics, cult, art-house & foreign movies.
    its a ratio-less tracker. newly released torrents have good peers but some of the old ones have no seeds though you can request reseed. its a community with up to 3k members & up to 30k torrents. forum community is highly active. It has a thread called Pill of the Week for monthly & week picks.
    Secret-Cinema considers an alternative if you dont have access to CG & KG. 

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        Tracker Name:     nCore

                           Tracker URL:      https://ncore.cc/

                                                             https://ncore.nu/ 

             Tracker Genre :    General

               Tracker Type :   Ratio-less

                        Tracker Sign-Up:     Invite Only

    Bonus System :   Yes

                                  Tracker IRC :    Server: irc.ircline.org

                                                                       port: 6667 SSL port: 6697

                                             Channels: #ncore #ncore-bot #ncore-help

              Banned Countries:   None



    Description:
    nCore is a  hungarian general tracker. it considers one of the best general trackers in torrent community. it has more than 596k members. They've got more than 484k torrents.
    its a ratio less tracker. tracker pretimes & speed is really good. torrents contain of 4 major categories Movies, Series, Music, Game, Program, Books & Adult sections. 
    Its a bit hard tracker to get into. building up your upload rate is pretty easy because of lots of peer. Community forum is active. bonus point system value user-activity based on torrent upload, request upload, daily log-in & download & upload per day.
    user with elite rank & above can get invite for 2000 points. you can browse tracker with google translate for english translate.

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  11. Through the Federal Court, Bell, Rogers, and Groupe TVA are hoping to obtain the first Canadian pirate site blocking order. The companies believe that website blocking is an effective way to deal with pirate sites but Internet provider TekSavvy sees things differently. The ISP describes the proposed measures as ineffective and inappropriate.

    Pirate site blockades are gradually spreading across the globe. Thus far, Canada hasn’t joined the movement but that’s something Bell, Rogers, and Groupe TVA hope to change.

    In June, the three companies filed a lawsuit against the operators of a ‘pirate’ IPTV service operating from the domain names GoldTV.ca and GoldTV.biz. The companies argued that the service provides access to their TV content without licenses or authorization.

    Among other things, the rightsholders requested an interim injunction to stop the operators, who remain unidentified, from continuing to offer the allegedly-infringing IPTV service. This was granted last month, but despite the order, some of the infrastructures remained available.

    This resulted in a new request from the media giants, which could potentially lead to the first-ever pirate site blocking order in Canada. Specifically, the companies are calling for an interlocutory injunction order that would require several Canadian ISPs to block GoldTV domain names and IP-addresses.

    The request was discussed in Federal Court last Thursday and Friday. Since Rogers and Bell are also ISPs, the companies are also listed as respondents. Obviously, they didn’t object to their own demands. Similarly, there are no objections from Shaw, Eastlink, Fido, SaskTel, Telus, and Videotron either.

    With input from some of the Internet providers, the rightsholders drafted a blocking order that they hope to have approved by the Federal Court. It lists several domain names and IP-addresses of the pirate IPTV service and allows for more to be added.


    Domains and IP-addresses to be blocked
    The blocking technology that’s described in the order is fairly straightforward. Domain names would have to be targeted through DNS blocking or re-routing, and non-shared IP-addresses would have to be blocked or re-routed as well. All ISPs would be permitted to establish their preferred methods, as long as they are effective.

    Thus far there hasn’t been much opposition from ISPs. The only company that substantially objects to the proposed site-blocking scheme is TekSavvy.

    In written comments to the Court, the ISP points out that the request comes at a curious time as Canadian lawmakers are reviewing the appropriateness of such measures, as part of the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review. Issuing a precedential injunction before this review is complete would be inappropriate, TekSavvy argues.

    Aside from leap-frogging the ongoing legislative process, the ISP also points out that the site-blocking measures violate net neutrality.

    “The plaintiffs seek this Court’s assistance to implement a draconian remedy that runs directly counter to the legislatively established principle of net neutrality,” TekSavvy notes in its written comments.

    The ISP doesn’t believe that the blocking measures will be very effective either. There are plenty of workarounds available, for example. The company further notes that it’s unclear whether GoldTV causes any harm and adds that the rightsholders have plenty of other options to go after the service.

    For example, they could target the sites through less invasive measures. By contacting its payment provider or hosting company, for example, or going after the Canadian domain name registry.

    “[The plaintiffs] ask this Court to deputize TekSavvy and other ISPs to protect the plaintiffs’ profits against some hypothetical (and unknowable) erosion from GoldTV’s services, yet they have not taken some of the most basic self-help steps open to them,” TekSavvy notes.

    Overall, the ISP sees website blocking as a draconian measure. While it seems fairly small and directed at a small service that’s no longer widely available, Teksavvy fears that granting the order will open the floodgates to much broader blocking requests.

    “If the plaintiffs were successful in obtaining a site-blocking order in this case, there is no question that they would use it as a precedent to obtain other site-blocking orders, whether in respect of copyright infringement or otherwise.”

    “TekSavvy could be faced with hundreds and even thousands of websites to block and monitor, exponentially increasing the costs of operating and maintaining a site-blocking system and overwhelming TekSavvy’s capacity,” the company adds.

    As such, Teksavvy asks the Federal Court to dismiss the motion. It’s the only third-party company that has done so. Fellow ISP Distributel also objected to the proposed language in the motion, but its complaint only deals with how ISPs are compensated for their efforts.

    The Wire Report notes that the Federal Court gave all parties until Wednesday to come to an agreement on the language of the proposed order. It’s clear, however, that TekSavvy is not coming aboard.

    After the hearings, the Federal Court will eventually have to decide whether to grant the blocking order or not. That’s expected to take a few more weeks.

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    A copy of the proposed blocking order, which may be changed going forward, is available here (pdf). TekSavvy’s written responses are available here (pdf) and a copy of the affidavit of Paul Stewart, TekSavvy’s VP of Technology, can be found here (pdf).

    source: torrentfreak.com

  12. The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Dark Phoenix' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum'. 'Aladdin' completes the top three.

    This week we have three newcomers in our chart.

    Dark Phoenix is the most downloaded movie.

    The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. All the movies in the list are Web-DL/Webrip/HDRip/BDrip/DVDrip unless stated otherwise.

    RSS feed for the articles of the recent weekly movie download charts.

    This week’s most downloaded movies are:

    Movie Rank    Rank last week    Movie name    IMDb Rating / Trailer
    Most downloaded movies via torrents
    1    (1)    Dark Phoenix    6.0 / trailer
    2    (…)    Spider-Man: Far from Home    7.8 / trailer
    3    (2)    John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum    7.8 / trailer
    4    (3)    Aladdin    7.3 / trailer
    5    (5)    Avengers: Endgame    8.7 / trailer
    6    (4)    Men in Black: International    5.6 / trailer
    7    (…)    Can You Keep a Secret    5.2 / trailer
    8    (6)    Godzilla: King of the Monsters    6.5 / trailer
    9    (…)    Toy Story 4    8.1 / trailer
    10    (7)    The Secret Life of Pets 2    6.5 / trailer

    Source: Torrentfreak.com

  13. A lawsuit filed in Canada targeting Best Buy, Staples and other retailers, claims the companies knowingly sold "pirate devices" to customers. Filed by Super Channel owner Allarco Entertainment, the suit further alleges that staff gave advice to customers on how to pirate content or have devices modified to do so. While currently unnamed, the lawsuit states that up to 50,000 customers could potentially become part of the legal action.

    Thousands of retailers around the world sell Android-based set-top devices that are able to stream Netflix and other services to customers’ homes.

    However, an intriguing lawsuit filed in Canada last week alleges that employees at some companies went too far with their sales promotion pitches by pushing the products for infringing purposes while advising potential buyers on how to pirate content with them.

    The lawsuit, filed in Federal Court September 11 by Super Channel owner Allarco Entertainment, targets Staples Canada, Best Buy Canada, London Drugs, Canada Computers, several related companies and up to 50,000 ‘John Doe’ customers.

    Allarco Entertainment alleges that one or more of the retailers and their staff (collectively described as “4Stores”) promoted, encouraged, or instructed prospective buyers of Internet streaming devices on how to use and/or modify them to obtain copyright-infringing content. As a result, the devices are described as “Pirate Devices” throughout the lawsuit.

    On a website promoting the case, Allarco has published a video as part of its 19-month-long “4 Stores Investigation” which claims to show employees at the defendant companies selling “pirate devices” in a way that contravenes several aspects of local law.

    The company says it has 100 hours of undercover recordings to back up its claims. The short video currently available has recordings of alleged staff members advising users to install Kodi, use Google to find Kodi “setup videos”, or even visit other sellers operating elsewhere that will configure the devices for piracy.

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    Super Channel CEO Don McDonald told CBC that his company showed the video to the four retailers in the spring but that didn’t bring the alleged behavior to an end.

    “I wanted them to be step up and be a champion in changing the culture. They didn’t see the light,” he said. “We want the stores to stop. We want the stores to say, ‘Hey this is wrong’.”

    While the lawsuit continually describes the set-top boxes as “Piracy Devices” – some of which had Kodi pre-installed – there’s no information in the lawsuit or accompanying video that specifically states that any had dedicated piracy software or services embedded at the point of sale.

    That important point will probably become evident as the lawsuit progresses but the complaint does note that “one or more” defendants breached the Copyright Act by “showing pirated programming to customers in their stores.”

    The lawsuit itself goes straight for the jugular, reading not dissimilar to many others that have previously targeted sellers of unambiguous dedicated ‘pirate’ devices or services.

    “The devices which are the subject of this action have been programmed to steal programming i.e. view the Plaintiffs Programming without authorization and without paying for it,” the complaint reads.

    “The 4Stores Defendants or one or more of them have offered for sale, sold, leased and continue to sell or lease Pirate Devices to John Doe Customers and advised, educated, counseled, encouraged, directed, induced, enabled and authorized John Doe Customers to achieve, download, install and operate services that result in the operation of the Pirate Devices and/or that enable and allow the John Doe Customers to access the Infringing Content.”

    The complaint, which also references up to 50,000 ‘John Doe’ customers as defendants, states that the 4Stores know their identities and as such, they will “be identified and added as identified parties following disclosure.” Allarco is seeking an order to have these customers served by mail.

    The TV company states that the alleged actions of 4Stores detailed above were designed to “encourage and increase” the sale of ‘Pirate Devices’, which would not have been sold had it not been for the “education” provided by the 4Stores staff. When combined, this created or contributed to a culture of “widespread copyright infringement” causing damage to the plaintiff.

    The complaint states that the customers of 4Stores who bought such devices and accessed infringing content breached the Copyright Act. At this stage, however, there’s no information that any evidence has been gathered to prove that happened. Nevertheless, the complaint alleges Contributory Infringement by 4Stores as a result of the companies inducing customers to infringe.

    Allarco further claims that the 4Stores defendants sold devices that are “designed or produced primarily for the purposes of circumventing a technological protection measure”, and/or “the uses or purposes of which are not commercially significant other than when used for the purposes of circumventing a technological protection measure.”

    Finally, there are additional claims that the defendants breached the Radiocommunication Act, Trademark Act (also with damage to goodwill), engaged in intentional interference with business, unjust enrichment, and counseling to commit an offense.

    In summary, Allarco is demanding interim, interlocutory, and permanent injunctions including, but not limited to, preventing the defendants from “communicating or facilitating the communication” of its works without permission, including by “configuring, advertising, offering for sale or selling Pirate Devices.”

    It also wants the Court to issue a ban on the 4Stores from “teaching, inducing, coaching or demonstrating to others including their own staff, friends and families how to steal or pirate the Plaintiff’s Works.”

    The Allarco Entertainment / Super Channel complaint can be found here (pdf)

    Source: Torrentfreak.com

  14. One of the prerequisites of beating piracy is that content is available legally for a fair price. In recent years, however, movies and music are increasingly becoming fragmented over a variety of paid subscription services. According to a UK Government report, this may be the reason why piracy is making a comeback.

    Last week the UK Government’s Intellectual Property Office published its annual IP Crime and Enforcement Report.

    The report provides an overview of the latest anti-piracy achievements of copyright holders and also signals some emerging threats. It seems to be written mostly based on input from large rightsholders, which can make it a bit one-sided.

    The overall theme is that piracy and counterfeiting remain a major problem and that, as a “world class IP enforcement regime,” the UK takes a leading role in the world to tackle it going forward.

    A few days ago we reported on an exemplary section from the report where the Premier League highlighted its key successes. The full document is filled with similar examples and is worth a read, but there is one issue that stood out which we would like to highlight separately.

    In the section where the results of PRS for Music, the UK’s leading collection society, are summarized there is a hint of self-reflection. As reported in the past, there were signs that BitTorrent piracy is increasing again, and according to the UK Government’s report, the industry may be to blame.

    Apparently, piracy traffic may be rising again because the content that’s being offered on legal platforms is becoming more and more fragmented.

    In other words, as more legal services have exclusive releases, it’s harder for people to get everything they want in one place. Instead of signing up for paid subscriptions at a handful of services, these people could then turn back to piracy.

    Or as the Annual IP crime and enforcement report puts it:

    “There also appears to be a resurgence in torrent traffic, notwithstanding the apparent demise of peer-to-peer file sharing a few years ago. A likely reason for this is the fact that more legitimate platforms are hosting exclusive content and subscribers may not necessarily have access to all the content they want to consume.”

    The paragraph above is listed in the PRS section of the report which leads us to believe that it comes directly from the music group. We reached out to PRS to find out more but the organization said that it couldn’t comment on it. A subsequent request to clarify whether this is PRS’s position returned a “no comment” as well.

    Again, we should stress that the fragmentation comment is just a tiny quote from a 132-page report. It doesn’t reflect the general theme that piracy needs to be addressed through comprehensive and multi-faceted enforcement strategies. However, at least there appears to be some room for self-reflection.

    This isn’t the first time that increased fragmentation has been mentioned as a potential problem, but these type of comments generally don’t originate from governments or rightsholders.

    Exclusive releases are particularly prevalent in the video industry today, where there’s a myriad of exclusive streaming services. How this will affect overall piracy rates in the years to come remains to be seen, but it’s certainly not something that can be easily ignored.

    Source: Torrentfreak.com

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