Jan 9, 2012

BD25.org was a high-definition Blu-ray torrent tracker that has recently transformed itself as a usernet instead of remaining a tracker. Dear member, If you have not noticed it yet, BD25.org has restarted a few days ago as a Usenet site with the same kind of content as before (BD9 / BD25 and BD50). To read more about this change, follow this...

Jan 6, 2012

Due to a lack of funds, another tracker is closing it’s doors. If you haven’t heard of UK-Two, it was a small but sturdy general tracker. As you may have noticed or will notice UK-two is closing. I have tried every avenue I could think of to keep it open but with low donations I simply can not afford to pay yet another month. Uk-two has been a...

Nov 17, 2011

Yesterday’s downtime meant server upgrades with brand new servers running on SSD with hardware raid. The other good news is that IPT has switched it’s search engine from MySQL to CGI. You can read about it here: Hello Members, We are very pleased to inform all members that IPTorrents has received a well deserved upgrade. We are now running on the...

Nov 16, 2011

Law enforcement in yesterday’s raid took two suspects in Växjö and Borås, Sweden, suspected of copyright violation. The operation was directed from the site world wide www.tti.nu. Based on prosecutors, tti.nu had made available thousands of works, including films, using Bit-torrent technology. Servers which are suspected to retain the site’s...

Oct 25, 2011

The donations at passthepopcorn have been closed a long period of due to the last donation run being quiet successful. Staff at PTP are planning to relocate from Leaseweb to a new colocation. The plan is to get new servers which can handle the database. At this moment, they are planning to build SSD servers since SATA servers just do not cut it. As the number...

Oct 22, 2011

This recent August saw a TranceTraffic database compromise where a group of individuals extracted user accounts. If you are (or have been) a member of TT, it is recommended that you change your password on other trackers as well that hold the same username/password. Recently, PassThePopcorn staff have been warning members that this group might be using the...